Learning Management Systems (LMS) are widespread among most education and training
institutions. Even though LMS are a mature technology, they have left the vanguard of innovation in e-learning to mobile devices and tablets. Mobile Learning (M-learning)may enhance e-learning by increasing communication and conversation opportunities
to convents the learning process more collaborative and learner-centred. This paper
describes a way to integrate mobile devices and educational applications with a LMS as
Moodle through web services: The Moodbile Project. Rather than just creating mobile apps that replicates LMS functionalities on a mobile device, Moodbile provides to m-learning developers with the necessary tools to allow mobile devices to interact with the LMS. In this paper, we describe
our proposal of an open specification of web
services to support the integration of
mobile external applications with Moodle.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
