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

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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Most regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my interest in the use of 2D barcodes as a means of providing a link from a physical object or location to an online resource using an ordinary camera phone. I’ve just 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 ... , 2dbarcode , mobile code , open source , project , opensource , m-learning , mlearning , mobile ...

... has a blog which serves knowledge in small pieces: Jane's eLearning pick of the day , a very interesting set of ...

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 ... huge fan of Open Croquet. I think we are all just waiting for it too mature a little bit more. Ancient Spaces and Arts ... rankings a long time ago...no value for me. Blogging, for me, is about the people and getting emails from others who ...

... 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 Education" series, visit WikiEducator ) that ...

... 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 ...

... i.e. blogs Open source movement Grassroots activities ... models: blogs , open source , and the Internet itself. Blogs - everyone ...     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 ...

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, ...

Connectivism and Connective knowledge: The Furture of Education and Training" is starting on 7 September 2008 and will be running for approx. 3 months. So spread the word and if you have the time (of course you have), join! This course will be a MOOG (Massive Open Online Course) and it will look at: - What will education and training look like in ... visit the course blog . Registration is free (if you do not follow this course for creditation), but you must register ... Week 9: (November 2-8) What becomes of the teacher? New roles for educators Week 10: (November 9-15) Openness: ...

LINK ) "This article investigates the use of social software applications in digital library environments. It examines the use of blogging software as an interface to digital library content stored in a separate repository. The article begins with a definition of digital library approaches and features, examines ways in which open source and social software applications can serve to fill digital library roles, and presents a case study of the use of blogging software as a public interface to a project called Digital Forsyth, a grant-funded project involving three ...

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 ... there. This aligns pretty well with my experience of Learning and Networking with a Blog . It appears to be heading in ... - your blog (as opposed to starting within the walls of Facebook). Of course, this is early, but the general trend of seeing distributed, open social network solutions is encouraging.

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Why Kids Blog (David Warlick) : eLearning Technology I just read a David Warlicks post Why Kids Blog and one comment jumped out at me (among several great comments on the value of blogging by teachers): In fifteen years of teaching, I have never seen anything come along even CLOSE ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... , 2007 Time Spent on Blogging : eLearning Technology A frequent question I get at the end of any presentation on eLearning 2.0 is how much time I spend on blog reading ... to speed on whats going on. Realize this is high, but much of my professional work is staying up to speed. Blog ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More : eLearning Technology ... Blogs and particularly their use. Geek Squad is a case in point. Many thousands of Geeks are using a growing suite of ... uses it for Innovation Jams. Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in the workplace whether companies are ready ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... they show consideration for their clients? You cannot know any of this without the openness blogging (or equivalent ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... , 2006 Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog : eLearning Technology Updates recent studies show additional reasons: Blogging and Social Networking ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... up on whats happening? An hour a week? Two hours? If so, then what sources should I look at? CLO Magazine or a blog ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Pew Survey on Blogging - Training Professionals Far Behind : eLearning Technology Found via Joho Blog - Pew has a new report on a national survey of bloggers ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Blogs, Community and Discussion Tracking - Whats Really Needed : eLearning ... recent post Types of Blog Discussions I have started using CoComment based on your mention of it a while back. I admit ... blog posts and comments Finding interesting people (and their blogs) Engaging with these people over the course ...

Blogger.com became available towards the turn of the century." There are many other terms related to blogging. (Source: Jill ... . News websites and blogs are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured information ... out of offline dispute resolution. (For more see www.mediate.com ) Open Source Software â?? "Generically, open ... its original design free of charge, i.e., open. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the ...

Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? : eLearning Technology I saw another post from Dave Boggs, Has The Blogging Trend Begun To Fade, Even ... together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them ...

OER , Open Education Resource , Open Source Software , OSS Add, bookmark, share, etc.: RSS 2.0 ... currently funding a project to develop an open source extension for MediaWiki software for users to generate their own ... RSS Feeds Registering For Our Blog Licensing Recent Posts Systems for Supportive Open ... Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog Weblog for Penn State ... sufficient amount of open educational content on a sufficient number of topics at sufficient quality, we can also expect ...

In my continuing engineering blog quest , Agile Engineering Design blew to the forefront via a Google Alert RSS feed ( see my tutorial ). Dr. Adrian Smith has a fantastic blog which focuses upon this topic. The two posts which immediately caught my eye were: Cloud Computing Explained and a great long post, with lots of links on: Open Source Engineering Tools Most folks are aware of open source software, particularly from SourceForge.Net, but Smith reviews many open source hardware design tools ... an entirely different arena. In summation, Agile Engineering Design ...

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 ...

Posts on topics related to Corporate Training: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Hot Topics in Training - A Crude (but mildly interesting) Analysis Open Source Business Model for Corporate Training Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate Training ? Blog Topics vs. Hot Topics in Training - The ...

Corporate eLearning Blog posts related to Corporate eLearning: eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More in Corporate eLearning New Debate on Value of Blogs and Wikis in the Enterprise Open Source Business Model Knowledge Management Core Issues Use of iPods and other Mobile Learning IBM Taps Employees for Innovation Using Blog Like Tools Corporate Learning Laggards? Why Wikis Are Conquering the Enterprise Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning?

I was just asked on twitter about use social bookmarking tools that work behind the firewall. I thought I had blogged about this before, but I'm not finding the post. Here are the social bookmarking tools that I commonly cite in presentations: BEA Pathways Cogenz Connectbeam del.irio.us - perl based, very similar to del.icio.us IBM Lotus Connections Scuttle - Open Source WSSsearch - SharePoint add-on Any others? Good comparisons of these? I originally included: Jive Software - because I thought they had it, but it appears they don't.

The norm for engineering R&D is to keep information 100% secret. Jean-Claude Bradley, who teaches at Drexel University, thinks differently ... and openly. Before you reject this idea as "hogwash", you should review this information: Open Notebook Science Jon Udell podcast interview of Professor Bradley (or) Presentation & commentary by Professor Bradley (via Flash) You may wish to link to Jean-Claude Bradley's blog / podcast site . Here are a few open source success stories. Do you need to have more than one mind set?

... viewpoint is critical. This post is a call to action to any learning professional who wants to preserve open and complete competition amongst vendors (for profit or open source) seeking to assist in the learning process.  Please write a post on your blog (feel free to copy this post if you'd like) with a link to Harold's post and create a trackback to it as ... . technorati tags: blackboard_patent , Elgg , moodle , sakai , desire2learn Blogged with ...

... and then test. Probably the most interesting is: Open Source CMS - a site that has a whole bunch of open source tools ... others ... Wikis: BoltWire DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki Blogs: Dotclear Eggblog FlatPress ...