After the holidays I have been bumping into the same issue with different clients: "Which platform you choose for a online part of a learning trajectory as trainer/facilitator? It is already clear that you want to combine online learning with face-to-face meetings, you need a private online platform and there is also a budget for it. With the enormous amount of social media tools it is much easier for a trainer/facilitator to make his/her own choice of tools fitting the learning activities rather than trying to fit your learning activities into a predetermined platform. MORE >>

Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. All of that said, Facebook is surprising me in terms of how well it works as a platform. There are some really interesting opportunities to treat Facebook like a uniting platform He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. It's a large, centralized piece of software that is getting creaky with use (we've seen more outages and the PHP code is once again dumping itself into users' browsers). Something like the social network operating system , maybe. MORE >>

In today's webinar she's promised to examine three platforms explin what they can and cannot offer. Jan'es asking us whether we're just curious about social learning or are we looking for a Ning alternative or if we're just evaluating platform. 10 criteria for selecting the 'right' platform Here are some of the criteria Jane mentions we should think about when selecting a platform: 1. Will it be an enterprise wide social and collaboration platform? Will it be an external platform? Can you move data out of the platform? is a good social platform. MORE >>

Open Source E-Learning Development 16: Kaltura Collaborative Video Platform is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog. Tags: e-learning collaborative learning collaborative video content delivery content platform Kaltura learning 2.0 Today I'm going to talk about a genuinely innovative open source online media production and collaboration environment called Kaltura. multimedia web 2.0 MORE >>

This post specifically talks about how a Mobile Learning Platform can be used as an effective Performance Support System. Leveraging Mobile Learning Platforms. good mobile learning platform provides users with a mobile enabled environment where they can access the training activities in the form of videos, podcasts, eLearning courses, quizzes and evaluation surveys and also enables them to use their mobile device to share knowledge with others (within or outside their team) in real-time. What is a ‘Performance Support System’? The four components of a good PSS. Upside2Go: MORE >>