Social Learning Systems

7 More Great eLearning Blogs

Here are some more of my favorite sites for eLearning and Social Networking/Collaboration:

1. http://blog.learnlets.com/
   Clark Quinn's Learnlets is a blog of learnings about learning. Quinn is an independent consultant making companies smarter by improving their organizational learning infrastructure. The intersection of learning, organizational strategy, technology, design, and wisdom.
   
   
2. e-Clippings  (Learning as Art)
   Mark Oehlert is a recognized expert, author and speaker in the fields of innovation, emerging technology and game-based learning. He has worked in the e-Learning field for 10 years, bringing his unique insight as a trained historian and anthropologist to a range of challenges from performance support to mobile computing and learning strategy development.
   
   
3. http://mlearnopedia.blogspot.com/
   Judy Brown is a Mobile Technology Analyst who has been involved in technology for learning for over 25 years and with mobile learning since 1996. She coordinates the mlearnopedia.com site.
   
   
4. http://mlearnopedia.com/component/option,com_news_portal/Itemid,152/
   mlearnopedia home page
   
   
5. http://donaldhtaylor.wordpress.com/
   Donald H Taylor - thoughts on human capital, performance and skills.
   
   
6. http://newlearningplaybook.com/blog/
   Jeanne C Meister - tracks trends and innovations in learning among corporations, non-profit agencies and institutions of higher education.
   
   
7. http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
   Handheld Learning is part of the Learning Without Frontiers organisation.
   

Average Price for Learning Management System (LMS) 2008 List

Here's a link to Brandon Hall's research on average pricing for an LMS in 2008:

Based on the 92 systems, here’s the average pricing for learning management systems in 2008:

HOSTED (SaaS) IMPLEMENTATIONS:

• 500 users: $68,977
• 10,000 users: $314,444
• 25,000 users: $568,201
• 100,000 users: $1,288,054

INSTALLED IMPLEMENTATIONS:

• 500 users: $48,231
• 10,000 users: $260,569
• 25,000 users: $486,076
• 100,000 users: $1,204,942

http://brandon-hall.com/richardnantel/

The 14 Best eLearning Blogs

 Here is a list of my favorite Learning sites:

1. http://breakthroughelearning.com/
   Rick Nigol - Co-founder and Senior Consultant for eLearn Campus, an organization dedicated to helping others achieve better eLearning results. www.eLearnCampus.com
   
   
2. http://elearndev.blogspot.com/
   Brent Schlenker - Corporate Learning Blogger, Strategist, Consultant exploring the crossroads of Technology and Learning.
   
   
3. http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/
   Gabe Anderson - Director of Customer Advocacy at Articulate, hosts the Word of Mouth blog. Gabe loves to share his passion for all things tech and enjoys learning from Articulate customers around the world.
   
   
4. http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/
   Dr. Tony Karrer - is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web and eLearning development firm based in Los Angeles, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies.
   
   
5. http://www.jarche.com/
   Harold Jarche - helps organizations re-integrate work and learning.
   
   
6. http://trends.masie.com/
   Elliott Masie - is an internationally recognized futurist, analyst, researcher and organizer on the critical topics of workforce learning, business collaboration and emerging technologies. He is the editor of Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie, an Internet newsletter read by over 52,000 business executives worldwide, and a regular columnist in professional publications.  He is the author of a dozen books, and is the convener of Learning 2009.
   
   
7. http://www.downes.ca/
   Stephen's Web is best described as a digital research laboratory for innovation in the use of online media in education. More than just a site about online learning, it is intended to demonstrate new directions in the field for practitioners and enthusiasts.

8. http://www.internettime.com/
   Jay Cross has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. Jay helped spark the eLearning revolution and served as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years. He is an authority on informal learning in business. Internet Time Group helps develop networks that encourage conversations that matter, nurture communities of practice, and build lightweight, bottom-up knowledge systems. The profit potential is phenomenal for organizations that have neglected human networks, faciliated conversation, and "soft" skills.

9. http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
   George Siemen's blog “explores elearning, knowledge management, networks, technology, and community.”
   
   
10. http://www.elearningpost.com/
    Maish R Nichani explores news, views and stories around Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management and more.
    
    
11. http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/
    B.J. Schone - author of the eLearningWeekly.com blog. B.J. is a Senior Learning Technology Specialist at Qualcomm Incorporated in San Diego, where he researches emerging learning technologies, develops mobile learning (mLearning) applications, and creates various other learning solutions.
    
    
12. http://christytucker.wordpress.com/
    Christy Tucker - Experiencing eLearning - Building Engaging Learning Experiences through Instructional Design and E-Learning
    
    
13. http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/
    Beth Kanter - A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and exchange links and resources about the adoption challenges, strategy, and ROI of nonprofits and social media.
    
    
14. http://learningvisions.blogspot.com/
    Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design at Kineo - Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other tidbits.

Twitter Guide: For Business Users

Here is another link for a great Twitter Guide for business users:

Twitter Business Guide

 

Twitter Guide: How to do Everything with Twitter

Here's a great HOW TO article on how to do ALL things on TWITTER.

You can do a lot of amazing things with twitter. Learn how to collaborate everything in your life with twitter.

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Mind Map: Best Online Collaboration Tools 2009

Robin Good's mindmap of collaboration tools is regularly updated and is a great resource! The map is now closed to public editing and updates are directly done on a weekly basis by Robin Good.

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Social bookmarking and e-learning: The promise and the problem

An interesting look at the potential for social bookmarking...

Social bookmarking has huge potential to solve the issue of content relevence in an organization by providing a single site where users can bookmark content that they consider to be useful and important. The rest of the organization benefits by being able to quickly view rated content, or the content that was bookmarked the most.

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Whither goes the LMS market?

Josh Bersin is President and CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading research and advisory services firm in enterprise learning and talent management. This is an overview of the trends in the corporate market for learning management systems from 2008. 

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Worried that your LMS doesn't support Learning 2.0?

This blog post at Skillful Minds presents a discussion of the integration of learning management systems and Web 2.0 tools to support learning and training in organizations. If you are curious about Learning 2.0 and how to build robust social learning into organizational learning and change, this blog post is a good place to start.

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Moodlerooms Integrates Google Apps for Schools

The popular open source learning management system has worked with Google to integrate Google Apps Education Edition with its own solution for a better user experience

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