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Product Review: Mzinga OmniSocial

eLearning 24-7

The apps, too many to list here but a small sampling: Blogs, wikis and discussions. Software simulation tool (Firefly) and Mzinga Publisher are extra, i.e. there is an additional cost – it is not automatically included in the OmniSocial product. You can do this either through ILinc directly or through Mzinga. No problem.

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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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Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

Mzinga is clearly targeted at the learning space, being integrated with an LMS. Yet, for a learning group, Mzinga’s integration of formal and informal learning is also plausible. We were prompted to visit Blue Kiwi , which is probably the leading European social media platform. I’m still wrestling with this.

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Formal learning & social networking

Clark Quinn

tools (their environment in particular had blogs, feeds, wikis, discussion boards, portals, and profiles), and to talk about some case studies of successes. After hearing Mark Oehlert and Brent Schlenker do such a great job on eLearning 2.0 Much of elearning 2.0 So I was asked to talk about social networking and formal learning.

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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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