Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software

Course-support environments are an important technical development relating to computer communications in education that involves the linking of a web-compliant user interface and web-compliant tools and applets with an underlying database. This paper presents a comparison among three different cour...

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Main Author: Andreas VEGLIS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University 2005-10-01
Series:Informatics in Education
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Online Access:http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/pdf/INFE059.pdf
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spelling doaj-5270c00872c848f0acc039e0eacc23642021-01-02T03:20:46ZengVilnius UniversityInformatics in Education1648-58312005-10-0142281292Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source SoftwareAndreas VEGLIS0Media Informatics Lab., Department of Journalism & Mass Communication Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006, Thessaloniki, GreeceCourse-support environments are an important technical development relating to computer communications in education that involves the linking of a web-compliant user interface and web-compliant tools and applets with an underlying database. This paper presents a comparison among three different course support environments. One of them is a commercial product and the other two are open source software. The comparison includes various features from the student, and the instructor point of view.http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/pdf/INFE059.pdfcourse-support environmentopen source software
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Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software
Informatics in Education
course-support environment
open source software
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title Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software
title_short Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software
title_full Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software
title_fullStr Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software
title_sort comparison of course support environments: commercial versus open source software
publisher Vilnius University
series Informatics in Education
issn 1648-5831
publishDate 2005-10-01
description Course-support environments are an important technical development relating to computer communications in education that involves the linking of a web-compliant user interface and web-compliant tools and applets with an underlying database. This paper presents a comparison among three different course support environments. One of them is a commercial product and the other two are open source software. The comparison includes various features from the student, and the instructor point of view.
topic course-support environment
open source software
url http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/pdf/INFE059.pdf
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