Stella Porto's List: open source

"I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory. You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. In addition, she indicates if they are free or cost money – which is not quite the same thing as open source."

"One of the biggest of criticism leveled on the Firefox web browser is that it is very slow. There always will be a difference in the speed at which Internet Explorer loads and the speed at which the Firefox web browser loads. This is because the Internet Explorer web browser has been integrated into the Windows Operating System. When the Windows Operating System starts, it loads some files that are necessary for Internet Explorer as well. This does increase the loading time of the operating system. However, these files are essential for the loading of the Operating System as well. The implications of this point shall be discussed later. Coming back, the reason why Internet Explorer loads faster is that certain essential files are already loaded."