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 ... the following resources: Engineering Blog Quest 2008 Engineering Learning Wiki: Engineering Blogs Engineering Learning ...

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 ... to the following resources: Engineering Blog Quest 2008 Engineering Learning Wiki: Engineering Blogs Engineering Learning ...

I just found out about this book from Helge Scherlund's eLearning News Blog. I'm a big fan of Drupal.  I've run several sites with it and within the last year the new releases have been incredible.However, for many it still remains too open and flexible and complex to be viable for the average web user or beginning developer.  I hope this book changes that.  Moodle is already such a fabulous open source system for education that I'm excited to see Drupal compares.Here is more information from the Drupal.org web site.  You can also learn more about FunnyMonkey at their web site.The book ...

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 freely ... ?Give some thought to Legos. If you've used Lego Mindstorms, you will understand the Bug Labs open source hardware ... podcast to the engineering podcast search engine. Learn more via my wiki.

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 freely ... ?Give some thought to Legos. If you've used Lego Mindstorms, you will understand the Bug Labs open source hardware ... podcast to the engineering podcast search engine. Learn more via my wiki.

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. Google ... technical material in a most captivating way. Notice to Personal Learning Portfolio theorists: Chrome may be ...

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 ... problems that many corporates face, and which generally lead them to a conventional learning management system. Mark's ... /points are added automatically to users' records for any e-learning courses they complete. Furthermore, users can add ...

... administering and tracking CBTs for this reader? Is there an open source solution that isn’t a full LMS but does what ... 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: 1) good ...

Wisconsin Electronic Reader Online collection of primary sources related to Wisconsin’s history. Copyright specifically allows educational use; many sources are old enough to be public domain. tags: primarysources, history The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 Primary source material from the Peshtigo fire (which happened the same night as the Chicago fire). tags: primarysources, history Open Source Living Directory of open source software applications, sorted by ... ’Connor believes that America’s youth aren’t learning enough about civics, and thinks that ...

... reasonable margins. Moodle will win. Well, Moodle could get other open-source competition. Training departments (or talent ... produce a profound shift in how the world works, but it will affect the learning-and-performance industry as well. For ... into the future. How will this affect you? Here's some wild ideas: Off-the-shelf e-learning courses will get really good and be sold really cheaply to wide audiences and all the small e-learning shops across the world will collapse into ... vast collections of mediocre e-learning are doomed. Custom training vendors will have to focus on learning that ...

V-Learning: The Skills Needed for Success in Today's Real WorldPresenter: Ellen Wagner, AdobePhysical World + Virtual ... instructional design.Expectations about learning redefined by social media, gaming.- As professionals, we need to bridge the gap between what we are doing NOW and what is happening elsewhere and the expectation for what learning is supposed ... eLearning.When you are out there as a learning person and see emergent technologies- You see a lot of excitement about the ... practice is what makes it magic.- We are the magicians- Can only do the tricks if you take the time to learn ...

... can do this for an artificial world, why can't we do this in the real world adapted to learning>Objectives- Open to all ... ?Function of middleware (I hope that the slides are available...)- Tie together tools that exist in open source and make ... rating tools- ID Students and instructors and guides(Again - I wish I had the slides)All of this either open source tools or ... invent.API Interfaces- Tools for voice and chat exist as standardized pluging.- PandoraBot (open source)- CAD tools ... can adapt yet.Institutional challenges- open source? Intellectual property- Privacy management- Management of ...

Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source Interview on the increase of open source LMSs Moodle and Sakai in higher education tags: e-learning, highered, opensource, lms, sakai, moodle, blackboard, desire2learn Clive on Learning: Three tiers in the content pyramid Clive Shepherd revises his model for e-learning tiers, adding a bottom level of social learning technology to the tiers of rapid development and high-end e-learning. High-end e-learning is a top-down model; social learning is bottom up. He makes good points about these tiers serving different purposes; they ...

... can be considered safe for business use. These may be open-source options, behind-the-firewall installations, or even ... Whether you call it Learning 2.0, eLearning 2.0, or Social Learning, there’s a relatively new wave of tools and ... situation recently that I believe will be encountered more and more by people who try to implement social learning at ... information out to the public. Most social learning tools are web-based, and the social (or sharing) aspect generally means that ... social learning tools that we unfortunately cannot use safely at our organizations. Some examples are Twitter, Flickr, ...

Yesterday I deliverd a one day workshop to 20 learning leaders at the beautiful Rancho Bernardo resort in San Diego. This was a great turnout given that this conference caters to high level decision makers in enterprise learning. The attendees were very enthused about the possibilities that Virtual Worlds can provide to help change the game in learning. Much of our afternoon discussion centered around how to overcome barriers to adoption, whether to leverage open-source ... encouraged that the dialogue amond learning leaders has progressed over the past year from “Should we consider ...

... are actively looking to overcome and partner with solution providers. Also need to watch for open source solutions...long ... , Continuous Learning, and Precision Learning). The USAF is also working on a concept called MyBase which is a virtual ...

... display? Trends Social networking Visual communication Diminishing attention spans Multitasking Game-based learning Improved bandwidth & access High def screens Touch screen interfaces Merged technologies Open source software Internet ... ;wonderful time” but there is a learning curve Why Second Life Education No subject left behind! Many classroom limitations gone–size, space Engaging–banish lectures Address more learning styles Research opportunities ... golfers in the world Schools are not the only places to go for learning How Second Life Education Active, ...