There are various tools available for providing the lecture notes as content, video lectures, audio lectures, etc. Some of the tools are open source and some are paid tools. Its up to an individual to select the tool either as open source or paid source.
This post list some of the tools that are needed for Elearning:
Moodle
Name: Modular Object Oriented Distributed Learning Environment
Software's used: PHP, MySQL4.1
For deplolying moodle in any environment, need for a web server is mandatory. Better Apache server can be used.
There are packages like WAMP (windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) – This is for windows
and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for Linux Operating System.
Moodle can be configured for the following apps
Scalable upto 50000 students of a University
Online Quiz Examination (Objective as well Descriptive)
Students Attendance Management System
Course Management
Drupal
Drupal is the very efficient tool for Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is a general purpose Content Management System which can be configured as elearning package with the help of various modules provided by the drupal software
Versions: Drupal 5, Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 (alpha) – Drupal 6 is used widely.
Software’s used: PHP, MySQL
Again here also WAMP or LAMP may be used to install Drupal.
Drupal can be configured for the following apps
Lecture notes posting on a regular basis
Student Assignment Submission
Student Project Management
Wordpress
Wordpress is the famous blogging platform for providing lecture notes on a regular basis and posted under various titles (tags).
Wordpress is given as a software package of not more than 2.5 MB, which will be installed on a web server particularly apache (WAMP or LAMP)
Software’s used: PHP, MySQL
The lecture notes can be posted on a regular basis (daily or weekly) and even the administrator of a domain can invite other authors to register and post.
The learners can able to read the notes(posts) and if any doubts, they can able to post queries in the commenting section which is also provided as part of the wordpress software.
Wordpress can be configured for the following
Lecture notes posting
Solving doubts through Commenting Section
Easily post the Audio/Video lectures
and not only the above the list goes on and on.
(NB: All the softwares above are free and open source. you can cusotmize as per your use and redistribute it)