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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

In the comments section of my previous post, Mike Caulfield kindly pointed me to the article Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network by Jonathan Mott. Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). An open discussion forum , and. We can have both.&#. Amen to that. But how do we bridge the gap?

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

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More Marketing Malarkey

Clark Quinn

One of the two posts opened with this statement: “The appetite of our employees is not the same therefore, we must not provide them the same bland food (for thought).” ” This seems a bit of a mashup. However, my inclination would be to suggest that ramping up the WIIFM and engagement are the solution.

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Clear about the concept

Clark Quinn

I try to be open-minded. And it’s a good program. One was casually mashing up a couple of essentially incommensurate ideas. Maybe I missed some nuance? It’s about creating clear definitions of performance, and aligning those with assessments. Again, I don’t think the speaker was clear about the concept.

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World Health 2.0

Learning with e's

I'm very pleased to see that a paper I have been working on with colleagues was published this week in a very specialised health related journal: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. tools, mashups and aggregators to predict localised social trends such as flu epidemics. Keywords: Social Web; Web 2.0;

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. A programmer would submit a program on punch cards and wait hours for it to compile. Instead of coding, programmers built apps by mashing up shared packages of code. How much of my code can be recycled?

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New Digital Badges and Micro-Credentials Validate Online Learning

Academy of Mine

There are countless MOOCs online now, and others are using a mashup of various WordPress educational plugins to offer their courses online. For example, imagine you want to hire an designer to design a logo for your company or a computer programer to create a hyper-specialized app for you. However, times are changing quickly.