Viktor Achter and Sebastian Breuers and Marc Seifert and Ulrich Lang and Joachim Götze and Bernd Reuther and Paul Müller
Developing a Sustainable Educational Portal for the DGrid Community
1823 - 1830
2009
3
7
International Journal of Computer and Systems Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14373
https://publications.waset.org/vol/31
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Within the last years, several technologies have been developed to help building elearning portals. Most of them follow approaches that deliver a vast amount of functionalities, suitable for classlike learning. The SuGI project, as part of the DGrid (funded by the BMBF), targets on delivering a highly scalable and sustainable learning solution to provide materials (e.g. learning modules, training systems, webcasts, tutorials, etc.) containing knowledge about Grid computing to the DGrid community. In this article, the process of the development of an elearning portal focused on the requirements of this special user group is described. Furthermore, it deals with the conceptual and technical design of an elearning portal, addressing the special needs of heterogeneous target groups. The main focus lies on the quality management of the software development process, Web templates for uploading new contents, the rich search and filter functionalities which will be described from a conceptual as well as a technical point of view. Specifically, it points out best practices as well as concepts to provide a sustainable solution to a relatively unknown and highly heterogeneous community.
Open Science Index 31, 2009