Making e-learning more user-friendly
An e-learning platform that makes extensive use of e-learning standards has been created. It integrates a series of components that support adaptive e-learning and it includes components supporting different phases of the e-learning life-cycle. These phases include design (authoring), publication, use of the e-learning system by learners, and auditing, providing feed-back of use to administrators and designers. Furthermore, an instructional design package was created to include support for automated feedback to the authors of the course on their design. It consists of two components that are available under open source licences. These are the LD authoring tool in charge of creation of courses and the LD engine which provides the core Learning Management System (LMS) for learners. The LD authoring tool allows authors to define course structure based on pedagogical methods. It is able to provide an easy and user-friendly interface for creating and editing courses that will run in the ALFANET system. The tool was developed in Visual Basic .NET (VB.Net) based on a peer-to-peer application offering several communication facilities. It is intended to be a collaboration platform for working teams. The tool is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alfanetat/(opens in new window)
