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Linden Labs Raising Prices But Extending Discount for Current Users

Kapp Notes

As you may know, Linden, on October 4th, announced a plan to raise prices for educational and non-profit users of Second Life and not a little increase, a whopping doubling of the previous discount. Or something like Web.alive or the Finnish open source product realXtend. If someone makes an open invite, might a switch occur.

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Volatility in 3D Virtual World Industry

Kapp Notes

Parker, President of Digitell , Inc.informed me that he had a great reception and a tremendous amount of buzz around his VirtualU product and many of the people with whom he spoke are desperate to find a more engaging platform than 2D virtual classrooms. And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs.

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Second Life Happenings: CEO Steps Down (again)

Kapp Notes

Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search. He said many longtime Second Life users are angry at the recent decisions by the company that runs the service, Linden Lab. He has done this before and then come back.

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A whole new world

E-Learning Provocateur

Anyone can download the Second Life Viewer from the Internet and set up a basic account for free. Its currency is the Linden Dollar (L$) which avatars can use to buy virtual goods and even virtual property. Linden Dollars are bought with real money and can be exchanged back again. Second Life also has its own economy.

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Talking eLearning ROI

Web Courseworks

Determine Your Product Value and Pricing Model. You can also be creative with packaging your products. What products are in demand? Project Price Points for eLearning Products. The cost to produce and deliver a product includes development costs (internal and external costs, subject matter experts, etc.),

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Adobe/Bersin Overview of the eLearning Industry

Learning Visions

Study Methodology: Studied Adobe customer base -- how using the product and how they might like to be using it. People have an expectation to produce content more quickly -- this drives productivity. Collaborated with Adobe to identify trends in elearning industry re: content creation and trends in development.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Moderator (Harold Jarche): ADDIE is for mass instruction and it's as outdated as mass production. ADDIE reminds me of project management, software development, product management.common pieces that have ubiqitious purpose. Sandy E: @Jenna P - Absolutely, feel free! kelly_smith01: Ignore E and ignore our faults/strengths.