Assemble To Order Learning Management System

Candidate: Baljeet Dhaliwal
Type: Master of Science (MSc), School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Date: May 24, 2006
Senior Supervisor: Dr. Vive Kumar
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Abstract

Each Learning Management System (LMS) comes with a unique bundle of functionalities that offers educationally-oriented interactions. Most of these functionalities are neither portable nor common across various LMS. That is, a functionality developed for one LMS cannot be integrated within another LMS. Having noted that the process of software development is not very different from industrial production, in this thesis, we suggest a way of applying the principles of production management to software development in educational technologies. The functionalities in LMS have been developed based on the notion of Assemble to Order (ATO) commonly found in industrial production. The thesis contends that functionalities implemented using ATO approach will allow scalable and adaptable integration of functionalities across LMS. The thesis substantiates this claim using a case scenario and presents analytical results obtained from software engineering metrics such as Function Point Analysis (FPA) and Lines Of Code (LOC) in support the claim.