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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Twitter has APIs, so does Facebook, even Linkedin. Examples: Post your status update in Linkedin and it appears in Twitter.

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Latest Eight #LMS #Trends

eLearning 24-7

Even not having the card prior to arrival, but signing up online, gets you free internet. . Each item in the list must be completed and in many cases numerous times – this builds up retention. Anyway, video courses both by consumers (clients of LMS vendors) and 3rd party content providers are showing up more and more.

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E-Learning without Borders

eLearning 24-7

Now before you argue about “security&# or “privacy&# , you can create (even now using mashups or some APIs) the ability to lock down or block certain areas. Pods which were off the hub included a bookstore, library, event center, courses (to sign up and take), chat rooms and other items. Social Learning: Social Exchanges.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

Another example might be hosting on-the-job learning activities and assignments in SharePoint or Moodle. ” Foster collaborative learning: Thanks to Facebook (800 million users), LinkedIn (130 million) and Twitter (150 million), people can communicate with each other in real-time, all the time.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools 2010 – Innovators, Winners and Updated Trends

eLearning 24-7

You can use either your own 3rd party content authoring tool and upload it into the “Cloud&# and then wherever you are, output either to your LMS, or onto Moodle or even WordPress (they have a plug in for that) OR place the course in Facebook or nearly any solution that accepts APIs. Mashups, Google charts. Game based learning.

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2010 LMS Products of the Year

eLearning 24-7

Nothing wrong with Moodle mind you and a lot of people love it, but if you want to look at someone else, here is that someone else. My runner-up is Operitel’s LearnFlex LSP. Ability to active your Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin accounts from within the LMS. Anyway, on with the other awards. Open Source LMS of the Year.

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#lrnchat coup d’état

Jay Cross

This evening, our hosts did not show up. Moodling away. qwrap) Gavin Henrick, you can find me blogging usually on Moodle at. “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, but the king can still screw up.&# — Lawrence J. how long did it take mlearning, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn?