But luckily they didn't, deciding instead to contribute their own tools to the open source Moodle toolkit. Moomis ... 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 which are specifically designed to support corporate use of the tool. As Mark explained, there are good reasons why Moodle has a hard job reaching out to corporate users: the mortorboard logo the naive font the friendly name ...

... ⬢ Yahoo Employee Blog Guidelines (pdf) ⬢ Blogging@IBM Blog Tools ⬢ Apache - Roller - Open source ⬢ BEA ... ⬢ Mediawiki ⬠Open Source ⬢ Microsoft - SharePoint ⬢ Mindtouch - Deki Wiki ⬠Open Source ⬢ Socialtext ⬢ Traction Software - TeamPage ⬢ Twiki ⬠Open Source Social Bookmarking Systems ⬢ BEA Pathways ⬢ Cogenz ⬢ Connectbeam ⬢ IBM Lotus Connections - Dogear ⬢ Scuttle ⬠Open Source Social Network Systems ⬢ Awareness ... Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It ...

... even open source. At the higher end of asynchronous e-learning, we'll see increasing use of serious games and ... -end LMS, we'll see an increased use of Moodle and similar open source platforms as a simple and low-cost means for ... . Synchronous e-learning will continue to grow and open source variants such as dimdim will help bring down the cost. Hopefully ... Downes in his review of last year's eLearn Magazine predictions: ... there are two major types of predictions: one ... the corporate context, to be a curiously conservative profession, which does not rush to make changes of any ...

... approaches and open source solutions. Because they generally have tighter budgets than the for-profit sector, they have to be ... corporations invest a fortune in complex eLearning technology, only to under utilize it. For example, they may use a ... approaches eLearning. I have worked in both sectors. I now serve clients in both sectors, and speak to prospective clients in ... ships passing in the night.Corporations (for-profit sector) tend to approach eLearning as an IT problem that needs to be ... SCORM, AICC, etc.). Every day my email inbox is inundated with the latest studies directed at corporate ...

SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle:Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems ... Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't ... (the Platinum went to Blackboard).Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems ... education sector, but for corporates. In the UK at least we have in the past made a clear distinction between the LMS and the virtual learning environment (VLE). LMSs (Saba, SumTotal, SkillPort, etc.) are for corporates who want to ...

... 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 interesting ... 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, ...

... remembered as the year of The Learning Triad:  blogs, wikis, and RSS.  Since starting the Corporate eLearning ... and simple feed readers became available for loading my RSS feeds, and open source wikis simply blew the doors of possibility wide open.  Tiddlywiki is just so darn cool.  So is bloglines, Sage for Firefox, and so many others.'06 ... elearning methods...burn 'em.  Read this and step into the 21st century. (Part II will add another book to the list)Mark ... article called My Virtual Life.  That's always fun!"A consortium of corporate training folks from Wal-Mart ...

... relatively stable feature sets.Second, while for my corporate clients I wouldn't recommend any open source solutions today ... 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, ...

... between the two companies (a similar comparision would be if SkillSoft and NETg, the leading providers in the corporate education space, merged). It also doesn't bode well for WebCT's willingness to play with open source (sorry Harold!) If you ... Wow, consolidation is running rampart in the eLearning space as everyone continues to merge or acquire. Look to your left and look to your right; easily one of those will not be around in six months. Today BlackBoard announced plans to merge with WebCT; the two leading providers in the higher education eLearning space (BlackBoard alone forecasts ...