Gabriel’s E-Learning

Tutorom

October 28, 2007

I’ve just uncovered a really impressive E-Learning community called Tutorom. The site is filled with all kinds of e-learning courses designed and put together by the community itself.

The site is easy to navigate and contain a multitude of categories from cooking to drawing and computers. The course structure is easy to understand even when the amount of lessons exceed a hundred. The courses are rated (5 stars for best) and the learner can even bookmark a course in order to complete it later.

The site also allows teachers and trainers to post any courses they like using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface which makes it very easy and simple to put together a course (the designers can either open the course for free, charge a fee or collect 10% of the ad revenue).

I went ahead and constructed a test course. As mentioned, the interface is very simple and quite powerful. The trainer can choose from various tools such as a web page builder, slide show generator, upload media (video and audio), quizzes and more. It toke me only about five minutes to understand and use the tools to construct a (very) basic course, which is still impressive in e-learning terms.

I enjoyed seeing what can come out when combining e-learning and communities. I really hope this is where e-learning is heading as tools like Tutorom can really help us learn from others while contributing and teaching ourselves (when I have time, I’ll defiantly be adding courses for others to benefit from). It is a really positive e-learning tool that everyone should learn to use.

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