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Four Industry Announcements

Kapp Notes

First, my colleague Koreen Olbriish (and book contributor) announced that Tandem Learning has been acquired by Ayogo Game s. Ayogo is an award-winning serious games company that uses game design to educate and motivate healthy behavior. Well today, two more announcements. eLearning Atlas- a New Way to Navigate the Industry.

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E-Learning Jargon: What you might think it is.well…

eLearning 24-7

Gamification and Gaming. Gamification among other things involves gaming elements. Remember those two words – gaming elements. Hence some vendors might pitch “gaming elements”, but there is no way – the point above – is what the rest of the world sees as gaming elements. Now is it fun?

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New Authoring tool rankings #11 to #20

eLearning 24-7

Easy to use interface and supports SCORM and AICC. #18 Social tags, RSS, gaming activities. AICC, SCORM and PENS support. Supports AICC and SCORM. Some gaming activities. 18 Mzinga Publisher - Holy macaroni! (No No reason, I just love saying that) Mzinga shows up with a true social learning authoring tool.

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Course Authoring Tools for eLearning Developers and the masses

eLearning 24-7

Thinking Worlds - offers a free version (lame) and a commercial version (better) – create sims and 3D games publish to iPad (have to purchase the TW Pro + iOS edition), very slick. I love the ribbon style approach, the custom branding angle with your player, audio and video narration, SCORM/AICC – perfect for the masses.

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5 E-Learning Forecasts for 2012

eLearning 24-7

These vendors, I believe will consist of: Vendors who offer an authoring tool or game sim and will develop additional product lines tied to Augmented Reality. no SCORM, AICC or PENS – however, I am now seeing a few vendors offer PENS (created by AICC back in 2005, but slowly gaining traction). Peer review.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools 2010 – Innovators, Winners and Updated Trends

eLearning 24-7

I said it when it game out and I will repeat it again. Game Changer! Also SCORM 1.2 & AICC. Game based learning. Same thing with PENS i.e. a SCORM LMS that does not support PENS will not work with a PENS content authoring tool. Open Source Product of the Year (i.e. LMS, web, CD, etc.,

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E-Learning News and Notes

eLearning 24-7

Most tend to be proprietary, but I have seen a few that are SCORM/AICC and yes even PENS. One system offers the ability to do so – but prefers that people use just their product rather then pushing it via PENS to a LMS or downloading the course in a SCORM wrapper, then uploading it into a SCORM LMS).