Clive on Learning

MAY 28, 2009

The rest is free or open-source. As the statistics show, around 20% is free or open source (a figure which is bound to be rising) and yet not noticeably inferior in quality. A further 44% is paid for. Piracy rates are falling in half of all countries and stable in another third.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2009

It is time to arrive at a clearer understanding of the capabilities that represent needs unique to education and for the Sakai community to focus its development effort on providing these capabilities while taking advantage of established open?source source efforts to provide more generic capabilities.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Then along came open source and a host of freebie applications, supported by advertising. At the moment I'm either using or considering using all of the following: Moodle , the open source virtual learning environment. DimDim , open source web conferencing.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2008

We'll see more online rapid e-learning authoring environments come on the market, perhaps even open source. For those corporates who don't need a top-end LMS, we'll see an increased use of Moodle and similar open source platforms as a simple and low-cost means for delivery of online and blended programmes.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2011

I know that much of this functionality is available through low-cost and open-source software, much of it not specifically learning or performance-orientated, but that’s not how a lot of large corporates see the world. The use of widgets, Outlook add-ins, etc. User-generated content submission with peer ratings.

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Saba LMS Blended Learning Compliance Training 69

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

A much more important battle is the one they both face against free and open source software. And Microsoft and Apple are not even direct competitors. One is predominantly a software company and one is mainly hardware.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Selling myself the masterclass The Big Question: how can we leverage open content in workplace learning? phone2learn is just too late (review) Open source instructional design (review) The changing shape of the internet In search of pioneering learning architects October Who archives the web? Hard to read, easy to learn?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2007

In exploring the new OpenElms open source LMS and authoring tool, I came across the outrageous e-Learning in 10 Minutes micro-mini course (you have to register to view this). If there was any hint of embarrassment left in me about the idea of a 30-minute masters in instructional design, it has now been eradicated.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 20, 2010

It doesn’t really matter if it’s Microsoft or Apple, HTML 5 or Flash, proprietary or open source, so long as it delivers content and allows humans to interact. Most people will still be using Windows PCs and laptops; a great many will also have smart phones or tablets of some sort.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 16, 2008

One of these was: "We'll see more online rapid e-learning authoring environments come on the market, perhaps even open source." On January 3rd I laid out my e-learning predictions for 2008.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 23, 2006

Over the past two months I've been working extensively with the open source virtual learning environment (VLE) Moodle. I know I'm using it on a relatively small scale but, as I understand it, the Open University are switching their quarter of a million students to Moodle, so it must be a scalable solution.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2008

But luckily they didn't, deciding instead to contribute their own tools to the open source Moodle toolkit. Mark's company, Aardpress , could have regarded this as an opportunity to create and sell expensive add-on functionality for Moodle.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Although there is an open source option in eXe , it's fair to say that this is more directed at educational users than corporates. Typically online tools have been sold on an enterprise basis and have cost tens of thousands of dollars.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Of the "e-learning technologies used", roughly 60% of employers are using an LMS, 40% are using virtual classrooms, chat rooms and discussion groups, games and sims, >30% are using open source tools (!!!), 20% mobile learning, blogs and wikis, 15% podcasts. All of these are expected to increase substantially in the next 3 years.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2007

For an open source alternative, try EXE. I worked for several years with a UK tool called Accelerator and experienced first hand how easy it was to work with others to share assets and learning objects and to work together on creating and maintaining materials.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2007

Also, the owners of the farmhouse, who live next door, have a wireless broadband network and it extends to my bedroom, hence I thought I'd inflict you with this post. yes mass collaboration is changing everything.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 4, 2007

Now I don't normally get very excited about LMSs but these awards attracted my attention, because in amongst the Sabas and the SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2007

After all, the World Wide Web, social networking, open source and other initiatives have emerged that way with huge success. I'm sure there are enlightened executives that could buy into this idea, but in their absence I'd go for guerilla warfare, a bottom-up approach, rather than nothing.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Without a knowledge of open source and other free software, you'd end up paying $000s for tools and systems that you could probably get for nothing. Do you really understand what makes them tick (to give you a clue, it's not using software tools developed by other programmers)? Would you accept their time estimates at face value?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 29, 2009

" He'd tried open source and free software but had to admit that, as far as e-learning development software was concerned, "Adobe is still king and will remain so for our foreseeable future.

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