XEDU, A PROPOSAL OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION

Learning management systems (LMS) can be defined as "a suite of services designed to deliver, track, report on and administer learning content, student progress and student interactions". Current LMS are based on courseware tools which mainly use Internet and the Web as learning platforms. However, they use proprietary/closed technologies and formats such as HTML that are not adequate for developing and managing sophisticated educational applications. Moreover, they also lack adaptive features in order to allow an individualise d learning. The current work proposes a LMS based on standard and open Web technologies such as XML, Java and Javascript. It also includes features to adapt the delivery of educational contents depending on specific user profiles. An implementation called XEDU is being developed which runs on Apache Web Server and MySQL database.