If yes, what are the likely issues with those services or technologies?
Hi Isaiah
The market leader for cloud based e-learning tools is Blackboard (http://uki.blackboard.com/sites/international/globalmaster/)
Growing in the UK and Europe.
Issues are no different than with any other cloud service - bandwidth of the user.
Control to ensure the user is not 'cheating' during the use of the service, but imho that is more paranoia than reality.
Hi dear,
No need to go for any cloud based services. The group of IITs with IISc introduced a website for e-learning and it is very popular and successful. Please follow the link below:
nptel.iitm.ac.in
The website www.edu-sharing.net offers open source e-learning technology centered around a content repository network. The technology is not hidden in the cloud but the services offered could well be cloud services.
A new one that you might want to check out is Chalkup: http://www.chalkupedu.com . It was made for the cloud.
This is a broad topic - it depends what you need. For a 'closed system' of student community work, then learning management, whether hosted in the cloud or hosted by your own institution's servers is an answer. Blackboard is expensive, so Moodle might be a better one to investigate. But cloud doesn't really mean learning management, so for example much of the what the Google Docs suite of apps offers is now extremely useful for educational purposes - investigate Doctopus and Goobric as good illustrations of this, however there is so much more available. Many other cloud based Web 2.0 apps are around, so I would also suggest you start to follow people like EduTech for Teachers and others like Edutopia, Edudemic etc. All these sources will turn you on to a mass of new ways of teaching in the cloud.
Hope this helps :)
Actually , their are many of them with various purposes , the problem is these Cluod serveices are not integrated as in noodle for example so for example Google offers some elearning like
- docs
- wikis
- blogs
Other clouds like for examination and performance check like Robricks and test monkey
Isaiah we use an Open Source LMS (Learning Management System) called as MOODLE - Modular Object Oriented Development Learning Environment. This is an amazing piece of technology which has helped us implement e-learning and can be hosted on the cloud. We also have gone in for Online Tests namely no paper based tests via MOODLE
Hi. I have one project about it. But I created all infrastruture. My projetct is mix e-learning and Virtual Reality to create classroom virtual and colaborate.
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I used BigBlueButton with positive effect on the test result of the students. Easy to install and to use it. It is possible to use it just like a consultation tool. More details you can find in my papers.
We use Desire2Learn hosted off our private cloud as software as a service. The faculty and students like it and about 300,000 students generate about 50 million hits a day against the system.
I think that Moodle is the most complete application for e-learn, but is not so easy or quick to build an enviroment. It is free and support the plugins built.
Dear Isaiah,
Based on my personal experineces, I can suggest you to examine the services offered by the GOTOMEETING Company. The company offers three products namely GoTo Meeting, GoToWebinar and GoToTtraining. You can try any of them for 30 days free. The best thing about this company is that it provides a high security for your materials. For instance, By using the GoToWebinar product, you can invite up to 1000 students to an online session, give a presentation, record the presentation and put it into the server. The best thing starts after these things. For instance, you will get statistics how many students joined the session, and how many minutes they stayed and how much they were active. In addition, anyone from anywehere provided that they have access to the approprite technology and internet, can watch the records again and again. However, they can NOT download any presentation, simply they cannot. You will also get statistics about the number of students watched the records. Moreover, you can schedule your sessions. This is also important. For instance, you have a website and notify your students (let us say 250 students) that there is a session at 3.00 pm. Once students tried to access your website at 3.00 pm, possibly your website will be crashed due to the high demand. However, using the GotoWebinar, you can ask your stduents to register before the session starts and the system will send the session link directly to the email address of students and also it will remind the session time before 1 hour left. Finally, the GoToMeeting also supports the Mac, Androud and Windows operating systems.
Do you want more? Have a try.
Regards,
Dursun Akaslan
Computer Science
University of Leicester
TalentLMS (http://www.talentlms.com/) is another cloud-based e-learning platform which provides a large number of features and it is very usable and efficient. You can also use it with very low or no cost.
As others have said,MOODLE is pretty impressive (not perfect, but then what is?). Complicated issues, such as integration with a university's existing student record system, do require bespoke work (lack of standard APIs etc.), and we have a good support team, but I have used it for several years to support a class of 300 students with each student doing 15 assignments/year.
See moodle is simply LMS (Learning Management System ).I feel blackboard and WebCT are good elearning system where one can interact in different forms and ways .Try blackboard sir.
Again, depend son your point of view. I have had quite some success with conditional assignments in Moodle (in fact, I fudged them before they were supported). Try also the STACK plugin for seriously challenging mathematical exercises.
Like other said moodle is http://bitnami.com/stack/moodle is best.
I think we need to make e-learning more real time. This can be done by adding few features like:
1. Session based real time class rooms.
2. Real time attendance.
3. Real time discussions and libraries.
4. Real time Examinations and evaluation.
Other features like registeration, library, online materials etc are always there.
The implementation aspects might differ. Using cloud infrastructure can be handy. Many implementations are there... like: www.cloudpro.co.uk › SaaS, www.docebo.com/, scorm.com. However, whether they comply to our needs and the level of their customizability is a matter of discussion.
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