Publisher review:ZoPark has the purpose to develop an Open Source system to deploy easily customizable learning applications. Main purpose of this project is to develop an Open Source system to deploy easily customizable learning applications.
A specialized trainer should be able to access an online editor where he/she can specify a set of parameters. Those parameters are stored on the system and are accessible to the trainer. O
nce the exercise is completely defined, it can be used to train a disabled pupil, and, if the trainer agrees, it can be published and made available to other trainers and pupils.
Every time an exercise is used, response times and success rates are recorded and sent to the server, to form a base for statistical analysis.
Specifications
A number of facilities are defined inside the system:
- user area
- trainer area
- talk area
- documentation repository
- development area
- research and management area
User area: it's the most important part of the system. Here trainers can load the exercises they've built and use them with pupils. These exercises can be used in two different ways, both online with a browser and downloaded and used offline. Online use is encouraged, since it allows better personalization and, mostly, results can be returned to servers.
Trainer area: it's a restricted access area, where only registered trainers can access. Trainer registration should be free, as it is on most common free online services. A moderated registration should be possible, but should not be set as a default. Inside this area, the system will provide an editor to create exercises from an extensible library of symbols, an area to register pupils and keep track of their results, for monitoring purposes by the trainers.
Talk area: three different forums. A technical one, where developers can interact and carry out the development of the various parts of the system. A second group of forums is meant to be used for interaction between developers and trainers, where trainers can ask for new features and influence the developement of the system itself. The last one is a discussion area between trainers, to share ideas and results, and to keep the trainer community in touch.
Documentation repository: for each subject the community shows interest, a documentation mirror should be kept. There must be a way to publish manuals, papers, thesis and articles, both in public and in restricted way. Documents produced by the community itself are published and commentable by the registered trainers. Development area: using standard cooperation instruments, this area keeps track of components versions and development stages.
Research and management area: this area allows administrators to configure and assign roles to the users, to expand the system with new modules and to enable functions. This is the only area that allows direct access to the informations about trainers and pupils stored into the system, with the sole purpose of creating a data set for statistical analysis and user monitoring.
ZoPark 0.0.2 is a Python script for Scientific/Engineering scripts design by Michele Albrigo.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
ZoPark has the purpose to develop an Open Source system to deploy easily customizable learning applications.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
ZoPark 0.0.2 script details 
