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5 Companies Likely to Buy Coursera

LearnDash

Nothing is really “free” (just look at modern day Facebook or YouTube as an example). Heck, in 2006 they bought 18! Apple - This one was probably predictable given the previous prospect, but Apple does make sense as a potential buyer of Coursera.

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Networked noughties 2006-2009

Learning with e's

March 2006 was the year I first began to take an interest in Web 2.0 2006 saw the launch of Twitter - now one of the most popular live status update tools worldwide. In September 2006, Facebook came late to the party, but within a short time (March 2008) it overhauled Myspace as the world's favourite social networking tool.

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Mobile Learning Survey Results Summary

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

80% have published a video on Youtube. She has more than 20 years of high tech marketing experience and was VP of Marketing for the ViewCentral LMS (acquired by Rainmaker in 2006). The respondents thought that Polls and Listening to Podcasts were the best way to use Mobile Learning right now. 57% of respondents use Facebook Mobile.

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Noughties. but nice

Learning with e's

The iPhone: Apple strikes again. Social networking sites: Facebook (2006), Myspace (2003), Bebo (2005), LinkedIn (2003) and other sites together have changed the face of social networking for ever. YouTube: Freaking out, spoofing, parodies, pirated music videos and plenty of dross - that's YouTube for you.

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30 years of personal computing

Clive on Learning

Launch of Apple II, with 16 colours, a cassette drive and a resolution of 280x160. Word processing starts to emerge 1980: Launch of the Apple III, with 5.25" 1983: Apple launches the Lisa, the first computer with a graphical user interface (GUI), priced at around $14000. 1984: Apple launches the Macintosh.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 9/30/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

YouTube is at the forefront of a new video revolution on the Net. Despite inferiority, Zune likely to see modest success - Apple Insider. Video Fixation - Forbes. The upstart's birth coincided with a magic moment in Internet history, when online video became cheap enough to give away.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

In Defense of Powerpoint - Free as in Freedom , September 5, 2010 In the past couple of years that I’ve had a Mac, a lot of people I’ve spoken to about presentation skills have remarked to me, “Oh, but you have Apple Keynote for presentations. Reading has become a chore, like brushing your teeth.&# (Kohn, Kohn, 2006, pp.