LORSE: Intelligent meta-searcher of learning objects over distributed educational repositories based on intelligent agents

This paper introduce LORSE, a multiagent system based on JADE (Java Agents Development Framework) to support teachers and students in the time consuming task of searching for distributed learning objects in several learning objects repositories such as MERLOT, Connexions and Fedora Commons Repositories, It offers them the possibility of developing this task in the context of a learning management system. LORSE consist of a set of intelligent agents, whose responsibility it is to deliver to users different learning objects in response to specific searches requested by the users. The agents connect with the repositories by means of RESTful web services clients developed as one of its behaviors and then they develop the searches over the learning objects metadata to provide a suitable response to users. The integration process of LORSE with the dotLRN platform is presented and some implementations results are introduced.