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Monday, September 6, 2010
The call for entries is now open for the Springboard Awards for Excellence 2010. No, I’m not seasonally challenged!  Spring or more accurately Springboard is in the air again. ThirdForce are once more sponsoring the Best Career Progression Award.
 
Monday, September 6, 2010
Once you open the file, select the Sepia color and your choice of font. opened the 391-page The Working Smarter Fieldbook in Pages and “shared it” as an ePub file. This inquiry will explore the ePub format and its potential for creating unbooks. Please join in. Read this as an ePub. Then sync your iPad and computer. It’s a book.
 
Monday, September 6, 2010
On another note, David Wiley, writing about Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation  states: In short, higher education finds itself using radical new technology in backward ways, reinforcing outdated ways of thinking with law and institutional policy, and remaining unable to satisfy rapidly increasing popular demand. Innovation
 

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Connecting to others, is enabled by open source software. The open source community celebrated Software Freedom Day on 20 September. In the past decade, free and open source software (FOSS) has become one of the major catalysts in increasing transparency by lowering the barrier to access the best software technologies. Really.
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. Moodle is of course THE open source e-learning item of the moment*1. Tags: open source marketplace tools Moodle software LMSs PLEs freelearning From the limited screenshots it looks pretty.
Here is a list of other Open Source LMS vendors, besides Moodle. cons on Moodle and open source LMS/LCMS in general. Open Elms -  Support for articulate, captivate,   targets business. Olat -   IMS Learning Impact ‘Leadership Award’ 2009 for best open source learning platform. Nor are they in any specific order.  Atutor.
The list is followed by free open source software that mimics and can even beat – IMO some of its more well known competitors – that you might use when building your WBT. Xerte - Open source tools for e-learning developers and designers.  All software below is free. Rapid E-Learning Course Software. love it that much.
Tags: asynchronous authoring tools content authoring digital media e-learning elearning content integrated develpment environment open e-learning environment open standards video editing application Jing media open source software screencapture
Just last week the great Peruvian/Belgian team (Luis Fucai, Beto Castillo Llaque and Carlos Kiyan, with Maria Zolfo and myself cheering on) released the amazing Mobile Moodle for iPhone development, which is currently being bug-tested to ensure we can deliver a (as good as) bug-free open source code for you all to use. How did they do it?
If an eLearning course will be build with audiovisual aids, in most cases you will draw up or write a storyboard. Celtx is a great storyboard software. It just upgraded to their 1.0 version ( cross platform and delivered in a lot of languages ). Celtx has some web services as well. Nice, I like it.
Tags: SCORM e-learning e-learning ecosystem open e-learning environment open standards web based training web-based learning Blackboard ecosystem ISO LMS Moodle open source standards
Hence: Below are products that are either open source free or free or free with limited functionality.  Open Meetings - based on Google code.  Bosco’s Screen Share -  just a screen share program, open source. Tags: Open Source Uncategorized e-learning e-learning vendors elearning web conferencing webinars web meetings
but what captured my eyes was her mentioning 'open PhD'. After Google'ing 'open phd', I got directed to Lisa Chamberlin's blog. The concept of an open PhD is simple (well, simple on paper that is). Another incredibly smart thing Parag came up with, was to start an open posterous blog where he keeps his study notes.