Middleware engine

August 11th, 2006

The Reflective Evlaution project partners are developing a  series of activities and tools to help teachers and trainers evalaute their activities. More details of these tools can be found in the description of the project and on the project wiki.

The project also aims to develop electronic versions of these tools. At an early stage of the project, it was agreed that the tools should be accessable through the web. This posed a problem. There is a (very) limited software budget for the project. Design and development of web based tools can be time consuming and expensive. Furthermore, project parters have developed some exciting and ambitious ideas for tools.

Two of the partners, Pontydysgu and CRED, are now developing a middleware engine. This is a piece of software designed to assist in the development of the tools.  Following the initial brainstorming of ideas for tools, it has been possible to identify common elements of functionality. Through a friendly (we hope!) user interface, project partners and tool developers will be able to themselves directly develop and test new tools for self evaluation.

The middleware engine is being developed to run on the Joomla platform used for project development and communication. A beta version fo the engine should be available for testing in mid August 2006. The software will be released under an Open Source Licence. If you would like to know more, please contact Graham Attwell.

Entry Filed under: General