HOW ASSESSMENT SYSTEM OF AN OPEN SOURCE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CAN BE INTEGRATED TO A REMOTE LABORATORY APPLICATION? PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
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2007-08-04
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The 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal,Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC’07)
Abstract
Most of the education programs need an assessment system
for formative and summative evaluation purposes. Similarly,
in the ERRL*
project which is a distance remote radio
frequency laboratory application, assessment system is
required. However, developing an assessment system cost is
very high and requires some extra time for testing and
development purposes. Open source systems provide these
services in a standard way. Since the source is open, it is
possible to make some modifications to better adapt these
systems to the requirements of developed systems.
Similarly, in the Moodle part of the system we need to
integrate the test and the experiment platforms. In order to
better guide the learners in the system, they should take some
tests about the devices and the theoretical content included in
the system. It is important to prevent users who do not have
the enough knowledge directed to the experiments platform.
These testing requirements should be integrated into the
remote laboratory system, so that, the learners should not
need to jump between different systems and interfaces. This
article presents implementation process of open source
Learning Management System software’s assessment module
to a remote laboratory application and it also discusses the
advantages, disadvantages of using an open source Web
based assessment system.
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electrical & electronics engineering