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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). Search for restaurants in Google and Google Maps shows up with the various restaurants on the map. Mashups Possibilities.

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Learning System Awards #11 to #20 (2023)

eLearning 24-7

I bet that is the first time you have seen a mashup between music from Hair (great musical, bad movie) and a holiday tune. If you want the longer version, you can review past criteria, mash it up, and extract key details. Let the sunshine in. Let the sunshine in. Oh, let it in, fa, la, la. The Criteria.

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E-Learning Early Indicators

eLearning 24-7

You could count on your hand the number of vendors even looking at it, and I’m not just talking LMSs/Learning Portals, but content authoring tools and other products. Vendors are adding more “comments&# and voting i.e. yes or no or thumbs up/thumbs down features. Forums and discussion boards are making a come back (why?).

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. Stick your feet into the water, just a bit.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a 2011 Forrester Research report, “Informal Learning Garners Acceptance as a Legitimate Learning Approach,” 76 million millennials will make up 47 percent of the 2014 workforce and will soon become middle managers. C-suite positions will also draw from an additional 46 million Gen Xers.

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LMS News. Directory. Plus E-Learning Notes

eLearning 24-7

Newest Version – LMS/Learning Portal Directory. Ability to e-mail – write and send to people outside of the system, a few vendors are doing this – innovators – and something I believe is needed to enhance LMSs and Learning Portals to the next level. LMS Directory. Your Biggest Purchase.

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Social Learning, Social Media – Brothers in Arms

eLearning 24-7

Is it me or does it seem that most vendors in the LMS/LCMS market still believe that with some smoke and mirrors, you won’t realize that social media actually must be integrated into social learning for it to exist? expo clearly shows and some argue that social media some grew up within the web 2.0 It’s all about Hype.