e-learning

Although not very reliable per se, the following article, written in 2006, has an interesting set of comments (part by me) about statistics about Moodle, Blackboard/WebCT and Sakai, and Dokeos of course. http://zacker.org/higher-ed-lms-market-penetration-moodle-vs-blackboard-vs-sakai

I was playing around a little bit with a code metrics tool on the Ohloh website and, although I'm sure there's some kind of arguable element there as some included libraries add a lot of "noise" in code contributions, I was happily surprised to see that Dokeos isn't doing bad at all and is starting to get back at Moodle, in terms of code, contributors and global activity.

In case it would be of any interest to you, I am currently developing a kind of "branch" of Dokeos (although nothing legally-binding about the branch stuff) in Latin America, and more specifically in Peru. Peru is still what I would call a developing country, so at the same time it is hard to get used to (living there) and possibly excellent for future business opportunities.

[digg=http://digg.com/tech_news/Dokeos_1_8_5_released] Dokeos 1.8.5 has been released, after a long 8 months development! Check it out on http://www.dokeos.com/download.php There's a lot to say, so I won't comment about the release itself in this post. You can find out more about this release and what it brings you on the official website, by following the link on the right panel. We are sorry to have kept you waiting for so long for a new version, but we're sure you'll understand why when using it!

It's still a bit premature because we'd like to try it out a few times more before officially announcing it on the website, so if you want to help, feel free to download your version from here: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.5.zip In a few hours from now we will make the official announcement, so the official release date will be the 12th of June anyway. If you happen to witness some wierd thing in the install or upgrade procedure, please, let me know as soon as possible! Otherwise, just enj

Not that I've been too busy on Dokeos lately (I tend to take my mind off Dokeos for a couple of days after a release), but it's going to come back very fast now as we are warming up for the last run to Dokeos 1.8.5 stable. So, what's on the menu? Well, apparently there are still *some* bugs about the course copy and SCORM export somehow. Thomas filed a bug for me about this.

LETSI, Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability, is entering a phase of study for the next version of SCORM, version 2.0. Of course, given the little level of adoption of SCORM 2004 (or 1.3), this might seem a little premature for some, but the making of such a large norm takes time, so it's probably better to get started early. The 2.0 version is said (in the announcement of the

I've updated the Dokeos 1.8.5 page to reflect the fact that we now have a Release Candidate and are very close to the stable release. This is a time for us (developers) to take a deep breath and analyse things with the satisfaction of someone having done a nice job.

We officially released 1.8.5 RC1 tonight, although we might alter the package just for two little microscopic changes tomorrow morning (one concerning SCORM export on Dokeos installs that use a subdirectory of the web server document root, and the other implementing a default hiding of the audiorecorder for the learning path building tool). I think there's not much to say, other than it's a *great* unstable release. I find it amazing how much we can progress with a good team.

Introduction

To prepare for RC1, I have to submit the latest database changes for this release. The objective of these changes is specifically to add the management of repeated events to a simple agenda system that doesn't have them. So, what's the big deal?