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Why you should embrace open source

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel. The reasons to engage with open source include the following: * Getting high-quality, free software and software design and development help. Making your software ubiquitous through participation and low cost.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Learning content will be transformed for easier consumption. Success metrics for learning will be based on content access, views, involvement and downloads. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc.

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Learning and Development Glossary

Petra Mayer

Devised by Ebbinghaus, the forgetting curve is an influential memory model wherein it shows how learned information slips out of memory with time, if not retained. It suggests that one should revisit the information learned sooner rather than later. Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment).

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: More on PowerPoint and Instructional Design

Learning Visions

I also stumbled on this interview by Karl Kapp with Jane Bozarth over at e-Learning guru.com that had some good nuggets on basic instructional design and using low cost tools (like PowerPoint) to build effective e-Learning. Ive always pooh-poohed PowerPoint as an e-Learning tool.but its all in how you look at, I suppose.

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2019 Talented Learning Awards: Corporate Extended Enterprise Systems

Talented Learning

Based in Ireland, LearnUpon was originally a SaaS solution for associations, but it evolved into a customer learning platform that has been widely adopted by corporations around the world. Totara is unique in the marketplace because it’s a corporate learning management system built on the open source LMS platform, Moodle.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Edu-Gaming in the latest Escapist

Mark Oehlert

And believe it: In this respect, computer game publishers could learn from them." " Erin Hoffman: Tighten Those Graphics In addition to the low cost of enrollment, community and small colleges offer practicality and skill focus. They aim for respectability. But are they delivering the best education possible?

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Learning Management System Examples and 5 sectors that have benefited most

Paradiso Solutions

It supports formal and informal learning, meaning you can have structured lessons or more casual learning experiences. Plus, you can easily share learning materials like videos and audio and even have online quizzes and tests. It’s a versatile tool that makes learning convenient and effective.

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