Paper Info
Title
A Customized Open Source Content Management System to Support Collaborative Distance Learning: The J@LON Platform
Abstract
Aimed at supporting a distance learning graduate course in "Quality and Risk Management in Healthcare" (ESSQU@D course), a collaborative learning environment has been designed and implemented (J@LON platform). This full Web based authoring tool is based on an object-oriented programming framework (Zope) and implements both native and customized features of a content management product (Plone). The system handles a core component, called a lesson. It allows teachers to aggregate single resources (documents, quiz, glossary term...). It provides students with a consistent and structured view of the content of a lesson. The Web based platform was initially developed to meet specific needs of the medicine campus. It has been extended to support the whole publishing process of pedagogical resources in the university. Its integration in the university information system is partly achieved with single sign on features (CAS authentication). Access to a centralized description of curricula still remains to enhance: it depends on an institutional reviewing of the database according to the policies of License, Master, and Doctorate schema. A multidisciplinary configuration of the platform is available, allowing students and teachers to be involved in several courses handled by a same instance of Zope / Plone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/CBMS.2007.4
Maribor
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web sites,biomedical education,computer aided instruction,content management,medical computing,object-oriented programming,CAS authentication,Web-based authoring tool,collaborative distance learning,curricula,customized open source content management system,medicine campus,object-oriented programming,pedagogical resources,university information system
Information system,Data mining,Single sign-on,World Wide Web,Collaborative learning,Object-oriented programming,Computer science,Distance education,Content management,Web application,Multimedia,Software framework
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-7125
0-7695-2905-4
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.73
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pascal Staccini15911.89
Bordonado, C.241.07
Alet, J.340.73
M Joubert420329.39