Abstract:

This work is part of a larger research, where we have studied the learning management systems (LMSs) and proposed a reference model, serving to both analysis and synthesis of LMSs. Such model has been implemented and evaluated, being composed of two representations and facilities specially oriented to two important actors in LMS development, namely: author and developer. To the author developer elaborated a flexible reference architecture in order to help them implement the requirements of the user. However, the focus of this work is the second representation: a conceptual map that is formed by the main features of the LMS, so it lends itself to assist both educators in choosing the services that will compose the LMS that meets their needs, as developers, for interpreting the selection of the teacher, since the map serves as a requirements document. Moreover, the conceptual map serves as a basis for further work, a knowledge-based recommender system to automatically approximate these two representations through rules that map the needs of the author in design decisions to developers. Hence, the system may recommend a new architecture for customized LMS or even an existing LMS to the author.

Keywords:

Conceptual map, reference model, LMS.