chamilo: past, present and future

Yannick Warnier

The Chamilo projectPast, Present, Future

Program

● History of Chamilo● Philosophy of Chamilo● Future projects...

2001: Claroline

Timeline (1)

● Université Catholique de Louvain● Innovating project (Open LMS)● GNU/GPLv3

2004: Fork Claroline - Dokeos

Timeline (2)

● New non-universitary breath● More reactivity

2009: Diverging

Timeline (3)

● “Pro” version of Dokeos

– Philosophical and commercial failure

– Restrictions on the free version● Growing community in Latin America (far away...)

● Moral Breaking Point

2010: Chamilo

Timeline (4)

● Building of the Chamilo project and association

● Promoting effort: starting from scratch

● Tour Peru + Chile + Brasil + Spain + Belgium

● 250,000 users

2012: Global popularity

Timeline (5)

● 2.2M users● 2 free software awards● Active and enthusiastic community● A stable, simple and... attractive platform● International certification

Chamilo philosophy

Community

e-learning

AssociationPartners

Jobs

Free software

4 companies / 4 universities

+200 people Around the world

5 directorsRole: Coordination

2.2M users3000 portals

Adaptable / No license costs

December 2012

~12 countries DON'T use the campus (over more than 185)

LMS platforms

+200 others...

Features

Makes creation of content easier

Makes creation of content easier...

Manages academical structure

Careers

PromotionsCycles/Sessions

Courses

Interconnectivity

● CMS

– Drupal

– Joomla

– PrestaShop (e-com)

– Open ERP

Interconnectivity (2)

Chamilo

OpenERP Drupal

KnowledgeTree

Cours

Carrières

Compétences

Does it support high loads?

● Free campus

– 180,000 students

– 13,000 courses● Campus (typical) example (campusvirtual.usil.edu.pe)

– 11,000 students

– 3,200 simultaneous

– 400GB documents, tasks, etc per year● ICPNA

– 580,000 students, 5.5M “attendances” (1 campus)

General philosophy

● Learning is not easy (but it should)

● The system to do it must be easy and accessible

● The community has its say, by majority

● The system must be easy for teachers, but also for students, admins and developers

● Growth by integration and collaboration more than development and competition

Future projects: Association

● Collaborative funding: http://fund.chamilo.org

● Official courses and certifications: https://shop.beeznest.com

● LMS/LCMS clarification

● More official providers (covering more territory)

● More members

● More local groups (including a French group)

Future projects: Chamilo LMS

● New localizations (Tagalog, Aymara, etc)

● Superior stability (continuous integration system)

● Desktop sharing and recording (for tutorials)

● More connectors to 3rd parties (Google Docs, Dropbox, etc)

● More standards support (IMS/LTI, IMS/QTI, HTML5, microformats, etc)

● More flexibility for exercises, social network and documents

● [Your feature here]

● Responsive design

● Wall “à la Facebook”

Future projects: Chamilo LMS (2)

● Symfony framework components re-use (will boost stability and speed of developments)

● Improvements for groups and classes (merge?)

● Better exercises tracking (more precise, more reports)

● Collaborative mind-mapping?

● Off-schedule lectures recovery

● Video recording (webcam)

● Sub-languages collaborative translations

● Human resources features for job interviews

● Multi-portals synchronization for low-connectivity

Contact

Yannick Warnier

President

Chamilo Association

e-mail: info@chamilo.org

@ywarnier

@chamilofrance

This presentation is published under the Creative Commons license by Yannick WarnierSome images might use other licenses

Références

● Chamilo usage

– Http://version.chamilo.org/community.php● General information (LMSes): Wikipedia

● Illustrations

– Google Analytics

– Chamilo