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Open Source eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

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. In addition, she indicates if they are free or cost money – which is not quite the same thing as open source.

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Drupal in Education and e-Learning

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

However, for many it still remains too open and flexible and complex to be viable for the average web user or beginning developer. Moodle is already such a fabulous open source system for education that I'm excited to see Drupal compares. Here is more information from the Drupal.org web site.Â

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LMS Automation: 8 time-consuming tasks to automate and scale your LMS (or risk catastrophic failure!)

Plume

If both your marketing website and LMS is open-sourced or has a robust API, your developers should be able to create the custom integration required to automate the enrolment of learners. Assuming that your LMS is open-sourced, a good developer or agency will be able to code in the logic that takes care of this for you.

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The Truth about DIY and Building a WordPress Website from Scratch

The Be-all and End-all Guide to Creating a Supreme LearnDash LMS

And hopefully, help you make an informed decision about how to develop your WordPress website. Both Joomla and Drupal are developer-centric and require a thorough knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP. WordPress is an open-source CMS. With this article, we want to give you an honest, inside look into the whole process. via Reddit.

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Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

Drupal is an open source CMS that’s been used for social media, and Elgg similarly started as an open source portfolio tool but has expanded. Yet, for a learning group, Mzinga’s integration of formal and informal learning is also plausible.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Open Architecture. APIs are open source code, so that developers (inc. Google code is open source code, so you can manipulate. Moodle and Drupal. Drupal has a significant quantity of APIs, including shopping carts. your IS/IT people) can make modifications or changes in the code to suit your needs.

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Moodle Course Conversion

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Moodle is an open source course management system with a wide following. The Open University in the UK uses it to support 200,000 distance learners. My friends at CV&A in Spain have implemented Moodle to support informal learning in numerous corporations.

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