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Improving TelEduc Environment With GPL Software: The Visualization Content Case for Computers and Mobile Devices

Authors:
Andre da Silva
Heloísa da Rocha

Keywords: e-Learning environment; Mobile user interfaces; Mobile learning; software integration.

Abstract:
e-Learning environments are proposed to support teaching and learning activities using the Web infrastructure. One example is TelEduc, a GPL e-Learning environment which its developers are mostly students involved in academic projects, making it difficult to have a long-period team with expertise to maintain the code and evolve the software with new requirements and to new and desirable contexts, like mobile access. One solution is use third-party software to improve the software and minimize the code maintain efforts, solution applied in the TelEduc environment to visualize attached documents on computers and smart phones without installed appropriated software, an open problem in the environment before this work. The main result is a TelEduc version with visualization file for desktops and smart phones. Another result is identification of issues dealt when integrates with third party software like impact on usability, accessibility and performance, license compatibility and easily to integrate, update and change.

Pages: 222 to 227

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: September 23, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-236-3

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012