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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

One of the areas that always gain interest and usage are open source systems, that is to say, free open source code (some are not), to which any organization, company, educational setting, government and so forth can build their own system (often noted as home-grown) and do what they wish with it. Not open source.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

Here it is: Our 2018 eLearning predictions set in terms of Gartner’s hype cycle. The Army Research Laboratory in Orlando, Florida (the Silicon Valley of simulation), is, a source tells us, leaning toward specifying xAPI (see below) as the standard for LMS-simulator communication. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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The What, How and Why of xAPI in Corporate Learning

WhatFix

who serves as the Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, aptly put it ‘xAPI helps us put the puzzle together’. But What is xAPI Really? So, in 2013, the developers of SCORM released xAPI (also known as Tin Can). How Does xAPI Work? xAPI helps answer these questions and more. Why Use xAPI?

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Learning Systems for 2018 (#25 to #16)

eLearning 24-7

This year’s Top 50 learning systems for 2018 is now out, and we are doing it a bit different this year. I removed any vendor built 100% on free open source or open source whereas it is always 100% customized so that one could build a mega monster or build a 1995 version. Here it begins. Here it starts.

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Computer Aided Learning: From pre-history to where we’re at in late 2018

Ed App

Wikipedia states, “The first fully featured Learning Management System (LMS) was called EKKO , developed and released by Norway’s NKI Distance Education Network in 1991… In 2000, the University of Zurich revolutionized the concept of digitized learning by introducing the first open-source LMS called OLAT.

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Ten Interactive Online Platforms to Deliver Holistic Learning to Students

Kitaboo

The Fluidic player can support all types of files, such as PDFs, DOCX, PPTs, videos, SCORM, AICC, and xAPI-compliant packages. Moodle: This free and open-source learning management system offers robust functionalities that make it a great option for educational institutions. Digital Publishing / October 30, 2018.

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Publishing Success with Digital First Publishing – Part 2

Magic EdTech

SCORM 2004, AICC, or xAPI). Adapt : In 2014, three European companies (Learning Pool, Sponge UK, and Kineo) rolled out Adapt, a free open-source elearning HTML5 authoring tool that supports the development of responsive courses. Through statistics provided by statista , we do know that in 2018 in the U.S.,

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