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Open Source eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. Applications in Learning - eLearning Technology , March 3, 2008 Have LMSs Jumped The Shark?

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? In the same article, Thompson quotes Jane McGonigal, a game designer and author of Reality is Broken , to help us understand why games work. Jim: Glad you enjoyed the post, Liam! Properly d.

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Is Informal Learning The Same As Social Learning?

Upside Learning

Very often I find that informal and social learning are grouped together. Social Learning Social Learning is participating with others to make sense of new ideas. Marcia Conner, author of The […]. Social Learning Informal Learning'

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Three Reasons Why Corporate Training Departments Could Become.

Dashe & Thomson

Less than a decade ago, the technical aspects of eLearning development were the purview of a select group of developers, schooled in the art and science of HTML, Flash, Dreamweaver, and other relatively high-learning-curve disciplines. Today, dozens of rapid authoring tools have sprung up that require little to no technical expertise.

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Collaborative Learning Lessons from Wikipedia (and Small Insects.

Dashe & Thomson

Just as water will always find its own level by the path of least resistance, individual learners, working in collaboration and unhampered by the precepts of authority, tend to do an excellent job of finding and sharing what they need to know efficiently and effectively, even if they don’t necessarily know what they are looking for to begin with.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Then if they ask what I write, I explain: "Stuff that helps people learn how to do things." I usually start out by saying "Im an E-Learning author" – if whoever Im talking to then has little question marks in his/her eyes, I add that I develop computer learning programs for companies. 11:03 AM Cammy Bean said.

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The key to informal learning is autonomy

Jane Hart

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.