Aims and objectives
August 4th, 2010
Aims
- Enhance the OU learning systems, with applicability to other institutions
- Understand implications of the provision of cloud services alongside institutional VLEs
- Enhance several key areas of learning systems functionality
- Develop interfaces between the VLE (Moodle) and externally-hosted systems such as Google Apps.
Objectives
- Explore integration between learning systems and Google Apps
- Identify features and functionality in OU learning systems that could utilise a distributed approach
- Develop services to provide data to external systems
- Develop applications for third-party platforms that interface with OU learning systems
- Evaluate end-users experience of the solution.
