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Cornerstone vs Edcast

Paradiso Solutions

Edcast appears to have the integration of students, professors, and courses into their social network as its primary goal. Edcast provides both the Open Source EdCast LXP and EdCast OnDemand, a full-service LXP that allows you to focus on your business rather than IT. Some major features include: Asynchronous Learning.

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Office Health Update: Dealing With the Recent Cyclospora Outbreak

OpenSesame

This communication can take the form of a simple email to your employees, a notification posted in the break-room or office kitchen, or a post in your company’s social network. Many companies are adopting PTO programs for employees that need to take sick leave. Make sure your lunch-time salad is thoroughly washed.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

The role of the learning leader is shifting from being a program manager to a solution architect. Learning technologies are becoming social, collaborative, and virtual. Elliott Masie Learners as designers. Training department staffing will grow by a modest 2%. Speed will become the new mantra for training. Here's what came up.

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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. Google could have produced a slick, buttoned-down, tech-oriented training program, like they did for Google Wave, but this time around, Google chose a friendly, avuncular fellow to lead you through the ondemand session.

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LMSs that kick ass: GeoLearning

Janet Clarey

Q: What social media tools is GeoLearning incorporating into their LMS? A: Will Hipwell- GeoLearning’s GeoEngage module facilitates Communities of Practice (CoPs), enables social networking, and provides access to Web 2.0 and social networking tools become more and more valuable. Generation21.

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LMSs that kick ass: Meridian KSI

Janet Clarey

Once there, he finds he doesn’t remember how to run the program. When you look at tools like Facebook, Twitter, Yammer and an array of other social networking software for exchanging know-how, our challenge is to prove the success that businesspeople are having with these and other social networking tools.

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LMSs that kick ass: Learn.com

Janet Clarey

All without need to understand programming code. Stand alone LMS that just do learning and not performance management, not handling social networking or content management will go the way of the Dodo bird. I imagine the organizations you work with have overcome some culture issues associated with the social web.