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Online education puts new skills at your fingertips

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Education goes beyond what you can Google or find on Wikipedia. Such sites help designers, developers, and others get up to speed – instructors can upload their video tutorials for example, making courses available to anyone, anytime, to stream. Everyone has different areas to develop or roles to grow into.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

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There’s also the fact that Twitter provides few mechanisms for saving, cataloguing and viewing tweets at a later time, besides the rather inflexible hashtags; it’s more a stream-of-messages than a content repository. On paper (or monitor), Google+ looks good. In practice it’s the online equivalent of a ghost town.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

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There’s also the fact that Twitter provides few mechanisms for saving, cataloguing and viewing tweets at a later time, besides the rather inflexible hashtags; it’s more a stream-of-messages than a content repository. On paper (or monitor), Google+ looks good. In practice it’s the online equivalent of a ghost town.

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The 7 most important LMS features to support Synchronous Learning

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On the student end, all it takes is the ability to display streaming web video, which all modern web browsers have. As for the software side, if your LMS doesn’t provide such a capability, you can take advantage of third-party services like Skype or Google Hangouts, for a simple but effective tele-conference setup.

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Elearning applications

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The project is hosted at Google Code. CamStudio - (Authoring Tool) CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

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Online education puts new skills at your fingertips

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Education goes beyond what you can Google or find on Wikipedia. Such sites help designers, developers, and others get up to speed – instructors can upload their video tutorials for example, making courses available to anyone, anytime, to stream. Everyone has different areas to develop or roles to grow into.

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Will Artificial Intelligence bring real smarts to eLearning?

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We also have, courtesy of xAPI, access to streams of training activity data that cover all kinds of learner actions across both the desktop, browser and mobile space. Even today, for specific domains, such as mathematics and language learning, simple AI rules can produce an almost infinite variety of test questions (e.g.