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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Fresh out of university, I worked as a content developer and designed and authored hundreds of hours of online courses. Locally-Installed Software About a decade ago, many organizations shunned cloud-based software and demanded that the LMS be installed on their internal servers. Installed software was hot. Now it’s viewed as passé.

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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

Experiencing eLearning

Gave an example of faculty handbook created with wiki (using MediaWiki). If students are really uncomfortable sharing online, you need to make accomodations–one participant said he dropped a class b/c it required Blogger and he doesn’t like Google’s privacy policies. Teams are goal-directed. Is it DEE-Go?

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

The open source WordPress software is also available to download and install on company servers. For example, Intelpedia was set up using the open source MediaWiki software that is used to power Wikipedia itself. Millions of blogs are hosted on WordPress.com, which allow any one to find their own voice.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: I Heart My Wiki

Learning Visions

We installed MediaWiki on our local server a couple of weeks ago and Ive been using it to record everything I can for my e-Learning strategy project. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional. And I love it. Bye bye Word. Can I, um, have your attention, please?

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Users can share voice and video, display online PowerPoint presentations, documents, share their screen and show web pages, making annotations along the way. Elgg is a social networking engine and publishing platform for running your own social networking site on a public or private server. Category: Social Networking Platform.

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LMS Vendors: U Can Survive – Innovate, Invigorate and Invent

eLearning 24-7

On 11-18-2010, I was part of an online panel discussing whether the LMS as we know it is dead and if not, what is the evolution of the LMS. When a vendor decided to add mediawiki to their LMS, so it looks exactly like Wikipedia, while everyone else uses some funky looking wiki.what happened? Tie it into their servers.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

15 37% On-Boarding process / Corporate Information 11 27% Online Reference / Glossary 10 24% Product Information / Training 9 22% Other 8 20% Supporting Meetings, Conference Rooms, Phone Numbers, Facilitation Assignment, agenda, etc. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. No anonymous users. eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0

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