Another Powerful E-learning and Course Management Tool for Web-based learning: DOKEOS

Abstract

In this paper, an open source e-learning and course management tool, Dokeos will be introduced. Dokeos can be used to offer any course which aims to benefit from online education as well as blended learning, in which face to face and online education are mixed. It enables the teacher to organize teaching using the features such as conference, chat, blogs and forums. The teacher can decide on the features and select them according to the learner's needs. Moreover, there are some more features only for teacher use such as user tracking and reporting. The main advantage of Dokeos over the other platforms such as Moodle is that it provides a free campus, where the teacher can register and create a course in less than a minute with almost no technical knowledge. However, there are some limitations such as lack of virtual classroom and the quota on the space available.