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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Responses may be formatted in either XML or JSON. Mashups Possibilities. Open Architecture. No problem. MediaWiki API.

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Revolutionizing Employee Training: McDonald’s POS Training Simulator

Epilogue Systems

But its impact goes beyond just button-mashing. So, take a page out of their playbook, ditch the dry textbooks and fire up the training simulator. Choose the Right Simulation Type: The format of simulation training varies by industry, role, and skill area.

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Understanding Web 2.0

Integrated Learnings

Actually it was created for physicists across the world to share information in an easy to read format. Wikipedia has a write up on Web 2.0 The ideas that make up Web 2.0 are social networking, web mashups, and using the web to store and create content. A web mashup is the second concept in what makes up Web 2.0.

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Nothing new under the sun

Learning with e's

just about everything you encounter online has either been done before, or it's a synthesis (the social media term is 'mashup') of previously available content. The nature of the Social Web is such that tools are available to repurpose, rip, mash, combine and otherwise manipulate just about any content into any other format you wish.

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3 Essential Themes for Mobile Learning Systems

Upside Learning

This is where the rubber meets the road, by dreaming up features we invent the mLearning systems future right here. Shared data, available as streams formatted in RDF would allow individual users to create their own learning applications; eventually there will be a widget-ization of learning.

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Buzzword: Micro-learning

Xyleme

Catching up on what my Twitter network are sharing, whilst waiting for a train. Picking up a couple of recent blog posts or videos from my RSS reader whilst eating lunch. Looking up the best way to buy a rail ticket from the UK to Germany. Finding a quick video about how to replace a light bulb in my car.

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Vision 2016 - An Interview with Todd Kasenberg

Raptivity

More about Todd here: [link] Below are excerpts from the interview: What are some of the key eLearning trends that you think would surface, or pick up, in 2016? With this, we will experience the usual cost pressures + the relative lack of desire for the organization to push past the traditional e-learning formats. How would it impact?