Low Cost Tools for eLearning

This website is built as a blog, powered by WordPress. For those who attended some of the Web 2.0 type classes, at AG09, you know that blogs are one way in which “Experts” in your company can easily distribute information to other people.

WordPress, allows additional features, such as adding themes, and plug-ins (like the review feature) – so that others can be involved in the discussion.

The Pros

WordPress has several nice features to it such as:

• easy install – 5 minutes or less usually,
• lots of free, or nearly free, plug-ins to extend its usability,
• it is actively being developed – continuous updates, new features, and security updates,
• easy article/post editor, and
• it’s free.

The Cons

• Helpful to install on a linux server (although it can be hosted on Windows or remotely though wordpress.com),
• it is actively being developed – which means you have to update periodically, and
• it uses PHP4 (means that it not as current, but it can run on almost any server because of this.

Overall

Overall, WordPress is a simple, but powerful blogging platform which can allow people to easily communicate news, information, etc without having to be technically minded. It can even be set up to run with multiple authors if you’d like.

It is fast, and allows for advanced features if you choose to enable them, working equally well in front of, as well as behind a firewall if necessary. Definately something worth looking into if you want to start with some basic elearning 2.0 without having a large budget.