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**Compatibility with e-learning standards**: | **Compatibility with e-learning standards**: | ||
+ | **Creation & Management of Online Courses**. Specifically, | ||
+ | * **distinct ways of accessing courses**: open courses, courses requiring registration, | ||
- | 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 a user account. | + | |
- | * 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 | + | * **Documents**: |
- | Note: There are also inactive courses. | + | * **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**: a tool for creating interactive course objects | ||
+ | * **Mindmap**: | ||
+ | ==== 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. | ||
- | ==== Functionality | + | ==== Evaluation |
- | 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, | + | |
- | [{{ :en:short_description:short_descr_single_page.jpg?500 |Course Home}}] | + | * 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. | ||
- | - **Agenda**, presents crucial course events in time order (lectures, meetings, etc) | + | **E-learning management tools** |
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- | - **Announcements**, | + | * Settings: |
- | | + | * Users: List of registered users, roles, registration |
- | - **Groups**, open or closed, consist of users registered to the course (students and teachers) | + | * Tools: enable, disable, add external tools (links, tools, LTI, etc.). |
- | - **Links**, on the web to resources relevant to the aspects of the course | + | * Learning analytics: Analytical reports on monitoring |
- | - **Student Assignments**, where students can submit work done in response to assignments set forward by the teacher | + | |
- | - **Self-evaluation Exercises**, created by the teacher, allowing students to practice and test their knowledge | + | |
- | - **Course Description**, | + | |
- | - **Glossary**, | + | |
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- | - **Multimedia**, where recorded lectures or other multimedia files can be stored | + | |
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- | - **Teleconference**, combining real-time on-line conversations, | + | |
- | - **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. | + | |
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- | - ** Wall ** allow students | + | |
- | - ** 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 | + | |
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- | ===== Aims - Benefits ===== | ||
- | The Open eClass project has the following aims: | ||
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- | * 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:// |