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7 Things About eLearning Your CEO/Executive Director Wants to Know

Association eLearning

You will need some sort of portal to put your courses into, which is commonly referred to as a Learning Management System or LMS. Share this on Facebook. Share this on LinkedIn. You’ll want to create a cost-benefits analysis that clearly outlines expenditure vs expected return. 2: What will we need? Will we need an LMS?

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Terms e-Learning Designers Should Know

Mindflash

Examples of technologies that can be used to facilitate asynchronous learning include learning management systems, enterprise social networks, wikis, blogs, on-line discussion forums, and even email. Synchronous: Synchronous learning refers to a learning environment in which everyone participates at the same time.

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Learning Thursday #10 – The Many Acronyms of Learning Technology

Adobe Captivate

For reference, here are some of the more prominent learning system categories. It can be difficult to tell whether a specific platform is principally a learning management system (LMS), or a learning content management system (LCMS), or something else entirely. Take learning technology vendors for example.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter.

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Did you know? Learning Systems Vol 3

eLearning 24-7

LCMS (Rip, albeit a few are back, like zombies). Learning tools – now referred to as learning technology. When you check out a learning system and they are discussing the content, you may see (and I see it quite a bit) being used to refer to an online course. Authoring tools. Web Conferencing solutions. It doesn’t.

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Some Web 2.0-Like Tools in LMSs Extend e-Learning into Social Networking and Community Sharing

Vignettes Learning

If added or incorporated, these tools help learners use LMS content as a resource for sharing ideas in networks and communities. See how they work: Google-like search - allows learners to search ALL text in the LMS content.

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Social Learning – What’s the Point? Time to turn the tables on the naysayers

eLearning 24-7

LMS/LCMS/Learning Portals (commercial & free), Social Learning stand-alone systems, hybrid system, content authoring tools, m-learning, web conferencing (already exists in many systems), virtual worlds, virtual meeting systems (already exists in some systems), marketplace exchanges (not affiliated with a system). What solution ?