Creating the Ultimate LMS
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The document discusses the development of an ultimate Learning Management System (LMS) using APIs and mashups, describing various tools and services that enhance e-learning through integration. It highlights examples of APIs like 'after the deadline' for grammar checking and 'hunch' for adaptive learning, as well as several mashup possibilities that combine different web services to improve user experience. The document emphasizes the flexibility of commercial and open-source systems in creating these integrated learning environments.
Creating the Ultimate LMS
- 1. Building the Ultimate LMS with APIs and Mashups By Craig Weiss, E-Learning 24/7 Blog President of E-Learning 24/7 http://www.elearning247.co
- 2. API – Application Program Interface Mashup – Two or More APIs
- 3. API Possibilities • After the Deadline - checks spelling, misused words, style, and grammar with advanced AI and NLP techniques • hiogi.com – mobile search based on the knowledge of a worldwide community. Users ask questions and get answers via SMS. Use the API to access the database of answered questions, unanswered questions, add new questions, and manipulate a user account.
- 4. API Possibilities (cont.) • Hunch – questions and answers service that offers solutions to user-entered problems. Hunch’s answers are based on the collective knowledge of the entire Hunch community. Adaptive Learning with a Social Q/A twist • Cliqset -social web service that helps users share and discover content and discuss it with other users. The RESTful API allows developers to create accounts, edit profiles, monitor real-time comments and more. Responses may be formatted in either XML or JSON
- 5. Mashup Development •Programmer-built Ajax to create web page combining 3rd-party web services, widgets and feeds as components – Most Common • User-built Non-programmers creates the Mashup using assembly tools, most often within browser
- 7. 3 Types of Mashup Tools User Programming Front end Build web front ends like dashboards using widgets/gadgets w/ little to no programming (PageFlakes) User or Programmer Back end Combine web-accessible data and services into more useful web services that can be called easily using a REST-ful interface Programmer Integrated Build end-to-end web applications that link web widgets to data and service
- 8. Mashup Possibilities •Noterize and Box.net – a note-taking app for the iPad that allows you to view and annotate PDFs and PowerPoint presentations • letmesleep.in – allows professors to connect with their students when students need them the most: a class cancellation • Elodexa – an e-learning document search engine and online viewer. Uses Google Docs •Layer – platform that combines visual, geolocation, social network capability, and AR
- 9. Mashup Possibilities (cont.) • printfriendly.net – can create printer friendly versions of any blog and select articles to print • MyVidster – social bookmarking plus videos. Collects videos from the entire web and shares with friends or a larger audience • Producteev- cross-platform task management application • FourSquare – a social networking platform that intertwines the power of geolocation
- 10. All Possible via APIs and Mashups with your learning platform
- 11. Commercial or Open Source – Doesn’t Matter
- 12. Open Source Systems – Partial List
- 13. Additional Information • Yahoo Pipes • Apigee Free • WSO2 Mashup Server • Wayfaring • Webmashup API Directory Mashup Programmable Web
- 14. Craig Weiss, diego.studiocity@gmail.com E-Learning 24/7, Global Consulting Firm for Buyers and Suppliers in the e- learning sector http://www.elearning247.co E-Learning 24/7 blog http://www.elearninfo247.com
Editor's Notes
- #2: Why would I want to have an API in my LMS/LCMS or CMS? Simple, it gives you lots of features and capabilities that may not exist in your current solution. Let’s say you want your own web conferencing solution and not the one the vendor has partnered with. You can find a web conferencing api (free) and integrate it with your solution. Maybe, you want to incorporate some micro-blogging features in your LMS, which does not offer it as part of their platform. Locate some micro-blogging APIs. Twitter is an example of a micro-blogger, btw. You want e-commerce, but your vendor doesn’t offer it or wants you to pay for an add-on module. Uh, forget that. You can find an e-commerce API, plus APIs for a shopping cart. Want to accept PayPal ? No prob. API. Facebook like features? No prob. API. Wikipedia capabilities? MediaWiki API.
- #3: Mashup is a solution that allows developers to combine interesting data and then visualize that data through a web application
- #4: Mashup is a solution that allows developers to combine interesting data and then visualize that data through a web application
- #5: Mashup is a solution that allows developers to combine interesting data and then visualize that data through a web application
- #6: User built - The mashup tools often allow the user to discover feeds and widgets from various sources, and then assemble those feeds and widgets onto a mashup canvas, possibly using drag-and-drop gestures to pull from a widget palette onto the mashup canvas Programmer built In this scenario, a programmer uses Ajax technologies (e.g., HTML and JavaScript) to implement a Web page that combines 3rd-party web services, widgets and feeds as components within a Web page. Many Web applications built by individual Web developers fall into the programmer-built mashup category.
- #9: Mashup is a solution that allows developers to combine interesting data and then visualize that data through a web application
- #10: Mashup is a solution that allows developers to combine interesting data and then visualize that data through a web application
- #14: web-based tool that gives developers the ability to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from all reaches of the Internet Wayfaring - Create personalized maps Share them with your friends Explore maps created by others Connect and collaborate Kapow is a web-based tool for creating "robots" that gather data on the web and return the results as a web service WSO2 Mashup Server - is an open source mashup platform that hosts JavaScript based mashups. It is based on Apache Axis2 and other open source projects, and provides JavaScript authors the ability to consume, compose and emit web services, feeds, scraped web pages, email, and instant messages. The source code is freely available under the open source Apache License Apigee Free – for developers APIs, this is their free solution InfoPath – creating forms