Web Information System for e-Learning

A suitable e-learning system management needs to carry out a web-information system in order to allow integrated fruition of data and metadata concerning the activities typical of elearning environment. The definition of a “web information system" for e-learning takes advantage of the potentialities of Web technologies both as for the access to metadata present on the several platforms, and as for the implementation of courseware which make up the relative didactic environment. What information systems have in common is the technological environment on which they are generally implemented and the use of metadata in order to structure information at all cognitive and organization levels. In this work we are going to define a methodology for the implementation of a specific web information system for an e-learning environment.

Authors:

• Anna Angelini
• Enrica Gentile
• Paola Plantamura
• Vito Leonardo Plantamura

Keywords:

• e-learning
• information systems
• coursemanagement
• web-based system.

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