chamilo: past, present and future
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In this talk, Yannick Warnier, president of the Chamilo association makes a compilation of the pastevents of Chamilo and shows us what the future of the project is. This talk belongs to the end of the year event organized in 2012 by the chamilo association.TRANSCRIPT
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: [email protected]
@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