Uploaded byJane Hart
Top Free Tools for Learning
Presentation to eLearning Network on Friday 23 November 2007
Top Free Tools for Learning
- 1. The Top Free Tools for Learning Jane Hart Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies www.C4LPT.co.uk
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- 3. What is “free”Freeware offered free of charge. might have an End User Licence each license will be particular to the software, but generally you can't re-sell it although you might be able to redistribute it. Open source tightens up sometimes loose freeware arrangements. made available as source code under a copyright license which allows users to copy, use and modify it provided that you agree to provide the source to others. a number of open source licences, e.g. the GNU Public License. Liteware free version of commercial software. often doesn’t offer full functionality, or will display ads, or will only support a small number of users or pieces of content. Trialware free software that expires within a period of time or watermarks the content until the full software is purchased.
- 4. Availability Download Installon personal computers or servers Online Web-based tools or services
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- 6. Top Tools forLearning “What are your 10 favourite tools for your personal learning/working or for creating learning for others?”
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- 9. Results 109 respondentsfrom academic and corporate training worlds Over 400 tools mentioned 100 tools mentioned 3 or more times 50 mentioned twice Not all “dedicated” learning tools – many are multi-purpose tools Over 75% of tools are FREE
- 10. Top 100 ToolsPersonal Tools tools for managing your own learning Producer Tools tools for creating and delivering informational, instructional, collaborative and performance support solutions
- 11. Personal Tools Freetools for managing your own learning
- 12. 1 “ windowinto the Web” “ ease of use”, “functionality” “ hundreds of add-ons”, e.g. Zotero, ScribeFire, FireBug Firefox 3 very soon!
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- 14. online social bookmarkingtool “ store, tag and share bookmarks” “ search for and find bookmarks” “ find out about new things” 2
- 15. instant messaging toolto download “ VoIP and low-cost calls to landlines” “ useful for collaboration” “ third-party add-ons extend its functionality” 3=
- 16. invaluable search engine “ Googling” is essential “ ultimate e-learning tool” for some “represents the whole Google brand” 3=
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- 18. most popular e-mailtool web-based (although now IMAP) “search”, “tagging”, “threaded conversations” “large amount of storage space” 7=
- 19. open source cross-platformemail client from Mozilla (as Firefox) “ stable”, “easy to use”, “easy on memory”, “reads RSS” “ growing range of add-ons” 22=
- 20. 7= web-based RSS/feedreader “ to read blog postings and other news” “ to learn from others”
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- 22. web-based start pagetool “ to aggregate all the Google resources on your desktop” – gMail, Google Calendar and productivity apps “ personalised desktop” 17=
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- 24. Producer Tools Free tools for creating and delivering informational, instructional, collaborative and performance support solutions
- 25. web-based document creation “ create, store and share documents and spreadsheets “(now also presentations) “ work on your own or collaboratively” publicly or privately viewable on the web import docs from MS Word or OpenOffice 14
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- 27. Open source officesuite to download Documents, spreadsheets, presentations Convert materials to PDF, and presentations to SWF 26=
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- 29. popular hosted bloggingtool (1m+ blogs) easy to use, attractive themes, useful widgets, stats reporting “ for personal and professional blogging and networking”, “helping others learn via blog” 6
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- 31. online wiki toolfor “collaborative working and learning” for “collaborative documentation” for “brainstorming”, “formal class websites”, “discussions”, etc 15
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- 33. online tool forhosting and sharing presentations (public or private) created in PPT, OO or Keynote link or embed synchronise with MP3 file for slidecasting for screencasting too 26=
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- 35. upload and sharevideos (public or private) public videos = useful resource link to or embed videos (web and blog pages and PPT) for company & product briefings, screencasting, etc 22=
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- 37. cross-platform open sourcesound editor and recorder to download “ easy to record and edit” “ for recording audio files and podcasts” 11
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- 39. instant real-time desktopsharing “ virtual meetings and web conferencing “ “ whiteboard, annotate and share files” invite up to 10 people for free Skype plug-in now available liteware 72=
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- 41. tool to createand customise your own social network / community for “sharing information”, “discussion”, “blogging”, etc 26= Ning
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- 43. open source coursemanagement system to download and install on server provides sophisticated functionality of an educational CMS and more easy to use 12=
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- 46. open source authoringtool to develop web pages for e-learning aimed at teachers at academics can export as web pages (for a webserver) or SCORM compliant content (for a CMS) 72=
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- 48. course authoring tool+ course templates WYSIWYG environment – PowerPoint-like interface courses can include narration can be published to web, LMS or CD 101=
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- 52. PDF Top 150Tools – by popularity Top 150 Tools - by category Top 150 Tools alphabetically (cost, availability, platform)
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