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===== Short Description ====== | ===== Short Description ====== | ||
- | The Open eClass platform is a complete | + | The Open eClass platform is an integrated e-Course Management System and is the proposal of the Academic |
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+ | ===== Features and functionalities ===== | ||
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- | The introduction of e-learning into the traditional teaching process provides new capabilities and allows new means of interaction between students and teachers. At the same time, it supports the electronic management, storage and presentation of teaching materials, transcending limitations of space and time and creating the necessary conditions for a dynamic teaching environment. | + | **Compatibility with all browsers**: Open eClass is accessed using a simple web browser. The Open eClass platform is fully functional in all browsers. |
- | The Open eClass platform | + | **Customizable user interface**: |
- | The Open eClass platform is available as open source software. Its design principles include ease of use by end users without specialized technical skills, multilingual support, adaptability to current and future demands, and simple software upgrade and extension. The service is accessible via any web browser. | ||
+ | **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: | ||
- | ===== Features and functionalities ===== | + | **Creation & Management of Online Courses**. Specifically, |
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- | * **Adaptive User Interface**: The Open eClass platform has modern and adaptive (responsive) UI (user interface), based on Bootstrap 3x, to fit the screens of different devices, including computers, tablets and smartphones. Users can also have direct access to the Open eClass the tablet or the mobile and through applications for mobile devices with leitoutrgiko iOS and Android. | + | |
- | * **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: The Open eClass platform is compatible with international standards (SCORM, IMSCP) to ensure the reuse, accessibility and durability of educational materials to technological changes, as well as interoperability between e-learning systems. | + | * **distinct ways of accessing courses**: open courses, courses requiring registration, closed courses, inactive courses |
- | Basic platform characteristics are: | + | * **discrete |
- | - distinct user roles | + | |
- | - distinct | + | |
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- | - structured course presentation | + | |
- | - stability and reliability | + | |
- | - ease of administration | + | |
- | ==== User Roles ==== | + | * **backups**: ensuring |
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- | * The user student can register to courses making an open registration, access educational materials, and participate in working groups, discussion forums and exercises. Student accounts can be created either automatically, by allowing open registration of new users, or by the platform administrators themselves after an on-line request. | + | * **distinct |
- | * Finally, the administrator has general control over the platform. Administrators can create and administer user accounts and courses, monitor the server and database operation. | ||
- | Note: There is a number of intermediate user roles | ||
- | ==== Course Categories | + | ==== Management of educational content |
- | * Open courses are publicly accessible, even by visitors without | + | |
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+ | * **Documents**: | ||
+ | * **Multimedia**: | ||
+ | * **Blog**: Publishing text posts in chronological order. | ||
+ | * **Glossary**: | ||
+ | * **E-book**: Posting, managing and presenting e-books in HTML format. | ||
+ | * **Wall**: Reading of multi-content posts (video, documents, multimedia). | ||
+ | * **Links**: Adding and organizing useful resources from the Internet . | ||
+ | * **Learning Path**: Organization of educational material into structured modules. Export to SCORM package. | ||
+ | * **H5P content**: | ||
+ | * **Mindmap**: | ||
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+ | ==== Information, | ||
+ | * **Announcements**: | ||
+ | * **Calendar**: | ||
+ | * **Messages**: | ||
+ | * **Announcments**: | ||
+ | * **Forum**: Asynchronous exchange of views and ideas. | ||
+ | * **Teleconference**: | ||
+ | * **Groups**: Grouping users to have a common discussion area and file upload area. | ||
+ | *** Wiki**: Collaborative authoring. | ||
+ | * **Chat**: Real-time communication by text message, between instructors and learners. | ||
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+ | ==== Evaluation & feedback tools ==== | ||
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+ | * Exercises: Production of closed-ended exercises (multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank). | ||
+ | * Assignments: | ||
+ | * Questionnaires: | ||
+ | * Gradebook: Recording trainee scores. | ||
+ | * Attendance: Recording trainee attendance/ | ||
+ | * Progress: helps learners to improve their performance and achieve their goals | ||
+ | * Statistics: User statistics. | ||
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+ | **E-learning management tools** | ||
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+ | * Settings: the basic course settings tool (title, description, | ||
+ | * Users: List of registered users, roles, registration and de-registration of users (individual, | ||
+ | * Tools: enable, disable, add external tools (links, tools, LTI, etc.). | ||
+ | * Learning analytics: Analytical reports on monitoring and achievement of learning objectives. | ||
- | * Registration required restricted courses are accessible to platform users that are registered to them. This means that these courses are open to everyone having an account. For additional security the course teacher can set a registration password. | ||
- | * Finally, closed courses are only accessible to users after a course teacher allows access to their account by registering them to the course. | ||
- | Note: There are also inactive courses. | ||
- | ==== Functionality & Features ==== | ||
- | The eCourse is the core part of the Open eClass platform. Each eCourse is an autonomous entity which integrates a number of learning tools. More specifically, | ||
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- | - **Agenda**, presents crucial course events in time order (lectures, meetings, etc) | ||
- | - **Documents**, | ||
- | - **Announcements**, | ||
- | - **Forums**, where students can participate in conversation groups and exchange opinions on various aspects of the course | ||
- | - **Groups**, open or closed, consist of users registered to the course (students and teachers) | ||
- | - **Links**, on the web to resources relevant to the aspects of the course | ||
- | - **Student Assignments**, | ||
- | - **Self-evaluation Exercises**, | ||
- | - **Course Description**, | ||
- | - **Glossary**, | ||
- | - **E-Book**, a module for uploading and presenting electronic books in HTML format | ||
- | - **Multimedia**, | ||
- | - **Learning Path** allows teachers to organize their educational material and students to follow a sequence of learning activity steps (SCORM) | ||
- | - **Wiki**, where course participants collaborate on documents, allowing everyone to edit document pages while maintaining full history of changes | ||
- | - **Teleconference**, | ||
- | - **Questionnaires**, | ||
- | - **Drop Box**, is a file and messaging exchange area for students and teachers | ||
- | - **Course Administration Tools**, allowing teachers to configure course information (title, keywords, etc.), control eCourse access settings, renew or delete the eCourse, manage registered users, view usage statistics and activate / deactivate eCourse learning tools. | ||
- | - ** Atendance ** students can check their exercises, tasks, activities, workshops. | ||
- | - ** Wall ** allow students and teachers to apply in chronological order a set of multiple content posts | ||
- | - ** Video ** teachers can upload multimedia files in several formats like mpeg, avi, flv, etc. | ||
- | - ** Gradebook ** allow teachers to create and manage a series of “Electronic score” for the course. | ||
- | Course units offer a flexible way to organize educational material that is stored in the course learning modules in an articulate structure. | ||
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- | ===== Aims - Benefits ===== | ||
- | The Open eClass project has the following aims: | ||
- | * to incorporate new technologies in education activities. | ||
- | * to utilize existing educational material (notes, presentations, | ||
- | * to take constructive advantage of the Internet. | ||
- | * to be easy to use for both teachers and students. | ||
- | * to offer a reliable but affordable asynchronous e-learning services. | ||
- | * to be easy to install and administer, as well as easy to adapt to special or changing requirements. | ||
- | * to actively developed and supported by the Greek Academic Network GUnet and available without restrictions to everyone. | ||
===== Contact ===== | ===== Contact ===== | ||
For more information please visit platform’s web portal in: http:// | For more information please visit platform’s web portal in: http:// |