OPEN SOURCE IN ELEARNING AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

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• OPEN SOURCE IN E-LEARNING AND HUMAN RESOURCES
  DEVELOPMENT
• Timo Väliharju, Mediamaisteri Group

Mediamaisteri Group PL 82 (Yliopistonkatu 58
D) 33101 Tampere www.mediamaisteri.com
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Mediamaisteri Group

• Expert company in e-learning
• One of the leading open source e-learning vendor
  in Europe
• Established in 2000 in Tampere, Finland
• Offices are located in Tampere, Hämeenlinna,
  Turku, Helsinki
• 30 employees
• Special field is the development and evaluation
  of e-learning methods and systems supporting it
• Annual growht rate 30-40
• Turnover 1,2 million euros

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Open Source software

• Community developed software
• Are not based on commercial licenses but GPL
• Commercial use is acceptable
• Global development
• The source code is available
• Further development is allowed
• Low risk

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Open source in e-learning and HRD

• Reliability is often better than corresponding
  proprietary software
• Possible errors and problems are found and
  repaired faster
• A large amount of developers adds to the
  reliability of open source software
• Further development does not depend entirely
  market conditions or particular vendor

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Open source in e-learning and HRD

• The new culture of openness in the software
  business
• HRD is no business critical process so customers
  are not willing to pay prices of business
  critical solution
• Customer controlled solution
• Low risk to the customer
• Lower risk to vendor compared to the
  traditional software model
• Publishing new technology solutions for common use

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Business development and eLearning

• Development of company processes and taking
  knowledge into the practise
• Increasing efficiency of employees with
  e-learning
• Cost efficiency
• It enables to assure assimilation of information
  and raise requirements (less grey areas)
• Middle management in addition to top management
  is in an important role
• Possibility to document HRD processes in system
  level

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Thank you!

• CEO Timo Väliharju
• Mediamaisteri Group
• info_at_mediamaisteri.com