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Although central to the business of higher education, the LMS has also become a symbol of the status quo that supports administrative functions more effectively than teaching and learning activities. Personal learning environments offer an alternative, but with their own limitations. An open learning network helps bridge the gap between the PLE and the LMS, combining the best elements of each approach. The initial implementation of an OLN at Brigham Young University represents a new learning platform model in higher education.

Check this out. The education technology space has seen an explosion of new offerings in the past few years. What has been missing is a centralized platform for schools and universities to easily evaluate and utilize web apps. Today we are excited to launch an education category in the Google Apps Marketplace designed specifically to help schools and universities easily discover and deploy new web applications that integrate with their existing Google Apps accounts. The new education category includes over 20 applications from 19 vendors ranging from learning management systems (LMS) to student tools and teaching aids - all of which integrate with Google Apps for Education. Each app can be accessed through single sign-on and the Google universal navigation bar and many offer deeper integrations that synchronize with Google Calendar and Documents.

What a great idea for faculty professional development or any kind of sustained, elearning that needs to occur over the summer months. Creative, motivational, feature-rich, easy to use.  Beautiful.

Just amazingly executed. I think I'm going to make this my annual professional development goal to get this sort of thing started here.

Ednovo breaks down the barriers of access to education with a free web application, Gooru, that leverages technology, amplifies the effect of stellar teaching, and inspires students to learn. Gooru provides teachers with the ability to "search and teach" and students with the ability to "search and study" to find curriculum-appropriate web resources for any lesson. Teachers and students then share their lessons and notes with each other to enable learning in a truly social way.

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"There's a lot that you can do with Tin Can and video on many platforms, not just YouTube. We chose YouTube because, well, it's popular, but we've done more than just work with YouTube videos. Brian worked with one of our clients to generate Tin Can statements from their Brightcove videos, and also from videos on their native mobile apps (iOS and Android), even when the mobile devices aren't connected to a network."

"Designed by educators for educators, Sakai is an enterprise teaching, learning and academic collaboration platform that best meets the needs of today's learners, instructors and researchers."

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BrainHoney is the only product that truly spans classroom, blended, and online instruction at any level. You need just one system, not three, to manage classroom learning, supplement with online instruction, experiment with online courses, or run a virtual program.

run by Moodlers for Moodlers! Nice!

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The FREE Digital Classroom is for teachers, instructors and professors to use a single Digital Classroom for their students. Sign up today to start collaborating, building quizzes, posting assignments and engaging students.

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"Promote participatory and collaborative learning within a safe online portal"

A combination wikispaces, edmodo, gmail, and live@edu?

An online collaboration tool that requires only the admin to register and has a calendar, file storage and collaboration space, conferencing, chatting, and much more

Is taking an online class a good fit for you? Learning through an online class requires different skills than learning in a face-to-face class. It's important to know what you're getting into and to understand the kind of commitment that's necessary for success in online learning. You can get a good idea of your readiness for online learning by filling out the following assessment.