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Curated Content Strategies: How to Deliver Value-Driven Information to Your Audience

Infopro Learning

Purpose: This approach is widely used and forms the backbone of numerous learning portals and knowledge bases. Mashups What It Is: A mashup combines different content to offer a new, original perspective. Aggregation What It Is: Aggregation collects and centralizes the most relevant content on a single topic into one location.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Adaptive Learning with a Social Q/A twist. Open Architecture. APIs are open source code, so that developers (inc.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

As social learning continues to grow, LMS/LCMS vendors are taking various approaches. While some view themselves as “social learning&# savvy, incorporating various components, others seem to see themselves as just sitting on the sidelines. LMS/LCMS vendors are following one of three approaches when it comes to social learning.

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Computers, Learning Professionals, and their Roles in Curation

The Learning Circuits

The definition of curator has expanded in recent years, largely in line with the expansion of social media technologies. In the age of facebook shares/likes, Twitter retweets, and other social media sharing tools. Mashups : Merging two or more unrelated pieces of content to form a new message. anyone can be a curator.

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Social Learning, Social Media – Brothers in Arms

eLearning 24-7

Is it me or does it seem that most vendors in the LMS/LCMS market still believe that with some smoke and mirrors, you won’t realize that social media actually must be integrated into social learning for it to exist? Or do they just drop the word, “social media&# , and rather say, “social learning and web 2.0″?

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a December 2011 issue of Business Insider, the mobile apps analytics firm Distimo said many popular apps were games such as Angry Birds, social networking such as Facebook, Skype and Twitter, and other content such as Google Maps and iBooks. These apps focus on specific content such as playing a game or buying a book.

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What’s hurting the LMS market

eLearning 24-7

Revenues across the board are up, profit margins are healthy and competition is on-going (always a good thing). Illogical – I often see systems that add features that seem as though they tossed a bunch of ideas on a wall and whatever stuck up there, went into their platform. The LMS market is strong. The Negatives. Bottom Line.