Developing Moodle Plugin for Creating Learning Content with Another REST Function Call

The Moodle REST function calls enables third party applications having access to the Moodle database's through Moodle web services and REST (Representational state transfer) protocols. The access could be as learning content creation. According to Moodle architecture, the learning content creation, need to be placed on Moodle section tables. This is shown, a third party application should make or use the Moodle section when making a course. The 'section' is the most essential component on Moodle. Because, the 'section' contain documents, assignments, quiz for learners. However, some Moodle REST function calls, such as creating the "section" on Moodle courses, have not been implemented in the Moodle system, yet. And for our current development applications, it need to have an access to create complete learning content on section tables. With developing Moodle plugins, possibly create learning content in the Moodle sections, but needed Moodle REST function call to access developed plugin. Therefore, we propose solutions that developed a Moodle plugin to create learning content and solve an unprovided Moodle REST function call by developed another Moodle REST function call. This paper presents our current development to enable creation of learning content from third party application, using the developed Moodle plugin. As a result, with the developed Moodle plugin, success to create learning content on Moodle LMS, and developed another Moodle REST function call

Synchronizing learning material on Moodle and lecture based supportive tool: The REST based approach

A lecturer's role are the important part for the success of any eLearning platform, include Moodle LMS. Because only lecturers that enrich learning materials. Unfortunately, Indonesia still faces the bandwidth gap that made difficulties to use Moodle as a daily basis. Moreover, it will become complex when lecturer decide to install it on a local machine. This paper presents supportive tool that not only for enrich learning materials in offline conditions with easy initiation steps, but also synchronize it on remote LMS using Moodle RE ST web service in order to share learning material in limited bandwidth

The use of Lecturer Based Supportive Tools (LBST) as Data Provider for Indonesian Lecturer Administrative Problems

Recently, Indonesia has more than 3.000 Higher Education Institutions, 300.000 lecturers, and 7.8 million higher education students. To handle those numerous stakeholders, Directorate General Higher Education Indonesia Government (DGHEI - as the regulator of higher education institutions) has been developed several websites as Information Systems (IS). The developed information system was used to manage information that attached on the stakeholders entities. Those information entities were projected for open public data access. In other hand, the Information Systems that offered by DGHEI are not only single information system. But also several information system that not integrated yet become single portal. Moreover, DGHEI regulates lecturers to upload their entities such as portfolios and other supporting documents developed IS's. However, this will be cause a time consuming, repetition activities and data redundant. Those problems are called administrative problems. In the meantime, our current development Lecturer Based Supportive Tool (LBST) has been developed as lecturer assistance to enrich learning materials on limited bandwidth condition. This paper discusses the use of LBST as Data Provider to solve the administrative problems that has been occurred in Indonesia higher education environments. Instead of uploading into DGHEI information systems, lecturers eager to use LBST as an alternative systems that offered by DGHEI. As a result, LBST could be driven into data provider that provides information that needed by DGHEI or other data customers

Direct Patterning of Ceramic Circuit Board with Q-Switched Nd:YAG Laser

Direct patterning of copper coated ceramic circuit board is experimentally investigated with Q-switched Nd:YAG laser in order to shorten the time of the trial manufacture of electronic circuit board and to adapt the flexible design change. It is pointed out that the fast direct patterning the speed of which reaches about 100 mm/s is possible if the repetition frequency and the average power are selected properly. Furthermore cutting off and/or drilling of ceramic board are also possible under the condition that the repetition frequency is less than 3kHz. This technique makes it possible the mask1ess patterning of ceramic circuit board which has been widely used recently in place of conventional glass-epoxy or phenolic resin circuit board, and it leads to the shorter time limit of delivery as compared with the conventional end-milling method

MOODLE XML TO IMS QTI ASSESSMENT TEST PORTABILITY ON LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Learning Management Systems (i.e. LMS) is one of the most popular solutions towards the e-Learning objective in different universities all around the world, where this environments are used to not only deliver contents but to perform assessments, tests and other tasks related to learning. Although, there are popular LMS such as Moodle, and more developed, such as Chamilo, there is no assessment/test portability among their LMS. Each assessment export formats make difficult to transfer well done Moodle-based online courses into young platforms such as Chamilo. The purpose of this paper is to address this portability issue and to show possibility of exporting Moodle assessment data (i.e. Moodle XML), into a more standardized format, which is IMS Question & Test Interoperability (IMS QTI). That can be used not only in Chamilo, but also other LMSs globally. The present paper shows the first approach towards a more global portability tool in which not only assessments but the whole structure of the course could be easily exported to other platforms. Contribution of this work is providing data exchange between LMSs

Redefining Data Provider: The REST approach to solve Indonesia lecturer administrative problems.

Directorate General Higher Education Institution of Indonesia (DGHEI), request lecturers to provide data or report their academic activities as evidence of them. Lecturers needs to make a portfolio or other document specified by DGHEI. From now on we will call this administrative issues. These issues are becoming a problem when the DGHEI requests these reports from the Lecturers to be updated in the DGHEI Systems in a specific time frame. The present paper discusses the problems that appear in the current system. Some of the problems that Lecturers face are: DGHEI Information Systems service unavailability. As a result of this analysis, a new methodology is proposed in order to solve these issues and others. The new approach, using REST (Representational Sate Transfer) to provide the lecturer data in a distributed manner, allowing sharing capabilities to the current system

Scribing of Ceramie Circuit Board with Q-Switched Nd：YAG Laser

Scribing of copper coated alumina ceramic board with Q-switched YAG laser used for the maskless direct patterning of circuit　board is experimentally investigated, which leads to efficient production of trial circuit board. Better dividing of alumina circuit board 655μm in thickness can be attained by the scribing of about 100μm depth. Higher repetition frequency of laser irradiation leads to smaller notch angle and lower breaking load

Expression of nampt in hippocampal and cortical excitatory neurons is critical for cognitive function

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) is an enzyme cofactor or cosubstrate in many essential biological pathways. To date, the primary source of neuronal NAD(+) has been unclear. NAD(+) can be synthesized from several different precursors, among which nicotinamide is the substrate predominantly used in mammals. The rate-limiting step in the NAD(+) biosynthetic pathway from nicotinamide is performed by nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt). Here, we tested the hypothesis that neurons use intracellular Nampt-mediated NAD(+) biosynthesis by generating and evaluating mice lacking Nampt in forebrain excitatory neurons (CaMKIIαNampt(−/−) mice). CaMKIIαNampt(−/−) mice showed hippocampal and cortical atrophy, astrogliosis, microgliosis, and abnormal CA1 dendritic morphology by 2–3 months of age. Importantly, these histological changes occurred with altered intrahippocampal connectivity and abnormal behavior; including hyperactivity, some defects in motor skills, memory impairment, and reduced anxiety, but in the absence of impaired sensory processes or long-term potentiation of the Schaffer collateral pathway. These results clearly demonstrate that forebrain excitatory neurons mainly use intracellular Nampt-mediated NAD(+) biosynthesis to mediate their survival and function. Studying this particular NAD(+) biosynthetic pathway in these neurons provides critical insight into their vulnerability to pathophysiological stimuli and the development of therapeutic and preventive interventions for their preservation