A Quality of Service (QoS) model and learner centric selection mechanism for e-learning Web resources and services

Abstract

E-learning has changed the way of traditional education through anytime and anywhere learning experience. With the widespread adoption of Web services technology, the legacy e-learning systems are being exposed as reusable services on the Web. The increasing e-learning services on the Web prompts a research in selecting the most suitable elearning service for the learner's needs. Quality of Service (QoS) is a decisive factor to discriminate e-learning services offering similar services/resources. In this paper, the authors broadly classify e-learning systems/applications into three groups based on the nature of learning experience and processes involved. Based on the e-learning system's taxonomy, the paper defines a QoS model with six categories of QoS parameters to discriminate e-learning services. The paper proposes an architecture and ranking mechanism to select the most suitable e-learning service for the learner based on his QoS requirements and preferences.

Quality analytics for evaluation of dynamic web based learning environment

“…There are large numbers of Web resources, e-Learning applications and online services available to achieve the concept of induce learning. Selection models proposed by researchers are available to help the learners to select the best out of different available options [2]. Selection models take their decisions on the basis of various decisive factors such as type of courseware, ease of use, interface, learner centric support, technical factors and quality delivered [3], [4].…”

Dashboard for Evaluating the Quality of Open Learning Courses

“…It can be seen that the focus of a large number of publications is to address the technical quality of the technology that supports the e-Learning process [10,14,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. The quality of services and support associated with e-Learning systems [11,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32], learning resources [33,34] and instructional design of online courses [23,[35][36][37] are also topics of interest, although there is less consensus among researchers, as studies are case-focused and results are not generalizable. As for the training of students and teachers in the skills of using the e-Learning system [31], this seems to be an interesting issue but few authors have addressed it.…”