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eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsLearning Object Tools
A reader from another country has asked me about Learning Object Tools. I asked him to clarify what they meant and the response was:Learning Object Tools are those that allow you to create, edit and manage learning objects.There is also a bit of language barrier. I pointed them at the Wikipedia article - Learning Object. It cites quite a few repositories and briefly mentions "Burrokeet is an Open Source Software tool that assists in the creation of Learning Objects from existing content. " This is something I'm not familiar with. I also suggested looking at LCMS products. And ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, February 22, 2008 - CommentsBlogs as a Basis for Social Networks
Interesting to see the buzz around Diso.DiSo (dee ⬢ zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it: "to build a social network with its skin inside out". Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.This aligns pretty well with my experience of Learning and Networking with a Blog. It appears to be heading in a good direction where you ... starting within the walls of Facebook).Of course, this is early, but the general trend of seeing distributed, open ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - CommentseLearning Startups - New Wave Coming
... get eaten by lower-cost, e.g., open source players. And innovation comes from nimble start-ups who can attack smaller market opportunities. What's interesting though is how many of these "smaller" opportunities have the ability through network effects to grow very large.One thing that was curious to me is that I can't find a good resource that shows what companies have received funding in our world? Where are th ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, September 28, 2007 - CommentsOpen Source eLearning
Posts related to the use of Open Source eLearning:Interesting Distribute Publishing Model and Open SourceOpen Source eLearning Business ModelInnovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearningWhere are open source eLearning applications?
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentseLearning Trends
See also - Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008I was talking with someone last night who asked me what some of the bigger eLearning Trends were. I told him about eLearning 2.0 and the move to DIY. But I also promised to point him to some of my posts that I thought would help him get a handle on the most important eLearning Trends going on today:eLearning Trend #1 - eLearning 2.0 - see What is eLearning 2.0? and eLearning 1.0 vs. 2.0 eLearning Trend #2 - Virtual Environments - see Second Life and Learning eLearning Trend #3 - Open Source and Free Tools eLearning Trend #4 - ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - CommentsInteresting Distribute Publishing Model and Open Source
... via Stephen Downes) Impact of Open Source Software on Education, Series Launch is interesting both because of the publishing model and because of the content.The publishing model is something we might want to consider at LCB. What they've done is recruit authors who are going to publish (via a blog) something between a blog post, interview and an article every other week on a particular topic - in this case Open Source. Each post will have comments, questions, etc. from readers. They have a Wiki ("Impact of Open Source Software on Educationâ¬ý series, visit WikiEducator) that they ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - CommentsOpen Source Business Model
A recent spate of posts on the challenges of running an open source business is interesting (Tosh, Siemens, Downes ... 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 than Elgg, but ... ) that open source will begin to become increasingly important in the eLearning world. Especially as things become less ... in Learning/eLearning, Where are open source learning applications? The discussions on the posts are quite ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 5, 2007 - CommentsInnovators' Dilemma in Learning/eLearning
... now that the biggest shift will be towards more free, open-source solutions that provide roughly the same functionality ... that they aren't going to be the source. Does anyone from Saba, SumTotal, Adobe/Macromedia/eHelp, Lectora, etc. disagree? What will be the source?
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 15, 2007 - CommentsInnovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearning
... lessening and the opportunities are going to fall to providing open-source, free-hosted and other commodity type solutions.Instead, real innovation is happening at the edges. I'm personally spending more time building interesting tools like things that help people work on improving their customer satisfaction scores, or an online contest, or personal tracking systems, or personal knowledge management, or ... What's interesting in each of these projects/companies is that they are not selling to the classic eLearning buyer (training organizations) ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - CommentsWhy Wikis Are Conquering the Enterprise
Found via 7 Days and More, interesting article on InternetNews.com - Why Wikis Are Conquering The Enterprise by Michael Hickins. Couple of thoughts from the article:adoption is coming mainly from project managers and department-level executives not senior management (and, of course, corporate learning was not mentioned)"In almost every big corporation, some group is already using a wiki," said Andrew McAfee, associate professor of technology and operations management at the Harvard Business School. This echoes what I've been seeing as well. It's kinda like Web Servers, Open Source and ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, October 30, 2006 - CommentsWhere are open source learning applications?
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 several ... agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts...First, open ... stable. If you look at the slow creep up the application stack of open-source solutions (OS, app server, database, CRM), then its easy to see the pattern. So, we should naturally expect to see open source solutions emerge where we ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, July 28, 2006 - CommentsBeta Program, Email List, Acquisition - A Case Study in What Not to Do
... products starts on the list. List of 10 competitors including open source are being discussed.May 23, 2006Abandoning their products is pretty easy. There are plenty of good alternatives out there, and they all output the same types of files....And this is just TOO FUNNY...May 23, 2006 - From: XXX@thecompany.comTo: a member of the listSent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:24 AMSubject: RE: Beta programWould you be so kind and send this message to the list (I am notauthorized to post) - Hopefully, I'll find out what's going on shortly ...
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