A Grid Services Implementation for a Virtual Research Environment

Gary Wills (1) , Lester Gilbert (2) , Quintin Gee (2) , Hugh C. Davis (2) , Timothy Miles-Board (1) , David Millard (1) , Les Carr (1) , Wendy Hall (1) , Simon Grange (3)

1 Department of Electronics and Computer Science
2 ECS - Learning Technologies Group
3 Royal College of Surgeons of England

In the past, virtual learning and research environments have typically been implemented as monolithic systems. Current research focuses on creating such environments from selected Grid and Web services. In this paper we describe the Virtual Orthopaedic European University, which was created to support Higher Surgical Trainees to provide evidence for their learning contracts by carrying out experiments and publishing the results. We use this environment as a case study for the re-implementation of this system as a set of Web services, and we discuss the advantages of taking such an approach.

Keywords: learning grids; e-learning; web services; virtual research environments; grid services

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Gary Wills, Lester Gilbert, Quintin Gee, Hugh C. Davis, Timothy Miles-Board, et al.. A Grid Services Implementation for a Virtual Research Environment. 1st International ELeGI Conference on Advanced Technology for Enhanced Learning, 2005, Vico Equense (Naples)², Italy. pp.6. ⟨hal-00190557⟩