CerOrganic European ConferenceCerOrganic European Conference

Institute of Agronomic Sciences (IGE)Athens, Greece, 06/12/2011

“Organic Agriculture & Education: Challenges in Training Advisors

of organic farmers”

Presentation of a Presentation of a Course Management Platform Course Management Platform

Dr. Vassilis Protonotarios, Agro-Know Technologies, Greece

Andreas Katrakilis,DIO Inspection and Certification Organization of

Organic Products , Greece

What is MOLE?

• MOLE – Multimedia Open Learning Environment

• A course management platform / educational information system developed by the Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (TUC/MUSIC)

during the Organic.Mednet EU LdV project

MOLE offers a set of services for

– the organization and management of digital educational content (e.g. lectures, notes, exercises, technical lab material, literature, FAQs etc.)

– informing learners (e.g. announcements, mail, calendar, personal rating etc.)

– assisting learning communities (e.g. mailing lists, live chat rooms, forums, personal messaging, instant messaging, annotation tools, video conference etc.)

MOLE offers a set of services for

– supporting educational activities (e.g. registration to courses, formation of lab teams, exercise uploads and deadline management, assessment tests, multimedia presentations etc.)

– monitoring services (course usage statistics, class performance indicators)

Why MOLE?

• MOLE has been tested in other related EU projects (Organic.Mednet, Organic.Balkanet)

• MOLE is developed by a partner of a related EU project (TUC/MUSIC)– Support for solving issues– Development of additional functions– Free to use for non-profit purposes

• MOLE is multilingual and easy to translate

• MOLE is a fully-featured CMP– Course related options– Communication options

CerOrganic MOLE instance

Statistics of CerOrganic MOLE instance

CerOrganic MOLEin numbers

• 79 registered users• 58 courses created• 109.380 site hits• 2.376 user logins• 9 different training programs

Thank you for your attention!

For more information:Vassilis Protonotarios

vprot@agroknow.gr