Benefits and Limitations of WordPress for eLearning Purposes The Eighth International Conference on...

Benefits and Limitations of WordPress for eLearning Purposes

The Eighth International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society

Ferdinand Budi Kurniawan & Ridwan SanjayaFaculty of Computer Science, Soegijapranata Catholic University

Learning Management System is abundant

The Problem emerges when

The Final Impact

Centralize and automate administrationUse self-service and self-guided servicesAssemble and deliver learning content rapidlyConsolidate training initiatives on a scalable web-based platformSupport portability and standardsPersonalize content and enable knowledge reuse

Key FeaturesOf

eLearning

Multi User

Content Update(xml-rpc)

Content Upload(upload file)

Video/ Multimedia(embed video)

Multi User

WordPress has been including multi-user feature in system core

No expert skill needed to make use of this multi-user feature

All settings can be conducted through administrator panel

Default roles : Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber

XML-RPC

WordPress has been including XML-RPC feature in system core

Administrator simply log in and activate the feature

The process only takes less than one minute

PDF File Upload

Through WYSIWYG, educators can upload PDF to server

Once the PDF file has been uploaded, all students can download

Upload & Download process is simple in WordPress

Video Content

Educators can use YouTube to upload video contents

They simply have to copy the embed HTML code in web page

Students can watch / download the video in YouTube

The Bandwidth of eLearning site is not taken

Conclusion

•WP comes equipped with complete feature•WP is easy to operate•WP is very powerful to

be customized for eLearning

BENEFITS

Sometimes it is needed to upgrade the WP

version to patch security holes

HANDICAP

REFERENCES

[1] S. Dissanaike, P. Wijkman, and M. Wijkman.  Utilizing XML-RPC or SOAP on an embedded system. Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004, pp. 438 – 440.

[2] E. Ryan. A Field Guide to Learning Management Systems. Las Vegas, Nevada: American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), 2009

[3] L. Simon, J. Joe and D. Edd. Programming Web Services with XML-RPC. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly, 2001.

THANK YOU

Ferdinand Budi Kurniawanferdi@rectmedia.com

Ridwan Sanjayaridwan.sanjaya@gmail.com