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American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)
www.adec.edu
What is ADEC?
ADEC is a non-profit distance education consortium composed of approximately 65 state universities and land-grant colleges. The consortium was conceived and developed to promote the creation and provision of high quality, economical distance education programs and services to diverse audiences, by the land grant community of colleges and universities, through the most appropriate information technologies available.
ADEC Mission and Guiding Principles
The driving vision behind the organization is the extens ...
Ashford University
www.ashford.edu
The mission of Ashford University® is to provide accessible, affordable, innovative, high-quality learning opportunities and degree programs that meet the diverse needs of individuals pursuing integrity in their lives, professions, and communities.
Purposes:
To foster a vigorous, diverse learning environment shaped by contemporary awareness, intellectual inquiry, and a shared search for truth in which students gain knowledge and build skills and values useful in their personal and career development.
To cultivate student-centered learning at all levels, supported by technological resource ...
ATutor
atutor.ca
ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Management System designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily retrieve and import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment.
ATutor has also adopted the IMS/SCORM Content Packaging specifications, allowing content de ...
Blackboard
www.blackboard.com
Blackboard is a Web-based server software platform. Features include course management, a customizable open architecture, and a scalable design that allows for integration with student information systems and authentication protocols. It may be installed on local servers or hosted by Blackboard ASP Solutions. Its main purposes are to add online elements to courses traditionally delivered face-to-face and to develop completely online courses with few or no face-to-face meetings.
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Chamilo
www.chamilo.org
Chamilo is an open-source learning management system (LMS), aimed at improving access to education and knowledge globally. It is backed up by the Chamilo Association, which has goals including the promotion of the software, the maintenance of a clear communication channel and the building of a network of services providers and software contributors.
Chamilo is currently used by more than 250,000 students around the world, and its reputation so far is really good. Governments, private companies, public and private universities, NGO and other types of organizations use the Chamilo software suit ...
Claroline
www.claroline.net
Claroline is a collaborative eLearning and eWorking platform (Learning Management System, LMS) released under the GPL Open Source license. It allows hundreds of organizations worldwide ranging from universities to schools and from companies to associations to create and administer courses and collaboration spaces over the web. The platform is used in more than 80 countries and is available in more than 30 languages.
Claroline was initiated in 2001 by the UCL (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) and has been developed following teachers' pedagogical experience and needs. The project was f ...
Deutsche Welle German Courses
www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2547,00.html
Whether you're a beginner, can already speak German, or just need some business vocabulary, Deutsche Welle's individualized German language courses can help you to improve your skills. Our multimedia offer including audios, videos and texts cover all aspects of language learning from listening comprehension to speaking and pronunciation. Give it a try!
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DoceboLMS
www.docebo.org
DoceboLMS is an open-source software package for e-learning. The program, which is released under a GPL license, has no licensing costs.
Today, thanks to its “multi-model didactic” approach, the program is one of the most used and appreciated open-source platforms at an international level; the possibility of personalising the didactic model to the client's needs makes DoceboLMS a sophisticated and flexible but, most of all, simple platform that can be configured for different environments that use different didactic models: large companies in the sectors of finance and insurance, health, gov ...
Dokeos
www.dokeos.com
Dokeos is a company dedicated to open source Learning Management Systems. Its main product is a SCORM-compliant open source learning suite used by multinational companies, federal administrations and universities.
Dokeos operates on a professional open-source business model based on open code, community development, professional consulting, quality-assurance services, and subscription-based customer support.
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IDroo for Skype
www.idroo.com
IDroo for Skype - online educational multiuser whiteboard. IDroo is free for home and personal use.
Features:
- Collaborative meetings with many participants (10 or even more)- Insert simple and complex mathematical equations- Draw and write your ideas- Express your mind through images- Take advantage of high quality calls over Skype- All drawings are easily editable vector graphics- Works with Wacom Bamboo, Wacom Intuos and other digital tablets
Getting started:
Launch IDroo. If you don't have IDroo, get it from here. Otherwise, start it up from the Desktop or Start menu. Also m ...
ILIAS
www.ilias.de
ILIAS (Integrated Learning, Information and Work Cooperation System) is an open source web-based learning management system (LMS). It supports learning content management (including SCORM 2004 compliance) and tools for collaboration, communication, evaluation and assessment. The software is published under the GNU General Public License and can be run on any server that supports PHP and MySQL.
The first prototype of ILIAS LMS has been developed since end of 1997 within the VIRTUS project at University of Cologne. On November 2, 1998 version 1 of the learning management system ILIAS was publis ...
iSpring
free.ispringsolutions.com
iSpring Free. Free PowerPoint® to Flash® Converter. iSpring Free lets you easily create web-ready Flash presentationspreserving every aspect of your original PowerPoint content.
iSpring Free PowerPoint to Flash converter promptly creates web-friendly Flash (.SWF) presentations from your PowerPoint content (.PPT, .PPS, .PPTX, .PPSX) keeping its visual parameters, animation effects and slide transitions, audio narrations, video and Flash objects after conversion.
iSpring Free works within PowerPoint, transforming it into a fast and easy Flash authoring tool. It is compatible with any PowerPoin ...
Kaplan Open Learning
www.kaplanopenlearning.org.uk
Kaplan Open Learning is part of Kaplan, Inc. a leading international provider of education and career services and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). Kaplan, Inc., has 31,000 employees in 600 locations worldwide. We reach over one million students around the globe.
Kaplan Open Learning is our specialist UK online higher education division. Kaplan Open Learning (Essex) Limited ("KOL") has been established as an affiliate college of the University of Essex. The College provides university level education, offering programmes of study for students who wish to obtain a unive ...
Manhattan School of Music
The visibility of Manhattan School of Music’s Distance Learning Program has been continually raised through the combination of past and present national and international partnerships and the media coverage that has ensued. Since the inception of the distance learning program, the School has received widespread recognition for the key role it has played throughout the progression of distance learning technology applications for music performance and education.
Moodle
moodle.org
Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.
Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details ...
OLAT
www.olat.org
OLAT is the acronym for Online Learning And Training. It is a web application – a so called Learning Management System that supports any kind of online learning, teaching, and tutoring with few didactic restrictions. OLAT is free software–open source, and has been developed since 1999 at the University of Zürich.
With version 3.0 the system has been completely rebuilt and is now available as a component-oriented application developed in the Java programming language. OLAT has support for various E-learning standards such as IMS and SCORM.
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Open Elms
www.openelms.org
Open Elms is a collaborative project designed to create an open-source Learning Management System for use in businesses and training organizations. The core system was the end-product of a series of e-learning development projects for our corporate clients. Clients were asking for a system which was comprehensive and yet fundamentally easy to use - Open elms is the result.
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Open University (OU)
www.open.ac.uk
The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning.
Visit the New to the OU website to read how with most courses there are no previous qualifications required to study, you have to be aged 16 or over when your course starts but there is no upper age limit.
We have around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students. 10,000 of our students have disabilities.
The Open University's style of teaching is called supported open learning.
Nearly all students are studying part-time. About 70 per cent of undergraduate students are in ...
Sakai
sakaiproject.org
Sakai is a community of academic institutions, commercial organizations and individuals who work together to develop a common Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE). The Sakai CLE is a free, community source, educational software platform distributed under the Educational Community License (a type of open source license). The Sakai CLE is used for teaching, research and collaboration.
Sakai is a Java-based, service-oriented application suite that is designed to be scalable, reliable, interoperable and extensible. Version 1.0 was released in March 2005.
Software features:
The Sakai sof ...
SCORM
www.adlnet.gov/capabilities/scorm
Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. It defines communications between client side content and a host system called the run-time environment, which is commonly supported by a learning management system.
About
SCORM is a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, which comes out of the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense. A testing initiative was started in 1996. In December 2003, the US Department of Defense mandated that all its e-learning purchases must comply with SC ...
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