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James Boyle spoke at the Faculty Academy today. During his talk he mentioned both of these sites, The first is a place to share teaching modules. The second is an open-source course management system. He urged teachers and administrators to be more open, sharing of their work that can be used for instruction.

• Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
  Connexions is:
  a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
  (tags: courseware opencourseware web2.0 teaching education academic opensource collaboration)
• Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning
  Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
  (tags: online web2.0 education teaching lms moodle cms freeware)