Download - 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: [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
