Architectural framework for the composition and delivery of adaptive educational support services

Quality education can be delivered at a time, place and pace that suit the learner, teacher and administrator. One way to achieve this is for universities to devise an appropriate and effective web based education environment that supports customization for the individual. Such an environment requires interoperability of heterogeneous systems, reduced cost through re-use of existing invested technology, robustness to cater for future changes in technology and adaptability that allows the display of information that is personalized for each learner. Such a framework for an integrated adaptive distributed web based education environment is proposed and discussed in this paper. The goal of this framework is to provide a detailed architecture that aggregates heterogeneous systems and provides a container into which systems can plug in and deliver educational services dynamically.