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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Unfortunately, too many vendors in the e-learning space have failed to see the power and potential of this capability, and have decided to ignore them. However there are vendors who sell their API solution wrapped in a piece of software. Open Architecture. APIs are open source code, so that developers (inc. Typically APIs are free.

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Confused? Welcome to the Learning System World of 2024

eLearning 24-7

The Bore Factor – as in professors, teachers, heavily (in some cases, all the time) on the screen using a web conference solution (edtech often refers to it as a digital classroom) and talking. How Some weird concoction that a vendor has devised is another.  Heck, I bought content through my LMS vendor in 2000. The second?

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Surprises so Far in 2023

eLearning 24-7

Nowadays I think that the gig is up, and everyone realizes the scam. Vendors use it to refer to online courses/content. Vendors use it to refer to online courses/content. Vendors who use it? However, there are authoring tool vendors, who still think PowerPoint can be an authoring solution. And the list goes on.

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The Business Web

Tony Karrer

This is something I've pointed to before: Promise of Web 2.0 In January, Salesforce.com introduced AppExchange ( [link] ), and already has more than 200 independent software vendors providing more than 300 different software as service applications. The Business Web. I've got a copy of the email below, its well worth reading.

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LXP – The Answers you seek

eLearning 24-7

They continue to muddle up the learning system space. The way a 3rd party content provider works with an LXP (or any learning system that offers a marketplace) is that they have a partnership agreement – allowing the vendor to have them in their marketplace. Today, it is the format most vendors follow, including LXPs.

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A Look Back at 2020 for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

From a vendor perspective there was a huge impact, but what was odd, is that some vendors still are living in the past, as though, this is a minor blip, and in 2021, everything will go back as it was – corporate wise that is. It is a syllabus and Zoom or whatever web conferencing solution you are calling a flipped classroom.

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2020 – The Year of the Hub

eLearning 24-7

I’ve heard it from vendors. Many consumers, I surmise are doing it already without even realizing it, and even some vendors are too. Preferably on/off synch, but as I mentioned in my LinkedIn mini-post, most learning system vendors still are not on/off synch with said mobile app. An app is often listed as a mobile app.