1. Presented by: Mostafa Sharaf, 721502 Jules Jansen, 736274 Cai Yongshun, 722666 Xu Shaojie, 738080 Wang Sisuo, 722588 December 14, 2008 Supervised by: Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus 6/5/20161Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus E-Learning Course

2. Contents Introduction Learning management Systems-LMS Content Management Systems-CMS E-Learning Communication Technologies Asynchronous Online Learning Resources Emails SMS Podcasting Blogs Wikis Forums RSS End 26/5/2016Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

3. Introduction 6/5/20163Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus Four learning issues Time Asynchronous Synchronous Space Face-to-Face Distance training People (of different levels) Issue of technology

4. Learning Management System -LMS 6/5/20164Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus VLE – Virtual Learning Environment Software for delivering, tracking and managing training Provides different services CMS (Joomla, Drupal,…) Communication

5. Content Management System -CMS 6/5/20165Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus Application used to create, edit, manage and publish content in a consistently organized fashion Read/write Versioning of files

6. ELearning Communication Technology 6/5/20166Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus 1)Synchronous communication Activities involve the exchange of ideas and information with one or more participants during the same period of time. A face to face discussion is an example of synchronous communications An online chat session or a virtual classroom or meeting WebEx

7. 6/5/2016Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus7 2) Asynchronous communication It is a student-centered teaching method that uses online learning resources to facilitate information sharing outside the constraints of time and place among a network of people. -> Virtual classrooms and meetings can often use a mix of communication technologies. ELearning Communication Technology

8. Email It is any method of creating, transmitting, or storing primarily text-based human communications with digital communications systems. Newsletters keep people update with new research, development and so on (E.g. ACM’s newsletter, free, keep update and understand how big the field you work in). Using email to manage e-learning experience, sometimes we use mailing lists. Email has a nice function, but cost a lot of time and not efficient. 6/5/20168Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

9. It is a communication protocol allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile phones. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, It’s the most common service that is used almost by all mobile phone users There are good educational applications using SMS, received immediately:, for example : Diet; manage the learning experience but not the content; (inform the change the place or the calendar), However it might provide limited information. 6/5/20169Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus SMS (Short Message Service)

10. Pod Casting (iPod+broadcast) It is a collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term “Podcast" is a Combination of the words "iPod" and "broadcast“ Exmples: Using Chinese podcast to learn language (subscribe it and will be issued new materials everyday or several days per week depending on their levels) Video podcasting ; iTunes U (audio & video) The universities and colleges can offered audios to the alumni to make them keep up the pace of research. It is free to subscribe and just keep in touch with the alumni. 6/5/201610Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

11. Blogs Almost everybody can publish his/her weblog Less technological competence Easy to publish Blog’s basic structure is according to the time line Examples for Blogs: Used for personal publication. Used by journalists (quick / no permission needed). Class blog or course blog (e.g. Mindmeister, and Cantoni’s blog to support the course. Some universities use blog for each student’s master thesis. The students are able to updates their blog every week to be revised by their professors. Used by companies ; Blogs in company supporting the identity numbers, the CEO running the blog. It is published on the intranet, not public. 6/5/201611Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

12. A type of web site Visitors can easily add, remove, or edit the content Uses versioning Some wikis require registration or a password for editing An effective tool for eLearning Wiki Many people may contribute to and edit a single document using only a web browser. Wikis 126/5/2016Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

13. Wikis 136/5/2016Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus Wikipedia is the best example for a wiki. Wikis provide information that might be either : 1.Useful 2.OR useless Wiki in companies for knowledge management E.g. Shell, (share knowledge skills and experience) Wiki in schools is not a big use Wiki’s basic structure is according to the topics. As a conclusion, wiki is an effective tool for eLearning

14. Forum (Fora) It’s an online discussion site, where people participating in an Internet forum can build bonds with each other. A forum consists of a tree like directory structure containing topics and inside them posts and the posts reply for. The basic main element of forum Post All the posts reply to the topic The advantages of forum Public and being kept stable. Therefore the people’s answers are accessible to everybody Has permanency of the communication exchange 6/5/201614Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

15. Really Simple Syndication Used to publish frequently updated content such as Blog entries News headlines Podcasts Receive content Subscribe to a feed Google, Yahoo, Firefox, etc RSS 6/5/201615Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

16. Today we will discuss the sustainability of forum, wiki, blog. Thanks ! End 6/5/201616Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

17. References www.Wikipedia.org 6/5/201617Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus