Architecture for Development of WBES Based on Components and Agents

A new agents and components oriented architecture for the development of Web-based education systems (WBES) is presented. This architecture is based on the IEEE 1484 LTSA (learning technology system architecture) specification and the software development pattern of the intelligent reusable learning components object oriented (IRLCOO). IRLCOO are a special type of sharable content object (SCO) according to the sharable content object reference model (SCORM). SCORM is used to create reusable and interoperable learning content. The architecture, communication model (based on LMS API, Web services, AJAX, and Struts framework) and semantic Web platform (SWP) that are described in this paper are used to develop authoring and evaluation tools with the integration of a digital library