e-learning

As we are closing in on the first Alpha release of Chamilo, we can already see the first glance of the large e-learning machine being built here. In only 3 months, we'll have passed from a first, timid, release of Chamilo 1.8.6.2, to a much more stable and complete 1.8.7. In order to improve it, we have listened to our users.

Dokeos 1.8.6.2 will ship a new beta tool, the time tracker for exercises.

We have a student working for us on comparisons between various LMSes here, and we recently moved on to Sakai. We've been looking a bit at installing it on an Ubuntu 9.04 and boy... is this a challenge. While there seems to be a few sources of documentation around the web (including on the Sakai website itself) on how to install it, they're all giving a 20 pages-long guide on how to install a specific version of Java (from sources), a specific version of Tomcat (from sources) and a specific version of Sakai (from sources as well).

I'm stealing a post from Marie here, to remind myself of a great list of resources linked to Freemind, that allow for extending the use of the tool: http://www.mindmeister.com/33158470/100-ressources-autour-de-freemind No time to analyse now, but I will surely need that in the future.

For those of you who never really understood how Chamilo sessions work, here is a nice diagram (composed by Michela a long time ago) of the whole idea. [caption id="attachment_651" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Sessions in Chamilo[/caption]

I had a big grind looking at a new LMS comparison matrix edited by Docebo...

Last week we started our first baby steps in mobile learning, thanks to our long preparations, an edition of PHPArchitect, and the efforts of one of BeezNest's employees (Christian), who wanted to try it out. The very first result was something like this [caption id="attachment_571" align="aligncenter" width="152" caption="Dokeos' users list appears on cell phone"]

Richard Nantel, of Brandon Hall, recently published a few summary results of the last edition of e-learning management systems comparisons, the expensive (but we imagine of high quality) Low-Cost Learning Management Systems 2009 Data shows that solutions for 500 users go from US$499 to as hig

[caption id="attachment_548" align="aligncenter" width="149" caption="DOKUDA - Dokeos Users Days America"]

Note: in 2010, after several years of working with Dokeos and for multiple reasons (of which some ethical), we decided to create Chamilo on the ashes of what became the "community edition" of Dokeos. This article is maintained for historical purposes.