Connecting to others, is enabled by open source software. So this is not a blogpost on theory, but on practicalities of connectivism reality. The open source community celebrated Software Freedom Day on 20 September. "Transparency is ... open source software (FOSS) has become one of the major catalysts in increasing transparency by lowering the barrier to ... (to manipulate your picture quality etcetera) Inkscape : An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities ... plugins . Scribus : Open Source Desktop publishing. Scribus is an open-source program that brings ...

6C Learning Blog: The new RELOAD has arrived I am going to try this new open source software. Thanx Bert!

If an eLearning course will be build with audiovisual aids, in most cases you will draw up or write a storyboard . The storyboard is useful to: make sure you cover all the learning objectives, test the continuity of the story/narrative you use to enlighten your learners keep the team of developers informed of their expected input and when their input is due. Celtx is a great storyboard software. It just upgraded to their 1.0 version ( cross platform and delivered in a lot of languages ). This software is also useful if you want to construct a podcast which is in high ...

Mark Surman got me focussed on Open Educational Resources (OER) again with his great post on the Cape Town Declaration. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is document that will be posted on the WWW in the beginning of 2008 and which builds upon other Open Education evolutions such as Free & Open Source Software Portal from Unesco who put their ideas into open education from as early as 1984 onwards. There are a lot of OER out there, just to list a few ... great open source resource for software engineeering: AVOIR ; A great and more international initiative is RAFT , ...

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It may be 6:30 a.m., but I have not gone crazy! Anyone who thinks the idea of open sources software and Lego Mindstorms are both great ideas, needs to listen to Peter Semmelhack's podcast from O'Reilly's eTech Conference ( all podcasts ). Most everyone understands that the key concept of open source software is that the technical community ... devices? Give some thought to Legos. If you've used Lego Mindstorms, you will understand the Bug Labs open source ... ;ve added this podcast to the engineering podcast search engine. Learn more via my wiki .

Innovators' Dilemma in Learning/eLearning , Where are open source learning applications? The discussions on the ... A recent spate of posts on the challenges of running an open source business is interesting ( Tosh , Siemens , Downes ... working on your labor of love. However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative ... in fact happening) that open source will begin to become increasingly important in the eLearning world. Especially ...

... companies and independent teachers. TCExam is open source and completely free to use. I haven’t tested TCExam yet, but it looks promising.  The website promotes the following features: Free and Open Source Community support ... ), please let us know what you think.    Tagged: elearning, learning, opensource, resources, ...

2dbarcode , mobile code , open source , project , opensource , m-learning , mlearning , mobile learning , mobilelearning , mobile-learning , google , barcode , barcodes , facebook Authored by Leonard Low ... found an open-source Google Code project called ZXing , which is an open-source project to build a cross-platform barcode ... available, and because it’s open source, it should be possible to incorporate it into related educational projects such as integration with augmented reality learning resources. ZXing’s successful implementation to power ...

In my quest to realize a Star Trek-ian society within my lifetime I wish to promote free tools, eLearning tools at that. One of the great recent repositories is Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Everyone could build a repository with free eLearning tools, but she did it by distilling the top 100 tools that were provided to her by expert eLearning colleagues from all around the world. While surfing to her list, you get a nice bonus: each tool has a small tutorial linked to it. Nice. The top 10 free tools lists Firefox, delicious, Google reader, ...

Hear that? It’s the web world being turned upside down. The online learner’s favorite tool of all time, Firefox, will never look the same. Google just brought out an open source browser. Actually, it will be out in twelve minutes. Google Chrome leverages Google’s knowledge of page popularity, mal sights, pfishers, and so on, but the new browser sounds like it breaks new ground in flexibility, speed, and robustness. Not that I know from experience ... conveys some very technical material in a most captivating way. Notice to Personal Learning Portfolio ...

Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and ... would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts... First, open-source generally succeeds once an application domain is fairly well understood and the feature sets are relatively more stable. If you look at the slow creep up the application stack of open-source solutions (OS, ...

Just a few years ago, using open source software was a major "no no" at most major corporations, including my own. However, the software world has changed so dramatically that open source software is now part of almost any corporate environment. Thus, please link over to the O'Reilly web site and read up on the subject. They have an eBook, which you may download w/o charge titled: " Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing ". You will be ... Engineering Learning Wiki's Manuals Section .

... of Higher Education March 1, 2006 Open to Open Source Open source software has found a permanent home on some college campuses. But according to a study released today by the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, open source products, which enable programmers to modify code and ... source products, while about a quarter of institutions are implementing higher education-specific open source software ... education, calls the mindset regarding open source “affirmative ambivalence.” Chief information officers ...

... projects. This paper examines lessons learned from open source software development and uses these lessons to build ...     Open Source Content in Education: Part 2 ... This is the second article ( Part 1: Free and Open Source Movements explores the history and philosophy of the openness and sharing of resources in software development) on the role of open source ... - i.e. blogs Open source movement Grassroots ...

I exchanged emails with Tim Wang this week. Tim blogs over at Tim Wang's eLearning Blog . He provided some outstanding open source projects that he contributes too: Learning Tools: http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca Pachyderm: http://www.pachyderm.org Open Croquet: http://www.opencroquet.org Ancient Spaces: http://ancient.arts.ubc.ca/ Arts Metaverse: http://artsmetaverse.arts.ubc.ca I LOVE The learning Tools Tim has authored, and links to, in the first link ... huge fan of Open Croquet. I think we are all just waiting for it too mature a little bit more. Ancient Spaces and ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Where are open source learning applications? : eLearning Technology Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning ... - forget about it I would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, ...

... course will be a MOOG (Massive Open Online Course) and it will look at: - What will education and training look like in ... mentions a variety of new learning tools that will be used in this course. The course will be delivered fully online in ... the connectivism course will be taught. So prepare to get twelve weeks of intens learning spread out to you and build by ... ) History of networked learning Week 5: (October 5-11) Connectives and Collectives: Distinctions between networks and ... Week 9: (November 2-8) What becomes of the teacher? New roles for educators Week 10: (November 9-15) Openness: ...

Toward Open Source Interview Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source 6/4/2008 By Linda L Briggs With open source products ... surveyed campuses were on open source e-learning system such as Moodle or Sakai, and Gartner projects that number will grow to ... recently announced that its expanded its support for Moodle, the popular open source learning management system.

There are a lot of e-learning things. LMSs, LCMSs, Virtual Classroom Tools. Online courses on Windows and biology 101 and ethics. The question used to be, what would be bundled? Would EPSs bundle LMSs? Would IM bundle virtual classrooms. Then the question is, what will be merged/acquired. Which LMSs and LCMSs will merge? Will content vendors merge with other content, or with tools? Now there is open source. How we will do what we want to do is getting increasingly interesting.

... and over, and over. We currently use the internet to subsidize the learning that is being missed in class for what ever reason. So, when do we begin to realize that the internet can be the primary source, not just something extra? Good/entrepreneurial teachers could quite easily increase their salaries with simple marketing techniques and open source ... I put out an idea early this month about teachers putting themselves on the open market. The tools I find, the more I see this as our future reality. TeacherTube is great! And since I haven't done my going-into-the-weekend-video ...

... functionality for Moodle. But luckily they didn't, deciding instead to contribute their own tools to the open source Moodle ... As someone who uses Moodle as a tool to support blended learning projects for several of my corporate clients, I was interested to hear Mark Tointon's speak at the recent eLearning Network showcase about some new add-ons for Moodle ... the sorts of problems that many corporates face, and which generally lead them to a conventional learning management ... (CPD). CPD hours/points are added automatically to users' records for any e-learning courses they ...

SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for satisfaction - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Platinum ... Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I ...

Over the past two months I've been working extensively with the open source virtual learning environment (VLE) Moodle . I've been using it in three ways: To provide support for a predominantly classroom-based course (pre and post course activities, forums, wiki, etc.). To support a predominantly online course in the usual way. To build an online ... Moodle extremely easy to learn (in spite of pretty awful online help) and I have been able to create what I want in ... it, the Open University are switching their quarter of a million students to Moodle, so it must be a scalable ...

... suggest for administering and tracking CBTs for this reader? Is there an open source solution that isn’t a full LMS but ... A reader asked a question that I’m not really sure how to answer. My experience has mostly been in higher ed, so I’ve always needed to do grading or more tracking than what this reader needs: I am the sole person involved with e-Learning in my branch, and I am mostly limited to using freeware.   At present we are developing self-paced CBTS using PowerPoint, a PowerPoint-to-Flash converter, and HTML.  My client wants two things that I am stuck on: ...

On January 3rd I laid out my e-learning predictions for 2008 . One of these was: "We'll see more online rapid e-learning authoring environments come on the market, perhaps even open source." I was either inspired or lucky (you choose) because since then a beta of RapideL-i was announced and then earlier this week I was treated to a sneak preview of a new tool called Unison from Rapid Intake , the makers of Flashform. Full details of this product ... some eyebrows. These products will provide further competition for two online rapid e-learning authoring tools ...

... is really a revisitation of the ‘platform’ proposal as well.  Open API’s, open source, and open ... !) Defining cyberlearning as “the use of networked computing and communications technologies to support learning” ... transform learning.  As I’ve mentioned before, the technology is no longer the barrier, it’s now our imagination and conviction.  And now that we can do anything we want, when we go back and look at most formal learning, we ... off in a big way.  Society has a vested interest in an open playing field. 3. Emphasize the transformative power ...

Google Blogs Wiki's Open Source IM/ VOIP (Instant Messaging/ Voice Over Internet) Ambient Information Mobile Phones as Content Inputs/Outputs Podcasts Computer Games driving educational simulations Growing Training Budgets More Decentralized College ...

Trends for Organizational Learning . 1. Google 2. Blogs 3. Wiki's 4. Open Source 5. IM/VOIP 6. Ambient ... the other top 10 lists. 1. E-learning 2.0 2. Virtual Environments 3. Open source and free tools 4. Do-it-yourself ... an open invitation to learning professionals who were asked to mention tools that were used for either their learning ... I stumbled across another "top ten learning trends" list today, and I got to thinking, "it seems like everyone has a ... . Growing training budgets 11. More decentralized college programs I think this list from World Wide Learn could ...

... that were raised: more emphasis on open source/open resources; shift in company ethics, durable (energy) solutions ... (SIG). This noon I joined Jay Cross at his lunch initiative: what can the learning world expect/tackle in these times of ... that in the past the learning department was one of the first departments to be cut in companies, estimates are that nearly 70 to 80 % of the learning budgets will be cut in the next couple of years. So we all better gear ourselves to ... = learning will be crucial if you want your company/organisation to stay financially valid. the world is in an ...