Technology

In the e-Hospital project Dokeos was used as both online Learning Management System and collaborative platform. Dokeos is a European Open Source e-learning and course management web application, translated into 34 languages and installed in more than 1.000 organisations worldwide to manage e-learning and collaboration activities. Dokeos proved to be a versatile, flexible and stable platform that complied with the learning projects developed in e-Hospital project. You can download this application from the Web portal of Dokeos: http://www.dokeos.com/download.php

Main features of Dokeos

• Open Source.
• Available in 44 languages.
• Usability as its main philosophy.
• Very easy to use for teachers, students, administrators.
• Suitable for e-learning and blended learning proposals
• It can be use as LCMS or Workspace.
• It has a stable development community.
• Stable.
• Scalable, modular.
• Information management tools: Agenda, documents, course description, links.
• Asynchronous communication tools: Forums, announcements, internal webmail.
• Synchronous communication tools: Chat, live conference.
• Evaluation tools: online tests, task storing tool.
• Group work tools: area for sub-groups of students/user to work together.
• Administration tools: tracking, course settings, user management, backup, etc.
• SCORM compliant: learning path builder.