Lieven Cardoen

I’ve been working almost 5 years now on educational software in two companies (first Indie Group, now Televic-Education). We mainly created CD-ROMS (that were enclosed with schoolbooks) and online solutions. All those applications were not built from scratch, instead we created a framework that could read in all exercises and hierarchy of the exercises. Those exercises were created in a back end were you could assemble them in folders and export them in a format for our framework (xml) or other formats like SCORM.

I haven’t got any videos yet on those CD-ROMS, but you can see two of our online solutions in action. The first is Edumatic, the first application that was created and which has some 20 exercise types (multiple choice, fill in, cross word, dragndrop, translate, …). It can be used online or exported to be used in CD-ROMS. On the site of edumatic, you can try out an online example of a multiple set of exercises (for each exercise type there are a lot of exercises). Our senior product manager (;-) Piet Santy) also shows an example each day created with Edumatic which you can follow on Twitter –> link. Please follow and try out his examples! Some of his past examples are shown here and here and here and here(demo). Edumatic back end is created in ASP.NET, the front end in Flash (AS2). Together with Christophe Herreman we created the framework for it, but a lot of other persons contributed to the framework, back end and exercise types like Kristof Neirynck(current technical lead), Bert Vandamme, Piet Santy, Sofie Deparcq and others.

Our other product, which is newer than Edumatic, is called Edumatic Exam. It is now used by three customers and has a lot of potential. It’s more an assessment application than an exercise application and has currently some 15 exercise types. We are striving to support all exercise types from Edumatic, but that’ll take some more time (we’re nearly there). Client side is created in Flex, back end with .NET. This application is used by our government to test the knowledge of applicants. Daily there are multiple sessions with hundreds of candidates. We haven’t got a demo online yet, but if you subscribe yourself at Selor, you can practice some of the language assessments with our application (you need to go to Mijn Selor, subscribe and then choose Taaloefenpakket… all in Dutch or French…) Try it out! The product is also online, but currently you can not register for it. That’ll be something for the future. Currently working most on Edumatic Exam are Bert Vandamme, Sem Dendoncker, Wouter Vanden Berghe and me.

Cheers and practice!