computer science

Sclipo

Sclipo is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sclipo rather than just read about it. In short: Sclipo was a Learning Management System, providing a fully hosted Online Campus solution with web applications that support face-to-face and distance education. The project seems to have closed near the end of 2012.

Key takeaways

Sclipo belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sclipo to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sclipo from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Sclipo was a Learning Management System, providing a fully hosted Online Campus solution with web applications that support face-to-face and distance education. The project seems to have closed near the end of 2012.

History Founded by Gregor Gimmy, Sclipo was launched on October 20, 2006 (then called Visuarios), as a website to share user-generated educational videos. The initial product allowed professional and amateur teachers to share knowledge online through video, making Sclipo one of the first websites of user-generated educational videos. Sclipo then recognized that independent teachers, small schools, and companies in continuous education growingly used generic web applications for teaching such as Skype for live web classes and Slideshare to share documents. Additionally, Sclipo saw that current learning management systems, such as Moodle or Blackboard, were too complex and expensive for a small, 1–15 teacher-sized, educational entity. Sclipo then decided to expand its offering and create a suite of web applications specifically for learning purposes and adapted to the needs of small educational entities in continuous education. These were launched continuously, the first one being the Virtual Classroom (live teaching) application in September 2007. Sclipo website went down about November 2012, and since then redirects to a Spanish informational web catalog.

Features A Sclipo Online Campus provides synchronous and asynchronous web applications to learn, teach, socialize, administer, promote and sell face-to-face as well as online education services and content.

Learning & Teaching applications are Course Manager, Library, and a Virtual Classroom for live teaching. Features of the Course Manager include a learning path, tests, discussion forum, content sharing, progress control, and live web classes. The Library allows teachers to store and share content in multiple formats: documents, videos, audio, and images. Teachers can upload their content to their Library and add that from popular generic content-sharing websites such as Slideshare, Scribd, Vimeo, and YouTube. The Virtual Classroom application allows holding live classes, webinars, and meetings via a web conferencing system over the Internet. Features include multiple video and audio sharing, desktop sharing, presentations with an integrated whiteboard, and public and private chat. Social applications include a private personal profile, a contact network, online groups, an event organizer, discussion forums, walls, feeds, the ability to follow Online Campuses, a messaging system, and Facebook Connect. Sclipo also provides a social network of Online Campuses with central search and browse capabilities, called Campus, enabling teachers and students from different Online Campuses to connect and share. Administration applications include tools to customize the look & feel, name, and URL of the Online Campus, to set privacy levels of activities and content, to set admission policies, to invite and administer students and teachers. Promotion and eCommerce applications include Campus Classifieds on which new courses, content, and live sessions can be announced, as well as features to promote courses and content on social media, features to define prices and forms of payment, and a gateway to collect fees for courses and other educational services by credit card.

Awards Nominated for TheEuropas, Best Learning Startup 2010 by Techcrunch Winner, White Bull Award 2010 Finalist, Plugg Start-Ups Rally 2010 Winner, Red Herring Global 100, 2008 First Prize, European Startup 2.0 Awards, 2007

See also E-learning Learning management system Course management system Virtual learning environment Virtual campus Web application

References

External links Sclipo website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sclipo

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sclipo claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sclipo before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sclipo ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sclipo

In research: Sclipo appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sclipo in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sclipo is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American educational websites, Educational software, Learning management systems, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sclipo outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sclipo in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Sclipo means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Sclipo out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sclipo in simple terms?

Why does Sclipo matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Sclipo?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Sclipo.