1. Playing Well With Others Using Web Services For Interoperability and Content Interchange Dmitriy Babichenko, Teppituk Krinchai, James B. McGee Laboratory for Educational Technology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

2. Take a look at the following 3 websites…

6. Let’s take a closer look…

10. Now take a look at Amazon

14. What is so special about Facebook and Amazon?

15. Web Service Infrastructure

16. What Are Web Services? o Web services are application components o Web services communicate using open protocols o Web services are self-contained o Web services are self-describing o Web services can be used by other applications

17. Implementation o Well-supported by most modern programming languages o Use XML to pass data o Low implementation cost

18. Example Dim ws As New vpSim.externalDataAccess Dim link As String = ws.generatePlayerLink(userName, userPassword, learnerUserID, learnerFirstName, learnerLastName, learnerEmail, caseID) Response.Write(" " & link & " ")

19. Why should you care?

20. Imagine a system infrastructure where a student logs into a web portal…

21. …and sees a calendar that aggregates data from Microsoft Exchange, Learning Management System (LMS) and portal events…

22. …where a single blog application can be implemented in multiple web systems…

23. … and a learning module can launch a virtual patient simulation…

24. … and a virtual patient simulation can send a student performance report to any LMS

25. Lab for Educational Technology Web Application Infrastructure Navigator LMS Microsoft SharePoint Web Portal Virtual Patient Simulator Clinical Log Blog

26. Questions? Dmitriy Babichenko Laboratory for Educational Technology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine dmitriy@medschool.pitt.edu