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Product Characteristics
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OLAT
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Einsatzgebiet
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Erstellung und Administration webbasierter Lernumgebungen
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OLAT stands for
Online Learning And Training
and is an
open source
Learning Management System (LMS),
that was developed at the University of Zürich with the goal to be able to offer lectures and tutorials on the Internet,
whereby the focus lies on the design and implementation of courses.
The following functionalities (among others) are available:
- Fine-grained digital rights management
- Group management
- Course, Test and
HTML
editor
- Flexible course system modules that can be configured as needed
- Evaluation tools
- Data archiving
- Personal homepage with a calendar with an overview of courses,
bookmarks,
notifications, appointments, etc.
- Message and notification system (via E-Mail or RSS)
- Collaboration tools for groups (forums,
e-mail
-service,
chat,
Wiki,
etc.)
- File upload via
WebDAV
- Translation tools for porting in other languages
- Tools for collaborating in groups: blog, podcast
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Advantages
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- Free and
open source
- Support established
e-learning
standards for tests and questionnaires (IMS QTI) as well as for other e-teaching contents (SCORM, IMS Content Packaging)
- Good support for group work
- Embedding external resources (e. g. webpages or data bases) via
Inline Rendering
or
embedded frames
- Clear user interface and administration
- Comfortable (learning) resources management
- Multilingual documentation and user interface
- Good search field for learning resources; takes access rights into account
- Uses
Ajax
for enhancement of LMS for functions such as
Drag & Drop,
autocomplete for input fields, and fast page loading.
- Integration of
CMS
Framework YAML
- Chat intergration
- Embedding external resources: IMS Basic LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) Standard
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Disadvantages
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- The server requires
Java
which not offered by all webhosts. A university’s data processing centre can, however, certainly make it available.
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Altogether not as powerful as certain (not all) commercial products (z. B. no
Whiteboard
and no integrated audio nor
video conference)
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Examples
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Tested Version
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OLAT 7.0
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Developer
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Price
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Platform(s)
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- Windows
- Macintosh
- Unix / Linux
- Others
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Requirements
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OLAT is installed on a
web server
and has following requirements:
You may find more exact information in the
documentation section of the product webpage.
It would be best to consult the media technology department or the media/data processing centre of your university to
find out whether web servers having these technical features are available.
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Entry Level
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With help of the user manual and the ‚help’ function in the
LMS,
one may shorten the training period.
Also the administration is quite clear thanks to the structural organization in group management, user management, and further configuration.
Nevertheless one must expect to need a considerable amount of time for the training phase, as always with learning management systems such as OLAT.
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Tutorials
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- In OLAT-LMS there is a ‚help’ function that aside from the general advice and explanations of the OLAT system also addresses
drawing up tests, questionnaires, and courses.
- External Support:
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Alternatives
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Letzte Änderung:
13.01.2012
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