How to design and facilitate an online course

Videconferences can be used for online meetings at a distance at a set time for a selected group of people. Some of the videoconferencing tools you may find useful in your classroom are:

• Flashmeeting (http://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm)

• OpenMeetings (http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings)

• BigBlueButton (http://bigbluebutton.org)

• Skype (http://www.skype.com/en/)

• WiZiQ (http://www.wiziq.com)

• Google Hangouts (http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts)

• AdobeConnect (http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html)