Authorizing tools for EFL

Open source e-learning software

Here we look at a few pieces of free open source e-learning

software. They are generally suites, meaning that they have a number of different activity types for teachers to use. The aim is to provide an overview of each one and give you the necessary skills to make your own activities to use with your students.

1. Xerte

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/

The Xerte Wiki

http://wiki.xerte.net/index.php5?title=Main_Page

The Xerte Wiki

2. Hot Potatoes

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

3. Eclipse crossword

This crossword is a free download.

http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/

4. Exe

Produced by a group of universities in New Zealand

http://exelearning.org/wiki

5. Jclic


This is from the Ministry of Education of the Government of Catalonia

http://clic.xtec.cat/en/jclic/index.htm

A manual is available in German in pdf format from the addresss below.

http://clic.xtec.cat/docs/Handbuch_JClic.pdf