Off-line client for E-learningThe need for off-line learning has been an e-learning requirement for the North West University and UNISA for a long time. The need aroused from the cost of connectivity and the bandwidth in South Africa. South African connectivity costs have come down over the past few years, but it is still high compared to other countries. Dial-up users tend to spend as little time as possible online by downloading information for offline reading. The Sakai Solo
tool makes announcements, resources and e-guides available to learners off-line. The Sakai web interface is replaced with a rich Google Web Toolkit interface.
This Windows-like interface is more familiar to users and eliminates
browser refreshes. The user is notified when site content is possibly
outdated. Only changed and new content is downloaded during the
synchronization process. See http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SOLO/ RedImages website This is a stock photo website. Photographers can
register for free and upload their digital photos. Visitors can then
register and buy photos using credits. Credits are bought using
real-time e-commerce. The system is written in PHP with a MySQL
database. Some of the features include:
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