DISTRIBUTED INTERNET - BASED PERFORMANCE - CENTERED ARCHITECTURE FOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

The focus of this work is on Internet based electronic performance support systems with educational elements IPSS-EE (http://www.ipss-ee.net) and in particular, systems, which enable performance support environment to be distributed across computer networks. The proposed DIPSS_EE architecture facilitates the cooperation among educational resources and systems, which are located in different geographical locations in different local servers. The main purpose of the work presented is to define the structure, model and the architecture of DIPSS-EE as well the technologies needed inside for the practical implementation of DIPSS-EE. The described new architecture is based on Communication Server implementing distributed database storage system that provides data and file replication in an environment of high data mobility and heterogeneous host capabilities. The use of web based Learning objects repository in the Communication Server enables the interoperability between the distributed nodes of DIPSS-EE. In the DIPSS-EE multiple users can interact with distributed educational content in real time, and furthermore it is distributed, running on several servers which are connected by a computer network using a series of client server applications. DIPSS-EE has many characteristics that can be exploited in the educational process and especially in electronics education.