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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. Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Elgg is an aggregate of many social media technologies in one platform. Email this to a friend?

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The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns

Jane Hart

The three previous posts in this series were: The Smart Worker : learns continuously with social media. Intelpedia is hosted on the open source MediaWiki software. This is the 4th in a series of posts about how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

It is tough to stay on top of all the great stuff being offered out there, but the blogs and social media certainly help. When it comes to free cloud apps, I also share them on my blog's Free Cloud Apps page.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

While, I can understand vendors who would rather not offer a “talent management or performance management&# option, the decision to ignore social learning, is strange. It is not as though, social learning is going to disappear. Nor is it likely that social media types are going to vanish off the planet.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Social Media Solutions that have multiple APIs built in their system, basically they are a mashup in a sense. FourSquare – a social networking platform that intertwines the power of geolocation, other vendors in this space include Loopt. MediaWiki API. Social Learning? Uh, forget that. Want to accept PayPal?

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Enterprise 2.0

eLearning Weekly

the use of social media and social networking tools in a business setting, is having a major impact on how employees learn and share information. This is very much in line with the theory of informal learning and social learning. MediaWiki ), micro-blogging platforms (ex. and Social Media. conference.