e-Learning



:: e-Learning Applications ::

  • EduSpaces (formerly Elgg, “Personal Learning Landscape”)
    » http://eduspaces.net
  • Sloodle
    Second Life + Moodle = Sloodle (so this one belongs in both the e-Learning and the Multi-User 3D categories). “Sloodle is a project to integrate the VLE platform Moodle with 3D immersive settings such as Second Life. Imagine a Moodle course that, if you wanted, could turn into a proper 3D interactive classroom with all your Moodle resources available to your students in the virtual world. A growing community is using Sloodle.com to work toward making this happen. As is the ethos of Moodle, the code will be open source and so we encourage all users, no matter how IT-savvy to get involved and make this a reality. Its benefits to the global education community could be huge.”
    » http://www.sloodle.com
  • Teachers Help Desk
  • Nuvvo
    The home page blurb pretty much says it all: “Nuvvo is your way to teach on the web. Everyone knows a little bit about something, and this free, AJAX-enhanced eLearning web service is designed to bring out the teacher in all of us. Sign up and build a course in minutes; advertise your course on our eLearning Market to get the word out. Get teaching with Nuvvo, Web 2.0’s answer to eLearning.”
  • TeacherTube
    This one belongs in both the e-learning and the video categories: this is a sort of YouTube specifically for education. “Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.”
    » http://www.teachertube.com

:: e-Learning blogs, reviews, commentaries, etc ::

Readings

Stephen Downes, ‘E-learning 2.0‘, eLearn Magazine, 2006.

Steve O’Hear, ‘e-learning 2.0 – how Web technologies are shaping education‘, Read/WriteWeb. 8th August 2006.