E-Learning (Java projects)

ABSTRACT

Advances in technology and the growth of e-learning to provide educators and trainers with unique opportunities to enhance learning and teaching in corporate, government, healthcare, and higher education.  This application serves as a forum to facilitate the exchange of information on the current research, development, and practice of e-learning in the sectors. It includes the research, development, and practice of e-learning related to the following multi-dimensional topics and sub-topics.

E-learning comes in different configurations that dictate the depth of a needs assessment. The simple e-learning implementations, such as those following an application service provider (ASP) model, won't necessarily look any different from a resource requirement perspective than traditional classroom training. That's e-learning.

E-learning can be an enormous undertaking and, require significantly more preparation due to its increased scope, higher interdependence, and visibility. These factors--described below--are the reason a needs assessment for an e-learning initiative looks different from one for a traditional classroom program.

• Scope. Developing an e-learning initiative is a typically much larger endeavor than that of an instructor-led training (ILT) program. Consider the increased expenses, number of people involved, development time, technological requirements, and delivery options.
• Interdependence. It's possible, even common, for an ILT program to be conducted without the knowledge of anyone but the participants, their immediate managers, and the training provider. In contrast, even the smallest e-learning program requires a wider group of people. Ranging from (at a minimum) representatives from the IT and HR departments to (more commonly) an organization-wide task force, the scope of the project often dictates that there are more decision makers, more stakeholders, and more links between previously unrelated departments.
• Visibility. When a traditional training program goes bad, a participant's dissatisfaction is usually voiced by word of mouth. And the people who express dissatisfaction, in most cases, are the participants and, maybe later, the people directly affected by their work. Again, due to the scope of the undertaking (especially the high budget and number of resources required), the efficacy of an e-learning program will be delivered to a larger group of people and through a wider variety of channels than an ILT program. Typically, a CEO can tap into a training database and view participants' course comments, exam results, and the courses taken. It's easier to determine whether an e-learning program is unpopular or ineffective than to rely on word of mouth about a questionable ILT program.

In order for a needs assessment to have a successful outcome, it must accomplish many things--improving performance being just one. It must also

• Determine how to achieve the high-level goals of the organization (such as increasing sales and fostering innovation)
• Determine what system obstacles (other than training) need to be removed
• Point to an intervention that will balance the conflicting needs of different stakeholders (IT versus HR, participants versus managers, budget versus vendor costs, and so on)
• Pave the way for a new program.

Organizations implementing e-learning programs need to expand the usual needs assessment process by creating a high-level requirements document that includes

• Objectives (macro organizational objectives and micro target learner population objectives)
• An e-learning readiness score
• A list of advantages and potential obstacles to e-learning adoption
• A list of possible e-learning configurations.

MODULES:

This Project "E-Learning” contains the following modules.

§  Administration

§  User Management

§  Content Management

§  Evaluation

Administration:

·         Uploading the content permanently

·         Uploading the content temporally

·         Removing the content permanently

·         Removing the content temporally

·         Working options

o   Caching Feature

o   Content length for each Category

User Management:

·         User Information

·         User Session Maintenance

·         Updating User Information

 

Content Management:

These are the pages that are associated with the logic pages, and contain content specific to that page.

·         Organizing the topics according to the category

·         Organizing the subtopics according to the subcategory

·         Providing appropriate links to specified category

Evaluation

·         Preparing the question paper randomly according to the category

·         Spot result evaluation

·         Specifying level of evaluation           

SYSTEM REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION:

§  Internet connection with 33.6 KBPS Modem.

§  Pentium 2.27GHz. 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM (Server).

§  Any P.C with Windows compatibility, 64 MB RAM (Client).

§  JDK 1.4 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

§  Jakarta tomcat 1.4.0.3.

§  Enterprise Java Beans

§  JDBC/ODBC drivers installed.

§  Functional Java enabled browser.

§  Data Base (Oracle).

§  Operating System (Windows).