.LRN is the world's most widely adopted enterprise-class open source software for supporting e-learning and digital communities.
Originally developed at MIT, .LRN is used worldwide by over half a million users in higher education, government, non-profit, and K-12.
On WiZiQ, teachers and learners can connect live anywhere in the world from home using our virtual classroom software. Inside the virtual classroom you share an interactive synchronized collaborative environment where you can communicate with each other on one-to-one basis using microphone, chat and share whiteboard (similar to blackboard in the classroom), presentation and documents.
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We have been working on developing documentation for MOODLE for learners and instructors. This documentation project is focused on delivering a number of tutorial videos which explain some of the key features of MOODLE. As new videos become available they will be linked here.
Can free software satisfactorily meet the needs of students, faculty, and instructional technologists for online teaching and learning?
Tech-heavy tutorials...Moodle is an Open Source learning management system (LMS). It is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database. Moodle is free to download and use. It is the most popular e-learning management software and is suitable for creating online courses, school, high school, college, and university web sites. You can check the Moodle full features list here
The complete web whiteboard. Just start skrbl, give out your URL and instantly share online. Use skrbl to collaborate with others or, keep it your own private web space. Write notes, sketch drawings, upload pictures, share files... Everyone sees the same screen,
Everybody stays on the same page.
Part#1 of our Community forum includes an overview of these two critical issues, presentation of a message sent by BlackBoard CEO, Michael Chasen, reaction from Desire2Learn Director of Marketing, John McLeod, and commentary from Michael Feldstein and Stephen Downes. More audio, including our break out discussions and a chat with Moodle founder, Martin Dougiamas, will be uploading soon.
It looks like an interesting way to manage your schedule, grades, Todos, files, notes, friends, etc. in the public/searchable domain. I may give it a shot b/c it has a sleek Ajaxian interface. It seems like an intelligent way to share notes among members of the same classes. Auto Wikipedia linking looks promising...
Dimdim is the Open Source web conferencing company. With Dimdim you can show Presentations, Applications and Desktops to any other person over the internet. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting.
Elgg is a new breed of learning environment based around choice, flexibility and openness: a Personal Learning Landscape that firmly places individuals at the centre of their learning.