Learning Management & Course Management Systems

What Are The Best Free Hosted Course Management Systems On The Internet?

February 13, 2011

“Round 1” in a look at the many free, richly featured CMS & LMS apps available in the cloud. What options exist for teachers who want to try using a Course Management System, but don’t have one available in their school? Fortunately, there are many free CMS/LMS tools available on the Internet. The heavy snows across the [...]

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Exploring the World of Free Teaching Productivity Resources on the Web

November 28, 2010

There are so many free productivity tools available on the Internet for today’s educators. I’m creating a resource page that list many of the most useful ones, and I’d love to have your input! By “productivity” tools and resources, I am referring to tools that can help teachers get their jobs done more efficiently or effectively, at no cost (beyond the [...]

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Moodle 2.0 versus Blackboard 9.1 – a Brief Comparison

November 7, 2010

Taking a look at some of the similarities and differences between the newest versions of these two popular LMS’s. Thanks to contributor Olivia Coleman (olivia.coleman33@gmail.com) for collaboratively developing this guest post. Moodle and Blackboard are both popular online learning platforms with which educators can develop complete online course that can include multimedia content. But how do the two [...]

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Lecture Tools – another free, hosted LMS tool

July 15, 2010

Deliberate Engagement of Computers in the Classroom I first read about Lecture Tools in this article from The Chronicle. This home brewed LMS tool from professor Perry Samson of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is available for free to instructors. While this application does not compare to the extensive functionality of full fledged LMS [...]

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The Schoology LMS provides a lot of functionality for free

July 7, 2010

This web based Learning Management System  looks like a unique value proposition. “Schoology is a free web-based learning management system (LMS) built on a social network. Schoology leverages the familiarity of popular social media tools to improve communication and collaboration.” Admittedly, that’s not necessarily an extremely unique proposition, since some other LMS apps have some social networking types [...]

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Learning About Moodle (Part 2 of 2)

May 9, 2010

Continuing my look at this popular open-source Learning Management System Last week I started learning about Moodle by browsing Moodle.org and Moodle.com and summarizing what I learned. This week I continue this effort to learn about the application, searching out and reading through many different web-based information sources, and passing on findings of interest. User Opinion There’s plenty of [...]

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Learning about Moodle – a leading open source LMS

May 2, 2010

I think it’s time I became more informed about this increasingly popular Learning Management System. I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about Moodle, a widely used free, open source, public domain courseware application, for the last year or two, but my interest in it has been limited because I am more experienced and comfortable with the traditional paid application model. My main concern [...]

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Learning about Lecture Capture Technology

February 21, 2010

The use of Lecture Capture is expanding in both Higher Ed and K-12. What kinds of tools and technologies are being used to capture and rebroadcast lecture content?   One of the main reasons that I blog is to learn - picking a technology from the expanding array of those being used in education today, researching it, and sharing my findings here. I’ve been [...]

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A brief look at WiZiQ.com

November 18, 2009

Just what is this online resource for educators and instructors all about? For this week’s mid week post, I’m taking a quick look at WiZiQ.com. This site has been recommended to me a number of times by blog readers and other educators I’ve communicated with over the last year. I like to keep my mid week [...]

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Etudes.org – a free, hosted Course Management System

October 21, 2009

Wow, a free, full featured Learning Management System! I recently learned about etudes.org, a non-profit organization that “offers centralized hosting, support, site and account management, training and professional development opportunities to institutions and organizations that need a turn-key, fully-managed course management solution” (per their web site). Their home page goes on to explain that they support [...]

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