eLearning That Doesn't Break the Bank
How do you deal with information overload? I let someone else do it for me. I subscribe to Stephen Downes' weekly summary of OLDaily. Downes scours the web for everything that is of relevance to the world of eLearning, provides a summary, and links to it. What a valuable resource...almost every week I find something of value in Downes' summaries.
This past week was no exception. Downes put me on to a paper titled 50 Ideas for Free E-learning, written by Matthew Fox of Kineo, an eLearning consulting company based in the UK. This article really resonated with me because a constant objection one hears about eLearning is its cost. However, Fox points out clearly and succinctly the many creative ways that one can use free tools (or nearly free) to make eLearning affordable to those on tight budgets. I often tell people that eLearning does not have to mean expending a fortune on an installed Learning Management System.
In particular, Fox points to the following low cost options:
I will be exploring this further in a free webinar titled How to Make Intelligent Choices for Your eLearning, scheduled for Monday, January 23rd at 12:00 noon EST.
This past week was no exception. Downes put me on to a paper titled 50 Ideas for Free E-learning, written by Matthew Fox of Kineo, an eLearning consulting company based in the UK. This article really resonated with me because a constant objection one hears about eLearning is its cost. However, Fox points out clearly and succinctly the many creative ways that one can use free tools (or nearly free) to make eLearning affordable to those on tight budgets. I often tell people that eLearning does not have to mean expending a fortune on an installed Learning Management System.
In particular, Fox points to the following low cost options:
- Open source LMSs (e.g. Moodle)
- Open source authoring tools (e.g. ATutor)
- Presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint)
- Blogs (e.g. Blogger)
- Wikis (e.g. Seedwiki)
- Virtual classrooms (e.g. PowWowNow)
- RSS feeds
- Web phone (e.g. Skype)
- Instant messaging
- Screen capture tools (e.g. Wink)
- Quiz software (e.g. Hot Potatoes)
- Search engines
- Survey tools (e.g. Survey Monkey)
- Pod casting (e.g. Audacity)
I will be exploring this further in a free webinar titled How to Make Intelligent Choices for Your eLearning, scheduled for Monday, January 23rd at 12:00 noon EST.