Resource Manager for distance education systems

The authors extend the concept of distance education with adding a new service, that we call Resource Manager. The Resource Manager offers a possibility to the attendees to share different resources out of time and space boundaries. It enables geographically separated users to effectively facilitate remote access to various, presumably diverse, (real) resources. The Resource Manager has to provide an efficient sharing of resources among distance learning students according to the student profiles. We defined several protocols in XML suitable for communication between agents. The first experiments show that users are satisfied with the Resource Manager´s usability. They found Resource Manager to be a very convenient service within the distance education systems