Infinity Learning Uses Amazon Web Services, Takes Moodle to the Cloud
“The Best Things In Life Are Free.”
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP, all at no cost.
Edusim Puts “Interactive” Into Interactive Whiteboards
Edusim is a free Open Source 3D virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard (IWB). Edusim is a powerful way to engage your students by bringing a 3D virtual environment that allows direct tactile manipulation of the 3D virtual learning objects directly from the whiteboard’s surface.
Create a Collaborative Syllabus With Moodle
A “collaborative syllabus” is one in which the students have the ability to help determine the specifics of a course. Those specifics can be any element that a professor is willing to be flexible with (such items as the objectives, grading, attendance policies, types of assignments, and so on). The logic behind this tool is that by actively participating in the creation of the syllabus, students are able to signal what they want to learn and how they want to learn it and then (potentially) set the standard by which they will be accountable.
EU May Begin Using More Open Source Software
The European Commission will propose in the next few days to buy more of its computer software from open-source developers, a commission spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Open CourseWare Consortium
OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Use Open Source to Build Learning Communities
Online learning communities can effectively connect students to their classmates, their instructors and their courses. Blackboard, WebCT and other commercial course management systems are resource-intensive and require large annual budgets, full-time maintenance and institutional support. Open Source software offers low-cost alternatives for instructors and/or institutions looking to add online modalities to their courses and/or programs.
Emerging Technology in Higher Education
- Grassroots Video
- Collaboration Webs
- Mobile Broadband
- Data Mashups
- Collective Intelligence
- Social Operating Systems
Sloodle-Virtual Learning in 3D
Sloodle is an Open Source project which aims to develop and share useful, usable, desireable tools for supporting education in virtual worlds, making teaching easier. Through engagement with an active community of developers and users, the Sloodle project hopes to develop sound pedagogies for teaching across web-based and 3D virtual learning environments. Sloodle integrates the Second Life multi-user virtual environment and the Moodle learning-management system.
Online Applications For the Innovative Teacher
Teachers for all levels of students today have so many more teaching aids than even just a few years ago. That’s not just because of greater access to the Internet but also because of the growing number of web applications that they can use. Some applications are specifically geared towards teaching and learning. Other applications can be adapted for these purposes. Here’s a list of some online applications, listed alphabetically, that we feel are excellent for teachers.