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Business Balls – Free Online Learning and Development Website

Business Balls is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations. It is one of the most mind-boggling collections of free management training materials that you’ll find on the Internet. New features include badges, learning plans linked to accredited competency frameworks, wikis (for collaborative content development), fresh content from international thought leaders…
Grammarly

This online grammar checker corrects mistakes and other writing errors across a variety of programs and directly in the browser. Grammarly Keywords: Lifelong Learning
FutureLearn: Free Online Courses

FutureLearn is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) learning platform that includes a number of international partners, including non-university partners. They also push learning further with online Programs and Degrees. “Whether anyone wants to develop as a professional or discover a new hobby, there’s an online course for that.” Future Learn provides a variety of courses from leading universities…
GarageBand

A powerful music creation tool and music studio. It is easy to use to record, but editing, though easy for beginners, gets increasingly sophisticated the deeper you go. It requires a download and is available only for the Mac. There are only marginally comparable tools for PC available for free. You can find more fully…
Accredible Badge Builder

Design digital badge images in just a few clicks. Use a badge template, upload logos and images, including customizing the text & colors of your badge design. Then, download your image to use as a digital badge design in any badge issuing platform. Accredible Badge Builder Keywords: Gamification
7 Things You Should Know About Open Education – EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or that have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others. The 7 Things You Should Know About… series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on…
Creative Commons – CC License Definitions, Search for Materials, & Share Your Work

The links below explain the various levels of permissions and Creative Commons licenses, enable searching for Creative Commons licensed materials, and provide information to those who wish to share their work using Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons Website Creative Commons Licenses Search Creative Commons Materials Share Your Work using Creative Commons Licenses Keywords:…
Atavist for Education

..and as you leave you say goodbye to the place with a very heavy heart….promising to come back for even longer next year.
OpenSimulator – Design your own Virtual Reality space for education, meetings, or games

The open source movement allowed complex avatar-based, game-engine software to become available free of charge using OpenSimulator. Contributions from artists and designers now makes pre-developed virtual artifacts and design spaces available to educators, meeting planners, and game designers; easy modifications and adjustments allow for custom virtual environments for an infinity of purposes. Server rental companies, such…
PBWorks

PBWorks offers a variety of collaboration tools including free wikis for education. Editing and formatting of the wiki is very easy and needs only minimal instruction. Students can collaborate on projects outside of the classroom. Student accounts can be created without email addresses. Educators can get automated notifications to see when and how often students…
Introduction to Gamification video by Scott Nicholson

This video, presented by Scott Nicholson from the University of Syracuse, provides an Introduction to Meaningful Gamification and discusses in greater detail about what it means to develop gamified activities. Introduction to Gamification video by Scott Nicholson Keywords: Gamification, Lifelong Learning, Video
SUNY FACT2 Online Accessibility

This website created by the Online Accessibility SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology (FACT2) Task Group to provide recommendations and tips on making software and educational resources more accessible and to ensure they comply with Section 508. SUNY FACT2 Online Accessibility Why Does Accessibility Matter? Keywords: Accessibility, Websites
Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is a polling application to gather live responses using simple text messages or WIFI through a mobile device, phones, tablets, or laptops. Poll Everywhere lets people vote on options displayed on the screen by visiting a website, texting a number on their phones, using the iPhone/Android app, or using Twitter. The poll results are updated…
MindMeister

MindMeister is a tool that allows collaborative creation of mind maps / concept maps and share them online. MindMeister Keywords: Visual Design, mindmap
Popplet

Popplet is a tool that allows users to visualize ideas. Create graphic organizers, timelines, and many other forms of visual organization. Popplet Keywords: Mobile Apps, Presentations, Productivity Tools, Visual Design
Flora

Flora is an app that utilizes the Pomodoro technique to keep your focus on one task at a time. Once you set the timer, you may not check messages, answer calls or visit sites on your phone for that period of time. If you stick to your task without getting distracted by your phone, you…
FocusList

FocusList is a way to improve the Pomodoro technique, forcing you to focus on one task without getting distracted. It tracks the time you spend on a task and helps deepen your concentration while you do it. FocusList Pomodoro Technique Keywords: Mobile Apps, Productivity Tools
Blinkist

Blinkist is an app that takes a non-fiction book, summarizes it and reads it back to you (in audio or text) within 15 minutes. This app is great for people who love to learn new things but don’t have the time to read an entire book. Note: a free trial is available. Otherwise, the app…
Glogster

Glogster is a cloud-based (SaaS) platform for presentation and interactive learning. It allows users to mix all kinds of media on a virtual canvas to create multimedia posters, and access a library of engaging educational content created by students and educators worldwide. Glogster encourages interactive, collaborative education and digital literacy. Note that there are a…
Loom

This Chrome extension provides simple screencasting with just a single click to record and then one click to finish, resulting in a publicly shareable URL automatically copied to your clipboard. Individual videos on the LOOM free plan are limited to up to 5 minutes. Collaborative features allow teams to co-develop videos. Loom has a free…