@inproceedings{Rodosthenous2016,

title = {Building an infrastructure for empowering Distance Education in the Open University of Cyprus},

author = {Christos Rodosthenous and Petros Christoforou and Michalis Epiphaniou and Georgia Matheou and Stathis Mavrotheris and Christopher Christodoulides},

editor = {George Ubachs and Lizzie Konings},

url = {https://www.christosrodosthenous.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OOFHEC2016_FINAL_submission.pdf

http://conference.eadtu.eu/images/Proceedings/Conference_proceedings_2016_defcompressed2.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference (OOFHEC2016)},

publisher = {EADTU},

address = {Rome},

abstract = {Universities worldwide offer distance education courses through a number of channels. There is a plethora of courses offered either as part of official Programs of Study that lead to a degree or even as Vocational Training Programs or as MOOCS. The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) is the only higher education organization in Cyprus dedicated to distance education using an innovative eLearning Platform named eClass.

The eClass eLearning Platform is the main educational medium of the Open University of Cyprus that hosts a number of services, courses, educational content and activities. The scope of this paper is to describe the eLearning Platform and the offered services that are integrated under its umbrella, like the Video Lecture and Streaming service, the Synchronous Learning service and the Plagiarism Detection service. Moreover, this paper presents an overview of how this platform is integrated to the University’s infrastructure for user creation and management, student enrolments and library services. We conclude by presenting metrics of the eLearning Platform usage.},

keywords = {distance education, eLearning Platform, infrastructure, Moodle},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{CHRISTOFOROU2015DEP,

title = {Deploying new services in the Open University of Cyprus eLearning Platform – Our experiences},

author = {Petros Christoforou and Christos Rodosthenous and Michalis Epiphaniou and Stathis Mavrotheris and Christopher Christodoulides},

url = {https://www.christosrodosthenous.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DEPLOYING-NEW-SERVICES-IN-THE-OPEN-UNIVERSITY-OF-CYPRUS-ELEARNING-PLATFORM-–-OUR-EXPERIENCES-FINAL.pdf

https://library.iated.org/view/CHRISTOFOROU2015DEP},

issn = {2340-1079},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2015)},

pages = {6108--6116},

publisher = {IATED},

series = {9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference},

abstract = {The eClass eLearning Platform (eClass) is the main educational tool of the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), used for facilitating online teaching and learning. Selecting and deploying the best alternative among different candidate services is a major challenge that requires in depth knowledge of the educational process, educators and students needs and all the available solutions. The outcome of this procedure is the introduction of a service that is integrated into eClass. The scope of this paper is to describe and elaborate on the procedure used for the selection and deployment of new services in eClass. Authors provide a description of eClass followed by an analysis of the procedure used to introduce a new service. Next, we report on the deployment phases and challenges faced during each step. Specific project implementations are presented for demonstrating the eClass components. We conclude by presenting the results of a user satisfaction survey of the deployed services.},

keywords = {asynchronous, distance education, elearning, eLearning Platform, lecture capture, plagiarism detection, synchronous, video},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}