LMS

Schoology: Combining Learning Management with Social Networking

August 29, 2010
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Schoology provides an enterprise level learning management system and configurable social network. Instructors and students can easily create, share, and manage academic material through a social networking interface. By incorporating learning management tools into a social environment, Schoology provides a means for teachers, students, parents, and administrators to seamlessly communicate and collaborate on academic issues. [...]

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Learning Content Development System (LCDS) from Microsoft

May 5, 2008

The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments—as well as Silverlight-based animations, demos, and other multimedia. Note that a free registration [...]

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OLAT (Online Learning And Training): Open Source LMS

October 15, 2007

OLAT (Online Learning And Training) is a web-based open-source Learning Management System (LMS) based on Java and completely free of charge. The development of OLAT started in 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where it is the strategic learning management system and deployed on the main OLAT server. The University of Zurich leads the [...]

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Course Development

November 28, 2006

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Course Development. ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Course Development is designed as a resource for individuals with varying levels of course design experience. Individuals new to higher education can use this site to help design their first classroom based course integrating technology where appropriate. Experienced instructors, being encouraged to place materials within [...]

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AVOIR and KEWL.NextGen

November 2, 2006

African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR). ‘The AVOIR project is an effort to unify software developers, educational specialists and others in Africa to build capacity to produce educational software while at the same time building software design, development, and support capacity in the higher education sector. AVOIR is a network of 13 nodes. The [...]

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Interact Learning Community Environment

August 14, 2006

Interact Learning Community Environment: Interact is an Online Learning and Collaboration platform developed by the Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand. It is an open source online community environment designed with the intention of making it easy for people to interact online, based around constructivist and vygotskian views of learning. The key advantage of Interact [...]

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