CleanCourse DMS is a project tracking and collaboration tool developed to simplify e-learning project management. This ... -learning courses in various states of (in)completion. What’s the key? Project management. We don’t talk enough about project management for e-learning. Every single instructional designer has to be a project manager. Most of ...  three resources for e-learning project management you can try. MJI TeamWorks project management, collaboration, scheduling, team collaboration, resource management, project accounting, time/expensing reporting, and document management ...

Months and Months ago I mentioned how I am starting my first larger scale eLearning project in a posting titled Manager Training Program . I am now knee deep in the project and learning a lot along the way. I designed and developed a prototype for the first course and it is under review now. I am expecting that there may be some barriers I have to ... budgetary restrictions I am limited to Power Point in combination with a PPT to Flash Converter as my authoring tool. This has actually gone surprisingly well and I am having a hard time figuring out what the major authoring tools out ...

... became a group happening and was a real exchange of ideas and pointers on how to manage the growing digital knowledge ... getting in touch with new knowledge. Management should be made aware of the surplus they get from employees that can focus some part of their business hours on retrieving and trying out new ideas/content (cfr the google managers model of the early years or the Semco management system (books on this topic Ricardo Semler). One thing is for sure: the more you can ... - work out a mentorship model. Tools that were mentioned: citeUlike.com organize your academic work and share ...

I like the Google Sidebar and Gadgets idea. I know how to build stuff using Google's currently available tools, but ... share interactive flash files without folks having to log into my Moodle server. I'm thinking that mashup tools might help.... Dion Hinchcliffe has provided a brief review of 17 Mashup tools . In the process, he addresses why it's been difficult to place these tools in a corporate environment (to date). So what's typically missing from today's mashup ... are truly end-user friendly with very little training required, 4) a credible management and maintenance story for ...

... steps : There's a lot of sense in this. With modern tools and online services, e-learning doesn't have to be ... necessarily a full blown learning content management system. Identify and develop champions : This is a familiar tactic ... what they're told by specialists or managers. Explain the benefits : Basic but sometimes forgotten. The very least you can do in any change management situation is to explain why the change is necessary. If you can't think of ...

1) I wonder whether, despite the noise in the management literature, CEOs and other managers are TRULY interested in ... have you heard someone say "But the trainer didn't show me....." even though you gave them all of the tools for making the ... suspect that the only way around these issues is through subversion. Quietly building the tools and resources for ...

... found Google Sidebar? Yeah - I'm thinking of using it as a possible training resource tool here. Whaddya think? I love Google Sidebar. Very cool tool. I have it on my home PC. I'm really concerned about how the computers here are ... tutorial search. Yeah - I've been playing with the Gadget tool. It's a bit awkward. But I like your idea. With ...

Clipmarks : I'm starting to feel the outlines of this class of tools that includes Zotero , Evernote and Clipmarks ... training. We thought "we know ISD and we can use this authoring tool, therefore we can make good e-learning" ... satisfactory experiences than typical m-learning interactions. Red Delicious : An iPhone app for managing ... talk to more enterprise people about 2.0 tools, delicious is one that they consistently seem to be able to ...

Soshiku is a tool that manages a student's school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when assignments are due and can notify the student via email or SMS. And since some assignments require group work, students can "partner up" on Soshiku and share files, chat, and more.

Convos is a fast, elegant way to manage groups of people online. Everyone stays connected via group email and everything is accessible from the rich, ad-free online application. Start Convos Groups to connect people and keep them productive. Whether it's for friends, colleagues, or classmates, a Convos Group keeps everyone focused. Every group comes with simple tools to invite members, send group emails, schedule group events with RSVP, store group files, and assign group tasks!

I've just come across TwitKit , a Firefox extension to twitter in a sidebar.  I have BeTwittered installed on iGoogle, but this seems another great way to keep in touch and manage your network of friends. TwitKit also includes configuration options including refresh interval and colour schemes.  Here is a list of its features .

Scribus in their words: Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

My Adobe creative suite and Captivate arrived and I have already dove into a project in Captivate. While I was waiting for the software to arrive, I designed and storyboarded a soft skill scenario simulation for management training courses that I am working on. Now I am knee deep in developing it in Captivate and I am kicking myself for not pushing harder for this purchase a year ago. Now I would love to go back and re do several of the eLearning courses I developed ... images from their background in Photoshop. I've been stoked about work now that I have all of these cool tools to ...

The perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page" Doesn't Google dos already do this?  This is their answer " No. Google Docs is a suite of products that do many things, from word processing to spreadsheets to document management. One thing that Google Docs does not do is real-time collaborative text editing. We think this is an important use case, so we built EtherPad with real-time collaboration as the ... undo-able, even in the presence of other editors. Of course, EtherPad is a tool for a specific purpose, ...

Camtasia Relay is a software solution for recording and automatic distribution of lectures and presentations. Record on a Mac or a PC in your classroom, in your office or in a coffee shop. With a simple recording interface, it's as easy as click to start recording, click to stop recording and in a short time, viewers can access the video on their iPod, a website or from a link in a learning management system. Sign up for the beta Camtasia Relay [via Digital Inspiration ] ...

This week, contributions and updates to the Top 10 Tools lists have come from: Barry Dahl - Barry is CIO at Lake Superior College, Duluth, MN, USA.  Antonio Vantaggiato ... Cammy Bean   - Cammy is the Manager of Instructional Design at InVision Learning in Westborough, Massachusetts in the US Don't forget!  The Top 10 Tools list closes on Friday 31 October. If you haven't yet shared your 10 favourite tools, then t his is your last chance to share your tools this year.

This week has seen some interesting new entries in the Top 10 Tools lists: Aisha Abdul Rahman Wells , an ... technologies at Surrey University in the UK, shared her Top 10 Mobile Tools I also received a combined Top 10 list from 13 members of staff at Swansea University (in Wales). They ran their own mini Top 10 Tools survey at the University, and I then added in the raw data to help redefine the Top 100 Tools List.  This is a great idea, and I would love ... Top 10 Tools, but prefer to do this more anonymously, so Anonymous Sharing is now possible. This is an online form ...

It's time to re-open the Top 10 Tools activity!  There have been a number of new and updated contributions ... Bonni Stachowiak - Bonni is an assistant professor in the school of business and management for Vanguard ... performance I have already used these contributions to refine the Top 100 Tools for Learning .  I have also extracted the contributions from workplace learning professionals to create the Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning . If you haven't yet contributed your Top 10 Tools, I'd love to hear from you - every contribution is valued.  And if ...

... talking about that specific media, they will pick up that tool. So ... I guess patience is a good thing. - teachers will ... ); - Ask teachers to look for tools and send them to you. Even if you know them, if you did not tell it to others, let the teacher that came up with the tool get the credit. This is a definite motivator. - Bit by bit a community of ...

More Top 10 Tools lists this week: Updated lists from Clive Shepherd ( the well ... Institute of TropicalMedicine in Antwerp) a Learning Consultant in Switzerland and a Learning & Development Manager in ... Tools for Learning ,  for instance: the entry onto the list of mobile tools and services (like find.mobi, fring, Qik and Utterz) and mobile versions of key tools (like flickr, YouTube, Google Maps) as well as mobile browsers (like Opera Mini) Twitter becoming more and more popular (this week in 15th postion ahead of tools like YouTube,  iGoogle ...

I often find myself daydreaming when dealing with LMS problems. I say to myself, "If I built an LMS, it would…….." Ah, if only it were that easy. This line of thinking leads me to these questions: How would you design your perfect LMS? What features would you include (or exclude)? How would it differ from current LMS products on the market? I’ll start this off, but I really would love to hear your thoughts. Who knows, maybe (if we’re lucky) some LMS vendors are listening! My perfect LMS would… Support the AICC, SCORM 1.2, and SCORM 2004 ...

Learning Management Systems Posts that look at Learning Managment Systems (LMS): Tracking Without an LMS LMS Dissatisfaction on the Rise Do You WANT an LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind Leading with an LMS - Harmful to Your Health (or Skipping Stages ... Tools for On-Demand Information - An LMS? Point Solutions vs. Suites and ...

Yesterday, the Top 10 Tools lists closed, so that I can finalise the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 - available shortly.  Here are the final contributors to the list: Karyn Romeis   - Karyn is an independent learning and development consultant operating under the name Learning Anorak.  Gabriela ... and researcher Elaine Talbert - Elaine is a secondary school principal, currently the manager of ... is a f ormer Primary School Deputy Headteacher, and now manages the Microsoft Innovative Teachers ...

There's been a long running discussion around what Knowledge Management is going to look like going forward and whether big systems that manage knowledge are going to be there. For example, see Bill Ives' recent post , and Paula Thorton ... -form tools like Wikis, blogs. Structure would come from a layer on top such as social bookmarking and digg, and, of course, from search across unstructured content. There would be tools like social networks that would allow us to find people ... these free-form tools. This vision aligns well with what I see happening in eLearning - Direction of ...

As someone who uses Moodle as a tool to support blended learning projects for several of my corporate clients, I was ... which are specifically designed to support corporate use of the tool. As Mark explained, there are good reasons why Moodle ... corporates may still be frustrated that, although Moodle is an excellent course delivery tool, it was never designed to tackle the sorts of problems that many corporates face, and which generally lead them to a conventional learning management ... functionality for Moodle. But luckily they didn't, deciding instead to contribute their own tools to the open source ...

Full evaluation and gradebook tools I have had extensive experience working with multiple Learning Management Systems ... Learning Management System Call it bite-sized, mini, or Savvica Lite; we call it Nuvvo, the first LMS for the individual ... powerful content-creation, communication, and evaluation tools, Nuvvo is broadening the horizons of online education. Key ... powered by Savvica , an enterprise learning management system that is geared for corporate learning management ...

Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't ... SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for satisfaction - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - ...

Blogs are knowledge objects that can make bottom-up (i.e. useful) knowledge management a reality. As you may be aware, I've become a champion of using Web 2.0 technology to upgrade corporate learning and performance. In his Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization ( JOHO }, David Weinberger describes the role of blogs inside corporations : I continue to believe that for many companies the best path to blogging is by using them internally as a knowledge management tool. The dream of KM has been that people will write down what they know. KM regimes, however, have assumed they would have ...

... information and knowledge. The reason I like it is that information is the stuff that I have to manage in the ... wasn't enough thinking about what constitutes the knowledge that needs to be managed, how it differs from information, and ... their own minds. So each of us has to be the knowledge manager of our own knowledge. If we understand that, we can then define what KM in organisations has to do. Its role is to: support individuals in managing their own knowledge ... ; managing the information that emerges from knowledge exchanges using the ICT infrastructure innovatively to ...

I’ve seen several articles over the past few months about online reputations, and why it is important for you to always be aware of how you are represented on the web. Michele Martin over at The Bamboo Project Blog has a great post titled With Web 2.0, You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide: Tools and Resources for Managing Your Online Reputation . The main idea is that you should be increasingly more aware of how you represent your self, both personally and professionally, on the web. It’s becoming easier and easier for people and companies to track down every ...