The document discusses various tools for creating e-content, highlighting free and open-source software, web-based tools, and concept mapping tools to enhance educational experiences. It emphasizes the importance of visual representations like concept maps for organizing and understanding knowledge. Additionally, the document touches on the use of multimedia tools such as video content and screen capturing within the context of teaching and learning.

1. Dr. Nisha Singh
Deputy Director
Center for Online
Education(COE), IGNOU,
New Delhi.
E –CONTENT
TOOLS

2. Free Ware:
Free and Open Source Software
(FOSS)
Proprietary software

3. • Libre Office; Open Office
• Microsoft Office
web-based tools
• Ethepad,
• Wiki.
Text based e-Content

5. Image/Graphics based e-Content
Images say more than a thousand words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal

9. Concept mapping tools
Concept maps graphically represent the
relationship between various concepts, their sub-
concepts to get a clear and deep understanding
of holistic perspective.

10. M.U.Paily [CC BY-SA 4.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from
Wikimedia Commons

13. FreeMind

14. Animation based

15. Audio E-Content

17. Video E-Content
Video e-content tool could be a simple camera
used to record the live process, event or for
telling a story.
Also screen casting tools are used wherein the
screen of the computer is captured to teach
something happening of computer screen
especially , software functioning.

21. eXe Learning
Content Authoring Tools

24. Assessment

25. Assessment

26. Let us Try

27. What is Concept Map?
• diagram that represents relationship
between concepts
• graphical tool which typically represents
ideas and information through boxes and
circles which connected with labeled arrows
• graphical tool used to organize and
structure knowledge
• used by Designers, Engineers, Technical
writers, teachers and others

28. Uses of Concept Map
• organizing and representing knowledge.
• making Notes in a Seminar or Workshop
• sometimes used for brain- storming
• widely used in education and business
• allows you to see all your basic
information on one page.

29. C-Map

30. https://cmap.ihmc.us/
•Florida Institute for Human &
Machine Cognition (IHMC)
• empowers users to
•Construct
• navigate
• share
• criticize knowledge models
represented as concept maps
Cmap software

34. Let us try now