udutu | online learning simulations made easy home 9 Free Tools for E-learning I get a lot of questions from blog readers who are on a limited budget. They want to know about free tools that they can use to build their elearning courses. In this economy, the question probably means more than it did a couple of years ago. I’m a junky for all of the free stuff online. In today’s post, I’ll share with your some of the free tools that I use regularly to help me be more productive. 1. Pixie is a simple color picker. 2. Color Schemer helps you create color schemes. You can also download the software, but that isn’t free. I also like to use other sites such as Kuler and Color Scheme Designer. 3. Paint.net has really developed into a nice application. I find that a lot of people buy a more costly graphics editor and then only use it for basic tasks. Here’s a link to some tutorials to help you get started. 4. Photo Resizer is kind of an interesting tool. 5. Audacity is an open source audio editor. I usually record my audio directly in the rapid elearning tools. 6. 7. 8. 9.
blendedlearning » home Xerte - Open Source E-Learning Developer Tools Welcome to The Xerte Project! The Xerte Project is an initiative to provide high quality free software to educators all over the world, and to build a global community of users and developers around our tools. The project began in 2004 at the University of Nottingham, when work began to create a Flash-based runtime engine that would help the in-house multimedia development team speed up the development of interactive learning materials, and provide a platform for re-using good solutions to common problems that developers were typically solving every time they began a new project. To begin with, the tools were aimed at technical users: essentially the engine provided a library of useful classes that developers could access by writing XML to structure content, and writing code to develop interactivity. We began to discover that many of our users, attracted by the software's features, were struggling with some of the more technical aspects of developing content. Core Values Downloads