Educational technological specifications to support distance education in an e-learning platform

AKHME's aim is to provide an e-learning system with adaptive characteristics and knowledge management abilities for students and teachers. With this system we aim to satisfy the requirements of reusability, interoperability and multipurpose. The system represents all the information based on metadata, providing authoring tools for teachers to define learning methods with adaptive characteristics, as well as tools to create units of learning that allow users with different roles, promoting both collaborative and group learning of several types. The system is endowed with a knowledge management sub-system that provides collaborative and automatic evaluation of learning objects, and retrieval of learning objects. This sub-system enables the possibility of students to use quality educational contents that fit their necessities, previous knowledge and learning styles, and teachers have the possibility of using and retrieving quality educational contents to structure their courses. We describe the contribution of this platform to distance education.