Get a license to Webex, Elluminate or something similar (perhaps even a free web conferencing tool like DimDim) to provide the capability to run live online sessions. E-learning in the workplace used to be the preserve of the large corporate or public body. Only they were able to afford the necessarily substantial investments in learning platforms and content development and had the large audiences against which these investments could be amortised. And only these major employers had the specialist technical skills and large l&d departments needed to support these investments. MORE >>

Dimdim delivers synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing your voice and video over the Internet - with no download. With the Free edition you can get 10 person meetings, 1 way video, standard support, Dimdim branded rooms, and public meetings. note : Epignosis has created a module that provides integration of Dimdim conferencing in eFront Open Source Learning Management System. Hi Chrissi, The open source version of dimdim was nice but right now you can find much better open source tools. BigBluebutton * is built for Higher Education. MORE >>

Then again you could always integrate WiZiQ or DimDim if this is not already included in your system). Related Posts - Edu2.0 & LectureShare Can We Host and Facilitate Our Courses Online For Free? Are there any FREE Course/Learning Management Systems (C/LMS) out there that require no financial hardware, software and hosting investments? In other words, are the any free hosted C/LMS that we can explore and perhaps use? FREE HOSTED C/LMS? A Free web-based education site with a comprehensive set of features for teachers, students and parents. eLearning Community 2.0 IMAGINE! Widgets!). MORE >>

Learning Visions , June 26, 2009 Other Top Posts Around Open Source dimdim - World’s FREE Virtual Classroom (Open Source)! I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory. You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. Here’s some of what I pulled out. MORE >>

They were: CoolIris, DimDim, Evernote, Friendfeed, Posterous, Qik ScreenToaster, Seesmic, Sliderocket and WiZiQ.  . Evernote ranked 27 DimDim ranked 43= Posterous ranked 55= ScreenToaster ranked 71= FriendFeed ranked 86=. worth considering for 2010 - which again included DimDim, Posterous and Evernote. At the end of 2008 I produced a list of tools I thought would make it onto the 2009 Top 100 Tools list.   got 5/10! . In November 2009, I wrote an article f or e.learning age magazine - 10 Tools for (20)10 - in which I highlighted 10. Microsoft's search engine, Bing . MORE >>