De Montfort University Managed Learning Environment Architecture December 2001, John Eyre Check the “notes” field for supporting text
MLE Architecture MLE (Web) Server User Manager Resource Manager MLE Usage Database Student Record System Authentication System Client Application (Web Browser) e-Learning – VLE App Past Exam Papers Course Notes, Study Guides Library Diary Discussion Lists, Groupware, email Entertainment, Social NESLI INGENTA BIDS EDINA AHDS MIMAS e-Journals etc Remote Authorised Resources Timetabling Finance System Course Management Secure, Authorised Access
Joining-Up the SRS and VLE MLE Browser VLE Sys Admin Course Admin SRS UCAS University Request for Student Accounts Download Users Upload Assessment Results Intermediate Files Vendor API IMS Standards
Joining-Up Everything? MLE Sys Admin Users DB Directory Service or ANGEL System SRS Sys Admin Users DB VLE Sys Admin Users DB Finance Sys Admin Users DB Library Modules Timetable Resources Remote Other
ANGEL Architecture ITE VLE SRS ITE VLE SRS IMS Resource Manager User protocol servers protocol clients ANGEL service modules HTTP (etc) IMS XRR* Z39.50 Server-Broker Client-Broker Resource Manager User Manager Scheduled Services Mgr resource metadata user metadata task metadata IMS Server Broker Client Broker Resource Manager User ITE VLE SRS ITE VLE SRS Res
The DMU MLE Web Interface - Personal Course / Module data
The DMU MLE Web Interface - Personal Details and Preferences
The DMU MLE Web Interface - Example Communications page
Contact points John Eyre - jle@dmu.ac.uk MLE Project - http://mle.dmu.ac.uk/ ANGEL Project - http://www.angel.ac.uk/ IMS Project - http://www.imsproject.org/ CETIS - http://cetis.bangor.ac.uk/cetis/ IMS Enterprise and LIP list - ims-enterprise@jiscmail.ac.uk http://jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ims-enterprise.html