Community-based solutions in e-learning development: the way to go?

• Kikkas, Kaido ^[1]
  1. [1] Tallinn Pedagogical University
• Localización: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/INTERNET 2004: Madrid, Spain, October 6-9, 2004 / coord. por Pedro Isaías, Nitya Karmakar, Vol. 2, 2004 (Short Papers-Posters), ISBN 972-99353-0-0, págs. 783-787
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Traditional proprietary methods of software development are nowadays facing increasing competition by open-source models. Community of users and developers has become a valuable resource which is more and more extensively used also at commercial products, especially in E-learning. Noting that free and open-source systems have reached at least equal status with the traditional proprietary developments, the author also suggests that existence of a strong community becomes more and more a crucial success factor for E-learning management systems (LMS) regardless of the development model. IVA, a LMS developed at Tallinn Pedagogical University, is used as an example.