Start date: 2 January 2007
End date: 30 June 2007
Funding programme: e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme
Project website:
http://www.peerpigeon.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
JISC theme(s): e-Learning
This project has now completed. See the project website and the final report available at the foot of this page.
Background / Context
The e-Framework Reference Model for Assessment (FREMA) project has built a community resource site for e-Framework Services within the Assessment domain, developed agile engineering methods for service construction, and developed two Service Usage Models (SUMs) which describe how services within the domain can fit together to collectively support a scenario. The first, Summative On-line Assessment has many existing tools, while Peer Review is a less well supported area. Peer Review is an important tool for giving feedback to large student cohorts when tutor time is limited, and is also an important learning activity in its own right.
Aims and Objectives
The overall aim of the project is to develop an initial set of services from the Peer Review FREMA usecase, providing lightweight REST services, which may be reused within other group-oriented SUMs, to support the resource submission and distribution phases of Peer Review.
The specific objectives are to:
- Validate core parts of the FREMA Peer Review SUM
- Develop lightweight REST services for resource submission and distribution within
- Develop these REST services within an e-Framework Reference Model (FREMA)
- Demonstrate an agile software engineering method applied to REST services.EXT
Project Methodology
The team will refine the Peer Review SUM to identify service expressions that support Resource Submission and Distribution; realise these designs into working REST services by defining concrete operations and data models; develop a simple web-based demonstrator that allows users to access the functionality of the services identified and developed; and complete the report and entries in the FREMA Community Wiki.
Implications/ Deliverables/ Stakeholders
The project will help to maintain momentum for Web Service development within the UK Assessment Community, and the FREMA reference model in particular. The experiences of the PeerPigeon team will also contribute to an understanding of how REST services can fit within the JISC e-Framework. Dissemination of information and outcomes from the project activities will be announced via the CETIS SIGs and provided by a project Web site and the FREMA Community Wiki.
Project Partners
Work will be commissioned from the JoinIn project.