e-Learning Services in Moodle 2.0

Abstract

The unstoppable advance of new technologies has made evident the need for updating learning platforms. This update is based on the incorporation of new functionalities in order to satisfy the changing users’ needs. One of the ways to carry this out lies in the evolution of learning environments into a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The implementation of these architectures will allow the creation of clients and external tools that can work with the resources contained in the platform, giving users a freedom of movement that they did not have before. Moodle 2.0 is an example of this evolution and this article presents some of the new possible applications.