Documento Fuente
Cano-Parra, R., Gómez-Sánchez, E., Bote-Lorenzo, M.L., González-Martínez, J.A. Towards Teacher-Managed Deployment and Integration of Non-SaaS Tools in Virtual Learning Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015). Toledo (Spain), September 2015, p. 518-52.
Abstract
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) such as Moodle or
Sakai are now commonplace in many educational settings, but the limited
set of built-in tools (e.g. chats or forums) is often mentioned as
a drawback. While successful solutions to integrate Software as a Service
(SaaS) tools are reported in the literature (e.g. IMS Basic LTI and
GLUE!), there are other non-SaaS tools with potential for education
that cannot be integrated in VLEs. These include single-user standalone
tools that are run on local computers without a web-based interface (e.g.
Matlab), but also virtual machines and laboratories that are common in
Computer Science-related disciplines. This paper addresses the integration
of these non-SaaS tools in VLEs, proposing an architecture to help
teachers to select and configure non-SaaS tools using existing integration
approaches from VLEs, but that also relies on cloud infrastructures for
provisioning and deploying these tools transparently to the end users.
