Welcome to edutech
Edutech is a mandate of the Swiss
Virtual Campus programme. Its role is to support the SVC in technological
matters. The main tasks are the following :
Other activities include information and communication services, technology
watch, organizing courses, etc.
Edutech is hosted at Centre NTE
/ University of Fribourg.
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Latest News [more]
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eLML (eLesson Markup Language) Release 4 available
28 Sep 2007
eLesson Markup Language (eLML), an open source XML framework for creating structured eLessons using XML, release 4 has just been announced. Here are the top 5 new features:
- Possibility to transform multiple lessons into one course
- Create multiple choice quizzes with the new selfCheck element
- eLML now supports the YAML (www.yaml.de) CSS framework for good
looking layouts
- Generate List of Figures and List of Tables automatically or add
tables of content manually
- LaTeX (PDF) transformation of your lesson is now offered
The eLML website has also been relaunched with a lot of new examples, manuals, screenshots and tutorial movies.
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8.6. - Schweizer eLearning Meeting für Hochschullehrkräfte
7 May 2007
Schweizer eLearning Meeting für Hochschullehrkräfte - Rencontre Suisse eLearning pour Enseignants des Unis et HES - 10. FNL Meeting
Friday 8th of June 2007 Registration
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Most IT Projects Fail? Aral Balkan on the Edutech NTE Podast
26 Apr 2007
Our latest podcast is about a startling fact: more than half of IT projects fail. At Flash on the Beach in December 2006, Aral Balkan spoke of ways to reduce the risk of failure. Listen in!
http://nte.unifr.ch/blog/podcast/
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OLAT 5.1 Release
23 Apr 2007
The OLAT team released OLAT 5.1 This is a major release including some new functionality and a lot of small improvements as well as bugfixes.
Please note that OLAT 5.1.0 has only been released at the University of Zurich. The productive OLAT 5.1 Public release is in fact OLAT 5.1.2.
OLAT 5.1 is mainly a consolidation release. As you can see from the release notes list < http://www.olat.org/public/download/releasenotes/ 5-1-x.html>, the OLAT team included over 170 improvements and bugfixes. We decided that before implementing new features we needed to improve the existing features. Nevertheless OLAT 5.1 includes some new features:
* New Wiki engine: The new Wiki engine offers a lot more functions (eg. image thumbnails, footnotes etc.) and works better (many bugs have been fixed) than the one introduced in OLAT 5.0. Please refer to http://jamwiki.org/wiki/en/Wiki_Syntax for the full Wiki syntax.
* Glossary: OLAT now offers a learning resource called "glossary" which can be included into one or serveral courses. Please refer to the manual for further information.
* HTML-Editor now offers easy possibility to include internal links to course elements (no need to copy and paste IDs and gotonode- javascripts)
* Accessability: content area is marked for an access key and within tables you can jump directly to the first row.
* SCORM: values from the SCORE variable can now be used within learning paths.
* Table Selection: Tables offer now checkboxes to select more then one row for executing an action. (Multiselect feature)
* Search: the google known "did you mean" functionality is implemented if no results were found.
For a full list of changes please refer to the OLAT 5.1.x release notes
<http://www.olat.org/public/download/releasenotes/5-1-x.html>.
If you have any questions/comments, please feel free to contact us.
The 5.1.2 release is available as source code release for production environments and as demo installer release for testing purpose. Please fetch your copy at the Download section at the olat.org website.
Thanks to the growing community that helped finding bugs that made this release more stable. The community did also a great job in translating OLAT into several new languages.
Please continue submitting any bugs you may encounter at <http:// bugs.olat.org>. There you'll also be able to browse issues and bugs as well as see the detailed development roadmap.
The OLAT team
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LIFT 07 Podcast
20 Mar 2007
The latest episode of the Edutech NTE Podcast is a snapshot of people's impressions of the LIFT conference that took place in Geneva this past February:
http://nte.unifr.ch/blog/podcast/2007/03/20/lift-conference-geneva-february-2007/
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