The article argues that it is necessary to move e-learning beyond learning management systems and engage students in an active use of the web as a resource for their self-governed, problem-based and collaborative activities. The purpose of the article is
EctoLearning is a social, collaborative, online learning environment that directly addresses the needs of the modern learning environment by making the new communication skills and competencies for content creation and sharing central to the classroom experience.
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free Open Source software package designed to help educators create effective online courses based on sound pedagogical principles. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 200,000-student University. Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 50,000 installations worldwide speaking 75 languages in 200 countries.
We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” That is, while universities have posted their syllabi, handouts, and quizzes online, there has not been — until recently — much “Web 2.0″ OCW resources — little opportunity for interaction and engagement with the material.
But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. You probably already know about: Khan Academy and Wikipedia, for example. But in the spirit of 10 years of OCW, here’s a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know:
למידה בכל מקום היא תופעה טכנולוגיה משופרת למידה אשר מתייחסת ליכולת של הלומד להשתמש בספקטרום רחב של כלי טכנולוגיית מידע על מנת ללמוד - בכל מקום, בכל זמן ובכל מקום ע"פ החלטתו ורצונו.
למידה בכל מקום יכולה להתאפשר במגוון טכנולוגיות כגון: iPad, מחשבים ניידים, קוראים אלקטרוניים, מכשירי סלולר וכו'.
אתר המציג את המושג למידה מרחוק מפירוש של כאשר מורה ותלמיד מופרדים בזמן ו/או מרוחקים פיזית. סקירת מגוון הטכנוגיות העומדות ונותנות לגשר על הפרדה זו, היבטים שונים על למידה מרחוק.
AnywhereEducation is a Mobile LMS (Learning Management System) providing Interactive Education for employees or students on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch devices. for Educators, Corporate Environments, and Specialty Information Publishers
M. Kalz. Open Source for Education in Europe. Research & Practice (= Proceedings of the Open Source for Education in Europe Conference), page 163-168. Heerlen, Open University of the Netherlands, (2005)