As of August 1st, 2008, the Edutech web site will no longer be
updated. Edutech was funded by the Swiss
Virtual Campus programme, which ended on July 31st, 2008. Some activities
will be taken over by the e-Learning
Services group at the SWITCH foundation.
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General |
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Multilinguality Two aspects : 1. The interface language can be changed by the authors and/or the students. 2. One course can be offered in different translations (this feature is not available in many platforms!). |
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Student's Environment |
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Ease of Use The students can use the environment like common web pages: page URLs can be bookmarked, copied and pasted to email messages and used by fellow students. Other common browser functions are supported: print current page, save page on local disk, find word in current page. |
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Compliant with common web technology The platform is compatible with common browsers (Netscape, Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla) on common operating systems: Windows, Macintosh, Linux. (Linux not tested). |
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Functional environment |
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Tutoring and Didactics |
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Ease of use Tutors are typically advanced students, teaching assistants or – more rarely – professors. They might have attended an introductory, didactically focused course on online tutoring. They don't have much time to get used to a platform, but they still should be able to quickly handle its basic tutoring tools: communications, announcements, students subscriptions, group management, tracking data evaluation and quiz results evaluation. |
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Communication The platform focuses on asynchronous communications, mainly threaded discussion forums. The system also features asynchronous teamworking tools with document exchange facilities. It furthermore allows the tutor to define in a flexible way collaborative working tasks and groups. |
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Student management The platform allows complementary ways to enroll students: enrollment by tutor with web-interface, upload of student lists, by the administrator (and less importantly, self enrollment). The same holds for the definition of working groups. |
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Activity tracking The platform generates useful reports about the activity of students in the course, the quizzes and the communication tools. The purpose of the reports is to give the tutor a didactically relevant feeling of what happens in a course. |
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Course Development |
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Ease of Use Authors are experts of the course domain. They usually are highly motivated, experienced web users, but only have basic web authoring skills. On one hand, the platform should enable the authors to efficiently develop a course structure along with its content, and on the other hand support them in being compliant with technical, didactical and usability standards; in other words, it should prevent them from making severe errors. The platform offers a generic default course organization and navigation scheme. It is therefore easy to develop content out-of-the-box in an efficient way. |
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Flexible Development Framework Experienced power-authors can go beyond default functionalities. They can program dynamic pages (using server-side scripting), connect them to databases and access platform functions with a documented API. |
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Developers support Documentation is available. The platform producer runs a website that includes a “developers corner” with discussion forums and rich information (guides, tutorials, references). The producer promptly answers support requests and bug reports. |
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Compatibility with common web authoring tools The platform is compatible with standard web authoring tools like GoLive or Dreamweaver. Content can be up-/downloaded via FTP or WebDAV for collaborative authoring or with similar methods. |
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Assessment |
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Support for e-learning standards Among the many upcoming standards for e-learning, the IMS and SCORM standards suite are apparently widely accepted in higher education circles. The most important parts are IMS/SCORM-CP, SCORM-RTI and IMS-QTI. With data standards, implementations should support import and export. Also important is IEEE-LOM or IMS-metadata support. The main purpose of using standards is reusability and interoperability. |
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Adaptable look and feel It should be possible to customize the general appearance of the course platform: it would provide a default layout that could be adapted by each institution and/or each course, if desired. In the simplest case, it could use cascading stylesheets to achieve this: a global default stylesheet can be partially overridden by an institutional stylesheet which can itself be partially overridden by a course-specific stylesheet. |
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System & Administration |
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System management |
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Administration |
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