The opportunities afforded by SaaS apps already exist with online storage (Google Docs, for example). On this last point: It’s one thing to have learners from a session swap e-mail addresses or create an e-mail list or online forum so everyone can continue learning from each other. Right now we can do that if we can effectively move the dialoge from the session (wether it’s online or face-to-face) to an online forum space. You can access a summary or view the archived session here. ). Craig Weiss, Analyst and Blogger at E-Learning 24/7. MORE >>

For one of my clients, I'm developing an online community of practitioners working for a variety of nonprofit, government and for-profit entitities in New Jersey. I've now set up a Google doc that I've shared with other leaders on the team and we're recording our responses each day so that we'll have a record of our work and can also respond to what we're learning. We wanted to treat the process of forming and nurturing this community as a learning project so we could share our "lessons learned" with others who are doing this kind of work. What successes did I experience? MORE >>

Those who aren’t are either offering native apps with online/offline synch or performing the shell game via the mobile web browser and calling it mobile learning. Online/Offline Synch. am quite amazed at the number of vendors who really have zero idea on what the terminology of online/offline synchronization. In the simplest terms: Joe EndUser (and yes, I know it is two words, but that is his last name), who is currently online is accessing the system or tool via his mobile device (preferably a tablet). Google Calendar. I love the end of the year. Steag. MORE >>

crocodoc takes any PDF, Word document, PowerPoint presentation, image, or web page and lets you view and mark it up online. Save your marked up version of your document as a PDF, in native file format or directly to your Google Docs account. Documents can be shared with others, who can collaboratively highlight or strikeout text, add notes and comments, and make revisions. Whenever you and friends or colleagues are marking up the same document at the same time, you'll see each other's changes reflected in near real-time. Check it out: [link MORE >>

I've always had one pet peeve -- when designing onlines courses, we instructional designers often try to do everything within a Flash -based elearning course. Example 3 - Display content differently Google Search Tricks on Prezi. OTOH, other tools like SurveyMonkey or Google Docs are better suited for this purpose. Here's a demo I've put up with Wallwisher and Google Docs. Somehow I feel we need to think beyond the Flash shell and rather design learning 'experiences' than just courses. Let's take a look at a few examples of web content in elearning. MORE >>