Towards Interoperable and Reusable Learning Environments

Learning technology standardisation is one of the key activities in the field of computer-based education. Eventually, this standardisation process will support resource sharing and interoperability. This paper presents an up-to-date survey on this process, and then discusses our contribution to it. We have defined a distributed software architecture built on the CORBA middleware platform. The provided functionality is made available through software interfaces defined according to existing recommendations and standards on e-learning. The architecture discussed can be implemented using traditional CORBA objects or CORBA Component Model (CCM) components.