article thumbnail

Why you should embrace open source

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel. The reasons to engage with open source include the following: * Getting high-quality, free software and software design and development help. Signing up partners and creating consortia. Reducing time to market.

article thumbnail

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). Open Architecture. APIs are open source code, so that developers (inc. Mashups Possibilities. MediaWiki API.

Mashups 65
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Awesome Google Fonts & Other Typography Treats

eLearning Brothers

Google Fonts is a great resource for free, open-source typefaces. Here are 5 great choices: Open Sans. Open Sans was designed by Steve Matteson and comes in 10 different styles, from light to extra bold. The font gives off very modern vibes and is sort of a mashup of popular classic fonts Helvetica, Arial, and Univers.

Google 114
article thumbnail

e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Article comparing new Mash-Up tools (Popfly, Pipes, Google) - thanks Sam Adkins

Mark Oehlert

» June 03, 2007 Article comparing new Mash-Up tools (Popfly, Pipes, Google) - thanks Sam Adkins Sam Adkins at Ambient Insight passed along a link to a post on the Social Strategist that I just reading through now but which does a compare and contrast between some of the emerging tools for creating mash-ups.

Mashups 32
article thumbnail

Corporate Training

Tony Karrer

Posts on topics related to Corporate Training: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Hot Topics in Training - A Crude (but mildly interesting) Analysis Open Source Business Model for Corporate Training Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate Training ? Blog Topics vs. Hot Topics in Training - The Disconnect

Wiki 100
article thumbnail

eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008

Tony Karrer

eLearning Trend #2 - Virtual Environments - see Second Life and Learning eLearning Trend #3 - Open Source and Free Tools eLearning Trend #4 - Do-It-Yourself Learning - see Disruptive Changes in Learning , Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 and eLearning 1.0 and eLearning 1.0

Trends 103
article thumbnail

Moodle: Pros, Challenges

eLearning 24-7

I want to make something very clear – Moodle and other open source LMSs, Learning Portals, CMSs, etc. You can either have all open, which many companies do not want, or are stuck with course keys and other additional non-necessary steps. are NOT out of the box solutions. They are not turnkey. You must customize.

Moodle 69