1. Virtual Classrooms
Claroline.net
Sender
Miriam
Luz Mary

2. What is it?
• Claroline is an Open Source eLearning
and eWorking platform allowing
teachers to build effective online courses
and to manage learning and collaborative
activities on the web.

3. Characteristics/Activities
• Write a course description
• Publish documents in any format (text, PDF, HTML, video...)
• Administer public and private forums
•
• Develop learning paths
• Create groups of students
• Prepare online exercises
• Manage an agenda with tasks and deadlines
• Publish announcements (also by e-mail)
• Propose assignments to be handed in online
• See the statistics of the users activity
• Use the wiki to write collaborative documents

4. Advantages
• Hosting
• Credibility (The platform is used in more than 80 countries and is available in more
than 30 languages.)
• Claroline is compatible with GNU/Linux, Mac OS and Microsoft Windows
• Easy to access
• Effective solution to set up an eLearning system
• Make available pedagogical contents and documents
• Carry out collaborative projects in your organization

5. Disadvantages
• You have to download it
• - It does not chat.
• - You have to pay

6. Pedagogical Issues
• According to its own official website these are
the pedagogigal reasons for its existence
``Claroline is based on pedagogical principles
coming from the literature on the added value
of the technologies for training

7. Specific Tools
• Write a course description
• Publish documents in any format (text,
PDF, HTML, video...)
• Administer public and private forums
• Develop
• Email

8. comparisons With blackboard
– Both of them are virtual
– Both of them have forums
– Both of them have credibility
– People who use it can get reliable information
from both of them
– Lots of interaction

9. Motivation
• There is a lot of motivation theories. These
generally postulate the importance of
contextual factors enabling the
representation a student may have about the
future situation and the work he has to
perform in order to acquire new knowledge
and competences.

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11. Recomendations
• The installation process should be easier
• More interactive help

12. • Conclusion
• Virtual classrooms are the education of today
and the future. All people must learn how to
use them and make the best of them. They
will constitute the main tool for students and
teachers around the world in the education to
come.

13. Bibliography
• Bibliography
• Claroline. (2010). Community Worldwide. Recuperado el
2010, de Community Worldwide:
http://www.claroline.net/worldwide.htm
• Claroline.net. (2010). Claroline.net. Recuperado el 2010, de
Claroline.net: http://www.claroline.net/index.php?lang=en
• Imperial. (2010). Imperial. Recuperado el 2010, de Imperial:
www3.imperial.ac.uk/ict/services/teachingandresearchserv
ices/elearning/aboutelearning/elearningglossary

14. Thanks!