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ELMS stands for e-Learning Management System. ELMS is a completely open source project built on top of the Drupal Content Management System. Drupal is one of the largest open source communities in existence today and gives developers access to thousands of community contributed and supported modules and themes.

While I was already familiar with a number of OER websites, I was surprised to learn of a few that were new to me. I have shared the complete list below.

An open-ended student response system is an electronic service or application that lets students enter text responses during a lecture or class discussion. Open-ended systems give faculty the option of collecting such free-form contributions from students, in addition to asking the true/false or multiple-choice questions that conventional clicker systems allow. Such tools open a channel for the kind of individual, creative student responses that can alter the character of learning. The great strength of open-ended student response systems may be that they create another avenue for discussion, allowing students to join a virtual conversation at those times when speaking out in live discourse might seem inappropriate, intimidating, or difficult.

After extensive student interviews throughout the Fall 2010 semester, "The bottom line feeling was that the Amazon Kindle DX was not adequate for use in a higher education curricular setting," Chief Technology Officer Martin Ringle tells Fast Company. "The bottom line for the iPad was exactly the opposite."

The silver-medal feature, with only a few strikes against its score, was the highlighting and annotation of text.

With the exception of scanned PDF files, the students found "highlighting was easier on th