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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

As an analyst a decade later, I wrote industry reports about learning management systems, authoring tools, and other technologies. Here are four learning management system features that were hot, and now are not: 1. Blogs and Wikis The need for learning management systems to have self-contained blogs and wikis has faded away.

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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

Experiencing eLearning

Lisa Cheney-Steen, Colorado Community College System, Denver, Colorado, USA. Gave an example of faculty handbook created with wiki (using MediaWiki). Privacy issues: Edublogs may be better than Blogger, or do it on your own servers to control information. Starting with an intro to Web 2.0. New tools pop up all the time.

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We Need a Wiki in a Wiki

eLearning Blender

I believe a Wiki would be a great addition to our systems so that it is easier to access commonly needed information quickly. Install behind firewall – One of our tech support guys has experience with PHP and MediaWiki in particular so I am hoping to leverage his experience and install MediaWiki behind the firewall.

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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. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, July 06, 2007 I Heart My Wiki I have finally thrown myself into the wiki waters.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Users can record and edit audio with Audacity and it runs on most operating systems, including Mac OS X and Windows. 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

In the webinar, I brought up how LMS vendors were themselves perpetuating the myth of the bad things of social media (which is a necessary component of social learning), so, rather than identify the facts and data to potential clients who are concerned about social media and thus social learning, they instead do not include it in their system.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a group blog with students prior to a formal learning event, the US Army's use of collaboration tools to share best practices in Iraq, and several others. eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0

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