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Hard drive home

Learning with e's

He was interested in hearing from me about the state of play of learning technology in the UK. Without the organisation of ALT we would have no hope of creating a discrete discipline known as 'Learning Technology'. Peter Norvig's keynote can be viewed in full and on demand, courtesy of Elluminate. He nodded sagely.

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Another Stake in Ground for Blackboard: Two New Investments in the Open-source E-learning Market

Janet Clarey

For now, enterprise users of Moodlerooms and NetSpot can rest easy knowing that Blackboard plans on letting them run as they are now vs. swallowing them whole as they did with Elluminate, the virtual classroom. Blackboard Acquires Moodlerooms, NetSpot To Offer Open Source Learning Technology , Leena Rao at TechCrunch.

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FAQ for Learntrends April 21-22

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Click here to enter our conferencing system (Elluminate). Plug in a microphone and check your audio settings in Elluminate. We all learn more when we’re participants, rather than just observers. Experience with Elluminate is a plus but not mandatory. You don’t need to register. How do I listen in? How do I speak?

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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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Free and Open Source Web Conferencing (Online Meetings, Webinars.

eFront

I have used www.dimdim.com before and Elluminate (but this is not open source.) Elluminate is a really nice tool but not open source. I am wondering which ones people have used most and which ones they find work best. Thanks, Chrissi December 22, 2010 3:22 PM Christoforos Online said. Big Blue Button is my favorite at the moment! .

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

We are way beyond campfires and cavemen with social learning when we inject a plethora of technology into the mix. Never has this been more true than with getting the most out of Social Learning. Where: Here in Elluminate. Call it Confusion 2.0. Hot Topics. CourseNotes for the iPad , June 7, 2010.

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Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning

Xyleme

The question of how much structure to bring to this space of informal learning was ever present. During the Elluminate sessions, we often had heady academic discourses by those running the session, sometimes allowing little time for feedback. It had upwards of 2,000 people register.