Category Archives: LMS

Pearson Offers Free Learning Management System with OpenClass

Pearson just announce they will be offering a completely free easy-to-use Learning Management System called OpenClass. According to the press release “OpenClass is a new kind of learning management system (LMS) delivered from the Cloud. It is easy to use … Continue reading

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Blackboard on the iPhone!

Recently, at the ConnectED summit, someone at Northwest College of Agriculture captured a demonstration of the upcoming Blackboard application for iPhone and iPod touch. The Blackboard rep explains the application will allow you to connect to your schools Blackboard server … Continue reading

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Blackboard Quiz Generator

This from the College of Southern Idaho… This tool was developed to help you create quizzes for Blackboard. It allows you to type up the quiz offline in a program like Word or Notepad and not have to go through … Continue reading Continue reading

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Professor Proposes Taking Open Education Beyond Posting Course Materials

By Jeffrey R. Young These days many professors make their lecture materials and even recordings of their class sessions free online for anyone beyond the campus to learn from. But a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas hopes … Continue reading Continue reading

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Gas Prices Drive Students to Online Courses

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG For Christy LaBadie, a sophomore at Northampton Community College, the 30-minute drive from her home to the Bethlehem, Pa., campus has become a financial hardship now that gasoline prices have soared to more than $4 a … Continue reading Continue reading

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MIT Open CourseWare

MIT is expanding its open course project to place its entire curriculum online. More than 100 universities are participating in the Open CourseWare movement that MIT spawned in 2002. [From March 13, 2007 03:53 PM; http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000568&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News]

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