VLE

=Virtual Learning Environments=

[|Wikipedia]: A **virtual learning environment (VLE)** is a [|software] system designed to help teachers by facilitating the management of educational courses for their students, especially by helping [|teachers] and learners with course administration. The system can often track the learners' progress, which can be monitored by both teachers and learners. While frequently thought of as primarily tools for distance education, they are most often used to supplement the face-to-face classroom.

=[| Ustream.tv]=

Broadcast live and records sessions to a worldly audience or for your faculty.

=[| Second Life]=

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe.
 * From the moment you enter [|the World] you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.
 * You'll also be surrounded by [|the Creations] of your fellow Residents. Because Residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other Residents.
 * [|The Marketplace] currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world unit-of-trade, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden Dollar exchanges.

[|A presentation] from the University of Delaware on Second Life and Eduislands

[|A day in Second Life]

[|A presentation on Second Life in Education]

[|The Story of my Second Life]

=[| Moodle]=

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, [|Open Source] software package designed using sound [|pedagogical principles]. Moodle helps educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

[|SAS Online Classroom]

=[| Skype]=

=Free calls=

It’s what Skype is made for.
Using Skype to call another person who also has Skype is totally free. Yep, absolutely nothing. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Free Skype-to-Skype calls. To anywhere in the world. And at anytime, day, night, morning or weekends.

Free calling
You’ve [|downloaded Skype], and so has your friend. Now you can get started on the really cool stuff – such as making completely free and great quality calls from your computer. That’s the great thing about Skype, you can use your internet connection and turn your computer into an internet phone and make free Skype-to-Skype calls. You and your friend will need to have a headset (or use your computer’s built-in microphone and speakers) to talk to each other. You can really improve the sound quality of your calls with a [|headset], or take your calls to the next level with [|free video calls]. You can also use Skype to make [|pretty cheap calls] to land lines and mobiles.

=[| WizIQ]= WiZiQ is a premier platform for affordable online tutoring - anytime, anywhere and in real time; proving to be a one stop destination for individual teachers and learners. WiZiQ offers a rewarding experience to its teachers and learners, with an open opportunity for teachers to attract learners and deliver tutoring at their own pace. It also provides diverse options for learners to search for teachers to help them master a subject or just sharpen their skills.

WiZiQ is a highly advanced learning system where teachers and learners can meet in real time using just a PC with an internet connection. Doing away the constraints of physical distance between the teacher and the learner, WiZiQ uses a virtual classroom application that is fully equipped with 2-way audio, text chat, whiteboard, PowerPoint and PDF Document sharing capabilities. This allows for an instantaneous exchange of notes between the teacher and the learner. They can write queries and solutions easily on the whiteboards that are displayed on the computer screens of both the participants at the same time; making the personal tutoring a highly interactive and rich learning experience. [|Click here for a demo of WizIQ] (About 11:45am local time) Justin Medved - ISB-Bangkok

=[| Elluminate]= Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience through superior quality VoIP and communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support, and advanced yet easy-to-use moderator tools.

Elluminate's products create a rich, collaborative environment for live remote training and online meetings, all while delivering lower upfront costs and strong ROI. Customers include such well-known names as Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, Interstate Hotels and Resorts, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University and many more. [|Click here to join us for a demo of Elluminate] (About 12:00pm local time) [|Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach] [|Will Richardson]

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