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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

This YouTube-based learning environment was founded in 2004 by former Boston hedge-fund manager Salman Khan, and today contains more than 2,200 lectures on more than 100 topics (mostly math related). Until recently, the debate over this question had two primary camps: academia and corporate America.

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eLearning in the Workplace

TalentLMS

Workplace training systems also bring together managers and employees under one communication platform for effective knowledge and experience sharing. Posting comments on an online chat forum for knowledge development sites like wikis or course collaboration system. Employees demand instant access to immediate work context information.

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e-Learning Acupuncture: Wiki uses at Universities

E-Learning Acupuncture

Thursday, March 08, 2007 Wiki uses at Universities Wikis, a popular Web 2.0 Some universities have deployed a university-wide wiki while others have deployed department-specific wikis. Some of these wikis have been taken down - they existed at the time I wrote this post in March 2007).

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Understanding Web 2.0

Integrated Learnings

in 1999, followed by Tim O'Reilly in 2004, and then the 2006 Time magazine article Person of the Year - "You". And finally, knowledge centric networks like Wikipedia and other wikis use information as an impetus for social networking. Tags: Wiki Social Network Twitter Web 2.0 Wikipedia has a write up on Web 2.0 Mashup Blog.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

Teaching knowledge/comprehension-based subjects are more effective if the content is highly structured. An integration of blogs, wikis, content management systems (plone), simple social tools (skype), networking tools (Orkut), collaborative spaces (groove, and acollab), and the use of emerging "connection-making" protocols like RSS and Atom.

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e-Learning Glossaries

eFront

It is important that e-Learning professionals, researchers, experts, and learners have a common basis in order to communicate effectively. ISITE Designs e-Learning Glossary e-Learning Glossary The glossary is actually a wiki created by the eLearning Networks members. In other words, they need to “speak the same language&#.

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Course-instances on eFront 3.6.3

eFront

Previously you had to create 4 different courses to achieve this effect. For more info on Course-instances check the related wiki article here. Consider a scenario in which you have a school with a physics course (which includes several lessons), separated in 4 different classrooms. Each classroom has its own teacher(s) and students.

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