edu 2.0 - next generation education
We have been talking about education tools in the last posts: Web 2.0 ideas for educators, Camtasia Studio 3 now for free, Computer training and also Sciencehack - Science Videos.
edu2.0 is a powerfull tool for education. edu2.0 is more than a CMS, a LMS, a Social Network, a RSS Aggregator or a social software tool. With edu2.0 you can teach, learn, use and share resources and join communities.
edu20 is free but have most of the features offered by the commercial vendors, like virtual classrooms, communities, social networking, a community-contributed library of resources, private messaging, rubrics, quizzes, curricula, a personalized self-paced study.
If you’re not a native english speaker they allow volunteers to translate the site into different languages. edu20 is already available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish and Italian.
This short 3-minute video provides a good overview of the site:
All this for free, just regist and you’re on edu2.0.
