A trade group that represents 16 educational media companies, objected to UCLA's practice of allowing students to stream copyrighted videos on their course websites. Since course websites are not classrooms, the group said, the "fair use" exemptions for educational use do not apply.

For IT directors at schools debating whether to use Sakai or Moodle as a course management solution, here is a side by side comparison. All signs point strongly towards Moodle kicking Sakai's butt and to the Mellon Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and Sakai Partners wasting $6.6M.

Moodle: 2,981 deployments / 54% market share Blackboard + WebCT: 2,500 deployments / 45% market share Sakai: 35 deployments / .63% market share

Links: # Why use Moodle? # Moodle Tutorials # Wikieducator tutorial/Getting started/Create Moodle-account # Moodle for Wikieducators # Free Moodle for Teachers (M4T) Online Workshops # Free Moodle Overview for potential Admins/enthusiasts and other free Moodle courses/resources for teachers

It is important that e-Learning professionals, researchers, experts, and learners have a common basis in order to communicate effectively. In other words, they need to "speak the same language".  Therefore, I have created the following list of e-learning glossaries.

VLC(VideoLAN Client), a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Webspiration®, is an online visual mind-mapping and collaboration tool. Brainstorm ideas, visualize concepts, organize information and collaborate with others anytime, anywhere. Work is always available, automatically saved, and stored online. Collaboration and peer review are easy. Everyone you invite creates, edits and comments on the same document. Whether working individually or with a group, Webspiration is the perfect tool for visual thinking, writing, studying and learning.

A visual map is a graphic tool used to create, manage, and exchange information and knowledge. It represents information and knowledge via the spatial organization of concepts/topics, ideas, words, or other items linked to and arranged in a radial pattern around a central concept.

With this incredibly easy method, you can turn any PPT presentation into a fully navigable hotspot interaction.

Simple to use and free, Google Chart Tools enable adding live charts to any web page. * A rich gallery of visualizations provided as: -Image charts - using a simple URL request to a Google chart server -Interactive charts - using a Google developed JavaScript library * Can read live data from a variety of data sources

Advice for preparing the big Thanksgiving mea turns out to be so advice that can easily be turned to planning and preparing the perfect e-learning.

Features links to great lectures

Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web.

Web 2.0 tools to increase productivity: Target audience: educators, students, nonprofits, social benefit organizations, NGOs.

Captivate is a tool for developing Flash-based elearning modules. It is best for software training. These interactive tutorials that give you an overview of the software. It says: "To complete these tutorials, you will need to install Adobe Captivate 4" --but don't worry most of them work fine without it.

Sakai is in use at over 200 universities, colleges and schools throughout the world. Below are several case studies that demonstrate the power of Sakai

mySakai is a free, hosted instance of the rSmart Sakai CLE where you can pilot Sakai tools in real-life situations and experience many of the benefits rSmart provides to its clients. As part of this experience, you can learn from and collaborate with other users and rSmart staff in an online community that makes full use of Sakai's cutting-edge collaboration tools.

"clickers," palm-size, wireless devices that look like a TV remote. They then use the numbered buttons on the devices to answer multiple-choice quizzes that count for nearly 20 percent of their grade, and that always begin precisely one minute into class. Later, with a click, they can signal to their teacher without raising a hand that they are confused by the day's lesson.

Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging Rubrics

free tutorials and resources on Moodle