Capturing and Monitoring of Learning Process through a Business Process Management (bpm) Framework

In recent years, e-Learning systems have significantly impacted the way that we learn within universities, both in providing self-learning support and flexibility of course delivery. Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) such as Moodle help facilitate the management of educational courses for students, in particular by helping lecturers and students with course administration. However, issues still remain; in particular e-learning environments provide a one size fits all approach to the learning process through the course materials each student must follow the same learning path, regardless of their a priori knowledge, learning requirements or learning disability. Many commercial VLEs allow course writers to build courses as groups of lessons, but it is currently not possible to monitor the learning process of individual learners or learning groups through the course material in real-time. In order to solve the issues of a one size fits all approach; this paper discusses the development of a system that develops an adaptive learning process management system, using the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM). This system allows the course-writer to monitor the learning process of the learners in real-time and manually adapts the learning path or course materials. The paper also discusses possible future extensions to the work that would allow for the automatic adaptation of the learning path to meet an individual learner’s needs. The paper concludes by discussing the benefits and limitations of our BPM implementation and discusses future extensions to allow for the automatic adaptation of learner’s learning path.