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Pros and cons: proprietary, open-source, and cloud-based LMS

Matrix

Plus, the source code is not made available to clients, which means that customizing your internal learning portal is closer to a dream than to reality. Open-source LMS. An open-source LMS is easy to use and also customizable. An open-source LMS is built by a collaborative community.

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DevLearn, Reflected #dl10

Learning Visions

Life as a booth babe At the Kineo booth, we were busy on the stand talking about Totara – the new open source LMS for corporates – and showing off some our custom eLearning projects. He’s also done a mad job of live blogging his notes, so be sure to check out his blog!)

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SCORM, AICC, xAPI – Which one do I need?

eLearning 24-7

Every time I write about the course standards, whether on my blog or, lately, on LinkedIn, I receive a lot of responses, feedback, and folks wanting to know more. SCORM is not easy to learn. One thing to note xAPI needs a learning portal that has a Learning Record Store or LRS.

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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).

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Free Quiz and Test Maker Tools Plus My Top 3

eLearning 24-7

While this market has always existed, it is clearly taking a whole new form in two areas: Strong emphasis to embed into a web site or blog. This is ironic, considering that the rapid content authoring tools, LMSs & Learning Portals offer quiz/assessment tools and target the corporate market (and not academia or or not just academia).

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How to Drive Agile Learning for a More Effective Workforce

CrossKnowledge

Sources such as custom e-learning, interactive videos, internal learning portals, and open source e-learning tools, can increase engagement by 20% or more. Let us help you identify skills gaps and create a more agile learning environment! Contact us.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Open Architecture. APIs are open source code, so that developers (inc. Google code is open source code, so you can manipulate. Here is just a few of ones I like, that are unique and you could use in your LMS/LCMS/CMS, Learning Portal (caveat: your vendor must be able to accept APIs, otherwise it won’t work).

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