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WBT-Master

Posted April 17, 2005 by Jon Dron

Free learning environment with interesting knowledge-based approach, but rather confusing and clunky interface
Created:Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:06:59 GMT


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Posted: April 17, 2005, 8:06 pm

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Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling

Posted April 16, 2005 by Jon Dron

Farzan and Brusilovsky – for UM2005
Created:Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:16:36 GMT


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Posted: April 16, 2005, 9:16 am

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The Manhattan Virtual Classroom – A fast, free course management system for online learning

Posted April 16, 2005 by Jon Dron

Yet another free CMS – developing quite strongly
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Posted: April 16, 2005, 5:34 am

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Interact

Posted April 16, 2005 by Jon Dron

VLE with communication deeply embedded in everything. Takes a component oriented approach so not as restrictive as many VLEs – neat
Created:Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:30:28 GMT


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Posted: April 16, 2005, 5:30 am

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The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Posted April 14, 2005 by Jon Dron

Cute journal and associated website with a broad educational remit. Quite US-centric.
Created:Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:07:07 GMT


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Posted: April 14, 2005, 6:07 pm

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My Journal Building Block

Posted April 14, 2005 by Jon Dron

Open source blog-like Building Block for Blackboard, though apparently only works with MS SQL and needs IE as a browser.
Created:Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:53:11 GMT


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Posted: April 14, 2005, 5:53 pm

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Learning Objects | Products > Campus Pack > Backpack LX

Posted April 14, 2005 by Jon Dron

Not sure of prices, but some interesting tools with blog and wiki functionality that are provided as Blackboard Building Blocks as well as OKI compliant components.
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Blackboard vs. Moodle

Posted April 14, 2005 by Jon Dron

Excellent detailed study comparing Moodle and Blackboard from various different perspectives. Moodle comes out on top, but not unequivocally.
Created:Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:37:02 GMT


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Posted: April 14, 2005, 12:37 pm

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Innovate

Posted April 10, 2005 by Jon Dron

High quality online journal of online education
Created:Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:32:07 GMT


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Learning Technology Newsletter

Posted April 10, 2005 by Jon Dron

Not refereed but none the less interesting IEEE publication (edited by Kinshuk)
Created:Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:28:58 GMT


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