Learning Management Vendors phần 9 docx

A one box solution for schools that have limited IT support – includes learning management system software Moodle?, student information systems, a web server, wiki and forum support, ba

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

links.com/ A one box solution for schools that have limited IT support – includes

learning management system software (Moodle?), student information systems, a web server, wiki and forum support, backup and image management software, IP telephony, interactive whiteboard management software, storage and delivery of content and

applications, management of student laptops, etc and is managed through a simple web interface Hardware by Intel, marketing by Critical Links A preliminary description can

be found at http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/the-intel-educational-appliance-the-coolest-tool-you-might-never-buy/4158

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

Some unique, hard to categorize solutions:

 ALEKS http://www.aleks.com/ ALEKS stands for Assessment and LEarning in

Knowledge Spaces It is “a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course.” They offer courses in mathematics and science for K-12 and higher education

 Allen Communication Learning Systems DesignJot

http://www.allencomm.com/about/news/2011/DesignJot.aspx An iPad app for collaborative analysis and initial instructional design

 BreakthroughPerformanceTech Performance Drilling (PD) (Breakthrough

Performance Tech) http://www.breakthroughperformancetech.com/ Described as

an “interactive performance training and coaching system that focuses on both knowledge acquisition and behavioral embedding

 BSCW (BSCW - Basic Support for Cooperative Work) http://public.bscw.de/

enables collaboration over the Web

 Cisco Lecture Vision (Cisco Systems, Inc.)

http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/education/schools_enhanced_edu_capture.ht

ml A lecture capture system

 CommonNeed plugjam (CommonNeed, Inc.) http://commonneed.com/

Modules or plug-ins to improve the functionality of existing LMS

 Digication (Digication, Inc) http://www.digication.com e-Portfolios – personal,

K-12, and post-secondary

 Echo360 http://echo360.com/ A video lecture capture system

 Electric Rain Swift 3D V5 (Electric Rain, Inc.) http://www.erain.com/ A 3D tool

for Adobe Flash, Video and Print with export to Papervision3D

 Envision Click2Coach (Envision Telephony, Inc.) http://www.envisioninc.com A

call center training solution whichenables supervisors to easily review customer

interactions, evaluate agent skills and integrate training content

 ForSkills http://www.forskills.co.uk/ A provider of on-line assessment tools and

software for managing assessments

 Google Apps for Education (Google) http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/

Not an LMS but provides "email, sharable online calendars, instant messaging tools and even a dedicated website to faculty, students and staff for free."

 Hatsize TrueLab (Hatsize Learning Corporation) http://www.hatsize.com Virtual

labs for computer applications training Also have a TrueLab Management

System which integrates with other LMSs to manage labs Based in Calgary

 Jackson Creek Software (Jackson Creek Software Corporation)

http://www.emc2library.com/ School and library administration software

 Learning Objects Campus Pack (Learning Objects, Inc.)

http://www.learningobjects.com/ Plug-ins for educational learning management systems which add the capability for wikis and blogs

 LogicBay Surround Sound Performance Center (LogicBay, a division of KLi

Learning) http://www.logicbay.com/ Channel management for sales and

service

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

 Kaltura Open Source Video http://www.kaltura.com/ Open source video for

lecture capture and distribution Integrates with Blackboard, Moodle, Drupal and other systems

 KnowledgeAdvisors Metrics that Matter (KnowledgeAdvisors, Inc.)

http://www.knowledgeadvisors.com Testing, evaluation, ROI software for

measuring effectiveness of training programs

 Microsoft’s Live@Edu (Microsoft)

http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-hosted-student-email.aspx A free email service for students

 Netop School6 and Vision6 (Netop) http://www.netop.com Designed for

management of computers in schools Based in Denmark They also offer

several other educational applications designed for schools Developed by

Danware Data A/S

 NGRAIN Producer and Mobilizer (NGRAIN Corporation) http://www.ngrain.com

3D graphics and animation for training Strong defence emphasis Based in Vancouver

 Oracle Collaboration Suite (Oracle) http://www.oracle.com/ Content

management and collaboration tools

 Panopto CourseCast (Panopto, Inc) http://www.panopto.com captures

video-based instructional content, automatically streams it over the internet and makes

it available in all of the popular formats Integrates with existing infrastructure

 Proton Media (Proton Media) http://www.protonmedia.com/ Proton Media's

web-based application, Protosphere, is a synthesis of web 2.0 technologies: live

virtual 3D world, application sharing, VOIP & text chat, social networking, gaming

& simulation

 Q2 XPert eCampus and XPert eCommunity (Q2Learning LLC)

http://www.q2learning.com. Tools for the creation of blended learning and

collaboration Has many LMS features

 Quantum 3D ExpeditionDI (Quantum3D Inc.)

http://quantum3d.com/solutions/immersive/expedition_di.html A military

simulation system

 ReadSpeaker (ReadSpeaker Holding B.V.) http://www.readspeaker.com/

Software that allows users to listen to websites

 Rustici SCORM Cloud (Rustici Software) http://www.scorm.com/ SCORM

conversion software available in several forms - SCORM Engine for LMS's,

SCORM for content, and SCORM Cloud for content sharing anywhere

 Sonic Foundry MediaSite (Sonic Foundry, Inc.) http://www.sonicfoundry.com/

Includes lecture capture, webcasting, and knowledge management

 Tegrity Campus (Tegrity) http://www.tegrity.com A video/audio lecture capture

system It automatically populates the university course management system

(Blackboard, WebCT and others) Class recordings are linked to the students’ notes, which can be captured with the Tegrity Pen on regular paper, making it an affordable capability for every student Purchased by McGraw Hill Education in October 2010

 Transware http://www.transware.com/adtraining.html Translation and

localization services for elearning

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

 Triple Creek Associates, Inc Open Mentoring http://www.3creek.com

Technology which facilitates mentoring processes

 Turnitin (iParadigms, LLC) http://www.turnitin.com The online tool for

evaluating written work Includes OriginalityCheck for detecting plagiarism, PeerMark for anonymous and collaborative peer review, and GradeMark

the online grading solution iParadigms has integrated Educational Testing

Service's e-rater grammar checking tool with GradeMark

 Virage http://www.virage.com Rich media management – capture, encode,

index, apply metadata and cross reference multimedia information

 Welocalize http://www.welocalize.com/ Translation and localization services

 Witness Systems Impact 360 (Witness Systems) http://www.witness.com

Software that records customer service and call-center discussions to provide input for evaluation Purchased by Verint Systems Inc http://verint.com

 Zeroed-in Performance Dashboards (Zeroed-in Technologies)

http://www.getzeroedin.com/ CLO Dashboard™ is a learning and performance dashboard for chief learning officers, e-learning managers, and training directors

 Yukon Learning Cameo (Yukon Learning) http://www.yukonlearning.com/ and

http://www.cameo.net/ A process and a web-based tool that delivers scenario-based learning reinforcement via email

Social networking/learning tools

It is natural that, with the increased popularity of SaaS, cloud computing, and social networking, the LMS would evolve to include those things Many “behind the firewall” LMSs are offering “hosted” (SaaS/cloud) solutions and are including social networking tools within the organization because many employers are reluctant to give employees access to Facebook, Twitter, etc out of fear that they will waste time on them Some of the following tools give access to outside the enterprise social networking but with a learning focus

Social learning tools offer schools and corporations the opportunity to build communities

of interest, to manage and capture informal learning, and to provide mentoring and coaching These tools are being rapidly adopted not just because of their popularity but also because of the value they provide This list barely scratches the surface

Ed Cohen (2010) of Plateau Systems (now SuccessFactors) has written an interesting article called “Is the LMS Dead?” (

http://www.cedma-europe.org/newsletter%20articles/Clomedia/Is%20the%20LMS%20Dead%20%28Oct%2 010%29.pdf) I agree with his points but there are clearly some new options available as well such as the Rapid Learning Management Systems discussed on pages 21 – 23

 Akiva WebBoard (http://www.akiva.com) communities for collaboration and

knowledge management Marketed to education, government and corporate

 Bloomfire http://www.bloomfire.com/ A peer-to-peer community website The basic version is free A good alternative for companies who don’t want to use Facebook, Twitter, etc

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

 ConnectYard (ConnectYard) http://www1.connectyard.com/ “ConnectYard

integrates Facebook, Twitter, text messaging and email into a single communication thread within popular learning management systems, including Blackboard,

Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai and others.”

 Corporate Mentoring Solutions Colaboro (Corporate Mentoring Solutions Inc.)

http://www.mentoring-solutions.com/ Provides mentor/mentee matching for

knowledge transfer, mentoring and coaching Based in Victoria, BC

 CourseNetworking (CN) (CourseNetworking) http://coursenetworking.com/ A unique product described as “a free, online platform that connects teachers and students from around the world based on shared interests and class subjects It combines the social component of popular networks with the functionality of existing learning management systems (LMS).” From Indiana University professor Ali Jafari

To be available in early 2012

 Edmodo (Edmodo LLC) http://www.edmodo.com/ A social learning network for teachers, students and schools on the Web

 Gaggle https://www.gaggle.net/ A set of social networking tools for schools

 Google+ https://plus.google.com/ In limited field trial for now but creating a good deal of interest Google+ Hangouts provides a free videoconferencing tool

 Interactyx TOPYX Bolt http://www.interactyx.com/ A social learning add-on for learning management systems

 Intrafinity MentorMatch (Intrafinity Inc.) http://www.intrafinity.com

 Jolicloud http://www.jolicloud.com/ Software to customize your desktop to improve access to web applications

 Lockheed Martin Eureka Streams (Lockheed Martin Corporation)

http://www.eurekastreams.org/ An open source project Eureka Streams helps knowledge workers make informed decisions by finding relevant colleagues and groups, following their streams of activity, and engaging in conversation

 Management Mentors (Management Mentors)

http://www.management-mentors.com/ Software and consulting for mentoring

 Open Text First Class (Open Text Corporation) http://www.firstclass.com/ A system that began as an email system and has now expanded into a social learning tool It can be used to host and launch elearning but does not provide the management tools offered by a full LMS It has largely been used by school systems but also by some businesses like UHaul and Alaska Airlines Based in Waterloo, Ontario

 Reddit (Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.) http://www.reddit.com/ a source for what's new and popular online

 Small Steps to Big Results http://www.reallybigresults.com/ A networking site for sharing courses with a marketing focus Complete with an authoring tool

 SuccessFactors Social Learning (SuccessFactors, Inc.)

http://www.successfactors.com/learning-management/social SuccessFactors

purchased the Plateau LMS and Jambok (social learning) in 2011 and have

incorporated them into their offerings

 Wisetail Learning Ecosystem (Wisetail) http://www.wisetail.com/ Described as

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

“The next generation LMS.” It is an eLearning system where employees complete and/or contribute video training content, and interact with one another socially It also includes LMS features like a content management system, course delivery with learning paths, test creation tools, SCORM compatibility, reporting and user

management, etc

 Yammer https://www.yammer.com/ Private social networks for companies

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

Some tools for adding interactivity to courses

(With thanks to Sandy Hirtz of the British Columbia Ministry of Education and Commonwealth of

Learning and Randy Labonte of the BC Ministry of Education (http://sites.google.com/site/anchortechnologytomorrow/home/50-ways-to-anchor-technology)) Free alternatives to Microsoft Office

 Open Office - word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database, drawing

 IBM Lotus Symphony - word processing, spreadsheets, presentations

 LibreOffice – word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database, drawing

 Google Docs – online word processing, spreadsheets, presentations

 Zoho – online word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc

 ThinkFree – online word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc

Images

 Creative Commons Search Search different websites (like Google Images, Flickr, and Wikimedia Commons) for Creative Commons works Enter your

search query up top, then click on the database you wish to search

 Flickr Creative Commons Search the commons for great images that have been given special permission to be used in a variety of settings

 Morgue File This site allows you to easily search for free images to use in a presentation Use the search filter to find photos based on keyword, categories, size, color, and more

 Office.com Images Microsoft Office has collected a series of royalty-free clip art and photos for use in presentations

 Pics 4 Learning A source for copyright-friendly images selected specifically for teachers and students, arranged by topic

 Photos 8 A source for copyright-friendly photos and desktop wallpapers

 World Images Kiosk Search for images for academics projects, grouped by subject

 Wylio This image search site only displays Creative-Commons licensed

imag-es, and automatically creates citation information

Image Editing

 Picasa Picasa is a software download from Google that helps you organize,

edit, and share your photos It's free, and easy to use

 Photofiltre PhotoFiltre is a free image editor

 GIMP - the open source alternative to Photoshop

Video

 Kick Youtube Add the word "kick" to a YouTube video URL to download the video

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

 Keep Vid Copy URLs of videos to this website and download them to your desktop

 TeacherTube – YouTube for teachers

 Animoto - video slideshows

 Handbrake - an open source video encoder and transcoder (converting video from one format to another) It’s useful for optimising video recordings for web distribution and playback

 Voki - Avatars

 Xtranormal – make movies

 iMovie for Mac

 Flux Time Studio – create animated videos

 Vimeo - Video sharing

 VLC – an open source media player

 Blip.tv – video publisher for independent filmmakers

 Windows Movie Maker is a video editing program that allows you to make home movies, photo albums and business presentations Included in Windows XP and Vista but not in Windows 7 Windows Live Movie Maker is a different and more limited version available free for download

 Viddler allows you to record video directly to the Internet from your webcam

 Ustream – live broadcasts

File conversion

 Media Converter Upload files, or link to sources that you would like to convert

to another file format Choose your file, choose your format, and download the results

 Zamzar Convert your files online, and download the results in your email

Sound

Music

 Free Music Archive Choose from high-quality music files, searchable by genre

to use in multimedia projects

 Incompetech - Royalty Free Music Another site to search for royalty-free music

in video projects

 Rumblefish A website where you can search for and purchase licenses for au-dio files for use in published videos

 CCMixter - add free, copyright-free music to presentations and movies

Sound effects

 A1 Free Sound Effects Download sound effect files for free

 The Freesound Project A website where you can find free Creative Commons licensed sound effects files

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

 Soundbible A great place to find quick sound effect clips Use the search bar at the right of the screen to quickly see if the site has the sound you are looking for

Recording

 Skype A free service (up to a point) for video and audio conferences which can

be recorded

 Audacity – A free audio editor for recording, and mixing audio

 Voxopop - Voice (audio) based user groups

 Podbean.com - a podcasting tool

 Nanogong - voice recording that can be added to Moodle or a website

 Moodle - version 2.0 has an audio recorder

 Readspeaker – tool for reading screen content

Screen Capture

 Jing – a web-based, limited version of Camtasia

 Screencast-O-Matic

 CamStudio

 FastStone - screen capture and image converter tools

Language Learning

 LiveMocha - free and paid online language courses in 35 languages

 Busuu – free and paid language courses in seven languages – English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian and French

 iKnow! Paid language courses

Online presentations/slideshows

 Prezi

 280Slides

 sliderocket

 Animoto

 Yawnbuster (Yawnbuster, a division of Harbinger Knowledge Products Pvt Ltd.) -tools for adding interactivity and audience participation to PowerPoint presenta-tions, student response system

 Kizoa

 Photopeach

 SmileBox

 Slideboom - convert PowerPoint presentations to Flash and share them

 Slidestory - tell a story, share your photos, narrate in your own voice

 Slideshare – sharing of presentations, documents, video

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com

 MyBrainshark

 AuthorStream – sharing presentations

 PowerPoint convertors can also be found in Google Docs and Open Office

Digital Stories

 Alan Levine's 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

 VoiceThread

 CREATE YOUR OWN COMIC - a free comic creation web site from Marvel Comics

 Makebeliefscomix - users can create their own comic strips

 Glogster - poster yourself

 Photopeach

 Slidestory

 Kizoa

 AuthorStream

 Photo Story 3

Educational Games and Quizzes

Gamification has become a new buzz work in education in training We have long known that games and simulations are powerful learning tools in spited of some the negative perceptions of games

 Just Crosswords - make your own crossword puzzle

 Hot Potatoes

 Scenic Reflections

 Classtools

 Dovewhisper - Internet games for all subjects.

 Jigsaw Puzzles - The NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC JIGSAW PUZZLE GENERA-TOR (NGJPG) is a free service which will create an online jigsaw puzzle from one of National Geographic’s many pictures

 Uncw.eduEdGames - free templates for games in PowerPoint

 QuizRevolution – create multimedia quizzes

 Get the Glass – A 3D animated game from the California Milk Processor Board

 Super Nutrition Game

 Roller Coaster Tycoon

 Learning in 3D – a book and website by Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll

 Gadgets, Games and Gismos – a book and website by Karl Kapp

 Kapp Notes – a blog by Karl Kapp on books about gamification