Tools & Platforms
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Free Music for e-Learning Courses
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Archive's audio and MP3 library
Archive's audio and MP3 library is audio and mp3 library, which contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
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Free Music Archive
Free Music Archive is an archive of public domain and Creative Commons licensed songs managed with a
curatorial approach.
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Audio Farm
Audiofarm is the social network for audio. Audiofarm is the best and easiest way to find new and interesting music and audio from around the world.
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AudionautiX
AudionautiX is a free online music collection that you can use for non-commercial and commercial purposes as long as you provide credit "Music from - audionautix.com" or give a link to the audionatiX website.
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BrainyBetty
BrainyBetty is a website full of free sound clips and music for presentations.
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ccMixter
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
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DanoSongs
DanoSongs is a site where you can find original music as free MP3 downloads. You can listen to the songs online or download the tracks. It is also legal to use the music royalty-free in your video, game, film, presentation, slideshow, or website.
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Jamendo
Jamendo is the #1 platform for free music. The site allows users to download and listen to albums, and also to
discover and share new artists. It is completely free and legal.
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Kompoz
Kompoz is an online community that allows collaboration between artists from all over the world. Artists post their clips on the website where anyone can download and use them for their own productions.
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Musopen
Musopen is a non-profit organization focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. Musopen provides recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.
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PacDV
PacDV is free music that you can use in your video, audio, or multimedia productions. Clips are available as mp3s and are organized by mood and
emotion.
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Partners in Rhyme
Partners in Rhyme is a huge catalog of royalty-free music libraries for you to download and start using right away in your commercial projects.
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Purple Planet
Purple Planet is a free collection of royalty-free music available for download. Music can be used free of charge for web-based projects in exchange for a link to the Purple Planet website.
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Padlet
Project Management Tool
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OpenWorkbench
OpenWorkbench is a desktop application for project management and scheduling in which you can define a work breakdown structure, set dependencies and resource constraints, assign resources to tasks, auto-schedule, and then monitor progress.
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Evernote
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for note-taking and archiving.
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Asana
Asana is a free shared task list for your team. The place to plan, organize, and stay in sync.
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Freedcamp
Freedcamp is a free project management software designed to manage multiple project tasks. Project managers gain full control of their project, where they can track workers’ time spent on a project, set deadlines, create a to-do list, and share important documents and information. It features a state-of-the-art communications system, from where all users can see which tasks have been assigned to them without the need to be signed into the system.
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Collabtive
Collabtive is a web-based project management software intended for small to medium-sized businesses and freelancers.
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ClockingIT
ClockingIT is a free hosted application, keeping track of all your tasks and the time you spend on them.
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Redmine
Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
Assessment and Testmakers
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Hot Potatoes
Hot Potatoes is a suite that includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.
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ClassMarker
ClassMarker is an easy-to-use, customizable online test maker for business, training & educational assessment with tests and quizzes graded instantly.
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Easy TestMaker
Easy TestMaker is an online test generator that makes it easy for you to perfectly format multiple question types, print alternate versions, and publish to the web for online tests! The tool lets you create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true/false questions, add instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.
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Quandary
Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes or interactive case- studies where the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires.
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QuizSlides
QuizSlides is a website that lets you create stylish, interactive online tests.
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Meet the Trainers
Marina Arshavskiy and Vanessa Trower have been in the field of instructional design and eLearning for over a decade and have worked with large global organisations and government agencies.
As we were working with our clients, we realised that many professionals are tasked with creating online courses but they don't always have the knowledge and skills needed to develop effective instructionally-sound digital courses.
Both of us were frequently approached by others asking for coaching and assistance with the design and development of online training solutions. When the number of inquiries exceeded what we could possibly handle, we decided to create a complete Instructional Design for ELearning program for those who are new to the digital learning industry and those who want to advance their current learning and education role and become eLearning instructional designers. This is when our collaboration originated!
Vanessa is the owner of Nexperk. She holds a Bachelor of Business, Human Resources Development, Facilitation Accreditation in Situational Leadership II with Blanchard International Australia, Certificate IV Training and Assessment, Australian Short Film Director and several Instructional Design courses. She served as the Australian Training & Development Institute Divisional Council President and is a multi-award-winning Learning Professional in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Vanessa is a 2021 finalist in the Empowered Woman Leadership Awards with the Leadership Institute.
Marina is the owner of Your ELearning World. She holds a Master's degree in Instructional Systems Design from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Marina is also Kirkpatrick's Bronze Level certified Training Evaluation professional. She is a multi-award-winning instructional designer. Recently, Marina received the "Top 100 Leaders in Education" award for significant contributions towards the field of education at GFEL. Marina has been working with top corporations and government agencies both in the United States and abroad. Her work has been featured in T&D magazine, ELearning Industry, Training Magazine, California Management Review, HR.com, SHRM, and more. She is the author of the Instructional Design for ELearning book.
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