MariBelajar.com is launched!!
Maribelajar.com's Mission
To develope the world's cheapest yet high quality e-learning platform for both the learners and teachers, using our course building technologies.
MariBelajar.com was built using open source tools developed from a SourceForge project also named "Maribelajar".
There has been a lot of hype about online learning. Many companies have come and gone and few survived the dot-com bust. Those that do survive do not offer affordable learning materials over the World Wide Web. Their prices are targeted for big companies and out of reach of the average college student or teacher.
Also there is a lack of good elearning tools used by local colleges even though their marketing staffs sell courses with promises of full blown e-learning to compliment the course. This is usually half true where most of the "elearning" that takes place is just documents posted on the web. There is little interactivity involved which is crucial for true elearning to take place.
E-Learning facilities should not be expensive not with the many freely available web technologies. With the clever use of open source technology, we aim to prove that online learning can be cheap and easily available to the masses.
The main aims for MariBelajar are:
- Entirely web-based, no software to download and install.
- Access and learn from the office, home or anywhere in the world. (now with broadband becoming common such as Streamyx)
- MariBelajar is continually being developed so it is continually improving.
- Emphasis on learning community, sharing experiences as well as using experienced mentors to guide learners.
- Does not depend on large sponsorship from any company to survive so we will be here for as long as we want.
Currently MariBelajar incorporates the following tools:
- Course publishing with Course/Chapter/Topics categories
- Quiz management
- Global shoutbox for ad-hoc messages
- Direct feedback to course instructor
- Student report card to view student academic progress
- LMS (Learning Management System) for teachers to track and manage the courses,assessment and students.