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LMS vendors: R u hearing us?

eLearning 24-7

LMS Vendors. 30% vendors offer at least one type of social media – from my latest LMS directory. 30% vendors offer at least one type of social media – from my latest LMS directory. Many made it nearly impossible to find their social media to follow, friend or check out their social bookmarks.

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Social Media and Social Learning – Where R We now?

eLearning 24-7

Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct. There are over 25 social media types – types include social networking, live casting, game platforms, virtual worlds, web conferencing, social bookmarking, social network aggregators, social news aggregators, blogs, app sharing (inc.

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Social Media and Social Learning – Where R We now?

eLearning 24-7

Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct. There are over 25 social media types – types include social networking, live casting, game platforms, virtual worlds, web conferencing, social bookmarking, social network aggregators, social news aggregators, blogs, app sharing (inc.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Social Bookmarking – Delicious - spelled often as del.icio.us Wists - social shopping with image bookmarking and creation of lists – ditch the shopping part, keep the image bookmarking and creating of lists, Yoono. Social Professional Networks - LinkedIn. Livecasting – USTREAM.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

The real issue is that LMS vendors are attempting to position their tools as the center-point for elearning - removing control from the system's end-users: instructors and learners. Only recently (and in limited ways) have LMS vendors started extending tools and offerings beyond simple content sequencing and discussion forums.

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Introducting social media in organisations to improve the learning function is more difficult than you may think.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The organization chose a toolset with thematic wikis as a basis, supplemented with other social media such as social bookmarking, blogs and discussion forums. "We We chose to use existing social media services in the cloud instead of buying a company package, because this creates flexibility and is cheaper.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Unfortunately, too many vendors in the e-learning space have failed to see the power and potential of this capability, and have decided to ignore them. However there are vendors who sell their API solution wrapped in a piece of software. Google code is open source code, so you can manipulate. Typically APIs are free. API Protocols.

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