The concept of "electronic courses" is well
developed on the internet. There are many different approaches to the
design and creation of "quizzes" and "tests" intended to be a part of an
eCourse. I looked at some and found that one appealed to me a great deal.
The
soft-ware
program used to design the quizzes on this web site were developed and offered
as the "Hot Potatoes" suite of
programs. These were developed, originally, for teachers who were teaching
"English as a second language" with web-based quizzes. More than
100,000 teachers, all over the world, use this program, in many different
languages, to prepare web-based eCourses.
The concept of a "learning management system" is well represented on the internet also. Quizzes, whether designed with Hot Potatoes or any of many other programs generally also need a "learning management system" which keeps track of the administrative functions relating to an eCourse.
A learning management system provides methods
by which students can register as students, select some eCourse, take that
course, have their quiz scores and general study progress recorded and usually
presented to the student and to a supervisor.
I, Karl Loren, started by designing quizzes using Hot Potatoes. I found the programs that make up that suite of quizzes to be excellent, but when it came to placing those quizzes in some environment, Hot Potatoes deliberately did NOT provide those features within Hot Potatoes program. There is a separate "Hot Potatoes Learning Management System (LMS)" but it is oriented toward teachers whose needs and interests are different from mine.
As I researched among the various learning management systems I could find on the web I was not satisfied that any of them offered the features which I wanted for MY eCourses.
So, I designed the concept of my own learning management system and have hired Gordon Bateson, a computer programmer in Japan, to create the actual program that administers these eCourses.
This page introduces the design and implementation aspects to the learning management system.
This is the Home Page of the Plan
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Sample eCourse
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Reports Summarizing Course Progress Data Capture
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