Related Posts - Edu2.0 & LectureShare Can We Host and Facilitate Our Courses Online For Free? Are there any FREE Course/Learning Management Systems (C/LMS) out there that require no financial hardware, software and hosting investments? In other words, are the any free hosted C/LMS that we can explore and perhaps use? FREE HOSTED C/LMS? Here are a few free hosted C/LMS that you might want to explore, before considering investing hardcore money on a commercial alternative: Nfomedia A web application designed especially to enable interaction outside of the classroom for higher education courses.

First of all, their system is web-hosted and free ; you don't have to download any software or manage your own servers. Second, their Resources section allows you to graphically browse thousands of community-contributed resources by topic; you can even upload your own resources and they will host them for you. I would have thought that Google, Yahoo or MSN would get the ball rolling first, with a free hosted LMS . Home: http://www.edu20.org/ Tour: http://www.edu20.org/company/tour Features: http://www.edu20.org/company/features WHAT? edu 2.0, meaning

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Edublogs just announced they are hosting 100,000 Edublogs . In fact we've currently got more like 103,000 blogs, separated over four sites (63K on edublogs.org and 39K spread across the student sites). In September at edublogs.org alone we racked up 268,638 unique visitors, who dropped by 904,053 times enjoying 13,701,840 page views while sucking up almost 500Gig bandwidth. And that's just that one site's blogs.

Using various social signals we came up with the following as being the hot items during February 2009 via eLearning Learning . You can find a bit more on this capability in the post Hot List . Enjoy. Top Posts and other Items The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle eLearning is not the answer Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Informal learning - what is it?

On May 21, Learn Trends will be hosting a free online event where the people who have developed interesting eLearning solutions will demonstrate and briefly discuss what they've done. One of the hardest things to find are real-life examples of different kinds of eLearning solutions. Moderators: Judy Brown - Mobile Learning Solutions Bob Mosher - Performance Support Tools Karl Kapp - Games and Simulations Tony Karrer - Self-Paced eLearning Solutions Demonstrations will showcase a variety of different kinds of eLearning.

Sometimes the best way to meet an educational need is by hosting a webinar.  Dimdim has a webinar platform provides you with the ability to host live, interactive presentations that can feature slides, documents, web pages, and built in whiteboard functionality.   In In addition to the content presentation capabilities, Dimdim also lets users host private and public chat, record their meeting, make annotations on the content and share presenter controls with the click of the mouse.  However, many times what we call a “webinar” is simply a teleconference in disguise – a seemingly endless slide show with a “verbal vomit” voice over. 

There always seems to be a debate about whether or not an organization should host a Learning Management System (LMS) application internally or externally. An informed client needs to consider costs as well as some questions about the ability to host internally. have to admit, I lean toward having a vendor host the solution. There are arguments on both sides. I

The next daily round of Corporate Learning Trends & Innovations will take place April 21. As is our tradition, it will be online and free . Help me think how to make the event all that it can be. Membership on the site just cracked 1,000.