e-learning design, development, and trends

I heard that, many schools are likely to block access to the Facebook domain on their campus networks
yes it’s possible for facebook to be a major source of distractions.
But why do we stuck with LMS ( learning management system ) ’s?.
Which one a student would choose from registering a borin LMS or using their own facebbok account?
I think they have already choosen facebook for entertaintment and friendship purposes.
A simple and effective facebook application can be integrated with your LMS, and the anouncements, event will be more visible to everyone.

Facebook introduced facebook pages last week and it seems Adobe has recently integrated its company profile and produclt line on facebook.
See Adobe Pages here.

Facebook declares:

Any company or organization can now establish a profile on Facebook and solicit support from other users.

Adobe® AIR^TM (formerly known Apollo), is a cross-operating system runtime that allows you to develop
applications for desktop. Your existing development skills and knowledge on HTML,JS,FLASH will be
also working on AIR!

During past five years e-Learning courses stood on the Learning Management Systems and in the browser.
Plus some courses converted to offline versions using third party software like MDM Zinc.

With new trends of web 2.0 and e-Learning 2.0 , widgets and gadgets for e-Learning are raising their popularity on the ground

So it’s the time go outside the browser.

Many developers who have fluent skills in Actionscript, JS and HTML will be integrating this knowledge with Adobe® AIR�?�,
I am also planning to convert my old e-Learning course player to a transparent desktop appclication.

At the E-learning Guild Conference there was a lot of discussion about e-learning 2.0. Here are some key points about e-learning 2.0

Related Links:
Stephen Downes - e-learning 2.0.
Wikipedia page on e-learning 2.0.

For Downes e-learning 2.0 has a clear focus on the community and social networking. He points to the impact of tools such as blogging, wikis and podcasts. These tools allow everyone to become publishers. Downes correctly recognised that “the model of e-learning as being a type of content, produced by publishers, organized and structured into courses, and consumed by students, is turned on its head.”

Upcoming forum at e-LearningGuild about modularity, and abstract e-learning content design. Here is some brief info about this forum:

As organizations put more and more content online, there is a greater need to repurpose or reuse some of this content for e-Learning. The application of LMS and LCMS systems, the need to develop e-Learning faster, the use of SMEs to build e-Learning, and the utilization of standards such as SCORM also contribute to the increasing need to design and develop modular and reusable e-Learning content.

Register for this two-day online event and look at the different ways to design and develop modular and reusable e-Learning content to meet different demands and limitations for various needs, budgets, and tools. Learn real-world examples from actual applications, talk about the theory and practice of different strategies for modular and reusable content development, and learn how to design and build content with different tools and technologies.

Flash is now 10 years old and Adobe Istanbul User Group invites you to FlashDay seminar - party at CambazBar - Istanbul
6th Agust - 14:00. All flash coders and designers are invited to the party.
This party is also a milestone for Flash Istanbul first flash festival in Turkey.

State of Art blogging tool WordPress 2.0 is out. Some new features like, WYSIWYG editor, faster administration, inline uploading sounds good.
Also their version and release date (December 31, 2005) are interesting Web 2.0 Wordpress 2.0

An overview of the main multimedia technologies and formats used in e-learning development

I’m so excited to see this MAX 2005 preview about upcoming version of Flash Lite.
Here are most interesting new features of Flash Lite 2.0:

Altought there are some inspiring examples of mobile-learning made witn Flash Lite 1.0, these little big changes will boost up mobile content development.

With every new, intelligent example i am getting closer to purchase Flash Player Lite 1.1
It’s 9.95$ only but purchasing and installing it to my phone means extra time with experimenting Flash Lite.

Now i am just collecting good examples of Flash Lite Applications.
Robert Hall from Talisman Interactive developed this mobilized study aid for American Sign Language (ASL) Finger Spelling.