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Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software
Comparison of Course Support Environments: Commercial Versus Open Source Software

Author(s): Andreas Veglis
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: course-support environment; open source software.

Summary/Abstract: Course-support environments are an important technical development relating to computer communications in education that involves the linking of a web-compliant user interface and web-compliant tools and applets with an underlying database. This paper presents a comparison among three different course support environments. One of them is a commercial product and the other two are open source software. The comparison includes various features from the student, and the instructor point of view.

  • Issue Year: 4/2005
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 281-292
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English