The education community has been among the most enthusiastic to embrace the open source software movement, so its no surprise there are so many resources available for educators.
If you know of any we've missed, please add them to the comment section for the rest of the BlendedEdu community to use!
Oregon State University >> Open Source Lab: "The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University exists to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community that develops and uses it.
Université Catholique de Louvain >> Caroline: "Developed from teachers to teachers, Claroline is build over sound pedagogical principles allowing a large variety of pedagogical setup including widening of traditional classroom and online collaborative learning."
Tufts University >> Open CourseWare: "Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT where course content is accessible for free to everyone online.
Tufts' initial offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary approach, an international perspective and an underlying ethic of service to our local, national and international communities."
Budapest Open Access Initiative: "For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature... many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact."
Open Content Alliance: "The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo! "
Moodle: "Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities."
Plone: "Plone is a user-friendly powerful content management system - ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities."
Boddington: "Bodington is a free open source Virtual Learning Environment/Learning Management System in use at Universities and Colleges worldwide.
The Bodington project exists to provide an open source environment to support learning, teaching and research. It is particularly suitable for complex, multi-disciplinary and large organisations and for inter-institutional collaboration. It delivers controlled access using open standards.
Technorati Tags: open+source education social+technology open+source+courseware education+technology open+content open+source+education LMS CMS
No comments:
Post a Comment