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HA NOI UNIVERSITY
An open source website for e-learning solution with e-
commerce model Scientific Research
6/30/2010
Instructor: Tran Huu Tam Student 1: Doan Manh Thang Student 2: Pham Van Truong
The ultimate solution of an electronics learning system which is built on the open source web platform named Joomla and Moodle, integrating the leading e-commerce module in the cyber civilization called VirtueMart
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Table of Contents Abstract ......................................................................................................................................3
1. Introduction .........................................................................................................................4
2. Why should we choose this method: Electronics education system .......................................5
2.1 Evolution of Vietnamese online environment ................................................................5
2.2 Electronics educating concept in Vietnam .....................................................................6
3. Body ..................................................................................................................................10
3.1 Technology: ................................................................................................................10
3.1.1 E-learning system: ...............................................................................................10
3.1.2 Why Joomla: ........................................................................................................14
3.1.3 Why Moodle: .......................................................................................................16
3.1.4 Why VirtueMart:..................................................................................................19
3.1.5 Joomdle ...............................................................................................................20
3.1.6 Why Open Source: ...............................................................................................20
3.2 Design: .......................................................................................................................21
3.2.1 Home page ...........................................................................................................21
3.2.2 Moodle E-Learning ..............................................................................................22
3.2.3 VirtueMart E-Commerce......................................................................................23
4. Conclusion: ........................................................................................................................24
5. Works Cited .......................................................................................................................25
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Abstract
We propose here the ultimate solution of an electronics learning system which is built on
the open source web platform named Joomla and Moodle, integrating the leading e-commerce
module in the cyber civilization called VirtueMart. Our website is the mixture of the current
digitalized trend and the temporary modern scientific technology that illustrate the most
advanced of web developing achievements and the freedom using of computerized products like
open source. We apply those fantastic applications in the education system in universities,
especially in the subject Information Technology as well as other subjects in our education
system.
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1. Introduction
Nowadays, Basic Informatics, or Information Technology in general, is the compulsory
subject in almost universities in Viet Nam. This subject aims at providing students with the most
basic knowledge about information technology. Via practicing, students are trained for skills
such as using the Windows operating system, text editor with Microsoft Word, spreadsheet
processing with Microsoft Excel, doing presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint, using Internet
and e-mail, even learning valuable professional course like CCNA, MCSA, OCP, etc. Up to now,
teaching and learning this subject are delivered by direct communication between lecturers and
students, following the Basic Computing Curriculum.
Actually, there is a fact when following the smooth and fast and highly developing stream of
scientific and technology of the world, original education method face-to-face is really old and
becomes ancient. Online-education as known as E-learning is the key to the success in every
education system where most developed countries apply. In our country, it is new, however, and
incredible. Imagine sitting on the computer comfortably at home, click the pointer, open the site
and attend the lecture from your teacher who is standing in the class, it is a miracle. There is
another fact that once everything is computerized and digitalized like information technology,
cyber civilization tend to use open source resources more than proprietary software, because it is
free, convenient and especially, it “says in your way”. The final fact after those two is that, when
you use computer often, it will become great if you can sit at home and click and buy a
motorbike without going outside your house, even with payment methods. E-commerce is what-
we-call here and it is in the initial step but growing.
Originating from those three theories above, our project really makes a breath through in the
technology and offers you an electronic supported the remote learning and teaching system
called “e-learning”, which is running on the open source web platform including Joomla, Moodle
and VirtueMart – the leading e-commerce system in the whole world .
Here goes What, Why and How our project starts…
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2. Why should we choose this method: Electronics education system
2.1 Evolution of Vietnamese online environment
The Internet has registered the fastest growth among all means of communications known in
the communications industry history – faster even then television and telephony. For example we
know that, only in Europe, the number of households who have Internet access at home has
doubled each year since 1997, while worldwide, the Internet user population has registered a
spectacular and continuous growth. Also, the communication on the World Wide Web is very
fast, allowing instant transfer and manipulation of large databases, text files, images, multimedia
files all over the world. As a result, the consumers can purchase and obtain any digital product
(software, e-books, video presentations, video-conference, etc.) instantly from the Web.
Vietnam is not an exception from this global trend. Statistically speaking, the number of
Romanian Internet users exceeded 6 million in 2006. According to the statistics of the results
from the site http://internetworldstats.com which collects network management agencies in many
countries, it shows that growth rates of the number of Internet users in Vietnam in the period
2000-2009 is 10,882%, which is much higher than the same group of countries in relative
markets like China (1,500%), Indonesia (1,150%) ... At present, the rate of net users in Vietnam
is about 26%, the Philippines, Thailand.
In urban areas about 50% of the populations access the internet, in Hanoi and TP HCM, the rate
is even higher. Cimigo survey results show that two thirds of respondents access the network
every day and the time spent surfing on average per day is 2 hours and 20 minutes. Moreover,
Royal Pingdom said, with 24.3 million Internet users out of 89.6 million people, Vietnam ranked
20 in the list of 20 countries in the world which has the highest Internet users.
Once the Internet accounts continue to rapidly grow; Vietnamese objective area is to develop the
knowledge-based economy, by promoting research, innovation and by accelerating the
development of the information society. It is well known that services, including services in
education, cannot exist, or cannot be developed, without rapid and secure ways to exchange
information. On the other perspective, modern electronic public services (e-governance, e-
education and e-health) should be developed and made more efficient.
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2.2 Electronics educating concept in Vietnam
According to a Moodle study, one of the companies that provide educational services via the
Internet, the Government spent, this year, more than 10 percent of the training budget especially
or e-learning, which means double compared to last year. "The biggest interest for such kind of
services, comes from companies with many employees and, especially, from those who have
employees in the territory (in different regions, locations). Banks and telecommunications
companies are the first who use e-learning. This is because through computer-base courses are
transmitted information related to internal procedures, to work organization and protection that is
mainly the huge amount of knowledge that an employee must have, but whose assimilation is
generally pretty boring. Using checked methods for maintaining attention such information goes
to a very large number of employees with cost that are not very high”. It is very easy to realize
that this segment, the Vietnamese Ministry sector, is an important generator of demand for e-
learning.
Traditional universities have been more than slow in integrating ICT in their teaching and
learning. The reasons for this are linked to strategic and organizational change issues and not
even in the first place to technological or budgetary issues. Successful e-learning indeed requires
new organizational and pedagogical models.
This conflicts with the historical model which shaped the culture of our traditional universities.
As long as ICT is seen as a tool to support teaching, the interest of the top decision makers in
universities for an e-quality label will be not very high; especially since universities are already
involved in many other internal and external quality processes, which they find highly
bureaucratic. Quality e-learning requires institutional change, continuous introspection and
innovation as well as critical awareness of weaknesses which have to be overcome.
Decision makers in universities have to be involved in discussions and convinced about the real
possibilities of ICT. This should be done in a non-technical way and in the context of their own
cultural context taking into account their current preoccupations. It is necessary to overcome the
gap between the converted and the non-believers. If this process is neglected, bottom up ICT
initiatives in teaching and learning will not blossom.
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Furthermore, in order to make ICT truly accepted as an important factor that could help
traditional universities in transforming its organization, including teaching and learning
processes, it is necessary to have the support of organizations like Ministry of Education and
Training, in charge of preserving quality in higher education.
Universities are considered to play an important role in innovation for the knowledge society.
However, in their own organizations change often is elusive or takes place in an incremental
way, most often therefore outside the core of the university in the “developmental or
entrepreneurial periphery”.
This can be illustrated by the fact that despite since several decades there has been an optimistic
discourse going on about the transformative power of ICT; most of our universities are still stuck
in old paradigms especially as far as teaching and learning are concerned. No wonder many ICT
initiatives have failed. The internet bubble of early 2000 strengthened the view of the pessimists
– for the wrong reasons. The transformative power of ICT has still not been fully grasped. ICT is
by many mainly seen as an operational tool which can enhance specific functions of the
university such as data collection (Enterprise Resources Systems), the administration or
operational aspects of teaching (e.g. schedules, slide distribution). ICT matters are left to the
Chief Information Officer (CIO) or to the audiovisual department for teaching and learning
support.
The rise of the knowledge society and its context brought new demands facing the higher
education sector such as the need for lifelong learning, which is becoming part of the mission of
traditional universities. Tensions exist between on the one hand being an organization which
protects the traditional academic values, a professor centered view and a focus on research and
on the other hand being a modern constructivist organization with a focus on learning in which
the relationship with the student is central.
Among the core values of traditional universities are the importance of research and the quality
of teaching and learning profiting from a local community. Many universities are led with the
research rankings in mind. Most of these universities also find the physical campus extremely
important and investments in expanding campuses continue.
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Skepticism about the use of ICT for teaching and learning is still high in many traditional
universities. Many reasons can be found, on which we cannot expand in this note. Traditional
universities do not realize that fully embedding technology in their strategy will enable them to
build an organization, centered on learning and the student relationship, to create a community
experience on the web and to organize research in a different way. The recent trends 2010 report
from the Vietnam National University shows that there is still a long way to go towards student
centered learning.
However, The World economy is entering a knowledge economy period. Therefore, improving
the effectiveness of quality education and training is a vital factor in determining the existence
and development of each country, companies, families and individuals. Furthermore, the learning
is not only compact bundle in high school, undergraduate college that is life. E-learning is an
effective solution for solving this problem. Broad sense, E-learning is a term used to describe the
learning and training based on information technology and communication, especially
information technology.
According to modern views, E-learning is the delivery of learning content using modern
electronic tools like computers, satellite networks, the Internet, Intranet, ... in which learning
content can be obtained from websites, CDs, videos, audio ... through a computer or TV;
teachers and learners can communicate with each other online forms such as e-mail, online
discussion (chat), forum (forum), video conferencing ...
At around 2002 and earlier, the research literature, and survey about E-learning in Vietnam is not
much. In the two years 2003-2004, the study of E-learning in Vietnam was much more interested
by many units. Recent conferences and seminars on information technology and education have
been much mentioned on E-learning and the ability to apply the training environment in
Vietnam, such as improving the quality of workshop training VNU in 2000, higher education
conference in 2001 and the recent scientific conference on the first national Research,
Development and Application of information and communication technology ICT / RDA 2 /
2003, Second National Conference Study on Research, Development and Application of
information technology and communication ICT / RDA 9 / 2004, and scientific conference
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"Research and development E-learning" by the Vietnam National University (VNU ) and the
Faculty of Information Technology (Hanoi University of Technology) jointly held the first in
March 2005 under the scientific conference on E-learning was first held in Vietnam.
Universities in Vietnam have made the initial research and development E-learning. Some units
were initially deployed software training and support for the results: College of Technology -
VNU, Institute of Information Technology - VNU, Hanoi University of Technology, VNU-
HCMC, City Academy, and Telecommunications. Recently, Informatics Center Ministry of
Education and Training has implemented E-learning portal to provide systematic way of E-
learning information in the world and in Vietnam. In addition, some software companies in
Vietnam have launched several products to support learning and training. Although these
products are not yet large products, packaged completely but initially contributing to the
development of E-learning in Vietnam.
This shows the situation of research and application of this type of training is interested in
Vietnam.
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3. Body
3.1 Technology:
3.1.1 E-learning system:
E-Learning is defined as all forms of electronic supported learning and teaching, which are
procedural in character and aim to effect the construction of knowledge with reference to
individual experience, practice and knowledge of the learner. Information and communication
systems, whether networked or not, serve as specific media to implement the learning process.
It is the systems for managing training and educational records, to software for distributing
courses over the Internet with features for online collaboration. Student self-service (e.g., self-
registration on instructor-led training), training workflow (e.g., user notification, manager
approval, wait-list management), the provision of on-line learning (e.g., Computer-Based
Training, read & understand), on-line assessment, management of continuous professional
education (CPE), collaborative learning (e.g., application sharing, discussion threads), and
training resource management (e.g., instructors, facilities, equipment), are dimensions to “e-
learning”.
E-learning is essentially the computer and network enabled transfer of skills and knowledge. E-
learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to learn. E-learning applications
and processes include Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms and
digital collaboration. Content is delivered via the Internet, intranet/extranet, audio or video tape,
satellite TV, and CD-ROM. It can be self paced or instructor led and includes media in the form
of text, image, animation, streaming video and audio.
E-learning is replacing the century’s old model of teaching and learning, which focuses on an
instructor standing in front of a classroom lecturing to students. This model no longer fits the
way people want to learn today, because of technological world in which they live. With the
rapid advances in technology and Internet tools, the traditional model is fading away to
accommodate today’s learners.
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Traditional teaching is being replaced by an evolving e-learning model which uses online
technology to allow people to learn anytime and anywhere. This model includes work place
training, the delivery of just-in-time information, college courses, continuing education units,
and guidance from experts. The advantages of e-learning include:
• Actively engaging students in the learning of process, as opposed to being passive
learners.
• Supporting interactivity between a student and instructor, along with fellow students.
• Taking advantage of social media and learning management systems to deliver course
materials.
• Supporting digital natives (typically 18 – 27 year olds) in their continuing education
efforts through applications of web 2.0 technologies as a means to sustain their learning.
E-learning is changing the way people learn. There are three main reasons why e-learning
continues its rapid growth, include:
• The economy continues to struggle and more companies are cutting costs by using e-
learning technologies to train employees. These cost savings measures are becoming the
norm, instead of the exception.
• Students want to make better use of their time and money; this is why they continue to
take advantage of e-learning opportunities.
• More companies want to establish a reputation of being eco-friendly, to this end they are
supporting more use of e-learning programs to sustain their green initiatives.
E – Learning began at just about the same time that a computer was developed that was practical
for personal use. Up to now, it has been determined that in comparison to traditional ways of
learning in the classroom, on television or on radio, e-learning methods create a superior
performance. By this new studying method, students can learn anytime, anywhere and can
choose the content, curriculum based on their ability to receive knowledge or interests. There are
also many terms that you can consider when thinking of an e – learning website such as Cost
savings, universities may have to spend a lot of money for buying computers, projectors or many
more things while with e – learning, students can practice on their own with available resources
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on the website; Learning quality: E-learning can be more flexible (learning at a convenient time,
learning spread over weeks, etc) and can even provide a higher quality of learning. Many
students learn better and retain the learning much longer when permitted to learn at their own
pace. And many students find that learning a little each day can be more effective than classroom
approach.
A key attribute of information and communications technology is its ability to enable flexible
access to information and resources. Flexible access refers to access and use of information and
resources at a time, place and pace that are suitable and convenient to individual learners rather
than the teacher and/or the educational organization. It aimed to allow distance learners, who
were generally adult learners in full or part-time employment to be able to study at a time, place,
and pace that suited their convenience. The goal of distance education was to free these learners
from the constraints of conventional residential educational settings. They would not be required
to live or attend lectures in locations away from where they may be living and working. The
printed distance study materials, which each distance learner received, would carry the core
subject matter content they would need including all their learning activities and assessment
tasks. Students would be required to complete these tasks, submit their assignments and take
their examinations within a set time frame. While these printed study materials allowed distance
learners a great deal of freedom from time, place and pace of study, it had its limitations. For one
thing, non-printed subject matter content and simulations etc. could not be easily represented in
print form.
Access to information and communications technology changed all that as it offered a range of
possibilities for capturing and delivering all types of subject matter content to learners and
teachers in distributed educational settings. This meant access to subject matter content and
learning resources via networked information and communications technologies across a range
of settings such as conventional classrooms, workplaces, homes, and various forms of
community centers. This is becoming increasingly affordable and palatable with a wide range of
software applications and computer conferencing technologies for collaborative inquiry among
students and asynchronous discussion. These applications enable learners and teachers to engage
in synchronous as well as asynchronous interaction across space, time, and pace.
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Information and communications technology also enables the capture and storage of information
of various types including print, audio, and video. Networked information and communications
technologies enable access to this content in a manner that is not possible within the spatial and
temporal constraints of conventional educational settings such as the classroom or the print mode
In the context of this distributed setting, users have access to a wide variety of educational
resources in a format that is amenable to individual approaches to learning, and accessible at a
time, place and pace that is convenient to them. Typically, these educational resources could
include hyper-linked material, incorporating text, pictures, graphics, animation, multimedia
elements such as videos and simulations and also links to electronic databases, search engines,
and online libraries.
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3.1.2 Why Joomla:
Joomla (CMS – Content Management System): an open source solution that is freely
available to everyone, which enables users to build Web sites and powerful online applications.
Figure 1: Joomla – CMS
• Free - The fact that this program has been made free to use by consumers, is an
astonishing fact. Those who offer the average Internet user and web developers this
program for no cost, are those who make life on the Web a cinch.
• Plug-in - They are customizable extensions available for you to use, depending on what
your site needs are overall. There are over 4,000 different types of extensions in
the directory, ready to be added to your site.
• Components - They are tools available to the web developer team for the website,
components will allow for more added customization for the site, as well. Site builders
can use them to backup the website or create better search engines.
• Modules - They are small applications that will add greater functionality and bring richer
content to your site. A module may add a PayPal button on your site for payments, bring
applications updates from Twitter, or bring Flash content to your site.
• Joomla Community - You won’t feel all alone while using this program or feel that you
don’t have support, because there are many Joomla forum communities all over the web.
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You can keep up with the newest in features or be the first to know about bugs, that users
are experiencing, if you join a forum community.
• Open - Joomla! is an ‘open’ framework covered under a GNU/GPL (General Public
License) and is therefore freely available for anyone to use, modify and implement. The
client is therefore not locked into using a proprietary CMS under a restricted license basis
or locked into one particular development/implementation company’s services.
Ultimately if you're not happy with our knowledge and skills regarding Joomla!, or (god-
forbid) we cease to exist, a simple Google search will return the results of other
companies and/or individuals around the world offering similar services.
• Convenient - Joomla allows in-house management of all website content, depending of
course on the capabilities of the people using it. By definition a content management
system is designed to separate front-end presentation of content (i.e. design/template)
from the content itself (text, images, etc.), which is more than likely stored in a database
and 'served' as requested. When content is served to the browser, the template takes care
of where the content presents and how it is formatted.
• Security: Joomla! is secure. Joomla! started out much like the Linux operating system,
which is another open-source project, and has grown to become the most installed, secure
and implemented web server on the planet! Joomla's core team of developers are as
skilled as any other developers and, as a general rule, the open source development
community tends to seek recognition from their ability to find and fix bugs and security
threats rather than gain notoriety from being able to hack them.
• Joomla! is therefore comparatively cost effective, secure and simple to manage!! This is
really important for some kinds of semi-professional administrators in universities to
manage the site with little IT knowledge.
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3.1.3 Why Moodle:
Moodle (LMS – Learning Management System): a free learning management system that
enables you to create powerful, flexible, and engaging online learning experiences, which may
include sequential series of web pages, images, animations, and a online quiz, email, bulletin
board communication among the teachers and students… (Moodle 1.9 E – Learning Course
Management, a complete guide to successful learning using Moodle 1.9)
Figure 2: Moodle - LMS
Key Benefits to the Institute
• Saves Institute paper and toner costs
• Saves Institute answer sheet costs
• Utilizes Institute's computers and intranet
Key Benefits to Students
• Saves students pencil costs
• Students become familiar with standard teaching software that is in wide use
• at schools internationally and via distance learning systems on the Web.
• Gives students immediate, detailed wash back
o They see their results immediately. They don't have to wait.
o Their grades are centralized and accessible to them (during class) and easy for
them to keep track of.
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o Computer tests are easy to repeat. A student can take a learning quiz twice in a
row and you can give him the higher score, or you can give him an adaptive quiz
in which he can respond more than once to a question, but is penalized for any
incorrect response. These can be used for learning.
o Each and every student gets individualized attention from the teacher through the
Moodle quizzes, which provide opportunities for the student to respond more
than once to, say, a grammar question, and provide immediate feedback to the
student's response(s), so:
§ Instead of one teacher taking 25 students through a ten-item grammar
exercise in class, with each student doing one sentence completion or fill-
in-the-blank, in a Moodle quiz 25 students can respond to 25 such items
each, and each gets immediate feedback.
o They see the correct answers to items they got wrong immediately
§ This enables them to perform a cognitive comparison within minutes of
making an error or mistake. Published research has shown that when a
student makes a cognitive comparison – between a target form and the
incorrect form that he has provided – this better enables the student to
learn and retain the target form.
Key Benefits to Instructors
• No photocopying
• No answer sheets
• Don't have to carry the test around
• No need for the test marking device
• Grading is automated
• Washback is automated. (No need to go over the test. Each student does this individually
after completing it.)
• Can shuffle test items and/or responses in items. No need to have two versions of a test
because each student's test is different from his neighbors (theoretically; I haven't actually
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gone around the room and proved this for each and every terminal, but I've observed that
the sequences are indeed different.)
• Can manage time test. Students know when it's over and my experience has been that
they don't ask for extra time.
• Can analyze students' responses to see which items produced most incorrect responses.
This could be useful for planning lessons to review material.
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3.1.4 Why VirtueMart:
Figure 3: VirtueMart
Virtuemart is the leading e-commerce system for use with the Joomla Content Management
System. More than 1.5 Million downloads so far and according to one estimate approximately
250,000 active online installations.
Virtuemart is Open Source software which means it is undergoing constant development by the
very people that use it. It is secure, feature rich and easy to use. Using VirtueMart is just an
optional function when user wants to access some professional course like CCNA, MCSA, OCP,
etc... Those are valuable and certificated courses, therefore students to pay money for purchase
the courses.
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3.1.5 Joomdle
Joomdle consists of a series of extensions for Moodle and Joomla to integrate them. SSO
from Joomla to Moodle. Show Moodle contents in Joomla pages. That is the technology we
use in this project to integrate those two kinds of open source into each other.
3.1.6 Why Open Source:
Open Source's proponents often claim that it offers significant benefits when compared to
typical commercial products. Commercial products typically favor visible features (giving
marketing advantage) over harder-to measure qualities such as stability, security and similar
less glamorous attributes. As shorthand, we shall describe this phenomenon as quality vs
features.
Many of the qualities that are claimed for Open Source are exactly those that are wanted by
those who have to use or deploy software, yet run almost directly counter to the commercial
needs of typical software development businesses, where a continuous revenue stream
(usually through the mechanism of upgrades or high-priced support) is needed.
Our government also recommends using Open Source because its huge advantages:
reliability, stability, auditability, cost, flexibility and freedom and things else. That’s why we
use the open source web base as Joomla and Moodle, also include Course of open source like
Ubuntu, Firefox, even Joomla and Moodle course inside.
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3.2 Design:
3.2.1 Home page
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3.2.2 Moodle E-Learning
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3.2.3 VirtueMart E-Commerce
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4. Conclusion:
Needless to say, e – learning has made a great impact on education globally and Vietnam in
particular. Our University has witnessed the efficiency of applying online training with Moodle
online websites of Faculty of Information Technology, Foundation Studies Department and so
on. Moodle itself is an excellent tool for supplement training and educating, now, in our project,
which combines Moodle and Joomla, the leading open sources web platform and VirtueMart,
other leading e-commerce system, we believe that the result will be more than the expectation.
On the side of students, they will benefit from our website through the reference resources they
can download from it, which is very helpful for those who are not much good at searching for
materials. Besides, the ability to reach online source anytime, anywhere is absolutely cool. The
reason is studying Computing needs a lot of time spent on own discovering and own practicing.
At class, students only have two hours for studying plus practicing. That amount of time is not
enough for improving the Computing skills.
On the side of Hanoi University and Basic Informatics Faculty, the website will be the right hand
for improving education quality while reducing the teaching and training effort as well as the
infrastructure cost. When student can download and study at home, then lecturers can focus on
the important points on class only and tell student to study others at home. One more thing is the
assignment generating system that these management systems offer; lecturers do not have to
spend much time on evaluating students’ exercises.
We hope that the website will open the new horizon and make the breakthrough in the learning
and teaching system in universities to build the brand new era of electronic education in the
future.
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