Comparing and Evaluating Open Source E-learning Platforms

TL;DR: This paper explained how to evaluate Open source E-learning Platforms and tried to integrate some of them to produce new platform with great capabilities, more flexible and efficient.

Abstract: Because of the huge development in E-learning and the spread of its open and close source platforms, and the necessity to have the benefit of it in universities and graduate institutes as basic education or supportive of the traditional education, we have to know how to choose the suitable E-learning Platform from available platforms or to adopt it to suit us In this paper we explained how to evaluate Open source E-learning Platforms and tried to integrate some of them to produce new platform with great capabilities, more flexible and efficient, Also we used metrics like security, performance, support, interoperability, flexibility, easy of using, management, communication tool, administration tools, course delivery tools and content development to evaluate this E-learning Platform We obtain that there are differences between E-learning Platforms for each metric so we selected the best four (Moodle 19, Claroline 181, Mambo 461and Atutor 154) to integrate it to make a new platform with 9772 average weights of the metrics while the best Open Source E-learning Platform is 894