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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Fresh out of university, I worked as a content developer and designed and authored hundreds of hours of online courses. Locally-Installed Software About a decade ago, many organizations shunned cloud-based software and demanded that the LMS be installed on their internal servers. Installed software was hot. Now it’s viewed as passé.

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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

Experiencing eLearning

Add “real world&# content by bringing things in from outside (podcasts, blogs, etc.). Gave an example of faculty handbook created with wiki (using MediaWiki). Have everyone in the group highlight and add sticky notes to discuss the content. Life is not a closed situation like an LMS. Audience is important! Set up a group.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

.: So in this post, I wanted to take a look at the Top 10 Tools on the 2012 list, and briefly suggest what corporates can learn from them in order to appreciate how workplace learning is a much wider concept than just creating content or running webinars. 1 - Twitter.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: I Heart My Wiki

Learning Visions

We installed MediaWiki on our local server a couple of weeks ago and Ive been using it to record everything I can for my e-Learning strategy project. Folks I have talked to resist the idea of the wiki -- they think wikipedia, they think "amateurs" trashing your content. And I love it. Bye bye Word.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Each tool fulfills at least one of these criteria: encourages collaboration; enables user-generated content or input; provides a way to share; and facilitates informal or formal learning. Although podcasts are a one-way form of communication, they enable the creation of user-generated content. MindMeister. Category: Mind Maps.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Provide the content. I've embedded all the content from the slides. Provide thoughts around the content and the discussion. Content Quality / Regulated Content One of the most common initial objections is what about quality of the content. Start them with initial structure and obvious placed to add content.

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

eLearning 24-7

While my esteemed colleague today said he saw m-learning on smartphones – value as assessments and progress reports and not content – I agree, but content will be king with tablets. Tie it into their servers. You can do so much more with a tablet. When everyone wasn’t offering ad-hoc reporting, someone said.we

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