Google has released a course authoring tool. "The Course Builder project came by way of another program Google ran earlier this year called Power Searching With Google. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which attracted approximately 155,000 students from 196 countries, allowed Google to marry some of the practices now common to online instruction with the company's robust array of collaboration and communication tools." The tool builds fairly traditional courses, as this guide to developing courses demonstrates. The tool runs on the Google App Engine, which means that while it's free to run at a small scale, costs would begin to accumulate with more use. I ran a test version on my desktop and it's basically a set of scripts that integrate a content database with presentation tools.
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