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Monday, September 22, 2008
Connecting to others, is enabled by open source software. So this is not a blogpost on theory, but on practicalities of connectivism reality. The open source community celebrated Software Freedom Day on 20 September. "Transparency is key in enabling people to participate in the creation of wealth and well-being in society.
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Monday, June 9, 2008
If an eLearning course will be build with audiovisual aids, in most cases you will draw up or write a storyboard . The storyboard is useful to: make sure you cover all the learning objectives, test the continuity of the story/narrative you use to enlighten your learners keep the team of developers informed of their expected input and when their input is due. Celtx is a great storyboard software. It just upgraded to their 1.0 version ( cross platform and delivered in a lot of languages ).
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
I've recently become a fan of Open Source Living , a site that rounds up the best of the many and varied OS apps that are out there. I find it rather more useful day-to-day than the more far-ranging but rather bewildering SourceForge , probably because while that site seems more targeted at developers, OSLiving is a bit more selective - it seems to weed out the thousands of half finished, one-man-in-a-bedroom-every-second-Sunday-in-months-ending-with-'y' type apps that fill out any search on SourceForge....
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Posts related to the use of Open Source eLearning: Interesting Distribute Publishing Model and Open Source Open Source eLearning Business Model Innovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearning Where are open source eLearning applications?
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Friday, July 28, 2006
Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and several others Early Adopters - Moodle and a few others Early Majority - nobody Late Majority - forget about it I would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts...
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Friday, June 26, 2009
For free. (I’m a recent convert, perhaps on the path to open source evangelism.) So what are some of the hurdles to overcome in the corporate market? Here are just a few: It’s free. Because it’s open source, there are no licensing costs. This, apparently, freaks people out. Free must mean sub par, right? Wrong. Moodle and other open source products have huge communities behind them. Talented individuals who can program like hell and believe in the open source philosophy. Support.
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Monday, March 5, 2007
A recent spate of posts on the challenges of running an open source business is interesting ( Tosh , Siemens , Downes , Tosh 2 , ). Dave Tosh laments - Elgg is the most popular white label social networking platform in the world powering over 2000 networks.... You create something that has value and gets traction and yet you've created it in a way that the software is considered "free." Thus, you may starve working on your labor of love. However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
This is a high-level summary of a talk I'm giving at Learning Technologies 2009 at the end of this month. If you're coming along then use it to help you prepare some questions...
Open source learning software means more than just Moodle . As well as the ubiquitous LMS, there are open source content development tools (e.g. ExeLearning ), mind-mapping applications (e.g. Freemind ), audio-editing tools (eg. Audacity ), utilities (e.g.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
A lot has been written on the ups and downs of open source software and movements and building on that philosophy, the topic of open source content in education (not umbiased I linked to 'old' - read March 2003 - comprehensive article on the topic by George Siemens and building on a discussion with Stephen Downes... .
...Tags: open source blogphilosophy connecitivism open content.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Like most people who develop and manage training for a living, especially at small to medium sized companies and non profits, I have learned to do a lot of work using free and open source software tools. I will explain how I use these tools in a series of posts but for now I just want to list some of them in case you want to check them out for yourself.
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