This post is a call to action to any learning professional who wants to preserve open and complete competition amongst vendors (for profit or open source) seeking to assist in the learning process. technorati tags: blackboard_patent , Elgg , moodle , sakai , desire2learn Blogged with FlockHarold Jarche provides a concise yet powerful defense of the Elgg learning environment against the 44 provisions of the Blackboard LMS Patent in his post Elgg and the LMS Patent. MORE

Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source. Interview on the increase of open source LMSs Moodle and Sakai in higher education. tags: e-learning , highered , opensource , lms , sakai , moodle , blackboard , desire2learn. Clive on Learning: Three tiers in the content pyramid. Clive Shepherd revises his model for e-learning tiers, adding a bottom level of social learning technology to the tiers of rapid development and high-end e-learning. MORE

All the information below was obtained from Internet sources and announcements in educational journals. crw Another source of major eLearning conferences is: Tom King's eLearning Google Calendar. &no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[ tt_news]=907&tx_ttnews[ backPid]=51&cHash=a January 28-30, 2009 International Conference on Open and Distance Education , 5th, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. MORE

Navigating the Open Data Landscape, Bristol, The United Kingdom. link] January 16-20, 2012 Linux.Conf.Au: Free and Open Source Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Clayton R. MORE

Instructure’s Canvas Network is an open-source LMS used by many schools and institutions. Here are some other build-your-own-MOOC platforms to consider: Desire2Learn , ProProfs Training Maker , P2PU , and Google Course Builder (still in beta testing). eLearning Featured Posts Learning & Development MOOC Training Alison Canvas network Desire2Learn ILT Instructor Led Training mooc Saylor Foundation MORE

link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. link] December 4-6, 2012 International Symposium on Open, Distance, and e-Learning (ISODEL), Bali, Indonesia. Clayton R. MORE

link] January16-20, 2012 Linux.Conf.Au: Free andOpen Source Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. link] February4-7, 2012 Open and Distance LearningAssociation of Australia Summit , biennial, Sydney, Australia. link] March28-30, 2012 Learning Through Sharing :Open Resources, Open Practices, Open Communication, University of Bologna,Bologna, Italy. link] April13-14, 2012 Open Source Scotland ,Edinburgh, Scotland. MORE

Company: Product: Desire2Learn. Open Source Solutions. Executives Nominate 100 Solutions Across Expanded 30 Categories for Excellence. Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines, the industry voices of the enterprise learning and workforce technology market, announced today the Best of Elearning! Awards 2015 Finalists. MORE