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I agree that thinking about how children learn for themselves, when there is no teacher available is an very important part of world wide learning. Thanks Caroline On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: Hello Caroline, Sorry I wasn't at the Education Meeting. By the time I figured out how to use Mozilla's Chatilla it was in the afternoon of the meeting day. The site below is an experiment of students learning by themselves because of the shortage of teachers in the rural parts of Sri Lanka. _http://info..lk/shilpasayura/_ (http://info.lk/shilpasayura/) Shilpa Sayura CMS becomes a eLearning Environment Submitted by niranjan on Mon, 09/11/2006 - 01:18. The Shilpa Sayura CMS was planned to build a multi language content core. This was based upon e fusion's flagship CMS uniportal, which is designed to manage multilingual content in Sinhala, Tamil and English Unicode. As we continue the project, we found the rural students need something more than a CMS. we researched many e Leaning environments, and found moodle to be most powerful. However moodle had several differences to our concept for rural community. 1. Too advanced - mostly intended for universities. 2. Mandatory need of a Teacher to run courses 3. Lack of support for moodle in Sri Lanka 4. Lack of content core and a testing module 5. Lack of Sinhala Support We tested Uniportal CMS and Moodle with several teachers and students, and surprisingly found that 1. Students like total sinhala interfaces 2. They like simpler technology 3. They like to learn them self Our options were to either modify Moodle or to create something of our own. Considering the long term benefits that can be created though a locally conceptualized system was identified. One major difference we made comparing to moodle like LMS is that Shilpa Sayura is driven by the student through self and group learning while moodle designed to be driven by Teacher. As shilpa sayura aims to reach rural communities where lack of teachers are a major problem, and nenasala not having tutors for school syllabus. Shilpa system has to be the teacher. We analyzed needs of rural students visiting Nenasala 1. Obtain Educational Content for School home work 2. Learn extra expanding knowledge 3. Test and prepare them selves for government exams 4. Developing new skills not taught in school 5. communicating with other students 6. Create local content for self use and for sharing. This resulted our specification grow in software infrastructure. Although content can be created on demand, the software infrastructure is a key resource to be invested for the future. The Nenasala models range from 2 computers to 10 computers, we had to scale the software architecture and operating environment to suit implementing locations. Nenasala uses windows XP and special servers not available. How ever in terms of concepts and scaleability we designed shilpa sayura open to meet growing technologies and resources at Nenasala. The system was designed to be open, easily modifiable and scalable. By now we have completed Shilpa Sayura Software System which is the infrastructure for Shilpa Sayura, It was to be CMS, our enthusiasim and Researh made it a really good Self and Group Learning Enviorenment for Rural Communities. Its 11the September 2006 today, on wedneday which is the day for communications (govened by planet mercury or budha) we officially present Shilpa Sayura for Process Consultant / ICTA marking our second mile stone the Shilpa Sayura Software - Local Self Learning Environment for Rural communities. Shipa Sayura Software Team Niranjan Meegammana Tusitha Randunuge Saliya Randunuge Chulani Padmathilaka G. Chamara ยป _login_ (http://info.lk/shilpasayura/?q=user/login&destination=comment/reply/7#comment_form) or _register_ (http://info.lk/shilpasayura/?q=user/register&destination=comment/reply/7#comment_form) to post comments News asfdfdsgfd dgfregetetretre User login Username: * Password: * * _Create new account_ (http://info.lk/shilpasayura/?q=user/register) * _Request new password_ (http://info.lk/shilpasayura/?q=user/password) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219671244x1201345076/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)
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