This page is intended to give an overview of some of the tools available for on-line teaching and learning. Links are provided to a selection of relevant sites with tutorials and discussion papers. It is by no means a complete list.
Blackboard offers a variety of solutions depending on your needs through their packages Classroom, CourseInfo and Campus.
COSE (Creation of Online Study Environments) is a system which facilitates active and collaborative learning for a wide variety of learners (traditional, distributed and distance), with a particular focus on approaches such as problem-based learning and cognitive apprenticeship.
Cambridge Software Publishing and Staffordshire University have agreed to release COSE 2 as a FREE binary download, with a later version of COSE 2 to be made available under an Open Source Licence. COSE 2 builds on the successes of COSE, developed in part with funding from the United Kingdom JISC, with a redesigned user interface, improved performance and improvements to the accessibility and interoperability of the software. The most significant improvement of all, of course, is in the price. As a FREE binary download from http://www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/ COSE 2 is now available to FE & HE establishments and government and commercial organisations worldwide.
Relevant links
'Active Learning with COSE (Creation of Study Environments)' http://science.uniserve.edu.au/newsletter/vol10/stiles.html
http://www.dazzlersoft.com/
http://www.questionmark.com/uk/home.htmQMark Systems supply authoring software for the creation of multimedia presentations and the delivery and analysis of tests, quizzes, assessment and surveys. Products include Dazzler and Questionmark.
Relevant links
Question Mark, UK http://www.qmark.com/home.html
Dazzler tutorial, reviews, etc. http://www.dazzlersoft.com/visitors_index.htm
http://www.discusware.com/index.php
DiscusWare is a free WWW discussion board software package that can be installed on a unix, Windows 95/98, or Windows NT web server. Discus Pro is a commercial add-on to Discus that has additional features such as password-protected reading of topics, user self-registration and enhanced user profiles.
Relevant links
'Using the Discus Discussion Forum System in Problem-based Learning in Science' http://science.uniserve.edu.au/newsletter/vol14/selby.html
http://theoac.com/eAssess functions as a Web site which allows educators (or other 'authors' who will design tests) to securely login and use the friendly authoring system to build examinations and quizzes. The students (or other system 'users' who come to attend tests) can then login to their own accounts and attempt assessment material prepared for them. Authors can login from anywhere and also work offline.
Relevant links
'eAssess - Automating Large Group Examination Management and Marking' http://science.uniserve.edu.au/newsletter/vol18/burton.html
http://www.education.softarc.com/
FirstClass Collaborative Classroom is a package that includes email, electronic communication and collaboration products.
Relevant links
FirstClass client tutorial http://www.srl.rmit.edu.au/pd/fc/index.html
FirstClass basics http://www.chepd.mq.edu.au/boomerang/FCBasic/index.html
What is FirstClass? http://fcintra.its.deakin.edu.au/WhatisFC.html
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.
Relevant links & sample activities
'The Lac Operon' http://biology.kenyon.edu/HHMI/HHMImeeting2000/lac1/lac1.htm
'Multiple Choice Tests' http://www.northern.ac.uk/ncmaterials/computing%20science/db-design/quiz/quizcontents.htm
'Radioactivity Practical Work - apparatus quiz' http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/projects/access_online/Health_Science_Access/Chemistry_1/Radioactivity/apparatus_quiz.htm
'Random multiple choice quiz on "Sedimentary Rocks and Weathering"' http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/page12/8Gmc.htm
'Match - Body Regions I' http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/dropdrag/regions1.htm
' Radioactivity Revision Question 1a Matching exercise' http://www.darvill.clara.net/nucrad/radquizq1a.htm
'Multiple choice quiz on "The Extraction of Metals"'http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/page04/Mextract/Mextract5QHonly.htm
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~plb/InterBook.html
InterBook is an adaptive tutoring system that simplifies the development of adaptive electronic textbooks on the web.
Relevant links
'Adaptive textbooks on the World Wide Web' http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/proceedings/eklund/paper.html
'A pedagogical basis for adaptive WWW textbooks' http://naweb.unb.ca/98/proceedings/pascoe/
'Web-based education for all: a tool for development adaptive courseware' http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1893/com1893.htm
'A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE FOR DESIGNING MULTIMEDIA LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS' http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/wollongong98/asc98-pdf/eklundwoo0065.pdf
'InterBook: an Adaptive Tutoring System http://science.uniserve.edu.au/newsletter/vol12/eklund.html
http://www.learntechpartners.com/products/index.htm
Features include on-line course registration, interactive on-line testing, audio and video conferencing, student lounge and real-time chat.
http://www.lotus.com/lotus/offering3.nsf/wdocs/learningspacehome
LearningSpace facilitates the creation of a distributed learning environment. Features include course development and delivery, communication, assessment and reporting.
Nicenet's ICA is a sophisticated communication tool that brings WWW-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. The ICA is designed for post-secondary and secondary classrooms, distance learning and collaborative academic projects.
Relevant links
NICENET - A Way of Starting the On-line Classroom Journey http://cedir.uow.edu.au/ASCILITE98/abp_01n.html
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
http://www.markroseman.com/teamwave/workplace.html
TeamWave Workplace is designed to support virtual communities. It features a shared whiteboard which can be used for meetings, notetaking, design, discussions and more. Additional rooms can be created as needed.
Relevant links
Math 2342 at Texas A&M http://www.teamwave.com/reviews/testimonials/texas_am.html
On-line Workshops http://www.teamwave.com/reviews/duvall_1.html
TopClass is a management tool for web-based education and training. Features include course development and delivery, communication, assessment and reporting.
Relevant links
A survey of people who are using tools for building web-based classrooms. http://webclass.cqu.edu.au/Tools/Comparisons/Survey/
Tools for developing interactive academic web courses, includes: examples; tools; evaluation; etc. http://www.umanitoba.ca/ip/tools/courseware/
WebAssign is a versatile, web-based homework service for educators who want to offer expanded learning opportunities to their students. WebAssign delivers, collects, grades and records customised homework assignments over the Internet.
Relevant links
'WebAssign: Assessing Student Performance Any Time Any Where' http://science.uniserve.edu.au/newsletter/vol13/risley.html
'Testing Conceptual Understanding in Physics Using a Browser-based Computer Managed System' http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/callab/vol3/mazzo.html
http://spot.indstate.edu/webcourse.html
Web Course in a Box (WCB) is a course management system that allows instructors to easily develop and deliver instructional materials via the web.
WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated WWW-based educational environments. Features include course development and delivery, communication, assessment and reporting.
Relevant links
A survey of people who are using tools for building web-based classrooms. http://webclass.cqu.edu.au/Tools/Comparisons/Survey/
Tools for developing interactive academic web courses, includes: examples; tools; evaluation; etc. http://www.umanitoba.ca/ip/tools/courseware/
WebMCQ is a service that provides an easy way to create and publish quizzes or surveys on the web.
Relevant links
'Using WebMCQ' http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/ctl/Synergy/Synergy9/jdalziel.htm
'Review of WebMCQ' http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/ltsn-ics/resources/caa/tools/WebMCQ/overview.html
'COMDESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR ‘NEXT WAVE’ EDUCATIONAL TOOLS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEBMCQ ASSESSMENT SYSTEM'
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/wollongong98/asc98-pdf/gazzarddalziel.pdf
WebMentor is a development, delivery and management tool.
WebTeach is a web-based communication package that caters for discussion, brainstorming, class quizzes and task setting.
Relevant links
'Templates for online teaching' (pdf) http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/wollongong98/asc98-pdf/hewsonhughes.pdf
'WebTeach: interactive web-based teaching' http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/cpd/HERDSA/HTML/EquiPol/HewHug.HTM
'ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS COMPARED' http://www.du.org/duinc/learnenv.html
'Tools for developing interactive academic web courses, includes: examples; tools; evaluation; etc.' http://www.umanitoba.ca/ip/tools/courseware/
'Choosing Web Conferencing Software' http://thinkofit.com/webconf/wcchoice.htm
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