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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #10

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Now software developers and creative designers can quickly develop for rich, connected or non-connected applications for mobile devices and deploy them on any mobile platforms they want. Symbian OS now fully open source. The Symbian Foundation has offered up the full Symbian Smartphone platform to open source.

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #11

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A cool initiative by IBM to promote open source software in academia. Institutions that are eligible and signup get no-charge access to hardware, full-version software, professionally developed courseware, tools, training, books, and discounts. It seems a promising step towards a Flash-less web. IBM Academic Initiative.

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SCORM Implementation For Blackberry

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Target Platform: After a good amount of R&D and feasibility study on available device software for Blackberry devices, we selected device software 5.0+ Device software 5.0 It uses the open source SQLite database system. Problems encountered while trying to implement SCORM for Device software 4.6:

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Wearable Computing Technology In Learning

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Putting all this together, and making some semantic sense of it is going to be a huge challenge that is being addressed by software as I write this. Should we tie into developing for clearly proprietary platforms or wait for open source wearable computing options to emerge on the market.

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The Right Way To Go About Open Source LMS

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As responses to a recent post where I listed f ive things not to do while selecting an LMS I received a couple of queries about using an Open Source LMS, customizing it to suit the requirements and if it is advisable to do so. A lot has already been written about open source LMSs in multiple contexts.

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #13

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Originally built as a software concept, the Android app called “Recongnizr&# is a mobile prototype that allows you to use your phone in order to “see&# who a person is and what web services and social networks they’re connected to. . • Building computer games promotes critical thinking and creative thinking skills.

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Eight Tips for LMS Implementation

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We looked at a series of things focusing on the right way to go about open source LMS , in case you are switching to a new LMS system , the critical consideration on how to decide between hosted and behind-the-firewall option , and even a few tips on what not to do while selecting an LMS.

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