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Title:
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A COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF OPEN SOURCE LEARNING MANAGMENT SYSTEMS |
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Author(s):
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Jamil Ahmad Itmazi , Miguel Gea Megías , Patricia Paderewski , F.l. Gutiérrez |
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ISBN:
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972-99353-6-X |
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Editors:
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Nuno Guimarães and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2005 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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LMS, Moodle, Ilias, eLearning. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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80 |
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Last Page:
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86 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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eLearning is a new tool introduced to enhance the traditional learning system; it is becoming an integral part of the learning tools used by every school, business, colleges, and universities. The core of eLearning solutions are LMS or CMS (learning/course management systems), which help the universities automating the managing of learning events. Some of LMS are commercial Software, while others are free Open Source LMS (OS-LMS). The universities give more attention for OS-LMS packages, which they are becoming interested part of the eLearning landscape and they are competing with packages of commercial Software. Studying and analyzing LMS is a complicated task, and the few serious studies to evaluate and compare the LMS were not sufficient, especially the OS-LMS, which is given less attention in those studies. One goal of this article is to emphasize the necessity of more analysis and studies of LMS which involve OS-LMS. In this article, we provide a brief introduction to LMS, listing some of them, choosing two of OS-LMS (Moodle and Ilias) to study and evaluate then we start the comparison and evaluation to every package with introduction, features, different views and weaknesses. Our discussion will cover the basic information about every package: its name, link, source, version, structure, and explain its features. |
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