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 ... change happen globally." If you are interested, this is the list of open software that has proven to be strong and ... Supporting software Internet Office Relaxation Graphical software Blender : Blender is the free open ...

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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, ...

I just finished participating in Brent's new Talkcast Corporate e-Learning Weekly . With enough participation - this could prove to be a very active discussion space. Especially since we don't get enough chances to synchronously chat with each other. And we can only type so fast.... Brent - my apologies for lack of audio. I've been having sound input problems on my laptop and had no mic. I also had a cell phone with a dead battery. For anyone else who wants to join his talkcast - do the poor man a favor and give him some audio. Call in or Audio Skype. It will make for a ...

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Library » Features » Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos Published on Tuesday 12th of June, 2007 If youre interested in specific open courses, you can find a variety on the Web (or ... , this list of open courseware collections may be just what you need. Each resource listed below contains a ... or something that will improve your productivity . While the courses, videos, and audio files below wont help ...

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... more expensive than the hardware on which it ran. Then along came open source and a host of freebie applications, supported by advertising. At the moment I'm either using or considering using all of the following: Moodle , the open source virtual learning environment. DimDim , open source web conferencing. Google Docs and Spreadsheets (formerly ... audio editor. Wink , the free software capture/demo tool. Along with all the usuals, including Skype, Del-icio-us, etc ... . Cubase 4 upgrade, for digital audio production. All in all more than £1000 (about $1800). The irony is that ...

An interview with the Second Life founder These are great resources and will likely open your eyes a bit. I think ... audio (you hear people close to you) and whiteboarding tools, it will make for very interesting opportunities.

... that contains audio and automatic slide changes or similar functionality. I understand the BB does not have a Flash driver, yet, but that might be optimal, if it is in the works. The critical factor is that our Attorneys do not have to open up a separate application on the BB and drill down to play a file and that the file includes audio and visual ... silent regarding audio. I am told that the BB 9000's will play PowerPoint, but have not had a chance to get my hands on one to see if that includes audio. Cost is also a factor, so attrition of old units for new ones is more viable ...

When I took my family to the theater on opening night a few weeks ago (I got my WALL*E watch!), I was pleasantly ... . However, you may enjoy listening to a great audio book version which is available for free download. Another classic ... which 2001, A Space Odyssey is based. You'll be accessing the 1984 Audio Book via OpenCulture. This site is run by a Stanford University dean, and his web site's name is appropriate. He constantly reviews open or "free" culture that ...

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... publisher of free and open college textbooks, today announced it will soon begin the nation's largest in-classroom test of open college textbooks. The nationwide beta test of its books involves hundreds of students from 15 colleges and universities across the United States. Flat World Knowledge's free and open textbooks will replace traditional textbooks in a ... to college students. Through their open platform, students will have access to complete textbooks free of charge, with the option to purchase affordable alternate formats of the content (i.e. print & audio versions of the ...

Abject Learning Social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money ... possible, keeping lots of time open for follow-up discussion. The session was entitled “Getting beyond ... that I would like to approach again for future events. I recorded some quick ‘n dirty audio, though the levels ... social software tools, allowing them interact while making their own platform choices. [ Sebastian’s audio (MP3 ... to provide welcome and constructive disturbance within higher education. [ Rob’s audio (MP3) ] ...

... edit ] Key Podcasts and Webcasts Audio David Wiley on the Open Education Movement Doc Searls on Free ... ; Internet Archive Open Educational Resources ; MIT OpenCourseWare: Video and Audio ; MSRI Math Lectures ; Ourmedia ... P2P Learning Theories 3 Some Citations 3.1 Short Citations 3.2 Citation 1: The Open ... Declaration on Open Education . The pages below are maintained by Michel Bauwens. This most remarkable video says it all!! For a good introduction see John Heron on facilitation and the revolution in learning We need Open ...

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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 ... Messaging Calendars Quizzes Audio, video, Flash support Assignments The only features I'm really missing are a ... it, the Open University are switching their quarter of a million students to Moodle, so it must be a scalable ...

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Today Steve Jobs presented the iPhone roadmap . I'm "delayed" blogging, instead of live blogging. That means I'm blogging while I watch the video . iPhone moves into the Enterprise . SWEET!!! Watch out blackberry ;-) iPhone SDK - iPhone Core OS, and iPhone Core Services (exposed API), Media layer (Core Audio, OpenAL, and more) Embedded version of OpenGL...bla, bla, bla...Xcode is the development environment...bla, bla, bla...INTERFACE builder, SWEET! Interface Builder also has localation built in. Basically, they've exposed everything you need to create some KILLER apps ...

Text books cost a fortune these days. And they don’t age well. And they don’t contain local information. This morning I had a chat with former textbook publisher executive Erik Frank, who’s out to change the situation. He and another text veteran formed Flat World Knowledge to reverse the tide. Flat World proposes to offer e-texts by known authors to students for free. (Students will pay for print & audio versions of the text, podcast study ... is their “chief openness officer.” Erik described a “social learning network” students ...

... people "locked out of areas" because of permission issues. So they had to be "opened" during the class. Expect weird and ... . Develop protocol for asking and responding to questions, everyone talking at once is too much The lack of audio was really an issue so...we mashed together a solution. We had everyone log into Adobe Breeze and use that audio while we ...

... your meeting and post a link to the recording here. We recommend uploading audio files to http://archive.org ... - Classrooms as Third Places 3 Recordings without audio files 3.1 Midwifery in Pakistan 3.2 ... what we hope will become a living, growing and collaborative resource. In April 2009, the site will officially open with a ... podcast feed To be included in the podcast feed please include in your description a direct link to an audio file such as MP3 of Ogg. If no audio file recording is available but a webconference recording is, add it to the list ...