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In a move that could shake the e-learning industry, Pearson today unveiled a new learning management system that colleges will be able to use for free, without having to pay any of the licensing or maintenance costs normally associated with the technology. Pearson's new platform, called OpenClass, is only in beta phase.  By providing complimentary customer support and cloud-based hosting, OpenClass purports to underprice even the nominally free open-source platforms that recently have been gaining ground in the LMS market. "I think that the announcement really marks another, and important, nail in the coffin of the proprietary last-generation learning management system," says Lev Gonick, CIO of Case Western Reserve University.

" When integrated with Matterhorn, BigBlueButton can record video, desktop, and audio and send the files to Matterhorn for processing and playback."

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

The code for the reborn Edcast

Project site for open source webconferencing system. One to watch.

Latex editor for Google Docs. Not sure how useful it will be at the mo'

Where Flexible Learning have gone - running Mahara for tertiary.

The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors.

Widget creator - free from Sun.

New ning like site. Open source so allows customisation, own hosting, own domain, no ads and allows embeds of a lot of things.

Some good tips on making more of Google calendar.