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Open Source eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory.

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

In fact, opinion regarding the security of cloud-based applications seems to have jumped the shark, with many tech-savvy clients believing that cloud-based applications hosted on reputable platforms such as Amazon Web Services may lessen the risk of data falling into the wrong hands or disappearing.

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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

If I want a great blogging platform, I’m going to download WordPress (it’s free and has a huge support community). If I want a great wiki platform, I’m going to download MediaWiki or DokuWiki (also free and they have huge support communities). I've wondered the same thing.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

There is a whole range of collaboration tools and platforms that can be used to meet the needs of teams, for document collaboration and sharing as well as for collaborative project management. This is the most popular blogging platform. 4 - Google Search. 5 - WordPress. 6 - Dropbox. 10 - Wikipedia.

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The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns

Jane Hart

Here’s a video showing Peter Butler, from BT, talking about Dare2Share (hosted on their enterprise intranet platform, MS Sharepoint), and explaining that it would have been impossible for L&D to provide all the learning materials that BT Engineers needed unless they had taken this “sharing&# approach to learning.

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OpenAcademic.worth watching

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

This is the marriage of Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. Its like the snickers bar of learning: Lots of the most yummy open source platforms rolled into one. However, OpenAcademic is not about an enterprise vendor riding the latest trend.

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Have LMSs Jumped The Shark?

eLearning Weekly

If I want a great blogging platform, I’m going to download WordPress (it’s free and has a huge support community). If I want a great wiki platform, I’m going to download MediaWiki or DokuWiki (also free and they have huge support communities).

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