COMPLETE: A NEW E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR ENERGY/TRANSPORT/ENVIRONMENT DOMAINS

Abstract

The e-Learning platform developed in the frame of the COMPLETE project address the specific needs of learning methods "Problem Based Learning" (PbL) and "Project Based Learning" (PjL). These methods are "group oriented", and one of the main actions on the platform is to create groups of users for each problem/project based learning module. Each problem or project can be allotted to more than one group – the PbL/PjL module is an assembly of the problem/project and the group. From a technical point of view, the solution chosen is to integrate the open-source e-Learning platform Moodle and also other open-source tools in the uPortal, which is an open-source application too - uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher education. The structure of the uPortal framework is based on channels. Everything in uPortal is channel. The interface is constructed by assigning more channels to each user or group of users. The basic idea for PbL or PjL configuration is to create small groups of users, one group for each problem or project, and to set one uPortal interface for each group.