Group items tagged

The HotChalk LMS also includes a content library and article / news service. Plus, it's free!

CourseSites is a free online LMS that allow for teachers to embed multimedia and all other sorts of documents to their courses in order to create rich learning experiences for their students

Wikispaces claims it "…makes managing your class a breeze, with tools to handle day-to-day work and features to tackle the special activities you've only dreamed of." It allows a presenter a venue for organizing, navigating through, and presenting multimedia in a learning management system (LMS) type environment. It is engaging and pace oriented while also being accessible and editable to anyone the creator allows to enlist. Wikispaces creates a presentation forum for learners to build knowledge at their own pace. It is free to users in education.

Haiku offers an easy to use LMS for delivery and tracking of scores for feedback, etc.

This is the environment where learners will record a demonstration of best instruction practices. This interactive environment allows users to interact in a virtual space. Presentations, lectures, Q and A, interactive polling, and other features take the classroom online. This is the current tool used at my institution. It's relatively inexpensive and integrates perfectly with our LMS, Blackboard. Blackboard purchased Wimba and their largest competitor, Elluminate, so they are working on Gemini as a new product to replace these products.

Blackboard 9+ offers collaborative tools within their learning environment. These tutorials offer a great learning tool for the presentation.

LMS have taken collaboration and made it easy. Rather than accessing numerous external sites, they've included blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking, such as diigo.

Web Teacher Tools provides free Moodle LMS accounts. For users of moodle, this is a good place to host pre training modules. It is a vanilla instance of moodle, but it is very straight-forward for experienced Moodle users.