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The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!

Upside Learning

Add to it the fact that its open source which makes it free to use, has made it very popular. But is Moodle or any other open source LMS (there are a few good ones like the ones mentioned here ) really free? So what is a real cost of a free (open source) LMS? That’s the only thing that’s free. Nothing else!

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HTML 5 and eLearning Development

Upside Learning

This would help in creating interactive graphs , games, and presentations easily. Video & Audio – You can play video or audio in HTML 5 WITHOUT any plug-in required (like Flash or Silverlight], simply by using the new audio and video markup tags. So what’s the big deal ? and Opera is also working on similar lines.

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Updates On HTML5 From Google I/O

Upside Learning

On day 1 of the I/O Google has made many announcements like release of open source, royalty-free video format WebM, Chrome Web store, opened up Google Wave, released open source Font API and directory etc. eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #2 The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

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Top 8 FREE Open Source LMSs

eLearning 24-7

I already have spoke ad naseum about the pros and cons of any free open source platform, so my criteria on what I feel are the best 10 free open source systems are presented below. The reason I state “free” open source, is because “open source” itself is not necessarily free.

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HTML 5 and eLearning Development

Upside Learning

This would help in creating interactive graphs , games, and presentations easily. Video & Audio – You can play video or audio in HTML 5 WITHOUT any plug-in required (like Flash or Silverlight], simply by using the new audio and video markup tags. So what’s the big deal ? and Opera is also working on similar lines.

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Free Open Source LMSs are like Puzzles

eLearning 24-7

It is at that instance you realize you do not have a help desk or support staff to assist folks. I would say open source, but there are systems that provide open source and they are not free. Thus free open source (a proper way) or some platform that is free. Champagne flows. People Cheer. You launch.

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Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Source – a conversation with Sakai’s Executive Director

Learning Visions

Today as part of the Kineo Insights webinar series – a conversation on open source. The following are my notes from Part 1 of the webinar: The Truth About Open Source: A conversation with Michael Korcuska, Executive Director of Sakai. The Truth About Open Source Who writes the code? Open source isn’t free.