OpeniWorld:eLearn2009
My Campus, Your Campus
Choice and Flexibility in the Age of Service Oriented Architecture
Barcelona, Spain May 12, 2009
This year's OpeniWorld event is part of the IMS Learning Impact global conference being hosted by the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain 11-14 May, 2009. OiW will turn its attention to the tangible benefits of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). An architectural approach to software development and interoperability is only valuable to the extent that it provides real benefits for real people. In tough economic times, educational institutions must pay special attention to whether such value is truly being achieved.
Service Oriented Architecture, and related service-based interoperability standards, offer the promise of easing the effort and reducing the cost of integrating software applications and services. But what does this really mean for teachers, faculty, students and scholars? This year's OpeniWorld sessions will explore this question and call upon the industry and educational community to demonstrate progress.
Please refer to this year’s Call for Demonstrations for information on how you can present your SOA related products, projects or activies in Barcelona.
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OpeniWorld turns the spotlight on community use of interoperability techniques, specifications and standards to ease and enhance access to knowledge. Interoperability enables education providers to deliver high quality, easy to use learning experiences to every student at affordable cost and with a minimum of technological distraction.