1.  Dokeos  open source elearning
Introducing Dokeos
 Dokeos 
open source elearning

2. Contents What is Dokeos Advantages of Dokeos
Community interaction & development
Future
Dokeos introduction version 1

3. What is Dokeos (1) Dokeos is an elearning environment
Course management
Tools for learning / training

4. What is Dokeos (2) Dokeos is a web application
Runs on a server, works on any browser
Uses PHP and MySQL
Any server, any platform
Tested with Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Apache, IIS...

5. History First created by Thomas De Praetere
Dokeos grew out of experience with inflexible commercial tools
Developers looked at existing tools: WebCT, Blackboard to build a better alternative
2003: code split Claroline - Dokeos

6. Code split
Claroline: mainly developed by one university only (UCL, Belgium)
UCL had no interest in international collaborative development
Dokeos is for those who do
As a result, Dokeos evolves faster and is more true to open source spirit

7. Comparison Compared to commercial tools, Dokeos is More flexible
More open in ideas
More open in source
More open in standards: real SCORM/IMS
Flexibility example: ease of integrating with existing tools or information databases

8. Comparison Compared to other OSS tools, Dokeos is
In friendly competition
Share ideas
Whole open source community benefits
Dokeos tries to be the most userfriendly

9. Support Dokeos is not just software
Software developed by many organisations
Support delivered by localised firms
In Belgium: by Thomas De Praetere and partners
Software + hosting + customisation + service + migration + content + helpdesk

10. Development process
Developers in Belgium, Spain, Chili, Hungary, India...
Translations, bug reports, bugfixes, ideas from many more countries
All communication is open, meetings through chat and forum, summaries published for the whole world
Project hosted on SourceForge (professional development tools like CVS)

11. User Wishes
The user is the most important element in the development process
Software is meant for the users
Developers act on feedback and requests
Good user interface theories to solve conflict between features and ease of use

12. Opensource Cost Analysis
Product is zero price
Bugfixing: developer community fixes bugs
New feature requests: convince normal developers, or pay service firm
Better quality, less cost

13. Strengths and Advantages
Userfriendliness
Easy to install and maintain
Translated into 28 languages, translation efforts are still increasing
Open standards: PHP, MySQL, XML, SCORM, IMS, CSV, LDAP, CURL...
Very flexible and easy to extend
Uses stylesheets so admins can change appearance as easy as for any website

14. Future
Dokeos releases 1.5 and added many new features, bugfixing, standards compliance
Future releases: polish and improve existing tools, improve standards compliance
Think about collaborative tools

15. Long-term Future Make Dokeos the most succesful elearning software
Maintain userfriendliness
Keep tools flexible
Increase the user community
Build up the developers community

16. The End