Integrating e-Business and e-Learning Processes

In this paper we propose a system integrating a distributed Workflow Management System and a Learning Management System. The Workflow Management component offers a visual environment based on an extension of UML activity diagrams that allows to graphically design a process model and to visually monitor its enactment. Similarly, an extension of UML activity diagrams is used by the Learning Management component for defining e-learning processes. The proposed system enables to associate activities of the business process with e-learning processes. In this way, a human resource involved in an e-business process can bridge the gap while performing an activity.