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Pick of the Month: July 2012

Jane Hart

But in real courses the students and teachers come together and create an immediate and vital community of learning. Craig Wiggins, writing in Learning Circuits Blog, 30 July 2012,suggested, Let’s stop pretending , and summed up a lot of old thinking that needed to change. A real course creates intellectual joy, at least in some.

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Latest eFront news: On our cloud-offering & Community++

eFront

So, we haveshifted our eFront-4 effort to a cloud solution and we would like to announce acloud-offering that will be part of the eFront LMS family by September 2012!This This product will be implemented on top of eFront-4 architecture and launchedunder a new brand, namely TalentLMS. However, we trulybelieve that it was the right one.

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Pick of the Month: August 2012

Jane Hart

The month started with a survey, reported in Social Business News, that showed that Professionals spend 40% of their time in online peer communities.

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A Look Back at E-Learning in 2012

eLearning 24-7

The number of vendors who went mobile with tablets at the start of the year was extremely small compared to where it stands at the end of 2012. Create your own news board, beyond just some RSS feeds? Communities tied to courses rather than the entire platform. My Forecasts for 2012. A win in my book. One sort of did.

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What 2U’s edX Acquisition Means for Open edX, Appsembler, and Its Customers

Appsembler

You’ll likely have heard the news by now that education technology company 2U is acquiring online course provider edX (not to be confused with Open edX, which will remain an independent learning platform). For additional details on the acquisition, read MIT News’ article here. Details of the Acquisition. This isn’t the case.

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Global Giveback 2012: Last Mile Learning Reduces Poverty, Alleviates Suffering by News Editor

LearningGuild

Global Giveback 2012, the fourth annual eLearning competition led by LINGOs in partnership with The eLearning Guild, will match volunteers from the learning community with NGOs (non-governmental organizations) to develop courses that help improve the work performance of staff working around the globe.

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Top 5 eLearning Trends Happening Now

Association eLearning

According to a 2012 Bersin and Associates research report, “By allowing users to actively engage and share knowledge with one another, organizations are not only empowering them to teach one another, but are also actively assisting in fostering the types of conversations that organically lead to creativity and problem-solving.”