e-learning

Hehe... Should I announce it or should I keep it quiet a little bit more? :-) The beta is now available for download from the Dokeos repository: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.6-beta.zip There has been an enormous amount of work on this version. If you find any bug, please report it in http://projects.dokeos.com, after checking that it hasn't been reported already. We'll start making proper announcements soon :-)

Only less than 3 months since the new free campus is up, and we already have 36000 users and 5000 courses...

Today I had to explain to a customer how to register time and completeness in a SCORM learning path, considering he's got Flash content and he doesn't know anything about SCORM. This is what I answered (with little changes) The idea is that Dokeos deals with SCORM contents by providing a JavaScript API (a library that can be called from the Flash) to enable SCORM features. To enable this, there are various steps that need to be taken... 1. Your content should be a SCORM package. 2. Each step of your content should send a LMSInitialize() call to the Dokeos SCORM API when opened. 3.

I sure am discovering a lot of interesting stuff on the net this week. I'm just done reading and watching a video on the eLML website. First reaction: interesting project. Apparently, some of the developers of fellow e-learning management system OLAT are involved in the development of eLML as well. eLML is just an XML schema for writing learning content.

I was made aware of this book by the MIT on "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge" from the OLPC-sur (One Laptop Per Child, South America) mailing-list.

I just ended my talk at the Geneva Dokeos Users Day 2008, talking about Dokeos 1.8.6 and the future of Dokeos. I'm listening to Eric here http://collab.switch.ch/dokeosday/ for what will be his last speech for Dokeos.

[caption id="attachment_302" align="alignright" width="100" caption="Dokeos in Colombia"][/caption] I'm leaving in just a few minutes from now for the airport, to go to Colombia for 2 important conferences. One about freedom of knowledge, another about Ubuntu in Colombia.

Dokeos Latinoamérica will be represented by Julio in Guatemala this week, for an intensive one-week Dokeos training to a Guatemaltec university.

Tomorrow night I will be giving a speech about Dokeos and the e-learning in Peru to about 450 to 500 teachers and school directors. This is my biggest audience ever, and I must admit I'm a bit stressed (it's like being a star, really...