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You can find here all related material (and record of discussion) on target group definition, contents and modular structure, the rationale for the selected online platforms and more .

  • Target audience

  • Contents, learning objectives and modular structure

  • Further learning resources

  • Online platform (criteria)

  • Marketing channels

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  • whether it is open source or not.

  • the intended target audience for the platform

  • the functionality (ease of use from the provider and consumer perspective)

  • languages available on the platform

  • what type of certification and tests the platform offers/supports

  • maintenance requirements

  • cost

  • sustainability (dependence on funding)

 

Atingi.org

(e-learning platform by German Development Cooperation)

Socialprotection.org

Moodle.org, Learning Management System

(hosted on Initiative resources)

Backend

Moodle

Moodle

Moodle

Open Source (yes/no)

yes 

yes 

yes 

Target audience

  • Aim of the project is to provide digital teaching to young people in developing countries

  • Suitable for entrepreneurs, farmers, students

  • e-Health identified as key topic

  • Focus countries: Benin, Togo, Rwanda, Niger

  • Member-based knowledge sharing and capacity building platform.

  • Open to social protection practitioners, policy-makers, experts as well as academics and students.

  • Aim is to foster global knowledge sharing on social protection policies. 

  • Wide audience range

  • Personalisation for any type of learning environment

Functionality (provider & consumer)

  • Based on Moodle LMS (migration phase)

  • Provides good functionalities especially interfaces

  • Self-paced courses, blended learning, mobile learning

  • Based on Moodle LMS

  • Many functionalities for the user (text, audio, video, blogs, news, webinars, events, programme profiles)

  • Can make course very simple but also with more web design, which takes more effort.

  • additionally offers community space (e.g. to allow interactivity in extension of self-paced, simple e-learning courses)

  • any course needs to be linked to stakeholder profiles of/registered in the platform (e.g. GIZ) on organisation level

  • All Moodle functionalities

  • High level of personalisation but will probably require more effort to develop 

Languages

  • English, French, Spanish at the moment

  • Easy with Moodle to translate into many languages (e-based translation systems)

  • The platform runs in English, French and Spanish.

  • All courses at the moment are in English but they are in the process of translating one of them into French.

  • All languages available 

Tests & certification 

  • Moodle offers basic certification options

  • Development of an open badge

  • Moodle offers basic certification options.

  • They can also create more advanced testing with quizzes etc.

  • Moodle offers only basic certification

  • If more advanced certification is required, effort needed to develop 

Cost

  • Free access & use

  • Free for us to host the course (needs to be cross-checked)

  • Free access & use

  • We can host the course for free if we have the ready made Moodle-based scorm package.

  • They can also help with developing the course if we provide the content (they do develop courses from scratch, including content). Very flexible in terms of what we would need.

  • Free access & use

  • Cost related to hosting Moodle

Sustainability

  • No info on project phases but long-term & sustainable perspective.

  • Plans to scale up and expand on target audience and regions

  • Long-term view.

  • If Moodle course is hosted on wiki page or website, this would provide stability in the long-term

Maintenance requirements 

  • Independent course management (antingi team not developing content)

  • Developing new maintenance requirement strategy (more info to come)

  • Technical maintenance will be performed by the platform.

  • If any content updates are needed, this would come from GIZ.

  • Server maintenance

  • Technical maintenance (bugs, updates, etc)

  • Content management 

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