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Title:
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THE SHIFT FROM VLE TO MLE A WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORT ON SYSTEM INTEGRATION TOWARD A MANAGED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT |
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Author(s):
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S. Carletti, L. Maurizi, M. Micozzi, D. Bonura |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-17-5 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Vol. II |
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Keywords:
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LMS, Integration, Videoconference, Statistics, Tracking, Dashboard. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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33 |
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Last Page:
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36 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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In modern Open Source LMS landscape there is a wide availability of different products, each one with their qualities but also with their peculiarities, hence making the need for customization virtually unavoidable; this is particularly true when the focus is not merely on content and assessment management but a great deal of resources, students and learning interactions have to be tracked and managed. In our experience, none of the available Open Source LMS has all the tools needed to a modern Managed Learning Environment. In order to achieve the best user experience students and teachers in our context the adopted strategy was to integrate different services into the main LMS, rather than developing new features into it from scratch. After evaluating different LMSs, we decided to deploy OLAT a Java Open Source LMS designed by the University Of Zurich and developed by a growing community of international e-learning specialists and integrate it with external services provided by other Open Source or commercial tools by minimum personalization of the source code of the various components. A production environment is already giving e-Learning services to over one thousand users showing optimistic results although further development is planned to achieve an all-round Managed Learning Environment. |
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