eLearning tools shortlist - UCL/RCPSTrainingMaterials GitHub Wiki

Intro

This is the shortlist of tools that I recommend are used for the creation of the online courses. The materials put together will be hosted on the RITs web site and linked through from Moodle. Moodle will have an assessed quiz for each course, the passing of which will make a cert/badge available, or can link open badges to completion of the materials.

I have been expermenting and adding some things to Moodle. The exeLearning content has not yet been added, currently sitting on my home machine.

I strongly suggest you download and have a play with these tools. We are aiming to have the HLD completed by the end of January. Listed below in my order of preference

Shortlist

1 - exeLearning

  • Have had a little bit of a play.
  • Have been able to add some basic content and interaction but nothing sophisticated.
  • Look is so-so, work will be required on the CSS to make it look nice, planning to test generated scorm in Moodle.
  • Most complete of the development tools looked at - enables creation of quizzes and distinct section for objectives

2 - CourseLab 2.4

  • This is an older version of CourseLab but is availabe for free.
  • Play scorm package added to Moodle.
  • Development felt a little clunky as had to explicitly click an edit button to edit text in quizzes.
  • Complete eLearning creation solution

3 - Morea Framework

  • My GitHub repo for exploring - output
  • I found this a little tricky to get installed
  • Nice tool for conceptualising structure of learning
  • All content would need to be created externally and added in

General note

There will need to be the use of additional for creating screencasts, talking heads and potentially audio files for addition to the courses. Should appeal to a range of learning styles and be accessible.

We will need to be compatible with the eLearning Baseline

Comments

David

ExeLearning

  • How do I get a ✅ when I progress in the course? I've got the first one with a check mark only in the Introduction, but not in the following sections.
  • No developed since 2011, and the last development was to do with changing copyright date or enable it to firefox 4 (we are in Firefox 40).
  • Dependencies or requirements not listed, link to building documentation broken.
  • Uses python2.6 together with Have few hardcoded paths.
  • I've been able to built it and then I need to install a Firefox addon otherwise fail with XUL error. Need to add a new Remote XUL manager as: http://127.0.0.1:port. Notice this need to be done in the new profile that exe opens.
  • I've not been able to see the menu under file/tools/Styles/help
  • I give up... I cannot click the save button (after > 2h). So I cannot check how the output file looks, and therefore how easy is then to edit it or version control it.

Note from Samantha: There is a newer version available at: http://exelearning.net

CourseLab

  • Using it I don't get a feedback of which answer I got wrong in the drag and drop, or others. Also I cannot sort the movies in the first slide. - this was my fault, I hadn't quite set it up properly, was just to give you an idea of look and feel.
  • Requires Windows and MS Explorer, I haven't been able to try it yet. Probably with a VM I could. But this is already a big dependency and limitation to me.

Morea framework

  • Based in Jekyll and easier to deploy. As static site it also doesn't depend of github.
  • Notebooks can be converted to markdown and inserted in Jekyll.

David - this is true but would require use of additional tools to create interactive activities. Not as nicely structured as the exeLearning materials.

Jupyter notebooks

  • There are a couple of tools useful for what's wanted to do here:
  • We would need to find whether they could run, on cobratron, binder, sagecloud,...

The intention has always been to continue to use the Jupyter notebooks, my thought was to link out to them from the main course. Quickish question - are they compatible with screen readers?