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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). Open Architecture. APIs are open source code, so that developers (inc. Mashups Possibilities. MediaWiki API.

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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. Reducing time to market. Doing marketing and marketing research.

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What’s hurting the LMS market

eLearning 24-7

The LMS market is strong. Revenues across the board are up, profit margins are healthy and competition is on-going (always a good thing). They are necessary for the evolution of any system and mandatory to garner more market share. True, people are selecting open source systems, and for the majority of them, it is Moodle.

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Learning System Awards #11 to #20 (2023)

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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. It sounds excellent marketing-wise but means nothing reality-wise. Let the sunshine in. The Criteria.

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Latest Eight #LMS #Trends

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Even not having the card prior to arrival, but signing up online, gets you free internet. . from their “market” is outrageous. Each item in the list must be completed and in many cases numerous times – this builds up retention. As a result it looks like a mish-mash. Buying extras like sodas, chips, etc.

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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. They really became a partner with marketing. The tools we use in life have leapfrogged over the ones we use at work. A lot like Jack.

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LMS and Learning Portal Directory Plus HTML5 Course

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28 free open source vendors – on 2nd tab. Back end is a CMS or some form of one on your server, otherwise how to access the data – thus I feel the term “CMS&# as a true standalone should slowly stop to exist, albeit I understand from a marketing reason why it will not. HTML5 is made up of the following: HTML.