BUILD YOUR OWN --- FREE COURSEWARE

UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the teaching/learning arm of the UN. Their website serves as a clearinghouse for the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge. Here is a partial list of free courseware to support course/content managment.

Dokeos Open Source Learning and Knowledge Management is free software translated in 31 languages. The technology is being used by 1000+ organisations.

Moodle is an open source learning management system for producing Internet-based educational courses and Web sites on any major platform (Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS X). Courses are easily built up using modules such as forums, chats, journals, quizzes, surveys, and assignments.

OLAT - Online Learning And Training is a web-based Learning Management System (LMS) used in Switzerland's public sector and developed at the University of Zuerich. OLAT is open source and completely free of charge.

Ganesha
is a French Open Source LMS. The developer is currently working on AICC SCORM and XML features and will release Ganesha in other langauges in the near future.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) allows MIT course materials that are used in the teaching of almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects to be available on the web, FREE OF CHARGE. The purpose of MIT OCW is to serve as a model for university dissemination of knowledge in the Internet age.

Coursework is an open source course management system based at Stanford University. The CourseWork source code is free and open, and can be downloaded for any organization to use and modify to their own needs. You will need your own staff to install and manage the system, but the code is free and open.

Review additonal freeware on the UNESCO website.