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Breakthrough eLearning: eLearning That Doesnt Break the Bank

Breakthrough eLearning

In particular, Fox points to the following low cost options: Open source LMSs (e.g. Moodle) Open source authoring tools (e.g. Seedwiki) E-mail Virtual classrooms (e.g. I often tell people that eLearning does not have to mean expending a fortune on an installed Learning Management System. Blogger) Wikis (e.g.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Everyone who has graduated from college since 2005 has a FaceBook account. Another was a story from 2005, when 38% of SL users were women. It would be a terrible waste if a boring virtual classroom became the "safe" default for corporate users. Most everyone accesses it multiple times within a day. 12:06 PM Anonymoussaid.

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What is Online Learning? Brief History, Benefits & Limitations

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2005 YouTube was founded, providing a platform for educational video content. 2006 Introduction of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) by Canadian and American universities. Synchronous learning mimics the structure of traditional classroom instruction, with scheduled lectures, discussions, and other activities.