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ID and e-Learning Links (8/25/14)

Experiencing eLearning

Freeware application for creating “action mazes” or branching scenarios. tags: freeware e-learning scenarios branching. Currently everything is written by Kevin but you can sign up to contribute. tags: elearning wiki research learning training seriousmanifesto onlineteaching.

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Top eBook to Audiobook Converters

Kitaboo

All you will need is freeware or an app. Make sure that the freeware you select has a textbook reader that supports your eBook formats and converts them into MP3, WAV, and other audio formats. If you have a Mac, you may want to note that you do not need to download any freeware. However, you can also create your own.

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Corporate University: The Learning Management System

Your Training Edge

But if you do not have an LMS, the setup phase of your corporate university is the time to buy, build, or “freeware” a system. There are LMSs that are offered as “freeware”, such as Moodle. One of the issues you may face is the question of funds.

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Daily Bookmarks 03/16/2008

Experiencing eLearning

tags: freeware , graphics , tools. Resources, expertise, technology, needs (of learners, educators, society), and funds impact what we choose to do. In a world: context. The mix of multiple, mutually influencing factors determine what we types of technology we select. Paint blends with other colors and has texture like actual paint.

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FAQs of IETMs – Code And Pixels

Use of IETMs for Navy Air Force Defence

Is IETM freeware or open source? IETM is not freeware and not open-source. This IETM was initiated in US defense having MIL-PRF-87268A number (MIL-M-87268, 87269) Based on these MIL standards, the Ministry of Defense, Directorate of Standardization, Joint service Guide (JSG) has framed guidelines which is 0852:2019.

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Top 10 eLearning Resources You May Not Have Thought Of

eLearning Brothers

Wink is a freeware for creating tutorials and presentations aimed at instructing how to use software. This website enables you to collaborate with authors and editors from different areas of study, so you can rely on their experience, expertise, and creativity to come up with the best content for your eLearning project.

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Question: Tracking CBTs

Experiencing eLearning

My experience has mostly been in higher ed, so I’ve always needed to do grading or more tracking than what this reader needs: I am the sole person involved with e-Learning in my branch, and I am mostly limited to using freeware. Â At present we are developing self-paced CBTS using PowerPoint, a PowerPoint-to-Flash converter, and HTML.

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Tune-up Your E-Learning Workstation for the New Year

E-learning Uncovered

Freeware maintenance software. When comparing commercial and freeware tune-up suites, be sure to focus on the types of maintenance utilities you are most interested in. When comparing commercial and freeware tune-up suites, be sure to focus on the types of maintenance utilities you are most interested in.

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Teaching and learning C online

Moodle Journal

If the institute make use of a licensed product, as we do, then students either have to purchase it, or make use of a freeware or trial version. One of the many issues that arise when you teach any programming language I have found is going to be that of a compiler.

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Top 10 Tools for Rapid eLearning

Rob Hubbard

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) – fantastically named piece of freeware that works on most operating systems for photo retouching, image composition and authoring. Survey Monkey has been around for a while but still a great tool for gathering user feedback and can also be used to pre-assess knowledge gaps.

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Game Changing Training

Your Training Edge

This software differs from freeware and shareware and can be defined as both the idea and application of making program source code openly accessible. Another recommendation is based on having elevated collaboration to major competencies by including it into learning and recognition and performance management efforts.

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Set Variables With Interactive Sliders – Part 5 Additional Resources

Adobe Captivate

It also strips out any freeware that piggybacks on a lot of free stuff out there. It will automatically pick the right versions and install them with out all the need to go to a million different sites and click NEXT, NEXT, NEXT just as many times. I had a great time making this and sharing it with all of you.

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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: The Mechanics of Social Learning Networks for 9th Graders (Part 3) by Anne Derryberry

Learning Solutions Magazine

Identifying – and assembling – the right set of freeware tools to provide the infrastructure that will spawn an active social learning network among a class of mid-performing 9th graders was like being back in grad school.”. “Determining the right technology package for a learning solution can be challenging under any circumstances.

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Jane Hart’s Top 100 Learning Tools

Jay Cross

This little freeware tool plays just about any video format you can throw at it. Since I work on three or four different computers, it’s great to have all my stuff available no matter where I’m signing in from. Honorable mention: VLC. As movie editors go, this one’s simple as can be.

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Project Management for eLearning Professionals

Integrated Learnings

Some are freeware while others will have fees associated with them. There are also many online project management tools that you can use – just put “online project management software” in your Google search, and you will see many options. Whatever tool you choose to use, it should be easily viewed by your team members and easy to maintain.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 2

Upside Learning

The best freeware reviews presented to you by Gizmo’s team of experts provides a listing of 260 sites that legally offer free books (eBooks) on a wide range of topics, for download or for online viewing. Read it here. 250+ Places For Free Books Online.

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11 Free Game Creation Software Programs (At least for 30 Days)

Kapp Notes

Game Maker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started. But, if you register your copy of Game Maker, you can unlock extra functions, which extend the capabilities of the program.

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Great Women of Web 2.0 Talk

Kapp Notes

Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license.

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5 Easy Ways to Share E-Learning Courses

Rapid eLearning

What you need to do: Download and install Cloudberry Explorer (freeware). I use FileZilla (freeware) which lets me easily upload and manage my content. Even if you did pay, the storage is so inexpensive that I’d be surprised if you exceeded one dollar per year. Load the courses on your site. Share your link.

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Free e-learning: The Top 10 barriers to adoption

From the Coleface

Integration with existing systems: the freeware has probably been built to do one job by developers who are unfamiliar with or unconstrained by corporate systems. Support: who’s responsible for helping users get the best from using the software?

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Thoughts on Social Networking

Moodle Journal

Now being a software person, my first reaction was to go looking for some tools, free ones anyway and I found Agna , a superb little piece of Java freeware. I used Moodle reports to produce a student-by-student activity for the Social forums throughout September 06.

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The Role of SDK in eBook Reader Development

Kitaboo

While they aren’t as open as Public Domain licenses, Permissive Licenses are the preferred license for freeware since they don’t come with any security concerns that Public Domain licenses do. Permissive Licenses have minimal requirements concerning future modification or redistribution of the software. Lesser General Public License.

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Down load dating app for pc he misuse, loss, and agreeing to profile. Although its totally free Computer CS

Yatharthriti

Run Xeplayer Android Version category Lifestyle Shopping Social Apps Top Apps Games March, Top Games Tools Apps Top Freeware GROUPS Educational Strategy Trivia GAME Racing Milky Way Destroy The ultimate publisher Anastasiadate that is free. Although its totally PC that is free rushing for Instagram.

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Help! What software tool should I use to record audio?

360 Training

Sometimes circumstances are such that there is no money to spend on tools, and your IT department or personal policies may be such that you are not willing to download freeware. I need to record voice-only audio to go with a text-and-graphic slide or activity… And spend little to nothing, and download nothing.

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eLearning Learning Widget

eLearning Blender

Diving into this widget I was surprised how often I talk about and research freeware. This is a great tool which helps do the research for you. Tony has a much better explanation of how the keyword widget functions in this post. Guess that goes to show what matters to an instructional designer in this current economic climate.

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3 Ways to Create Videos for your Courses

eFront

Several freeware programs are available for video recording, such as HyperCam. Why hire a professional production house when you have a camera and a microphone right on your computer, even your smartphone? Indeed, current systems are equipped with superior quality multimedia recording hardware and software programs.

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Interesting Information via eLearning Learning

Tony Karrer

Joe Deegan - Blender - Training Solutions Freeware , ILT , SWF , ROI , Wondershare , PowerCONVERTER , Adobe Captivate , Photoshop , SharePoint ( SharePoint Examples - Joe, can you help me?) David Fair - Learning Journeys Talk to him about graphics ( PNG , JPG ) and staying organized ( Tagging , Information Overload ).

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Where are open source learning applications?

Tony Karrer

Think of it as freeware Captivate. * A few early tools exist, but they are in the early adopter stage. Demo + Audio recording solution - Wink is early adopter stage as well, but will soon be moving more mainstream.

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Headed to DevLearn? 8 Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss

Knowledge Guru

You will take a look at commercial software and freeware to begin designing VR and 3-D learning environments. You will explore 3-D modeling software, game engines, and animation websites while learning about the different file formats that will come together in a final project. Learn more. Design Thinking for Problem-Solving.

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Moodle LMS: Hot Potatoes is Now Free!

The E-Learning Curve

Tags: plugin Moodle hot potatoes content development question freeware criterion test.

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How to Get Your Training Presentation From Good to Great With Images, Audio, and Video

Mindflash

You may have to convert – downloadable shareware and freeware converters are plentiful – particularly if your content was recorded on a smartphone with a proprietary format. PowerPoint is supposed to also be compatible with MPEG, but there’s a higher chance of something not working right on the viewer’s end.

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Looking ‘Under the Hood’ of MOOCs

e-Learning Academy

Generally speaking, a cobbled up MOOC using freeware is not going to ‘cut it’ because it wastes student time and looks unloved. As a colleague recently pointed out to me, 20 hours of the same teacher delivering content via video is boring. Simplicity is about ease of use. The MOOC needs to be intuitive to access, navigate and ‘do’ things in.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 12/7/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Top 10 Freeware Apps for M-Learning - Mobile Learning. One user entered the loan details, another approved it. But business doesn't work like that. M-Learning (mobile learning) - ELT Notes. Useful set of mLearning links. Ten of the most useful, free software applications you can use to design and deliver mobile learning.

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Wink screencasts, Google Co-Op, and eContent

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Its Windows only, but at least its freeware. My favorite is a link to his post showing some Engineering Domain searches Rich created with Google Co-Op. Wink is a very cool little screencapture tool I've never heard of before. Thanks for sharing, Rich! This is some great new stuff!

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Software for Starving Students - sweet!

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Windows and Mac only: Software for Starving Students has released a 2007 edition of its collection of freeware and open-source software. Sure students are strapped for cash, but schools are too. What a great little set of tools for educators as well.

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Analysis of ASTD International Conference and Expo 2013

eLearning 24-7

One looked like freeware. Gamification – Another sizzling item, although it was misleading a bit – since there were resellers there for some of the vendors who were also there. I saw some “learning games” and with the exception of Gamelearn was seriously underwhelmed.

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Google, YouTube, Fonts, & Influencing People

Big Dog, Little Dog

Quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. The explosion of all types of video content on YouTube and other sites is quickly transforming online video from a medium strictly for entertainment and news into one that is also a reference tool. Free Fonts - Fonts Squirrel. Works on both Windows and Mac OS X. See Help for installing.

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye LMSs

eLearning 24-7

It looks like freeware. Dated look – I mean some of the systems looks like they were built in the 1996 with those looks, this only does a disservice to the learner and also to your system. I mean I’ve seen shareware that looks better than quite a few systems. and trying to find where to enter their courses.

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Review of ASTD International Trade Expo

eLearning 24-7

I would play this at home – too many game based learning solutions look like freeware or the old Atari games from the 80s. Looks like a game that people would want to play – i.e. cool graphics, interactive, engaging, fun. The game I saw was for time management and personal productivity. Works with mobile devices.

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Stock Photo Image and Other Media Sources

Tony Karrer

This Australian site links to free stuff in Australia and worldwide, like fonts, freeware, etc. (4) Articles, message board, etc. (2) 2) 1001freefonts.com. 4000 fonts for $9.95 (download). (3) 4) Indezine on fonts. There are so many font sites out there, I trust the folks at Indezine to narrow it down. They list about ten. (5)

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