Nowadays small and medium size organizations (SMEs), educational institutions, and independent consultants struggle to adopt an expensive eLearning solution. This is why I created the following list with the Top 10 Free and Open Source eLearning projects for 2012 that will help you implement a low cost eLearning solutions => http://blog.efrontlearning.net/2011/12/top-10-free-and-open-source-elearning.html => Please leave a comment if you would like me to include another Free or Open Source eLearning project that needs to be mentioned! Why haven't you joined us yet? - 20,184 eLearning professionals - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eLearningIndustry - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about&gid=110953 Twitter: http://twitter.com/cpappas Enjoy! Have a wonderful day, Christopher Pappas eLearning and Internet Marketing Consultant https://www.fullyfollow.me/elearning Fedena - The best way to manage your school or college Fedena is a multipurpose school/campus management software which is used by thousands of educational institutions worldwide for all administration and management related activities. It helps you manage student, teacher databases and all other activities online. VoiceThread - collaborative presentations by collecting comments. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. Voki - a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone. Wallwisher - an online noticeboard maker. Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. Mindmeister - a collaborative mind mapping tool. Collaborative web-based tool supporting unlimited simultaneous users. Users can create, edit and share maps on the Web. eFront - an open source LMS A 2.0 award winning learning system, SCORM 2004 4th edition certified, bundled with key enterprise functionality ranging from skill-gap analysis and branch management to tailor-made reports. ELearning Media Group announced eFront as Best of ELearning! 2011 with the Award of Excellence in the following two categories: 1. Best Learning Management System – eFront Enterprise, and 2. Best Open Source Solution. Annotum - Share what you know and write a knol! An open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress. Storybirds - Collaborative storytelling Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like

1. Top 10 Open Source eLearning
Projects to Watch for 2012
by Christopher Pappas M.B.A., M.Ed.
eLearning and Internet Marketing Consultant

2. Fedena
(The best way to manage your school or college)
• Fedena is a multipurpose
school/campus
management software
which is used by
thousands of educational
institutions worldwide for
all administration and
management related
activities. It helps you
manage student, teacher
databases and all other
activities online.
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3. VoiceThread
(collaborative presentations by collecting comments)
• With VoiceThread, group
conversations are
collected and shared in
one place from anywhere
in the world. All with no
software to install.
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4. Voki
(a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars)
• Voki enables users to
express themselves on
the web in their own voice
using a talking character.
You can customize your
Voki to look like you or
take on the identity of lots
of other types of
characters… animals,
monsters, anime etc.
Your Voki can speak with
your own voice which is
added via microphone,
upload, or phone.
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5. Wallwisher
(an online noticeboard maker.)
• Wallwisher is an
Internet application
that allows people to
express their thoughts
on a common topic
easily.
4

6. Mindmeister
(a collaborative mind mapping tool)
• Collaborative web-
based tool supporting
unlimited
simultaneous users.
Users can create, edit
and share maps on
the Web.
5

7. eFront
(an open source LMS)
• A 2.0 award winning learning
system, SCORM 2004 4th
edition certified, bundled with
key enterprise functionality
ranging from skill-gap analysis
and branch management to
tailor-made reports. ELearning
Media Group announced
eFront as Best of ELearning!
2011 with the Award of
Excellence in the following two
categories: 1. Best Learning
Management System –
eFront Enterprise, and 2. Best
Open Source Solution.
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8. Annotum
(Share what you know and write a knol)
• An open-source, open-
process, open-access
scholarly authoring and
publishing platform based
on WordPress.
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9. Storybirds
(Collaborative storytelling)
• Storybirds are short, art-
inspired stories you make
to share, read, and print.
Read them like books,
play them like games,
and send them like
greeting cards. They’re
curiously fun.
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10. Screenr
(online screencastingtool)
• Screenr's web-based
screen recorder makes it
a breeze to create and
share your screencasts
around the web. Just click
the record button, capture
your screen & voice, and
share the link.
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11. GeoGebra
(Free mathematics software for learning and teaching)
• GeoGebra is free and
multi-platform dynamic
mathematics software for
all levels of education that
joins geometry, algebra,
tables, graphing, statistics
and calculus in one easy-
to-use package. It has
received several
educational software
awards in Europe and the
USA.
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12. THANK YOU!