Software for building online courses

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  Posted by Anders Wallace on February 2, 2017 at 4:22 pm

  Hello, I’m wondering if anyone can recommend (or has heard of) good software for building courses that can be distributed and accessed online? My priorities are ease-of-use (building short, independent models nested within a course), functionality (able to embed video-clips), and ease of distribution.

  Many thanks!

  Anders

• Patrick Smyth, PhD

  Participant

  February 2, 2017 at 8:42 pm

  Sounds like you’re focused more on the course-as-resource side of things, rather than the LMS (Learning Management System) side. In the last year or two I’ve taken a strong liking to plain-text powered resources like GitHub, GitBook, and Jekyll. Git is a utility for sharing and collaborating on code an text, and people can easily “clone” or “fork” your resource to make use of it, including building on it. You can also use various tools to export plain text to the web, epub, PDF, etc.

  For inspiration, I’d check out the below:

  Digital Praxis Seminar syllabus
  Command line workshop curriculum
  The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data (GitBook)
  Ed (minimal theme for Jekyll)

  Good luck!
  Anders Wallace

  Participant

  February 6, 2017 at 12:52 pm

  Thanks so much Patrick! This is a great list, very helpful