cerorganic mole course management platform (06122011)
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Presentation of the CerOrganic instance of the MOLE Course Management Platform during the CerOrganic EU Conference titled "Organic Agriculture & Education: Challenges in Training Advisors of organic farmers”. Athens, Greece, 6/12/2011 (http://www.wiki.agroknow.gr/agroknow/index.php/CerOrganicConference)TRANSCRIPT
CerOrganic European ConferenceCerOrganic European Conference
Institute of Agronomic Sciences (IGE)Athens, Greece, 06/12/2011
“Organic Agriculture & Education: Challenges in Training Advisors
of organic farmers”
Presentation of a Presentation of a Course Management Platform Course Management Platform
Dr. Vassilis Protonotarios, Agro-Know Technologies, Greece
Andreas Katrakilis,DIO Inspection and Certification Organization of
Organic Products , Greece
What is MOLE?
• MOLE – Multimedia Open Learning Environment
• A course management platform / educational information system developed by the Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (TUC/MUSIC)
during the Organic.Mednet EU LdV project
MOLE offers a set of services for
– the organization and management of digital educational content (e.g. lectures, notes, exercises, technical lab material, literature, FAQs etc.)
– informing learners (e.g. announcements, mail, calendar, personal rating etc.)
– assisting learning communities (e.g. mailing lists, live chat rooms, forums, personal messaging, instant messaging, annotation tools, video conference etc.)
MOLE offers a set of services for
– supporting educational activities (e.g. registration to courses, formation of lab teams, exercise uploads and deadline management, assessment tests, multimedia presentations etc.)
– monitoring services (course usage statistics, class performance indicators)
Why MOLE?
• MOLE has been tested in other related EU projects (Organic.Mednet, Organic.Balkanet)
• MOLE is developed by a partner of a related EU project (TUC/MUSIC)– Support for solving issues– Development of additional functions– Free to use for non-profit purposes
• MOLE is multilingual and easy to translate
• MOLE is a fully-featured CMP– Course related options– Communication options
CerOrganic MOLE instance
Statistics of CerOrganic MOLE instance
CerOrganic MOLEin numbers
• 79 registered users• 58 courses created• 109.380 site hits• 2.376 user logins• 9 different training programs
