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No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks several of the best free university cou
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Steve Dembo of Teach42.com was given a glimpse at Edmodo.com before it's release and wrote up a great article detailing the e-learning platform.
Edmodo is a new micro-blogging platform getting ready to be released solely for the education community.
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Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting informa
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iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!
In contrast to widely used commerc
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The OpenEducationDisc is a modification of the OpenDisc format by Teachers and Computer Specialists with a passion for education. The purpose of it i
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Enjoy real-time collaboration with up to three participants using interactive features such as:rnrn * Two-way audiorn * Interactive whiteboardrn * Direct messagingrn * Application sharingrn * File transferrn * Synchronized web tourrn * Live webcamrn * Break
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SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education. SchoolForge is intended to empower member organizations to make open educational resources more effective, efficient, and ubiquitous by enhancing communication, sharing resourc
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Ning is a free platform for creating your own social networks. You start by choosing a combination of features (videos, blogs, photos, forums, etc.) from an ever-growing list of options. Then customize how it looks, decide if it's public or private, and add your brand logo if you have one.
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There are general reasons why all computer users should insist on free software. It gives users the freedom to control their own computers—with propr
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Miro is an app that is designed to “turn your computer into an Internet TV.” At the moment there are 3726 channels to choose from, but you can also add any video RSS feed, podcast, or video blog. Miro also plays the video files on your hard drive, whether they’re in Quicktime, Windows Media, MPEG,
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TiddlyWiki allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to a WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick.
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Brio is a web meeting service designed for small collaborative meetings for individual professionals and small businesses. With Brio, you can instantly communicate and collaborate through an easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting room. Currently in beta.
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The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open
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The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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A great screen capture, image annotation, image sharing application for Mac OSX. Currently in public beta.
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The Enigma is a ciphering device used primarily during World War II by Nazi Germany. The Enigma Simulator found on this site serves to simulate that device as best as possible on a computer. To learn more about the history or theory behind the real Enigma machine, Wikipedia has an excellent article
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