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A powerful virtual classroom: Adobe Connect 8

Janet Clarey

I’m always cognizant of what Ellen Wagner (formerly with Adobe) said while writing about web conferencing technologies around the time Blackboard bought Wimba and Elluminate and combined them to create Blackboard Collaborate (for edu-types, I’ll insert the ‘muwhahahaha’ just for you). billion by 2014.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

WBT (Web-Based Training). Blackboard. I used it in 1999, to teach a 100% online journalism course in the University of Nebraska system. There were LMS vendors certified by AICC, but the majority were not, and yes, some said they were, then you go to the AICC web site and see that they are not. Blackboard.

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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

In the late 90’s led by Blackboard, more institutions of higher education and even some schools were joining the online learning experience. For fans of PPT, you were lucky if you saw that in a DL session, most of the time it was talking, writing on a white board or blackboard (with chalk) and more talk. Globally wise?

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Top Ten Learning Management Systems – July Rankings

eLearning 24-7

10 – Meridian - Despite a web site that should be kicked into outer space (hello, update?), Sorry Desire2Learn and Blackboard. Couple of Notes: Blackboard – No way they hit the top ten with their platform which is heavily synchronous based built. Oh, here is my latest directory of LMSs. #10

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Top online learning tools for successful solutions

Elucidat

From journals and articles to videos and blogs, there’s lots of great content online. Blackboard: this VLE creates optimized and customizable educational experiences. A webinar is a web-based seminar. Take a look at: Elucidat: our cloud-based authoring tool packed with features and tailor-made for collaboration.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. All the information below was obtained from Internet sources and announcements in educational journals. 2009 First Canadian Blackboard Users’ Group Online Conference was held February 29, 2008. He has generously allowed me to republish here.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0 In the meantime, like most professors, I like to talk (sometimes too much!)

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