Development and Integration of E-learning Services Using REST APIs

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i04.11687

Keywords:

E-learning, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, REST APIs

Abstract


E-Learning systems have gained a lot of traction amongst students and academicians due to their flexible nature in terms of location independence, time, effort, cost and other resources. The rapidly changing nature of the education domain makes the design, development, testing, and maintenance of E-Learning systems complex and expensive. In order to adapt to the changing policies of educational institutes as well as improve the performance of students, the paper presents a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to minimize the cost and time associated with the development of E-Learning systems. The paper illustrates the development of independent E-Learning web services and how they can be combined to implement the required policies of respective education institutes. The paper also presents a sample policy implemented using developed web services to achieve the required objectives.

Author Biographies

Saleh Mowla, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Saleh Mowla graduated from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal with a minor specialization in Software Systems Design. He is currently working as a Software Engineer in Doha, Qatar. His research interests include Software Engineering, Database Systems, Data Mining and Cloud Computing.

Sucheta V Kolekar, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Sucheta V. Kolekar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology, MIT, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India. She has an experience of twelve years in the field of teaching and research. She holds a PhD in the area of Adaptive E-Learning from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India. Her primary research interests include e-learning, IOT, web usage mining and cloud computing. She has published 15 papers in national and international journals/conference proceedings.

Downloads

Published

2020-02-26

How to Cite

Mowla, S., & Kolekar, S. V. (2020). Development and Integration of E-learning Services Using REST APIs. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(04), pp. 53–72. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i04.11687

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 04 (2020)

Section

Papers

License

The submitting author warrants that the submission is original and that she/he is the author of the submission together with the named co-authors; to the extend the submission incorporates text passages, figures, data or other material from the work of others, the submitting author has obtained any necessary permission.
Articles in this journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY What does this mean?). This is to get more legal certainty about what readers can do with published articles, and thus a wider dissemination and archiving, which in turn makes publishing with this journal more valuable for you, the authors.
By submitting an article the author grants to this journal the non-exclusive right to publish it. The author retains the copyright and the publishing rights for his article without any restrictions.
This journal has been awarded the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals (What's this?)