A New Tool for Web-Based Educational System

The learning technology standardization process is taking the lead role in the research efforts into Web-based education. Web-based educational system (WBES) that involves teaching and learning tasks associated with information distribution, communication, and student assessment. However, teaching and learning activities of WBES require administrative support in the form of tasks such as assessment management, student enrollments, student tracking, student transfers, payment and a variety of other tasks. Standardization is needed for two main reasons: On the one hand, educational resources are defined, structured and presented using different formats. On the other hand, the functional modules that are embedded in a particular learning system cannot be reused by another person in a straightforward way. In order to overcome the issue, we developed a new tool for Web based educational system based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), that aims to achieve interoperability of remotely or locally located homogeneous and heterogeneous applications by utilizing reusable service logic.