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SCITplus: LCMS Developed at the College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University

SCITplus: LCMS Developed at the College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University. Prof.Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman CEO of the College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University. charm@ksc.au.edu. www.charm.au.edu.

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SCITplus: LCMS Developed at the College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University

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  1. SCITplus: LCMS Developed at the College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University Prof.Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman CEO of the College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University charm@ksc.au.edu www.charm.au.edu Keynote Address, 4th International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society. Bangkok, Thailand. 18-19 November 2007 1

  2. Co-Author. Mr. Firouz Anaraki Director of Network Operation Center College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University of Thailand. 2

  3. Co-Author. Dr. Santihorn Bunchua ICT Program Director College of Internet Distance Education of Assumption University of Thailand. 3

  4. Contents. • Introduction. • College of Internet Distance Education. • SCIT+ Version I. • 4. SCIT+ Version II. 4

  5. Contents (Cont.) • 5. SCIT+ Version III. • Educational Programs Using SCIT+. • Future Version of SCIT+. • 8. Concluding Remarks. 5

  6. 1. Introduction. • The central nervous system of eLearningis the software to manage and support all stages of learning activities. • The name of the eLearning software may be • - “LMS” for Learning Management System. 6

  7. Name of eLearning Software (Cont.) - “CMS” for Content Management System. - “LCMS” for Learning Content Management System or Learning and Content Management System. - “CLCIMS” for Computer Learning Content Information Management System. 7

  8. Name of eLearning Software (Cont.) - “DMS” for Document Management System which may be a part of CMS. - “LAMS” for Learning Activity Management System which is an open-source software for courseware creation, management, delivery, and etc. of eLearning. 8

  9. Name of eLearning Software (Cont.) • “LMS” is for • - Planning of learning events. • - Delivering of learning events. • - Managing of learning events. 9

  10. Name of eLearning Software (Cont.) • “LCMS” if standing for“Learning Content Management System” or “CMS” is for creating and re-using learning contents. • “LCMS” if standing for “Learning and Content Management System” is the combination of LMS and CMS. 10

  11. 2. College of Internet Distance Education (CIDE) • Prof.Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman proposed and got approval from the Board of Trustees of Assumption University (AU) on April 25, 2002 to establishthe College of Internet Distance Education, www.eLearning.au.edu 11

  12. CIDE (Cont.) • AU constructed “Srisakdi Charmonman IT Center (SCIT)”,www.scit.au.edu • - Worths 650 million bath. (19 million US$)- 12 floors: 12,000 sq. meters.- Rooms with 408 terminals, 120 terminals, 60 terminals and 40 terminals.- Diesel Electric Generator.- TV & Radio studios.- VDO conference room.Etc. 12

  13. Srisakdi Charmonman IT Center. (SCIT) 13

  14. Coat of Arms for SCIT. 14

  15. Coat of Arms for CIDE. 15

  16. 20 - Seats VDO Conference Room. 16

  17. Prof. Srisakdi Charmonman’ s Desk. 17

  18. 408 – Terminals Room. 18

  19. Governor of Bangkok and Executives of BMA Training at SCIT. 19

  20. Bridging the Digital Divide Training for Thousands of Kids at SCIT. 20

  21. 3. SCIT+ Version I. • During early 2003 the executives of CIDE looked around searching foe some readily available LMS. • CIDE found over 100 LMS, e.g. • - 24 x 7 Learning. • - Absorb LMS. • - AEL or Acumen Enterprise Learning. 21

  22. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) - Adventus. - Angel Learning. - Apex Learning. - ASAP+. - Atutor. -BlackBoard. - CADE Learning. 22

  23. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - Claroline. - ClassTeacher. - ClearCourse LMS. - CTM or Compliance Training Manager. - DeSai LMS. - Desire2Learn. - DigitalThink. 23

  24. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - Dokeos. - eLearning Consulting LMS. - eLearning in a Box. - EasyGeneratorSuite. - eCampusPro. - eDocent. - Education Exchange. 24

  25. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - eLeap. - eLMS Pro. - eLogic Learning. - EZ LMS. - FirmWater. - Flex Training. - Generation 21. 25

  26. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - GeoLearning. - Global Teach. - Haiku. - HRsmart LMS. - HyperWave. - ImpaKt. - Manhattan. 26

  27. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - Moodle. - Meet and Train LMS. - NetDimension. - NETg. - Nexus Vista. - OLAT. - OLE. 27

  28. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - OnPoint Learning. - Outstart Evolution. - PeopleComeFirst. - Plateau Learning. - Prosperity. - Q-Multimedia. - Sakai Project. 28

  29. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - Qscheduler. - Ready Solution. - ReliantSTM. - Saba. - Scholar 360 Network. - SCIT+. - SimplyLearn. 29

  30. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - Site@School. - SITOS. - SkillPort. - Solid State LMS. - StepStone. - StudyWiz - Sumatra System. 30

  31. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - SumTotal. - TeachMeIT. - Telematica. - TeN. - The Learning Manager. - Thinking Cap. - Tooling University. 31

  32. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - TopClass. - TrainingMine. - TrainOnTrack LMS. - Upside Learning. - Vclass. - WBT Manager. 32

  33. CIDE found over 100 LMS(Cont.) - WebCampus. - WebCT. - WebTrain. - XerCeo. 33

  34. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • Most LMS systems are web-based • to facilitate “anytime, anywhere” • access to learning content • and administration. 34

  35. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • Few companies such as BlackBoard • and WebCT were contacted to demonstrate • their products to the executives • of the College. 35

  36. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • CIDE executive at that time were: • - Prof. Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman, CEO- Prof. Dr. Chaiyong Brahmawong, CTO- Prof. Dr. Utumporn Jamornmann, COO- Dr. Santihorn Bunchua, MS(ICT) Program Director- Mr. Firouz Anaraki, NOC Director 36

  37. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • After observing the capabilities, functionalities, and prices of few commercial LMSs, the CEO of the College opted for the in-house development of an LMS or LCMS for CIDE. 37

  38. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • A team of directors, programmers, and web designers from AuNet, Computer Lab and Office of VP for IT was appointed to design and develop an LMS from scratch. 38

  39. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • Development of a big software project such as an LMS is not an easy task. • Such a project requires quite a number of web programmers, web designers, analysts, team leaders, and project coordinator and years of development and testing to become a viable LMS product. 39

  40. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • CIDE then decided to look for an open source alternative for development of an LMS. • If a good open source LMS could be found to perform the necessary tasks needed by an eLearning environment, then more time and effort could be spent on development of the “contents” as needed by various schools rather than the development of the LMS. 40

  41. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • There are many good reasons to use the open source software, i.e. - it’s free with no pop-up advertisement- full control of options and settings- the right to edit and modify the code- online support forum - modification and derivation of other software from it. 41

  42. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • A thorough study of a few open source • LMS software such as: • - aTutor • - Moodle • - OLAT • was done. 42

  43. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • The executives of the College found Moodle as the most promising open source LMS due to- its functionality- online forum- the number of university and colleges using it. 43

  44. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • Moodle was chosen to be developed using PHP and MySQL database which are open source programming language and database system and therefore could be run on any platform, i.e. Windows servers, Linux, and Macintosh computers under Apache which is also an open source web server. 44

  45. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • The “Courseware Production Team” includes • - Instructional Designer. • - Web Programmer. • - Web Designer. • - Video Editor/Graphics Designer. 45

  46. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • The main objective of the Courseware Production Team would be to design and develop online courses suitable for eLearning environment. • The contents will be added to the LMS software and this makes the LMS to become an LCMS. 46

  47. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • The Instructional Designer (ID) acts as the team leader who is responsible to constantly communicate with the Content Expert (CE) to understand the subject and its contents and to transform the material to electronic format suitable for eLearning mode. 47

  48. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • The ID at the same time seeks the expertise of other team members to accomplish the online preparation of the courses. Web programmer would be doing a very important task of understandingthe coding and structure of the Moodle and to write programs to add new features and functionality to Moodle when needed. 48

  49. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • Web programmer, web designer, and the video auditor will also be closely working with the ID to design and develop online courseware. 49

  50. SCIT+ Version I (Cont.) • The CEO of the College approved the name • “SCITplus” and its variant “SCIT+” • to be given to the LCMS developed at Srisakdi Charmonman IT Center (SCIT) with is the seat of the College of Internet Distance Education. 50

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