Differences
This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
Both sides previous revisionPrevious revisionNext revision | Previous revision | ||
en:short_description [2023/11/23 13:57] – admin | en:short_description [2023/12/08 14:43] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1 | ||
---|---|---|---|
Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
+ | **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: | ||
- | Basic platform | + | **Creation & Management of Online Courses**. Specifically, |
- | - distinct user roles | + | |
- | - distinct course categories | + | |
- | - easy course creation and use | + | |
- | - structured course presentation | + | |
- | - stability and reliability | + | |
- | - ease of administration | + | |
- | ==== User Roles ==== | + | * **distinct ways of accessing courses**: open courses, courses |
- | | + | |
- | * 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, | + | * |
- | * Finally, | + | * |
- | Note: There is a number of intermediate user roles | + | |
- | ==== Course Categories ==== | + | |
- | | + | |
- | * 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. | + | ==== Management of educational content ==== |
- | Note: There are also inactive courses. | + | |
- | ==== Functionality & Features ==== | + | * **Documents**: |
- | 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, each eCourse consists | + | * **Multimedia**: |
+ | * **Blog**: Publishing text posts in chronological order. | ||
+ | * **Glossary**: | ||
+ | * **E-book**: Posting, managing and presenting e-books in HTML format. | ||
+ | * **Wall**: Reading | ||
+ | * **Links**: Adding | ||
+ | * **Learning Path**: Organization of educational material into structured modules. Export to SCORM package. | ||
+ | * **H5P content**: a tool for creating interactive course objects | ||
+ | * **Mindmap**: | ||
- | [{{ :en:short_description:short_descr_single_page.jpg?500 |Course Home}}] | + | ==== Information, |
+ | * **Announcements**: Posting of course announcements. | ||
+ | * **Calendar**: Chronological presentation of events-stages of the course. | ||
+ | * **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. | ||
- | - **Agenda**, presents crucial course events in time order (lectures, meetings, etc) | + | ==== Evaluation & feedback |
- | - **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 | + | |
- | - ** 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. | + | |
+ | * 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. | ||
+ | **E-learning management tools** | ||
+ | |||
+ | * 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. | ||
+ | [{{ : | ||
- | |||
- | ===== 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:// |