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Chapter 3
Diplek:
An Open LMS that Supports Fast
Composition of Educational Services
C. T. Rodosthenous
University of Patras, Greece
A. D. Kameas
Hellenic Open University, Greece
P. E. Pintelas
University of Patras, Greece
ABSTRACT
Modern ICT has evolved through the years and is now in position of delivering educational content to
specific target groups in remote locations. Advanced e-learning techniques are now used not only for
delivering content to high school and university students, but can be used in lifelong training programs.
Due to the target group most of these programs have (i.e. professionals with little time to spend, people
of a certain age with reduced ICT skills, etc.), it is vital that organizations choose wisely among the
many Learning Management Systems currently available. The purpose of this chapter is to describe and
examine the features of such a platform. DIPLEK is a platform developed using service oriented archi-
tecture to enable easy access to educational content and activities for novice learners and instructors.
INTRODUCTION
Higson, Dey & Xu, 2009). Nowadays numerous
LMS are available in the market; a few more, like
Moodle, Sakai, Atutor, Claroline, etc., are under
development by the open source community.
Another category of Learning Systems is the so
called Learning Design systems (Britain, 2004).
This category includes systems like LAMS (Dal-
ziel, 2003) and Coppercore (Vogten et al., 2007).
Despite the many tools and services offered by the
A Virtual Learning Environment or Learning
Management System (VLE or LMS) is a software
system or integrated platform that contains a se-
ries of services and tools to support a number of
activities and course management procedures (Ho,
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