Orchestration of E-Learning Services for Automatic Evaluation of Programming Exercises

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Ricardo Queiros (Author) Other; Jose Paulo Leal (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Universal Computer Science

Vol. 18

Pages: 1454-1482

ISSN: 0948-695X

Publisher: Technische Universität Graz

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 2 Citations

Scopus - 3 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-FFK

Abstract (EN): Managing programming exercises require several heterogeneous systems such as evaluation engines, learning objects repositories and exercise resolution environments. The coordination of networks of such disparate systems is rather complex. These tools would be too specific to incorporate in an e-Learning platform. Even if they could be provided as pluggable components, the burden of maintaining them would be prohibitive to institutions with few courses in those domains. This work presents a standard based approach for the coordination of a network of e-Learning systems participating on the automatic evaluation of programming exercises. The proposed approach uses a pivot component to orchestrate the interaction among all the systems using communication standards. This approach was validated through its effective use on classroom and we present some preliminary results.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 29