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Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning

eFront

eFront News from the e-learning frontier 10/17/2010 Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning As an e-Learning consultant I always was fun of open source software. In this post I am not going to talk about open source learning management systems such as eFront [1] but rather dedicated open source "authoring tools".

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Elearning applications

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News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/02/2011 Top 10 Open Source e-Learning Projects to Watch for 2011 2011 is the e-Learning year! Top 10 open source e-Learning projects to watch for 2011 View more presentations from Christopher Pappas.

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10 tips for using eFront

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3) [professor] Use the open-source version to create locally lessons and then just upload them to you distant server. Instead, try to paste on notepad and then transfer them to the html view of the internal editor (it gives you much more control on your content) 7) [professor] Build a pool of questions first. It is much faster!

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 2 (M-Z)

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The SCORM package itself is a zip file that contains all of the media contents a course is made from, including things like SCOs, HTML and Flash files. Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment): Open source learning platform mostly implemented in education settings.

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SCORM 101: The Definitive Guide to Choose a SCORM Compliant LMS

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SCORM was first developed by the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative – ADL, a research group sponsored by the US Department of Defense. Some are also free, freemium, or open-source, and you need to choose the one that best suits your needs. How do I convert HTML to SCORM? What is the Purpose of SCORM?

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

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HTML and Javascript. WYSIWYG/HTML/Javascript/maybe CSS options as well, perhaps even additional programming languages you can incorporate, a full package of capabilities inc. Open Source Free Content Authoring Tools. CourseLab – ADL SCORM certified, no less. Macromedia Authorware and similar products.

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The Ultimate Glossary of eLearning Terms

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ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning). CSS is a markup language that defines the design of an HTML web-page. In very basic terms, HTML structures a page, while CSS controls how it looks. Javascript is the programming language of HTML and the web. Open source learning platform mostly implemented in education settings.