CourseKit is an online way to manage and facilitate your courses. It provides a vehicle for discussion, assessment, calendar functions and sharing files, articles, books and more.
What is most interesting about it is the price: FREE. Up against existing competition like Blackboard, CourseKit has gone the subversive route and is reaching to individual teachers and lecturers rather than institutions and their labyrinthine IT departments. A teacher or lecturer can take their course onto CourseKit since it is a completely online tool and so will work across all networks and through all firewalls.
I’m looking at it as a vehicle to take some of my workshops online as well as for possible use with my teaching in 2012.
