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==== Information, | ==== Information, | ||
- | * Announcements: | + | |
- | * Calendar: Chronological presentation of events-stages of the course. | + | |
- | * Messages: Exchange of messages between instructors and trainees. | + | |
- | * Notifications: Notification of anything new regarding the course. | + | * **Announcments**: Notification of anything new regarding the course. |
- | * Discussions: Asynchronous exchange of views and ideas. | + | * **Forum**: Asynchronous exchange of views and ideas. |
- | * Telecollaboration: the ability to communicate and collaborate in real time. | + | * **Teleconference**: the ability to communicate and collaborate in real time. |
- | * User groups: Grouping users to have a common discussion area and file upload area. | + | * **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. | ||
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- | ==== 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:// |