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Why Attend Conferences? UW Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning’s 25th Anniversary

Web Courseworks

The choices of eLearning and distance learning conferences are plentiful— see the list below of the ones I keep on my own radar screen. This week I will be attending my fifth conference of the year in my hometown of Madison, WI: The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, hosted by the University of Wisconsin.

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Why Author eLearning Content to Industry Standards?

OpenSesame

Why do Learning Management Systems matter? A learning management system, or LMS, is a collaborative platform used to manage elearning courses. Elliott Masie recently spoke to a room full of training professionals where he said “We need to stop calling ourselves instructional designers and start saying producer”.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Elliott Masie Learners as designers. Learning apps. Branon Learning Management System App Stores Bob Little Apps, Not Courses Inge de Waard Augmented reality moves towards augmented learning with easy tools: Wikitude , Layar , ARToolKit. Video galore. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc. It's a mess.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): GDC Update 7: Collaborative Writing and Vast Narratives: Principles, Processes and Genteel Truculence

Mark Oehlert

can show you an ACQ 2XX distance learning prototype that is starting to move in this direction -- it's VERY cool. that is a model of a real-life PMO, populated with all the usual players (PM, logistician, contract specialists, etc.) that REMAIN part of the courses through all the levels of training.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Other Open Source LMS Solutions - eLearning 24-7 , April 14, 2010 Here is a list of other Open Source LMS vendors, besides Moodle. The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS! Add to it the fact that its open source which makes it free to use, has made it very popular. Make it Blended!

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "New JKO Portal to Offer Joint Online Training" (Defense Link News)

Mark Oehlert

JKO’s distance-learning classes will give users a chance to learn or brush up on skills they need to operate in a challenging and constantly changing environment, Chu said. It recognizes that operations now and in the future will be not just joint, but also integrated, meaning they include elements of other U.S.

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Covid-19 Aid: Free Tools and Resources for Virtual Learning and Remote Work

Talented Learning

Need to deploy an online learning environment rapidly? eThink is offering free open-source learning platform hosting through July 1st for any new client that signs a contract before May 1st. For distance learning. Coronavirus & Learning Project. via Elliott Masie. via eThink.