Sitios de educación a distancia gratuitos

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Berkeley Video Courses

Berkeley Video provides over 177 video courses

Connexions

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license..

Development Gateway

These Open Educational Resources provide a clearinghouse for a wide range of OERs including:

• Learning Content (full courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals)
• Tools (software to support the development, use, re-use and delivery of learning content including searching and organization of content, content and learning management systems, content development tools, and on-line learning communities)
• Implementation Resources (intellectual property licenses to promote open publishing of materials, design principles of best practice, and localization of content)

HippoCampus

HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

Inside Teaching

Inside Teaching provides collections of multimedia records of teaching practice. Learn from others’ perspectives on using records of practice for teacher learning. Contribute your own teaching and learning experiences.

Internet Archive

The Archive’s library of Open Educational Resources and university lectures. This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.

Perhaps WebAPP’s most distinquishing feature is it’s overall usefulness in a wide variety of applications. It lends itself well to simple online communities for any number of members, family portals, sites for professional people, businesses and offices, ecommerce sites -- any application where easy, browser-based administration and extensive user interactivity is desired.

MERLOT

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT’s vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

MIT OpenCourseWare

OCW is a free publication of course materials used at MIT. You can get lecture notes, problem sets, labs and more; watch lecture videos and demonstrations; as well as study a wide variety of subjects.

OER Commons

The mission of OER Commons is to expand educational opportunities by increasing access to high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER), and facilitating the creation, use, and re-use of OER, for instructors, students, and self-learners.

OpenCourseWare Consortium

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

Open-Of-Course

Open-Of-Course is a multilingual portal for free online courses and tutorials.

You will find here lots of free courses and tutorials and you can join a community of over 5000 students. All the courses have their own forum for students to interact and help each other out. You can join the fora after registration.

People can also add their own courses or tutorials to our system for free. Open-Of-Course runs on the open source electronic learning environment Moodle.

Open Training Platform

The objective behind this platform is to empower trainers and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and value the “open” training materials, which are freely and openly accessible for trainers and self-learners to use and re-use for non commercial purposes such as teaching, learning and research.

Ourmedia

The Personal Media Learning Center is a rich educational resource for everything you wanted to know about user-created video, audio, and other forms of citizens’ media.

OWL

The Open World Learning Institute Open Educational Resources (OER) are digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research. Using the very best OER, OWL builds complete courses called COER or “Contextualized Open Educational Resources” From one COER thousands of distinct and flexible courses can be created and expanded.

Free and open for anyone to use, COER are powerful tools for teachers, students, home educators, lifelong learners, instructors, and community groups. COER are updated and maintained by OWL and the OER community, while the courses created from them are transformed to meet the needs of the individual users and groups. Because COER conform to technical standards for learning objects, they are easy to use in any learning management system.

Science in School Science in School aims to promote inspiring science teaching by encouraging communication between teachers, scientists, and everyone else involved in European science education.

The contents include teaching materials; cutting-edge science; education projects; interviews with young scientists and inspiring teachers; European education news; reviews of books and other resources; and European events for teachers.

Sofia Open Content Initiative

The Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District with funding support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Under the leadership of Foothill College, Sofia promotes faculty and institutional sharing of online content.

Teachers Domain

Teachers Domain offers multimedia.resources for the classroom and professional devlopment.

Teachers TV

Teachers TV is the digital channel for everyone who works in schools. Our programmes cover every subject in the curriculum, all key stages and every professional role – from teaching assistant to headteacher. You can watch us on digital cable and satellite and programmes are also available anytime, on-demand and for free on this website.

We have 15-minute CPD offerings packed with useful information, exciting pupil programmes for use in class, and a daily education news summary. There are ongoing series such as Teaching with Bayley and Inspirations and award-winning documentaries on everything from global citizenship to education practice in other countri.

The Audio/Video Edition of NGO-in-a-box

The Audio/Video Edition of NGO-in-a-box The Audio/Video edition of NGO-in-a-Box is a toolkit that lowers the entry level for NGOs, non-profits and media activists wanting to use audio and video for social change. It is a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools, documentation and tutorials that introduce you to the world of FOSS and the low-cost technology that is transforming the balance of forces in the realm of media production.

Tufts OER

Tufts University is a leader in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, bringing access to educational content, tools, and infrastructure to educators, students, and self-learners. As a premier university with a commitment to internationalism, active citizenship, and leadership in the health sciences and environment, Tufts provides free access to high quality information to support the learning efforts of individuals around the world. Open dissemination of information, particularly to improve global health with partners in the developing world, is an important part of Tufts’ mission.

The Education Podcast Network

EPN is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

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Digital Art Resources for Education kevin chilton - Friday, 8 February 2008, 09:05

Anyone in the world TechnoArt - Resources Alice – Serious programming in Free package Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience. The Alice team has developed instructional materials to support students and teachers in using this new approach. Resources include textbooks, lessons, sample syllabuses, test banks, and more. Other authors have generously joined our efforts, creating additional textbooks. Cartoonster Cartoonster provides free online tutorials that teach you, step by step, how to draw and animate. Comic Book Creator Comic Book Creator is a versatile teaching tool that harnesses imaginations, engages critical thinking skills, and challenges students to create satisfying stories. Comic Book Creator is ideal for teaching across disciplines, because you can use almost any subject matter to create your content! Comic Book Creator is so easy to use, you can create comic book pages in minutes! * Drag and drop pictures into templates * Rotate and size your pictures * Drag and drop text into speech balloons and caption boxes * Use text and color editing, to bring your words to life Then share your comic book with friends in print or online! Creative media projects: Mediabox's Apply for fundings For 13 to 19 years old who live in England, Mediabox can give you the opportunity to develop and produce creative media projects for film, television, radio, online and multi media platforms. Mediabox is for you to express your opinions, ideas and views, gain new skills and get your voices heard. What's on offer? Mediabox offers three different types of grants ranging from £100 to £80,000 to create and distribute youth-led media projects that express young people's ideas and/or views in a creative way, using their preferred media platform. http://www.media-box.co.uk/whatis.php?ID=9 DimensionX Is a freeware, open source software kit for developing and running multiplayer adventure games. Learn more... Once you have it working on your PC you can easily develop a web-based role-playing adventure game with the scenes and characters you like and, as soon as you are connected... your game works as an online multiplayer game so you can invite friends! Use it also to create a graphic and interactive chat environment! No downloads required to use it. A game play is better than 1000 words. Play our demos first - demos showcase here eyespot Free video mixing for all. With eyespot you can upload and remix your own media or use any of the resources available on the site, including free samples from artists such as 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean and other big stars. Federator Studios Blog A superb collection of animated shorts, plus all the latest news in the field of animation http://newtoons.frederator.com/ Futurelab By bringing together the creative, technical and educational communities, Futurelab is pioneering ways of using new technologies to transform the learning experience. Their showcase features innovative work which reflects the latest thinking in interactive media, educational ICT and digital technologies. http://www.futurelab.org.uk/ Personal Media Learning The Learning Center is a rich educational resource for everything you wanted to know about user-created video, audio, and other forms of citizens' media. Please volunteer to contribute to this free, democratic knowledge database. Here are our guidelines. Most contributions are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. (See each page for the specific license involved.) We want other sites to republish bits and pieces of this open-source learning project. Processing open source programming language For those students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists who are interested in programmming images, animation, and sound. It was developed to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry (Broad Institute) and Casey Reas (UCLA Design | Media Arts) and is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. http://www.processing.org/ Pocket Films Festival The Forum des Images is a major cinema center and film archive created by the City of Paris, dedicated to the exploration of relations between cinema, technology and society. The 3rd edition of the Pocket Films Festival, festival of films made with cellular telephones organised by the Forum des Images, will take place at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, on June 8-9-10 2007. http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=91 Scratch - A New Programming Language for Young People Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. Scratch is available free of charge from the Download page. To find more about the educational ideas underlying Scratch, visit our Educators page. Set Up A Videoblog Comon’ every web 2.0 geek has a videoblog - you should have one too! Seriously though, we know it’s super simple to put videos up on YouTube and for many people (okay a kabillion people) that works just fine. The nice thing about a videoblog is it’s like your own little corner of the Internet. You control how it looks, whether it has ads on it or not, what format(s) the videos are in and how long they are. Plus, because it’s built on a blog it has all the advantages of a blog - it’s easily found in search engines, it’s automatically archived, and it’s easy to subscribe to. So if you’re into it, the real question is what do you want to do? Document your life? Make some sort of show? Make art? All of the above? You can really do anything you want. http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/2007/03/19/1-set-up-a-videoblog/ The Education Arcade The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. Video, Film and Animation Festivals Video, Film and Animation Festivals - for pros, those who want to be pros and for those who just want to have some fun. Internet Video Magazine Tags: Digital art, Education, Animation, Video, Programming

Opensource Groupware & Conferencing Tools and Free Services kevin chilton - Monday, 29 October 2007, 10:04

Anyone in the world Agora The Online Meeting Tool Agora is an easy to use online meeting tool. With Agora you can take your workplace with your laptop. Video-conference "many to many": Organised into virtual meeting rooms, you can video-conference with an unlimited number of participants(*). Shared desktop: You can broadcast what you are watching on your desktop. Whiteboard: Collaborative whiteboard on which anybody can sketch. Chat: Instant messaging application. Moviecasting: Broadcast movies. Session recording: Record your sessions for further analysis. Agora is fully integrated with Sakai (you need to have Sakai in order to deploy Agora in your organisation). Because of this integration you can enjoy and use also all the features and tools integrated in Sakai. eGroupWare eGroupWare is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite developed on a custom set of PHP-based APIs. Currently available modules include: email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do’s, phone calls), content management, forum, bookmarks, wiki. sourceforge.net eGroupware site User manual Plone Plone is powerful and flexible. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. Sakai Sakai is a set of software tools designed to help instructors, researchers and students create websites on the web. For coursework, Sakai provides features to supplement and enhance teaching and learning. For collaboration, Sakai has tools to help organize communication and collaborative work on campus and around the world. Using a web browser, users choose from Sakai’s tools to create a site that meets their needs. To use Sakai, no knowledge of HTML is necessary. Sidance VMukti VMUKTI is Social Web 2.0 Multi-Party conference software for Web & Mobile users. Requires no download & very little server bandwidth & processing power. Allows you to mix & match A/V & Presence modules for online customized collaboration service delivery. Vyew Vyew is a FREE online meeting service that brings people and content together. Use Vyew to host LIVE conferences or collaborate over time, asynchronously. Inside Vyew you can author new content and collaborate with PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and PDF files, plus audio, video and images. You can also stream live or capture what’s showing on your desktop. Built-in text chat and FREE teleconferencing make live collaboration sessions highly productive. Virtual Room Videoconferencing System From the California Institute of Technology is intended for Research & Education services but they state: The use of VRVS is strictly limited to the Research and Education community and for Research and Education activities only. It is NOT for private and/or commercial use. If you would like to use VRVS for reasons which are not associated Research and Education, you should contact us at contact@vrvs.org Website WebHuddle WebHuddle is a new, still in beta, cross-platform and fully open-source server-based web conferencing system integrating text chat, VoIP (one-to-many), PowerPoint presentation facility, live annotation and markup tools, application sharing, polling and recording in a secure environment. Web Automated Perl Portal An acronym for Web Automated Perl Portal, WebAPP is easily installed on virtually any UNIX-based server. WebAPP requires no SQL backend, no PHP, only a Perl-friendly hosting environment, which includes virtually all modern hosting plans. Don’t spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on commercial portal solutions -- install WebAPP on your server for FREE!/p> Even beginning webmasters are able to install the WebAPP distribution package in a matter of minutes, go in and personalize their portal, populate it with content, and then easily maintain and administer the site. Extensive member management tools allow you to handle hundreds or even thousands of registered members, manage an email list and send newsletters, and send private messages to individuals, groups, or the entire community. Perhaps WebAPP’s most distinquishing feature is it’s overall usefulness in a wide variety of applications. It lends itself well to simple online communities for any number of members, family portals, sites for professional people, businesses and offices, ecommerce sites -- any application where easy, browser-based administration and extensive user interactivity is desired. The latest WebAPP (Network Edition) offers many robust, interactive features, including: Articles archive, with unlimited categories Forum, with unlimited categories and nested message boards Private Messaging, offering folder management and flexible user filing Who’s Online, with quick links to IM and Profile info Memberlist, sortable with links to IM, Profile and Email Download and Link sections, with descriptions, list of latest entriesand user rating Stats, offering extensive details regarding site and user demographics Site Administration, offering browser-based admin control of most site functions About, Contact and Help pages, fully integrated and easily customized Custom Welcome messages for both guests and registered members. Additional editable areas called Blocks can be created as needed (or mothballed) as needed. Special attention given to site security and the latest HTML protocol compatibility. YouOS - A web operating system YouOS is an experiment in a new kind of computing platform. Access from anywhere. Create a document at an office computer, drive home, continue right from where you left off. Built-in sharing. Instantly share music, documents and more with your buddies. An application community. Everyone from professional software engineers to high school age programmers can participate at no cost. Choose from a growing list of over 703 released applications developed by our users. Tags: ICT, Tools, Services, CSCW, LCMS, Collaboration, Groupware

Open Source Learning Course Management Systems kevin chilton - Monday, 8 October 2007, 10:27

Anyone in the world Learning Course Management Systems CMSs are web applications running on a server and are accessed by using a web browser. The server is usually located in a university or department, but it can be anywhere in the world. You and your students can access the system from anywhere with an Internet connection. At its most basic, a CMS gives educators tools to create a course web site and provide access control so only enrolled students can view it. A CMS offers a wide variety of tools that can make your course more effective, e.g., Uploading and sharing materials - Most CMSs provide tools to easily publish content. Instead of using an HTML editor and then sending your documents to a server via FTP, you simply use a web form to store your syllabus on the server. Many instructors upload their syllabus, lecture notes, reading assignments, and articles for students to access whenever they want. Forums and chats - Online forums and chats provide a means of communication outside of classroom meetings. Forums give your students more time to generate their responses and can lead to more thoughtful discussions. Chats, on the other hand, give you a way to quickly and easily communicate with remote students. They can be used for everything from course announcements to entire lectures. I know one professor who, unable to speak due to throat surgery, held his entire class using online chats and readings. Student workgroups can use online discussions for class projects. Quizzes and surveys - Online quizzes and surveys can be graded instantaneously. They are a great tool for giving students rapid feedback on their performance and for gauging their comprehension of materials. Many publishers now provide banks of test questions tied to book chapters. A professor teaching a marketing class at San Francisco State uses weekly mini-tests to keep students engaged with the lectures and reading. He then uses proctored online testing to give the final exam using the same question banks. Gathering and reviewing assignments - Tracking student assignments is an annoying and bulky task. Online assignment submissions are an easy way to track and grade student assignments. Also, research indicates that using an online environment for anonymous student peer reviews of each other’s work increases student motivation and performance. One of my colleagues teaches a course where students review each other’s written work at every stage of the writing process. Recording grades - An online grade book can give your students up-to-date information about their performance in your course. Online grades can also help you comply with new privacy rules that prohibit posting grades with personal identifiers in public places. CMS grade books allow students to see only their own grades, never another student’s. You can also download the grades into Excel for advanced calculations. These are the Opensource tools I investigated. ATutor ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily retrieve and import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment. ATutor is the first inclusive LCMS, complying with the W3C WCAG 1.0 accessibility specifications at the AA+ level, allowing access to all potential learners, instructors, and administrators, including those with disabilities who may be accessing the system using assistive technologies. Conformance with W3C XHTML 1.0 specifications ensures that ATutor is presented consistently in any standards compliant technology. Moodle Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education. Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions. Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support a SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU). There are many knowledgable Moodle Partners to assist you, even host your Moodle site. . haiku HAIKU Learning Systems, Inc. uses Web 2.0 technology to build online software for the education industry, from kindergarten to college and beyond. Haiku LMS, is the easiest-to-use, most advanced online software product available for teachers on the market. Sakai http://sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=230&Itemid=473 Sakai is a set of software tools designed to help instructors, researchers and students create websites on the web. For coursework, Sakai provides features to supplement and enhance teaching and learning. For collaboration, Sakai has tools to help organize communication and collaborative work on campus and around the world. Using a web browser, users choose from Sakai's tools to create a site that meets their needs. To use Sakai, no knowledge of HTML is necessary. WOS WOS stands for the three letter abbreviation Webserver On Stick and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista). There are three different versions of WOS. WOS Portable is the free basic version released under the GNU/GPL and is OpenSource. WOS Portable comes with a selectable bunch of preinstalled software TYPO3, JoomlaMambo, Wordpress, Moodle, OS Commerce, Drupal, PHPMyAdmin and many more) Tags: Opensource, Course management, Virtual learning, Elearning