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A blog outlining the top 10 free online project management software, because we can't all buy MS Project. This blog provides a brief overview of each software as well as links to the full site.

I'ts great to have all of these in one place. It allows you to compare them together. Two I have looked at for use in Education are ZOHO and Huddle.

Great add Brook! I came across this article when I was searching for a PM tool for our office. I've tried Basecamp before and I like how intuitive it is. Have you tried any of the other ones?

online learning management and student portfolio system

online project management software; provides support for academic leaders managing and co-ordinating large and complex academic projects.

Breaks classroom project management into step as well as files for initiating, managing, tracking and controlling projects.

This is a resource for students which describe different topics in project management. The resource discusses different methodologies and covers many areas of within PM to include scope management, cost management, communications management, etc.

This article illustrates how successful eLearning project management is directly tied to University culture and processes. I found the "Tactics and Technique" section particularly enlightening. -Duncan McBogg Abstract: Iain Doherty VOL. 24, No. 1, 91 - 106 We outline the project management tactics that we developed in praxis in order to manage elearning projects and show how our tactics were enhanced through implementing project management techniques from a formal project management methodology. Two key factors have contributed to our project management success.

I thought this site might be helpful for anyone looking to add a quiz to their Wiki page. MyQuizCreator offers free quizzes for you to create for your website, wiki, blog, and more! This is a very basic quiz creation tool (multiple choice/true false only) but it's free and you can send it to your learners via link or embed it in your wiki or other webpage. Here is a sample quiz I created: http://myquizcreator.com/take/6917 For better navigation (having the results pop up in a separate window when the user hits "submit"), add target="_blank" to the second line of html. For example: Before: After:

Join Rick Zanotti and Coline T Son Lee, two well known eLearning and media professionals, as they host top influencers, shakers and movers in the eLearning and Training industry. Topics can range from eLearning, multimedia development, project management and more to social media. These shows are recorded during a LIVE stream on http://www.justin.tv/relatecorp.

This is a great resource in estimating the cost of eLearning in Higher Ed.

Pivotal Tracker is an award-winning, simple, effective, agile project management tool that allows your team to collaborate around a shared backlog of stories in real time.

Good tips on how to problem-solve as a project manager. These seem to be geared more towards corporate settings, but could be adapted for educational settings as well. - Sara Lohndorf

This site is a nice collection of tools (and descriptions) that, although not specific to Project Management, can be helpful when creating certain products (e.g., learning modules). It was shared by our project SME.

E-Learning projects are different than traditional learning projects

This will help to gain an understanding of educational wiki's and how to use wiki

This website looks like a great resource for project managers by offering some very unique courses in this profession.

This is a specialized site in project management practice that provides a central site tool, references, news, projects, training offers and many other resources to help people interested in joining a PM community online. Their mission description is to help project managers be successful mainly by providing connections, information, technology resources, and advice. I found this page very helpful in this area and with a good collaborative and iterative structure.

Harvard Business "Working Knowledge" archive article that I found very helpful, regarding the need for clarity when starting projects

In the article it mentions the concept of "Work Backwards." In education, when planning, it is called "Backwards Design," beginning your plan at where you want to end up, which is usually the the state standard of learning.

Build the community: I couldn't agree more that the initial relationship building in a project is key component for success later.

Connect with others and ask questions about topics such as scheduling, estimating costs, planning, etc.