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Resource Manager for Distance Education Systems. Goran Kimovski Vladimir Trajkovik Danco Davcev Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Skopje, Macedonia. THE WHOLE PICTURE. Introduction.
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Resource Manager for Distance Education Systems Goran Kimovski Vladimir Trajkovik Danco Davcev Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Skopje, Macedonia
Introduction • The general idea of the Resource Management system is to enable sharing of many different resources between as many users as possible. • The idea of the resource is not limited to some laboratory equipment. It can be some software application or some interface to data stored in a remote database for example.
Principles • object-oriented approach • the object communication is standardized • stationary agents as entities that work on different tasks in the system • all communication protocols within Resource Manager are defined using XML
Implementation RM is implemented in Windows environment. All agents are developed in Java, with exception of Resource Simulation Agents, which are based on DCOM technology. The main components of the RM service
Implementation:Resource Manager in action resource: XML Validator resource: Robot Car http://odl-skopje.etf.ukim.edu.mk/vlab/
Experimental Results • We involved end users (students) in functionality testing and used feedback from them to add all requested functionality • We involved 38 users from Macedonia and Italy in the usability and education efficiency analysis. • In general, users are satisfied with the RM usability
Conclusion • We extended the concept of distance education with adding a new service, that we call Resource Manager • By combining object-oriented design and definitions of common interfaces for the different types of agents for different types of resources, we designed extensible system, in which resources are added in an easy way.