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Product Review: Mzinga OmniSocial

eLearning 24-7

Don’t get me wrong, the LMS provides enough features and abilities, including the most common features, that if you want a LMS, it will work. The apps, too many to list here but a small sampling: Blogs, wikis and discussions. You can do this either through ILinc directly or through Mzinga. I like that. Under the Hood.

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LMSs that kick ass: Mzinga

Janet Clarey

Mzinga is the result of a merger between KnowledgePlanet and Shared Insights at the end of 2007. My more recent contact at Mzinga is Dave Wilkins. I spoke with Dave via email about what Mzinga is doing with social media. Q: What social media tools is Mzinga incorporating into their LMS?

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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

We’ve recently seen LMSs shift to include more functionality, such as wikis, blogs, social networking, etc. If I want a great wiki platform, I’m going to download MediaWiki or DokuWiki (also free and they have huge support communities). Mzinga seems to have jumped out early with a strong social platform that also has an LMS capability.

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Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

I've not seen a lot about Mzinga in the eLearning world, but it represents something pretty interesting. Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. I wonder if mzinga does?

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

Mzinga : White Paper Series : eLearning 2.0 & The New Learning Landscape - Using Wiki in Education - How do students learn in a world where traditional assessments of intelligence are radically changing, abundant knowledge is more readily available, and learning community is more important than ever? & Communities 2.0

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Tony Karrer

Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more common for easy authoring. Not sure that the emergence of Wiki Course Authoring really translated into adoption. And while Harbinger has provided some interesting tools that are essentially mash-ups for authoring, not sure I've seen much adoption. What an oversight.

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LMSs that kick ass: ElementK’s KnowledgeHub

Janet Clarey

These tools are powered by Jive Clearspace and provide integrated access to Wiki’s, Blog’s, and Discussion Forums so that they can be included in a development plan, returned in integrated search results, and linked to from our e-learning courses. Thanks to Sue, from a fellow upstate New Yorker! Generation21. GeoLearning. Meridian KSI.