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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. Harvesting innovation. Signing up partners and creating consortia.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Article comparing new Mash-Up tools (Popfly, Pipes, Google) - thanks Sam Adkins

Mark Oehlert

» June 03, 2007 Article comparing new Mash-Up tools (Popfly, Pipes, Google) - thanks Sam Adkins Sam Adkins at Ambient Insight passed along a link to a post on the Social Strategist that I just reading through now but which does a compare and contrast between some of the emerging tools for creating mash-ups.

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools 2010 – Innovators, Winners and Updated Trends

eLearning 24-7

Innovation abounded and the push to focus on the “PPT to Flash&# angle continued to shine. The Big Dogs – which in this case, deals more with market share, for the most part continued to push forward, yet from an innovation standpoint, uh, solid, but not outstanding. Open Source Product of the Year (i.e.

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Corporate eLearning

Tony Karrer

Why Wikis Are Conquering the Enterprise Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. Self Serve Can also pick up packaged food -- self-service from a vending machine, etc. Incremental vs. Disruptive Innovation. About Gary: Classroom teacher in the early 70s. 1984 doctorate in applied psychology.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. Prediction #6 => More Examples of Mashups and Add-ons to Extend Simple Self-Paced eLearning Prediction #5 is a slam dunk.

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2010 LMS Products of the Year

eLearning 24-7

A lot of great products out there this year, new updates and latest versions; new companies, new services and just some real innovation. Open Source Systems – That have to be 100% free to be considered. Open Source LMS of the Year. My runner-up is Operitel’s LearnFlex LSP. These standout to me.

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