These were the support slides in the "Chamilo o Moodle, esta es la cuestión" conference organized by MENSA México in March 2013. It pinpoints and debunks myths that have been the tools of Moodle defender for the previous 2 years. Good support if you need to sell Chamilo against Moodle.
2. Introduction
● Yannick Warnier
● Belgium (24y), England (4y), Peru (5y)
● Founder of the Chamilo project
● Main dev until 2011
● Chamilo Association president 2012-2014
● Software Engineer
● Passion for IT in Education
3. The Chamilo project
We believe that
high quality and accessible tech tools
can sublime* education
(so we're building them)
* to sublime (in this case) = to transform in a radical way in comparison to how it works now
4. The Chamilo project
We believe that
high quality and accessible tech tools
can sublime* education
(so we're building them)
Accesible = free as in freedom + free as in beer
5. The Chamilo project
We believe that
high quality and accessible tech tools
can sublime* education
(so we're building them)
Accesible = free as in freedom + free as in beer + easy to use
6. Virtual circle
Community
3.6M users
4500 portals
Jobs E-learning
+200 around the Easy to use
world have
Chamilo-focused jobs
Association
Partners 5 directors
5 companies / 4 universities Role: Coordination +
Boost collaboration +
Free Software Defend freedom
most important: Customizable / Without license costs
7. Teaching models
● Who builds the course = who decides the model
● Chamilo rejects imposing “the best” model
● Social constructivism is not always the best
9. Popularity
Growth in 12 months = 300%
Source: version.chamilo.org/stats/
10. History
● Chamilo = fork of Dokeos = fork of Claroline
● Fork = same codebase, another philosophy
● Claroline (first public release): 2001
● Dokeos 1.5: 2004
● Chamilo 1.8.6.2: 2010
● Some parts of Chamilo date back to 2001
11. History
Excerpt of current Chamilo code, 2013
/**
* Gets the last failure stored in $api_failureList;
*
* @author Hugues Peeters <hugues.peeters@claroline.net>
* @param void
* @return string - the last failure stored
*/
function api_get_last_failure() {
global $api_failureList;
return $api_failureList[count($api_failureList) - 1];
}
12. History: Conclusion
(the codebase of)
Chamilo builds on
12 years of expertise already
15. How easy?
● 1 day teachers training is enough (vs 5 days for others)
● Many Chamilo users do not start e-learning with Chamilo
– They come out of disgust for other LMSes
● Creating a course: 2 clicks, one mandatory option
● Uploading a document: 4 clicks
● Friendly, coloured and meaningful iconography
● International basic certification starting at US$20
21. Extensible / Customizable without dev
● 20 pre-integrated plugins
● +300 configuration options for customization
● Download / Upload of CSS styles
● Theme changes (+templates available through code)
● Quick integration of contributed modules to core
● Automatic maintenance of modules
25. User care
● Chamilo forum
● 250-pages free manual in English
● Public code and tasks repositories
● Global events in videoconference
● Local events
● Continental community coordinators
● Global communications manager
● Chamilo Event Latinamerica 2013: 4/05/2013 – chamiluda.org
● Chamilo Event Europe 2013: 17-18/10/2013 – chamilo.org
27. Load resistant?
● Max reached in Chamilo LMS portals
– 3,500 simultaneous users
– 580,000 registered users
– 19,000 courses
– 420,000 sessions
– 7,000,000 “attendances”
● Measurments of resource usage
– 14MB RAM per full page load (vs 40MB for other LMS)
– Entire package is 60MB to download (minified version
available)
– Runs on an XO laptop (One Laptop per Child project) with
minor modifications
28. Contact
Yannick Warnier
President
Chamilo Association
e-mail: info@chamilo.org
@ywarnier
@chamilonoticias
This presentation is available under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. Author: Yannick Warnier
