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LMSs that kick ass: Mzinga

Janet Clarey

Mzinga is the result of a merger between KnowledgePlanet and Shared Insights at the end of 2007. My more recent contact at Mzinga is Dave Wilkins. I spoke with Dave via email about what Mzinga is doing with social media. Q: What social media tools is Mzinga incorporating into their LMS?

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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

While the market is tough right now, there are some people who believe that learning businesses who sell classroom, virtual classroom and courseware training will rebound once the economy rebounds. You have fixed overhead. Temporary Downturn or Changing Landscape? And maybe within some niches that's true. Lee Enterprises, down 97.3%

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

Other Predictions - 2008 Prediction #2 => Virtual Classroom Tools - Meeting Tool + Second Life Lite A medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not 3D immersive, but that are more like Mii characters in a 2.5D Mzinga certainly is way better as a product that my dire prediction.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

Infiltrates the Classroom - ReadWriteWeb 9. 1) " EduTech gEEks.We're a new brEEd Still new on campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for learning and communication 17. Mzinga : White Paper Series : eLearning 2.0 & EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT 7.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

ILT Follies There are plenty of websites, and even this blog, which covers the disadvantages of using ILT (regardless in the classroom for Edtech, or in the corporate world, seminars or sessions in conference rooms – a popular place BTW). Why have a system to house courses, when ILT was the main way of learning and training? And people.

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Looking Back at 2007

Tony Karrer

However, there's Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger announcement around Mzinga. Think classroom training to eLearning. I somewhat got this wrong as the big LMS vendors seem to now refer to themselves in terms of talent management and workforce productivity rather than innovating around the learning itself.

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Top 11 to 20 Authoring Tools for 2013

eLearning 24-7

I must have been sleeping) and Fundamentals classroom training at the METS Center – located in Kentucky, just outside of Cinn. 14 Mzinga Publisher. Comes with Flypaper 3.9, Camtasia 8, Snag-it 1, ReviewLink (a fantastic product – but only for 10 courses? What’s up with that?), Online fundamentals training (huh?