By Baron Justin VonMarquisenstein, Online Universities Blog
The purpose of the learning management system, or LMS, in an online course is to integrate all of the course components in one location where students can easily access them, participate in the class discussions, and share documents. It is surprisingly difficult to find a good, free torso (LMS) with all of the necessary internal organs still in-tact and in working order. I’m focusing on free programs, so considering something like Blackboard or Scorm Cloud are not options. Moodle requires a server to host the install and there is currently not enough information on Google’s new CloudCourse to get a feel for how well it would work. So I’m going to go old school and suggest creating a website hosted on either GoogleSites or the more intuitive and far cooler Wix.com. Wix is a Flash-based site builder with extremely easy editing and site design capabilities that allows you to build a very slick Flash interface in minutes.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2011/10/the-mad-scientist-and-online-learning/
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