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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. Wikipedia capabilities?

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Wikis and Learning – 60 Resources

Tony Karrer

Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki - eLearning Technology , September 14, 2006 10 Social Media Tools For Learning - The eLearning Coach , November 16, 2009 Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0

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When Traditional Classrooms Go Digital, Education Takes The Shape Of Blended Learning

ProProfs

Yes, blended learning software is a progeny of the education system which has gone digital. Modern learning has become a perfect mashup of traditional and contemporary methods in recent times, courtesy of the digital revolution. But, it is the time to wake up. The old ways have not taken a backstage.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

Learning with e's

Groom's popular and anarchic blog Bavatuesdays is a regular port of call for all those seeking this kind of eclectic and irreverent mashup of concepts, thoughts and opinions. EDUPUNK was not about dismantling the education system, he said, but about reorganising the space, and about vitalising learning. Cue applause.

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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. About Gary: Classroom teacher in the early 70s. 1984 doctorate in applied psychology. Developed over 60 e-learning programs.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

Time for these vendors to wake up, or see your audience share disappear. There is a mid segment of the vendors in the LMS/LCMS or learning portal markets that offer some features of social learning, as part of their standard system or as their “add on modules&#. Wiki- looks nothing like Wikipedia.

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Social Media…outside, inside, upside down

Janet Clarey

But he’s not saying we should abandon these systems but look at the bigger picture which, if I’m grasping this as he intended and applying it to workplace learning, is not to control social media through such systems but join with abandon the ‘open social space’ (for lack any better) of informal learning.

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