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System of the E-learning

ATutor

TNTU

Advantages of e-learning:• more rational use of time for teachers and students;• expansion of potential audience;• possibilities for some cost cutting in the educational

process.

Disadvantages of e-learning:• additional requirements to the technical providing;• necessity for teachers and students adaptation;• transference of existent educational materials in the

system of management by the educational material.

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• ATutor – system of the distance learning, developed in University of Toronto.

• The system was developed in 2001 and steals one of the leading system of educational material in market.

• Our university (TNTU) uses an adapted version of learning management system (LMS) ATutor (Canada), which supports international standards and formats (QTI, IMS, SCORM) for storing study information.

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Requirements to the server software:• server OS (Linux is recommended);• web-server (Apache or NGINX is recommended);• PHP 5.2.0 and highly;• MySQL 4.1.10 and highly.

Requirements to the client software:• web-browser (Firefox or Opera is recommended;

possible application Internet Explorer 9 and highly);

• for the displaying multimedia necessary establishment of correspond programs for web-browser.

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Professional requirements to the administrator• The ATutor administration can be carried out by

one administrator.

Reference requirements:• knowledge of the server executive system, web--

server, firewall and others like that;• knowledge of network principles;• desired knowledge HTML, PHP and SQL.

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• In the TNTU published booklet about work with ATutor for tutors (teachers) and developed twenty hours educational program.

• The tutors get knowledge about ATutor possibilities and practice of its application, the HTML bases and use it before the developing of educational materials in E-learning.

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• Lecture material can contain multimedia files (video, audio, flash and others like that).

• The ATutor system conducts video conferences by Marratech program. The version free of charge and gives possibilities to participate in a video conference for five users.

• Organization of web conferences provides by Big Blue Button.

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• In the TNTU introduction of e-learning on the basis of ATutor started from 2004. From that time more than 1200 educational courses was developed by 445 tutors.

• System had more than 13000 users. • From that time seminars and classes

for tutors are conducting periodicaly.

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The access is available at:• http://dl.tntu.edu.ua/login.php?

lang=en• http://wiki.tntu.edu.ua/• http://conference.tntu.edu.ua/

The electronic courses are avaliable in Ukrainian, and in five European languages.

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