Connecting to others, is enabled by open source software. The open source community celebrated Software Freedom Day on 20 September. "Transparency In the past decade, free and open source software (FOSS) has become one of the major catalysts in increasing transparency by lowering the barrier to access the best software technologies. If you are interested, So this is not a blogpost on theory, but on practicalities of connectivism reality. Transparency is key in enabling people to participate in the creation of wealth and well-being in society.

I've recently become a fan of Open Source Living , a site that rounds up the best of the many and varied OS apps that are out there. Moodle is of course THE open source e-learning item of the moment*1. The Open University have spent a lot of money on it, which has in turn seen more people pick it up, it is getting an enormous established user base (for something in the educational sphere its remarkable apparently*2) and its adoption in I find it rather more useful day-to-day than the more far-ranging but rather bewildering SourceForge , probably because while that site seems more targeted at developers, OSLiving is a bit more selective - it seems to weed out the thousands of half finished, one-man-in-a-bedroom-every-second-Sunday-in-months-ending-with-'y' type apps that fill out any search on SourceForge. (Incidently,

If an eLearning course will be build with audiovisual aids, in most cases you will draw up or write a storyboard . The storyboard is useful to: make sure you cover all the learning objectives, test the continuity of the story/narrative you use to enlighten your learners keep the team of developers informed of their expected input and when their input is due. Celtx is a great storyboard software. It just upgraded to their 1.0

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In his remarks, Brent reinforced my own view about the viability of open source-based e-learning development; he said that I truly do believe that there are enough OpenSource tools out there that we can be creating completely opensource learning solutions/environments. Once people get past their initial fears and the stigma, the Open Source learning development community will grow exponentially. ...thanks I received an unexpected but nonetheless very welcome comment on yesterday's blog post from Brent Schlenker. thanks for keeping the Open Source movement alive in

I had previously written about Low Cost LMS and Rapid Learning Management Systems , but I receive an inquiry from someone who had a very constrained budget and wanted to build an eLearning Portal . Some details of what they want / need: The portal we need to develop should be able to handle online registration, producing letters of offer, payment gateway, producing letters of acceptance, producing student cards, downloading syllabi, downloading study guides, processing purchasing orders that trigger the distribution of the textbooks by the Publishers’ office to students, communication

For free. (I’m a recent convert, perhaps on the path to open source evangelism.) So what are some of the hurdles to overcome in the corporate market? Because it’s open source, there are no licensing costs. Moodle and other open source products have huge communities behind them. Richard Nantel of Brandon Hall recently posted about average LMS prices . A ‘low-cost’ LMS starts at an average of $58K.

A lot has been written on the ups and downs of open source software and movements and building on that philosophy, the topic of open source content in education (not umbiased I linked to 'old' - read March 2003 - comprehensive article on the topic by George Siemens and building on a discussion with Stephen Downes. believe in open content sharing) . I But fear for sharing keeps existing in the hearts of a lot of people.