Web Courseware
Comparisons and Studies
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/courseware/compare.html
Excellent site
start here.
Guidelines for
Evaluating Teaching Tools
http://wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk/guidelines.html
A very
interesting site out of Hong Kong that compares some of the tools above, has a
newsletter, and introduces the major systems (but leaving out many), in
categories of free and commercial tools.
Tools for
Developing Interactive Academic Web Courses by (Jean-Paul) Simbandumwe,
University of Manitoba
http://www.umanitoba.ca/ip/tools/courseware/
A site describing what this page reviews.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=mle_briefings_1
Site Trainer
http://forums.sitetrainer.com/platformcomparison.htm
Comparing more than 50 software suites.
Comparison of Blackboard, eCollege, eSocrates, and WebCT by
eSocrates, showing pricing of servers.
http://www.esocrates.com/LearningResources/ComparisonChart.htm
Comparison of Software by Edutools
http://www.edutools.info/course/compare/index.jsp
This site was not working when I viewed it.
Comparison of
the features of Blackboard, Ecollege and WebCT
http://codesign.scu.edu/wwwpresentation/
Comparison of
BlackBoard and WebCT Course Management Platforms
http://etatmo.missouri.edu/courses/resources/comparison.htm
The Interactive
Campus: Administrative and Course Management System Vendors Take Up the Challenge
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6389
The main
objectives of some of the major players in the online learning environment.
The READiness
InventorY
A tool for
seeing which solution suits you best. I have not tried it out.
Grid comparing
Blackboard, VirtualCampus, Wizlearn Academic 7 Learning, WebCT, learning
environment, and Learnwise
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/vle/checklist.html
Evaluation and
Selection of Web Course Management Tools by Sunil Hazari, Ed.D
Commercial
Virtual Education Servers
(Virtual
Education Environments and Managed Learning Environments)
Offers a “hosted”
free services and sells server systems at http://coursesites.blackboard.com/
but it seems to offer only 5mb of bandwidth. The hosted service with 25Mb of
storage space costs $295 a year. (Host yourself) Server educational software
tend to cost in the thousands.
“The world’s
leading provider”
Edutools Course Management Systems
http://www.edutools.info/course/
http://www.edusoft.com/login.jsp
Used by 70
school districts
eCollege
http://www.ecollege.com/indexflash.learn
eSocrates
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/products.nsf/products/notesdomino
“Groupware” for
enabling online interactions not just in education. My current university
installed it but I did not know what it was.
http://www.lotus.com/products/learnspace.nsf/wdocs/homepage
An education specific package also from IBM
WebMentor
http://www.avilar.com/
LearnWise Server is the heart of the LearnWise programme. Also offers
course content but there were no (zero) courses in the Higher education
section.
http://www.teknical.com/Products/virtual_campus.htm
http://www.wizlearn.com/staticHTML/static.htm
Academic server
version customized to help educational institutions maximize e-learning as an
education asset. I downloaded the blurb, but it does not mention the price.
le
Respondus -
Exam creation system for Blackboard and WebCT
Open Knowledge
Initiative
Perhaps this
will be the free answer one day.
IMS Question & Test
Interoperability Specification
http://www.imsglobal.org/question/index.cfm
The IMS Question & Test
Interoperability Specification provides proposed standard XML language for
describing questions and tests
http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/index-e.html
A German open source initiative.