A wide variety
of courseware is available that enables you to add material and create
courses.They offer discussion groups, forums, project management tools,
calendars, e-mail, course frameworks, complete courses, student profiles,
quiz templates, references, . . . . . BUT these products are expensive
. . .except for Blackboard which the Correspondence School has a licence
for.
Some
of the Main Contenders
blackboard.com
is a free service that enables instructors to add an online component
to their classes, or even host an entire course on the Web. Without
knowing any HTML, one can quickly create one's own CourseSite. This
is a web site that brings learning materials, class discussions, and
even tests online.
Web CT is one of
the better products with plenty of pre-created courses schools acn purchase.
Their aim is to:
- to provide
access to scholarly resources;
- to prepare
students for the lecture and lab experience;
- to provide
access to data on student’s time;
- to promote
self directed learning;
- to facilitate
communication with your students;
- to enable
active engagement with the course content, or
- to create
opportunities for students to be knowledge builders
p2pAcademia provides
a secure centralized web-based environment to store, share and manage
student and class information. p2pAcademia
facilitates flexible learning and communication among teachers and learners.
Staff and students may also use the p2pAcademia socially for campus
clubs and associations. A NZ based product.
LearningSpace is
an open, best-of-breed, Web-based e-learning solution. Whether you want
to train one group or your entire enterprise, LearningSpace is the answer.
It's a complete learning management and delivery system that lets you
seamlessly integrate your course content, whether you create it yourself
or purchase it from leading providers. LearningSpace is part of IBM
Mindspan Solutions — an innovative family of services and technologies
designed to help you make e-learning part of your organization.
Web Crossing provides
a family of business solutions to help people communicate and work more
effectively. Web Crossing has thousands of customers serving millions
of pages per day, including top sites such as Adobe, Apple, NY Times,
and many more. All our products include our award-winning community
and interactive features and are implemented in Web Crossing's high-performance,
scaleable, customizable, standards-based server platform. Use our products
to be more productive, at lower cost.
