2007 Open source CMS Award Finalists

Nominations for the 2007 Open Source CMS Award have been counted and the top five for each category have now been selected and gone through to the final stage of voting. With over 16,000 nominations, competition was tough however we have pleasure in announcing the finalists for each category as follows:

Overall Winner Finalists:

• CMS Made Simple
• Drupal
• e107
• Joomla!
• PHP-Fusion

Most Promising Finalists:

• dotCMS
• MODx
• Nuke Evolution
• SilverStripe
• TYPOLight

Best PHP Open Source CMS:

• CMS Made Simple
• Drupal
• e107
• Joomla!
• PHP Fusion

Best Other Open Source CMS:

• mojoPortal
• OpenEdit
• OpenCms
• Plone
• Silva

Best Open Source Social Networking CMS:

• Drupal
• Elgg
• LifeType
• Moodle
• WordPress

Click on a CMS to make your vote. Voting closes on October 26.

We will be selecting three names at random from the list of people who voted, who will go on to win an iPod Nano! Submit your vote today for a chance to win.

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Fuente: [packtpub.com]

Welcome to the Open Schools Alliance

Para recuperar el tiempo perdido estos 15 días, hoy traemos un enlace al plone (un CMS, que no un LMS) de la Open Schools Alliance.

Schools take control with Open Source Software

UK schools are taking an increasing interest in Open Source Software, giving them the opportunity to finally take control of their investment in ICT. Key benefits include:

• Substantial cost savings with no recurring licence fees
• Smaller carbon footprint
• Increased flexibility
• Access to high quality free applications at little or no cost
• Opportunity to play an active role in worldwide software development communities.

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Fuente: [Open School Alliance]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, Open Schools Alliance, eLearning

Docebo open source 3.0.6

Docebo open source

The Docebo suite is a completely free content management (CMS) and e-learning (LMS) platform released under Open Source license.

The e-learning platform supports scorm 1.2 and manages more than 50 functions, the CMS.

Docebo 3.0.6 maintenance version is now online

Docebo 3.0.6 has been released, you can download the upgrade and the full installer from the Download area, you will find also Manuals and Free Online Courses

You can find changelog here

The Staff

Docebo 3.0.5 released

Docebo 3.0.5 has been released and it is available in update and full version. It fixes several bugs and several language errors. The Portuguese installation problem is fixed too.

You can find docebo 3.0.5 in the download area.

Thanks to all 6311 users that downloaded the previous version!

Scorm tutorial and samples

Lot of users ask what is scorm and how to use it so we have decided to publish a small tutorial that explain what is scorm, and what is a scorm compliant LMS.

This is not the usual «silly theoric manual» (all are similar and unuseful) but is a practice manual with exampleas that you can download. At the bottm of this words you will find the PDF file and also the Examples, for downloading the sample please click on the file you need to download.

Scorm standard elearning tutorial

Type	Filename	Description	Hits
	flash_sample.zip		( 3431 )
	robodemo_ sample.zip		( 2146 )
	scormpackage.zip		( 2500 )
	scorm_ manual_ENG.pdf		( 1975 )

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Fuente: [docebo]
Otras fuentes que tratan la cuestión:
1) Docebo, Free Open source E-Learning Suite is now available, en SCORM Watch Your eyes and ears on SCORM news and activities.

2)Docebo, Free Open source E-Learning Suite is now available en news forge

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, eLearning

Giunti Labs expands further – in Spain and South America

Having recently opened a North American office in Boston, MA, Giunti Labs, Europe’s leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS), has expanded its international presence still further by moving into the in Spanish and South American markets.

[ClickPress, Mon Apr 16 2007] Having recently opened a North American office in Boston, MA, Giunti Labs, Europe’s leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS), has expanded its international presence still further by moving into the in Spanish and South American markets.

This move has been prompted by the launch of the Spanish version of Giunti Labs’ learn eXact LCMS platform, along with the opening of its Spanish website and the appointment of Stefan Whitefield as its Sales Manager for Spain and South America.
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Fuente: [clickpress]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, Giunti Labs

The eLearning Guild Announces the Publication of a New 360 Degree Report

Esto se va pareciendo ya a las olimpiadas…como veréis Moodle le gana a Blackboard y obtiene: 3 de platinum y 1 de gold, mientras la pizarra consigue 1 platinum y 1 gold. Estará contento Dougiamas con su versión 1.8.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) The good, the bad, the ugly … and the
truth

SANTA ROSA, Calif., April 3 /PRNewswire/ — The eLearning Guild
announced today the publication of a new Guild Research 360 Degree Report
on Learning Management Systems (LMS). The selection, implementation, and
ongoing management of an LMS is likely to be one of the most costly
investments a learning organization can make, so having accurate data to
help make these decisions is critical. This 300+ page report offers expert
data analysis on the single largest pool of data ever collected on LMS
systems, interviews with key industry executives, commentary from key
industry leaders, and much more. (…)

Also announced today were the winners of The eLearning Guild Member’s
Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). The Platinum Award
goes to the top performer in each category, while a Gold Award goes to the
other top performer(s) in each category. We base these awards on «live and
always up-to-date» data, so as Guild members modify their member profiles,
the quantity and nature of the data are constantly changing. For these
awards, a «snap-shot» of the data was taken on March 16, 2007. The
categories and winners are:
Guild Research 2007 Members Choice Award – Market Share
Large Corporate Learning Management Systems
Platinum: SumTotal Systems, Inc.
Gold: Plateau Systems, LTD
Gold: Saba

Guild Research 2007 Members Choice Award – Market Share
Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems
Platinum: Moodle
Gold: Learn.com
Gold: SumTotal Systems, Inc.

Guild Research 2007 Members Choice Award – Market Share
Education and Government Learning Management Systems
Platinum: Blackboard, Inc.
Gold: Moodle

Guild Research 2007 Members Choice Award – Satisfaction
Large Corporate Learning Management Systems
Platinum: SkillSoft – SkillSoft SkillPort
Gold: Plateau Systems LTD – Plateau Learning Management System
Gold: SAP – SAP Learning Solution

Guild Research 2007 Members Choice Award – Satisfaction
Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems
Platinum: Moodle – Moodle
Gold: Plateau Systems LTD – Plateau Learning Management System
Gold: SumTotal Systems – TotalLMS

Guild Research 2007 Members Choice Award – Satisfaction
Education and Government Learning Management Systems
Platinum: Moodle – Moodle
Gold: Blackboard, Inc. – Blackboard Academic Suite
For more information about this 360 Degree Report, go to:
http://www.eLearningGuild.com/360(leer más…)

Fuente: [prnewswire]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0

Davids versus Goliath: a comparison of wikis versus Blackboard CMS

Hoy traemos un post, del 9 de Marzo de Stewart Mader en Zdnet estableciendo una comparación entre los CMS tradicionales (Blackboard o WebCt) y los wikis. Y otra serie de enlaces a las reacciones a este post en la blogosfera.

[Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian – makers of Confluence and Jira. His blog can be found here.]

In almost a decade in higher ed on both sides of the classroom (and in the middle, as a consultant helping other teachers integrate technology into their courses), I’ve seen an interesting shift in what’s available for teachers, and what they’re choosing to use. Back in the late 1990s when I was an undergrad, most teachers who were tech savvy were using standard web pages, slideware (PowerPoint), and email. Right around 1999 the course management system (CMS) started to appear on the scene, and two main choices were available, Blackboard and WebCT. The rivalry between the two occasionally sparked Mac/PC comparisons, with people who liked a slightly more refined interface advocating for Blackboard, and those who argued it had more powerful tools advocating for WebCT. Well, Blackboard won the battle. They swallowed up WebCT last year. Today, Blackboard faces big perception problems after getting a patent on the CMS, then suing some small competitors. This is like Starbucks getting a patent on serving coffee in a cup using the argument that it invented coffee and paper cups, and combined them into a product!

Al que también le añadimos un enlace a Wiki vs. Blackboard (CMS): Thoughts from the Blogosphere

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My post on Web 2.0 Explorer comparing Wiki and the traditional course management system has received some excellent comments and posts on other blogs. Infocult and NITLE picked up the post, and Bryan Alexander (author of Infocult) commented that my reasons for choosing wiki and objections to Blackboard, are quite handy.

Back on Web 2.0 Explorer, commenter LittleGuy wrote, “BB is way too expensive to justify given the alternatives of wikis and Moodle…Our college quit BB due to a $50,000 increase.” Another commenter, Leturno, disagreed with me and said…

Otros enlaces:
March 29, 2007: Wikis versus the Blackweb: Mader’s case en Infocult

Thursday, March 29th, 2007 CMS versus wikis in teaching en Liberal Education Today

Fuente: [using wiki in education y blogs zdnet.com]

tags: e-learning, cms, web2.0, social software, aprendizaje, wiki