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Presenters: Brent Harvey & Sean Hougan
The Growing Trend of Open Source in eLearning
E M P O W E R TA L E N T
Sean HouganLearning Design
Specialist
Brent HarveySales & Marketing VP
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Today’s Topics
1. What is Open Source? A Brief History.2. Why Leading Organizations Choose Open Source3. The 4 Fastest Growing Open Source Learning Technologies4. Bringing Open Source eLearning to your Organization5. Q&A
Poll Question 1
“In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone”
What is Open Source (Software)?
Source: opensource.org
Brief History of Open Source Software
1980 UseNet
1983 GNU Project
1989386BSD
1991Linux
1993Red Hat
1994MySQL
1996Apache
1998Netscape
2004Ubuntu
Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/15/the-9-most-important-events-in-open-source-history/
Why Leading Organizations Choose Open?
Flexible, ownership, freedom to innovate, ease of customization,
no vendor lock-in, your choice, support from a global community
OPEN SOURCE LEARNING
Four Fastest Growing Open Source Learning Technologies:
1. Open Source Education Resources (OERs)2. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)3. Open Badges4. Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Open Source Learning Technologies
• UNESCO: Freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media useful for teaching, learning, accessing and researching
TextbooksLearning guides & workbooksVideos and audio recordingsCourses
Open Source Education Resources (OERs)
“A textbook licensed under open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.”
Open Text Books
• A massive open online course with the goal to provide quality and accessible education to all
• MOOCs contain:1. Filmed Lectures2. Readings3. Problem Sets4. Interactive Forums
MOOCS
• Digital badge: an online record that identifies your achievements
• Open badge: • Allows learners to gain
badges from multiple credible organizations• Can be displayed wherever
and with whomever online
Open Badges
Poll Question 2
• A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery e-learning education courses or training programs.
• Organizations such as Moodle and Totara LMS have created an LMS with open source code
Open Source Learning Management Systems
Moodle: Market Leader
• 54,000 registered Moodle sites• 68 million users worldwide• Robust open-source platform• Supported by a global community—138 Million forum posts• Over 500 plugins • Highly flexible
• Benefit from the powerful backbone of Moodle with additional features tailored for corporate eLearning – Hierarchies– Audiences – Competencies– Learning Plans– Performance Management– Performance Review/Appraisals
Totara LMS for Corporate eLearning
Poll Question 3
Poll Question 4
• Please ask questions in the chat box
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