article thumbnail

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). APIs available in popular programs – SAAS. MediaWiki API. Uses Google Docs. Javascript. Uh, forget that.

Mashups 65
article thumbnail

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

eLearning 24-7

When a vendor decided to add mediawiki to their LMS, so it looks exactly like Wikipedia, while everyone else uses some funky looking wiki.what happened? Again, open source programs exist today that you can use as a feature within your LMS. When everyone wasn’t offering ad-hoc reporting, someone said.we and it worked. I like that.

vendor 72
article thumbnail

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

eLearning 24-7

When a vendor decided to add mediawiki to their LMS, so it looks exactly like Wikipedia, while everyone else uses some funky looking wiki.what happened? Again, open source programs exist today that you can use as a feature within your LMS. When everyone wasn’t offering ad-hoc reporting, someone said.we and it worked. I like that.

vendor 40