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Open University (OU)
http://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 ...
American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)
http://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 ...
Kaplan Open Learning
http://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 ...
University of London External System
The University of London is one of the world’s leading academic institutions, internationally recognised as a centre of excellence.
Our alumni and academics shape the world that they inhabit. They include over 57 Nobel Prize winners and over 35 past or present Heads of State.
The University comprises 19 world-class Colleges, many with famous names, and a number of acclaimed Institutes.
The University of London External System is the oldest distance learning programme in the world – our degrees have been accessible to students worldwide since 1858. Today, we have ...
Xerte
The Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials.
Xerte is a fully-featured e-learning development environment for creating rich interactivity. Xerte is aimed at developers of interactive content who will create sophisticated content with some scripting, and Xerte can be used to extend the capabilities of Xerte Online Toolkits with new tools for content authors.
Xerte Online Toolkits is a server-based suite of tools for content authors. Elearning materials can be authored quickly and easily us ...
Western Governors University (WGU)
http://www.wgu.edu/
Our Mission
The principal mission of Western Governors University is to improve quality and expand access to post-secondary educational opportunities by providing a means for individuals to learn independent of time and place and to earn competency-based degrees and other credentials that are credible to both academic institutions and employers.
An Online University for the 21st Century
Western Governors University is an online university driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs. WGU has flourished into a natio ...
Quick Tour
http://www.solarnet.tv
Quick Tour is a free project of the Literature Course on Schiller Hight School in Münster.
The most common words, sentences and phrases for everybody who would like to visit Germany, Holland, China, Russia, Spain or Turkey and start to learn the language or just to get to know its basics a little bit.
At this moment please follow the videos:
The Best of German
The Best of Russian
The Best of Spanish
The Best of Turkish
The Best of German 2
The Best of Dutch
The Best of Chinese
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Skype
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. The network is operated by Skype Limited, which has its headquarters in Luxembourg and is partly owned by eBay.
Unlike other VoIP services, the Skype company does not run servers, but makes u ...
ATutor
https://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 ...
Deutsche Welle German Courses
http://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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ILIAS
http://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 ...
Moodle
http://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 ...
Ashford University
http://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 ...
Blackboard
http://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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Sakai
http://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 ...
OLAT
http://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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SCORM
http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx
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.
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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 ...
Chamilo
http://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
http://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 ...
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.
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