Hi,
I would be extremely interested on such a thing.
First, because my ("almost future ex-") university is developing their own
e-learning system, based on Fenix (an e-learning platform started on IST,
Lisbon - http://fenix-ashes.ist.utl.pt/ ), using mainly JAVA and AJAX. I've
tried to convince them to use Flash at least for some features, but they
didn't listen to me. Since there is a possibility that in the future I'll
organize some conferences on my university on the development of Rich
Internet Applications using OS technologies (yes, we are discussing the
possibility on having some of you speaking in Portugal;) ), it's probable
that after that they want to invest time and effort on using Flash for the
e-learning system.
Second, because I'm creating a new course on the development of Rich
Internet Applications using OS Flash technologies on ETIC, (a formation
center for design and multimedia), and I would like to change many things on
the school. Starting on the adoption of an open-source e-learning platform,
since i think that nowadays it's impossible to live without such a thing.
And if the subject is Flash, why not having the e-learning platform made
using Flash?
So, yes, I think that it would be important to have an open-source
e-learning platform built using Actionscript. I can also contact some guys I
know, currently developing Fenix, to know if they would be interested on
helping on such a project.
João Saleiro
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Sent: sexta-feira, 18 de Agosto de 2006 15:21
To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
Subject: [osflash] E-learning framework - thoughts?
Hi guys,
I was wondering how many members of the list are involved in e-learning
Flash applications. It seems like more and more companies are involved in
such projects and Flash is often the platform of choice because of user
experience so I thought there should be some guys here.
The company I work for has been working on e-learning projects for several
years now. We have our own authoring environment and LMS. The content
created in the authoring environment can be viewed in a Flash "player" and
can be used online and offline. We currently use Zinc and Director but are
looking forward to the possibilities Apollo will offer.
Last year we started creating a framework that forms a model for our
applications, several exercise types are supported (multiple choice,
crosswords, ...) - 14 in total, it handles all of the xml parsing, contains
logic to handle scoring etc. When we have a new project all we need to do is
write a new "view" for the application. All repetitive work is handled by
the framework. It has a intuitive API to code to and can be easily extended
to add new parsers and models. We currently support our own XML structures
and some IMS QTI. We want to add support for Hot Potatoes, Question Mark
Perception and much more.
We are currently planning on rewriting the whole thing in AS3 and I thought
it would be worth asking you guys if you would be interested in having it
released opensource? If enough people are interested this could grow out to
be a strong and reliable framework.
If you are interested, I would be more than glad to hear from you either on
this list or via e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Your thoughts are more than
welcome.
regards,
Christophe
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