Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Peter Mozelius et al.
single login will speed up the development process for the UCSC staff as well as increase the general
usability of the eNOSHA system. Since both the systems’ metadata sets are based on the LOM
standard importing and exporting learning objects between the systems seems to work well but the
graphical user interface in the integrated features might need amendments.
The described eNOSHA-Moodle integration has been tested since July 2010 at the UCSC in Sri
Lanka and so far without any discovered problems or major bugs. As the next step we like to
evaluate the eNOSHA system online in the Finnish TUP tool (TUP Online, 2010). eNOSHA was
installed in May 2011 at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Eastern Finland
(UEF) in Joensuu, Finland. At this department the Moodle system has been used since many years
as the main platform for elearning. Since computer scientists in Joensuu have a long tradition of
usability testing we think that the collaboration with the Science Park in Joensuu will be a great
opportunity for further improvement of the new eNOSHA module as well as the older existing core
modules in the system. During the 2011 autumn semester the eNOSHA system will be used as the
main repository in the VisSCoS programme for distance education in Computer Science (Suhonen
and Sutinen, 2007) at the UEF in Joensuu. To get a more complete evaluation of the search
functionality in the Moodle system as well as the general usability of the system’s core functionality,
the collaboration with Joensuu and The University of Eastern Finland offers a great opportunity for
further improvement.
7. Future work
The eNOSHA- Moodle integration has so far only been tested in detail by the UCSC in Sri Lanka and
the UEF in Finland. It would be of great importance to install and test the system at more universities
and educational organizations. Moodle is just one of the many Content Management Systems and
Virtual Learning Environments used in current elearning. If eNOSHA in the future should be a global
LOR alternative there is a need for integration with other similar systems like Sakai and Blackboard.
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