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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

One of the areas that always gain interest and usage are open source systems, that is to say, free open source code (some are not), to which any organization, company, educational setting, government and so forth can build their own system (often noted as home-grown) and do what they wish with it. Not open source.

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Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars.

eFront

As a result, the following post is Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars) Tools for e-Learning. The following list contains free and open source Web Conferencing tools that are nt in particular order. BigBlueButton is built by combining over fourteen open source components.

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Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/16/2011 Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them.

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Top 10 Challenges of Managing an LMS

Wahoo Learning

Integration with in-house tools such as your Human Resources Information System (HRIS), server maintenance, technical support, and cybersecurity are all issues that need to be addressed by IT. Just ensuring an LMS hosted on a private server is running and accessible on a range of devices can be taxing.

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How to Offer Continuing Education Online using an LMS

Academy of Mine

Using an LMS, you can create training courses with different sections containing: videos, PowerPoints, PDFs, interactive assignments, and more. This is a training system that you will have to install on your own server and update manually (probably with forums, not a formal support team).

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Question: Tracking CBTs

Experiencing eLearning

 At present we are developing self-paced CBTS using PowerPoint, a PowerPoint-to-Flash converter, and HTML.  My client wants two things that I am stuck on: 1) good server software for posting CBTs and then having basic tracking of student usage.  The ideal vendor solution might be the Adobe Connect training module.

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Technology Skills for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

You can try Moodle for free (or even install it on your own server if you’re ambitious). Honestly, PowerPoint is a decent tool for simple image editing. I often use PowerPoint to remove backgrounds or make other quick changes. I use the open source tool Audacity for audio editing. Microsoft Office.