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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

They still want to be able to create courses within their LMS but clients are overwhelmingly happy to do this by uploading videos, documents, etc. Blogs and Wikis The need for learning management systems to have self-contained blogs and wikis has faded away. That’s gone. the same way you manage documents on your own computer.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

For details on how to create a podcast, see How to Create Your Own Podcast on About.com. The forward thinking folks at Dimdim created an application that is completely in the cloud. Users can create and join groups, connect with friends, display a profile, blog and microblog (similar to Twitter). Think of it. MindMeister.

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LMS Vendors: U Can Survive – Innovate, Invigorate and Invent

eLearning 24-7

In the webinar, I brought up how LMS vendors were themselves perpetuating the myth of the bad things of social media (which is a necessary component of social learning), so, rather than identify the facts and data to potential clients who are concerned about social media and thus social learning, they instead do not include it in their system.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

The suggestion by one audience member about requiring blogging (or similar forms) of sharing prior to a formal learning event was great. I discussed my experience from Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 They'll learn how to do it and have experience and a feeling of ownership. There were a few others.

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LMS Vendors: U Can Survive – Innovate, Invigorate and Invent

eLearning 24-7

In the webinar, I brought up how LMS vendors were themselves perpetuating the myth of the bad things of social media (which is a necessary component of social learning), so, rather than identify the facts and data to potential clients who are concerned about social media and thus social learning, they instead do not include it in their system.

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