Facebook a social networking service on the web has a new feature for instructors around the world that allows tearchers to make their own virtual classroom for free. This product is built with the instructor/student relationship in mind, to enable instructors to use a social and engaging application that can reach students where they are.

Claim your courses as your own and enjoy privileged features, such as making announcements and assignments to your classes as well as posting key resources. High School Teachers, Professors, TAs and GSIs are all welcome. Oh, and you can hold virtual office hours, which is sweet.

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The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments—as well as Silverlight-based animations, demos, and other multimedia. Register to download the free LCDS release, then start creating your own e-learning courses today!

What does the LCDS offer?
With the LCDS, you can : Develop and deliver content quickly, while it is timely and relevant. Distribute your content via the Web or in a learning management system. Deliver Web content that conforms to Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 1.2, and which can be hosted in a learning management system. Upload or attach your existing content. (LCDS supports multiple file formats.). Choose from a wide variety of forms for authoring rich e-learning content. Develop your course structure and easily rearrange it at any time.

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The CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver Extension is the most popular Macromedia learning extension. It accelerates the instructional development process with more than 40 pre-scripted learning interactions, quiz and assessment templates, and the ability to track results to a learning management system or database such as Lotus LearningSpace, using an AICC communication (instead of ADL SCORM).

Macromedia CourseBuilder Interactions let you define a complete web-based learning interaction. Tabbed wizard pages step you through creating and editing basic interactions. The wizard creates editable HTML, DHTML, and JavaScript based on the information that you enter. CourseBuilder extends the Macromedia Dreamweaver HTML editing functions by generating logic-based objects that interact with users, as well as external computer-managed instruction (CMI) applications that track and score user input.

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The KEEP Toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web. With the KEEP Toolkit you can:

• Select and organize teaching and learning materials
• Prompt analysis and reflection by using templates
• Transform materials and reflections into visually appealing and intellectually engaging representations
• Share ideas for peer-review, assessment, and collective knowledge building
• Simplify the technical tasks and facilitate knowledge exchange and dissemination

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Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users’ and developers’ community.

Released under Open Source license, the Claroline platform allows hundreds of organizations from 86 countries to create and administer courses and collaboration spaces online. Each course space provides a list of tools enabling the teacher to :

• Write a course description
• Publish documents in any format (text, PDF, HTML, video...)
• Administer public and private forums
• Develop learning paths
• Create groups of students
• Prepare online exercises
• Manage an agenda with tasks and deadlines
• Publish announcements (also by e-mail)
• Propose assignments to be handed in online
• See the statistics of the users activity
• Use the wiki to write collaborative documents

Adjustable to various training contexts, Claroline is not only used by schools and universities, but also by training centres, associations and companies. The platform is customizable and offers a flexible and custom-made working environment.

Claroline is capable of hosting a large number of users easily. It is compatible with Linux, Mac and Windows environments. Claroline is based on free technologies like PHP and MySQL and uses the current standards like SCORM and IMS/QTI for the exchange of contents.

Claroline has been developed following teachers' pedagogical experience and needs. It offers intuitive and clear spaces administration interface. The daily platform management doesn't require any specific technical skill. The platform is quickly installed and the use of any web browser allows to manage the various course sections and enrolled users fluently.

Tutorom allows you to easily create and deliver elearning content, free of charge. We are currently in beta, adding new features every week, but for now feel free to explore and comment via the forums, or email us at info@tutorom.com with suggestions or ideas.

We have added some content to the site to give you an idea how it works - 60,000 lessons added from the VTC computer learning library (8,000 of which are free, the rest on subscription of $30 a month), and hundreds of free school education lessons. We have also added video content from expertvillage. If you have courses or content you want added please contact us.

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Nuvvo is an on-demand e-learning service designed for individual instructors. It costs nothing to use, though it has some ads and gets a percentage if you charge students. Nuvvo is a website that incorporates Ajax, RSS/Atom, VoIP (via Skype), vCard, and ICalendar. Nuvvo has integrated e-commerce and an eLearning Market where courses can be advertised.

Commonly, e-learning systems are designed for institutions, not individual instructors. These are usually called a Learning Management System (LMS), Course Management System (CMS), or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). Nuvvo includes most of the end-user features found in these systems, but specifically lacks the administrative features required for organizing large hierarchies of users, and integration possibilities for connecting with other software systems in an institution's IT ecosystem.

Nuvvo was created by Savvica Inc., a Toronto-based software company founded by John Philip Green, with help from David Ritter and others, and launched in December 2005. Green, Nuvvo's chief architect, has said that Nuvvo--a more compact version of an enterprise LMS designed for individual instructors--was conceived while Savvica was building its Enterprise LMS and released as a sort of side project.[citation needed] As the service attracted more and more users, the company gradually shifted its focus from enterprise learning software to the lighter, ASP service. Savvica now focuses solely on improving and supporting Nuvvo.

Nuvvo shares many characteristics with other Web 2.0 services. Its service is entirely web-based, and follows the user-centred design principles made popular by Flickr, del.icio.us, 37signals and others. Following a similar commercial model to those services, it's free and focused on user-generated content and community building.

Content authoring is featured, with tools for creating multimedia-enriched lessons, quizzes and assignments. Blogging is included, as are messages, scheduling tools, course management, and user administration. Unlike a traditional LMS setup, the conversations, media files, and text curriculum are all integrated and on the same page, facilitating discussion and student interaction.

Evaluation tools are another part of Nuvvo. Instructors build test, quizzes, and assignments with multiple choice questions, true/false questions, etc. Most question types are automatically graded and entered into Nuvvo's gradebook, where students can keep track of their progress.
Nuvvo also features e-commerce, which allows instructors to charge for courses. Instructors set a course price and students pay with their credit card upon joining the course. Nuvvo subtracts an 8% transaction fee and pays the instructor the rest. Instructors can list their courses in Nuvvo's eLearning Market, an Ebay-like listing site where students browse courses and request enrollment.

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