May 5th, 2008 by Jorge Goncalves
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 is [...]
October 15th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
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 further [...]
November 28th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
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 a learning [...]
November 2nd, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
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. [...]
August 14th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
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 [...]
