You mght take a look at Sakai or Moodle - both are open source learning management systems, much more than you probably need. http://www.sakaiproject.org and http://moodle.org/
I've seen plenty of people using basic bbs, newsgroup, or wiki sorts of things for online teaching. Mostly needs an organized pattern of "teaching materials," "assignments," "turnin," "Main Class Discussions," "Chat Board," and maybe "Team Space" if you are doing collaborative efforts. University of Phoenix basically uses newsgroups with a web interface or outlook express, for example.
Are you sure you want synchronous meetings?
Might take a look at http://www.edutools.org/ - the CMS comparisons. Again, serious overkill, probably.
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Overkill, but the price is right
2006-09-23 02:05 (UTC)I've seen plenty of people using basic bbs, newsgroup, or wiki sorts of things for online teaching. Mostly needs an organized pattern of "teaching materials," "assignments," "turnin," "Main Class Discussions," "Chat Board," and maybe "Team Space" if you are doing collaborative efforts. University of Phoenix basically uses newsgroups with a web interface or outlook express, for example.
Are you sure you want synchronous meetings?
Might take a look at http://www.edutools.org/ - the CMS comparisons. Again, serious overkill, probably.