Hrvoje Jerkovic

Content management systems (CMS) are information systems designed dominantly for managing different types of publicly available web content although they could be used for various other purposes. Today, CMS open source solutions are one of the most popular platforms for developing web sites, portals, web shops and other publicly available content and services. Main problem in this area is lack of proper understanding of security issues and procedures which are frequently leaving content and services vulnerable for various types of attacks. This work focuses on risk analysis of main CMS open source systems from the point of security of data and services. Usual “points of failure” are analyzed, compared to similar solutions and final measures for full protection are proposed.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are commonly used for management of online learning activities inside single or many courses. Usually they are rich with different tools and options in order to enable modern interactive learning environment. But from their early beginnings, before migration on web, LMS were designed as closed systems in order to serve single institution learning content. Such development hindered LMS for proper integrations with other systems and brought many challenges which are present up to this date in many LMS solutions. This research explains why some of the most used LMS in the world today are not able to properly integrate in modern cloud environment. Analysis of core functionalities of most used LMS are explained with propositions for improvement and future development.

Electronic business course at Zagreb School of Economics and Managements (higher education economy faculty) is highly practical course with aim to educate students how to use variety of open source information systems for online business purposes. As final project students have to use open source content management system and implement their own business idea using principles taught in theoretical and practical part of the class. Limited versions of various content management systems are offered online but they are not sufficient to fully feature various important business activities. This paper presents testing, analysis and implementation of hosting environment, applications and class activities for course purposes in own educational private cloud environment.

The systems aimed for manipulating large number of courses and students are called Learning Management Systems (LMS). A LMS can have excellent performance implemented through advanced Web technologies but it is often accompanied by a poor or rarely used repository of institution?s educational content. It has still remained. Still remains a problem how to allow users of a LMS to easily modify and integrate the content from federated e-learning repositories into their courses. This article presents an analysis of present repository frameworks and projects. FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Repository Object Architecture) framework is explained as an alternative repository solution. A pilot application has been developed to demonstrate the interaction between a LMS and its repository.

Systems manipulating large number of courses and students are called learning management systems (LMS). LMS have excellent performances implemented through advanced Web technologies but often poor or rarely used repository for storing institution's educational data. There still remains a problem of how to allow users of LMS to easily modify and integrate content form federated e-learning repositories into their courses. In this article we present analysis of present repository frameworks and projects. Also, we present possibilities of using FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Repository Object Architecture) framework as a repository solution. A pilot application has been created for demonstration of interaction between LMS and repository.

In the research, education and in everyday practice, a need for and general understanding and a holistic approach is becoming more and more important. Still in concrete cases such approaches meet many challenges, mostly in form of misunderstanding between involved partners experts from different disciplines. Education in general does not provide training for such approach. This paper describes a case - a course which goal was to transfer knowledge from one area to another: A software engineering and management of software development projects was taught to students of management and economy. In addition to this the course provided new teaching methods that students were not used to. Finally the course has been taught as a distance course, using Internet-based technology. All this elements made the course very challenging. The paper gives an overview of the case, identifies the challenges and discusses the lessons learned.