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"Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic."

Hosted online course builder. Charges based on enrolled students. Support for multimedia and social communication. Stylish interface. Free to build course and try out. I like the path maker metaphor for teacher.

New web-based course development with drag to the page interactive widgets. Free in beta. Fresh approach from a start-up.

"Google launched an open source course building web application for the growing list of K-12 and big-name universities developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring course material online, track student engagement (with web traffic and surveys), and evaluate performance. "We want to use this launch to show that Google believes it can contribute to technology in education," says Google's Director of Research, Peter Norvig."

Assemble and share curriculum materials. Create courses. New visual layout. Search for open source course modules.

New site promises "create your online classroom, for free" but site doesn't describe features well. Anyone else use it?

OpenClass is a dynamic, scalable, fully cloud-based learning environment that stimulates social learning and enables the distribution of content at massive scale to students wherever they are.

Review of Xerte basics.