Wednesday, October 17, 2012

free teaching tools - open source educational software



I'm putting together a list of open source educational software, that
*may* become part of a future projects, or to give to interns to play with.

The list, of course could be endless, so just considering things that are ready for production, a real 'market leader' or a project that shows real promise.

It's just a brain storm at the moment.  Anything obvious missing from this list?

*** LMS Tools (besides the obvious Moodle, Sakai, Canvas etc)

Chamilo     http://www.chamilo.org

*** Discipline Specific
WebWork http://webwork.maa.org (Mathematics)

*** Lecture Capture
Opencast Matterhorn http://opencast.org/matterhorn/

*** Web Conference/Collaboration

*** Portfolio

*** Repositories

Monday, October 15, 2012

cheating in tradtional courses

http://etcjournal.com/2012/10/05/remote-proctoring-services-may-not-be-necessary/

Thursday, October 11, 2012

free and paid attendance apps for teaching



For Android there is a simple free one called 'Attendance' that links with a Google Doc Spreadsheet so you can just grab the data from there once you're done. It's nice and easy.
The students can be added from an Excel spreadsheet or just pasted across directly to the Google doc.

For iOS there is one also called 'Attendance' for $5.49. It pulls info from a CSV or Excel spreadsheet but has a few additional features for writing notes etc.