Abstract:
Enormous efforts are put in both directions of the area of e-learning technologies– information and learning
aspects. On one hand, there are new challenges in learning technologies, which tends to be in focus of research
of the community of practise. On the other hand, there are learning specifications developments, which are
technology oriented. And last, but not least new exciting technologies appear on the web. In order to achieve the
primary goal in technology-enhanced learning – better learning - we need to take in account these changes.
Development of new models, frameworks, systems and tools in order to satisfy these needs is required. The
proposed event-driven interoperability framework is an attempt to fill up the gap between different aspects
behind the rationale of learning systems evolution. The presented framework takes advantages of the eventdriven
paradigm, applying it on loosely coupled or completely decoupled technology standards and specification
used in learning systems and tools. There are given definitions of four basic collaborating parts of the
framework (client, repository, monitored repository, and conformance validators). Collaboration mechanism of
the framework is described using event-driven paradigm. Expected benefits of applying the framework are
pointed out. Relation to and subtle distinction with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven
Architecture (EDA) are presented as a conclusion.
