Google Launched an Open Source Authoring Tool
Google's Authoring tool for eLearning
Course Builder is targeting in all educational levels. From K12 to Higher Education. However, it seems that they did not consider the corporate education. Google hopes that teachers, educators, and professors will use Googles' Authoring Tools to teach online courses whether the students are 10 or 100,000.
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Concerning the technology behind Course Builder, Google used to build Course Builder the same software that used to build the Power Searching with Google Online Course. With Course Builder you can
- present your course material,
- include instructions,
- assessments, and
- activities to your students.
However, almost all the tools do that. So, why to use Course Builder?
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By using Course Builder you can use and other Google products that will help you create a course community (ManageCommunity) to evaluate the effectiveness (MeasureEfficacy) of your course. The bad news are that you have to be familiar with JavaScript and... HTML... I am sure that you have experience of course designing.
I highly encourage you to see the Course Builder Intro Video
At the first experimental step more than 20,000 students completed the Power Searching course out of 155,000 students that registered for the course.
Least but not last... If you respect yourself as an eLearning Professional you have to try Course Builder and come with your clues. If you try Course Builder please let me know your thoughts! Highly Appreciated!
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Christopher Pappas
Founder, eLearning Industry
The eLearning Industry runs the following sites:
► The eLearning Industry (http://www.elearningindustry.com) “The Leading Source for Professionals Involved in the eLearning Industry” (November 2012)
► Viva eLearning (http://vivaelearning.com) “Free Video Tutorials for eLearning Professionals” (December 2012)
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► eLearning Jobs (http://elearningjobs.com/) “The Leading Source for eLearning Jobs” (May 2013)
► eLearning Ask (http://elearningask.com/) "An eLearning Questions and eLearning Answers discussions portal" (May 2013)
Currently, the eLearning Industry has a network of more than 75,000 professionals involved in the eLearning Industry.
He is also the Founder and Owner of the Instructional Design and eLearning Professionals’ Group (46K+) (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=110953), which is the largest online community of professionals involved in the eLearning Industry at LinkedIn.
Christopher holds an MBA, and an M.Ed. (Learning Design) from BGSU and currently works as project manager at http://www.learn-e-pedia.gr S.A. (Antenna Group of Companies), which is the largest interactive learning platform from Greek-speaking students and learners across the Globe.
Website: www.elearningindustry.com
