An Application of Petri Nets to e/m-Learning Environments

Thanks to new technologies and mobile devices, the e/m-Learning scenarios are quickly evolving and are becoming more and more complex to control. Besides educational factors and learning contents, a modern e/m-Learning system must also take into account services, kinds of devices and factors related to the network. As a matter of fact, both learning conditions and activities at disposal depend on many factors, such as network load conditions of the location from where the user has logged on. Furthermore, not only has the nature of e-learning material changed deeply over time, but so have devices and connection technologies for their fruition, especially in context of mobile learning based on multimedia broadband services.