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NewProducts: Collaboration SPEED, SIMPLICITY, ACCESSIBILITY FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Eedo is increasing productivity throughout the organization by providing faster, more effective knowledge transfer and onthe-job performance support. Eighty-five per cent of Eedo’s global customers — including Sony Ericsson, Boeing, Metlife and Apria Healthcare — practice dynamic content delivery, which refers to the ability to distribute approved content to end-users immediately, either directly from a learning content management system (LCMS), or through integration with learning management or other human resource systems or portals. This immediacy means end-users are using the most current, reliable information; there is no lag time. With dynamic delivery, new or revised content is available immediately and can be accessed when needed. As well, it can be made available in the format most suitable for the task at hand, including formal elearning courses, key-word searches, context-sensitive help or performance support. The content may be delivered through a portal or within an application; on a computer or a handheld device. For further information, visit www.eedo.com. NEW OPEN-SOURCE TECHNOLOGY DUE IN SPRING Elluminate, Inc., and Sakai are integrating Elluminate Live! with the latter’s Collaboration and Learning Environment. As part of the development partnership, Elluminate and Unicon will develop and contribute the new technology to the open-source community. The Elluminate/Sakai integration is targeted for completion and general availability to the public in spring 2008. The Elluminate Live! interface will enable academic institutions using the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment to easily and seamlessly integrate live, synchronous distance learning and collaboration into their coursework. Elluminate Live! brings sessions for live classroom delivery, and includes recordings of live classroom sessions for students who miss class or wish to review. Elluminate Live! allows instructors to record tutorials and assign as part of course requirements, create virtual rooms that students can use to work together without an instructor. With the system, users can invite remote guest speakers to attend or even moderate sessions, and create virtual offices and share with all courses. For more information, visit www.elluminate.com. WEB COLLABORATION, SOCIALLY, ON THE SPOT The central idea of FlockPod is to provide a space on any Web page for you to collaborate and learn right on the spot, to share ideas, opinions, experiences, anecdotes or sometimes even to question, reason or debate. FlockPod is the world’s first software for on-the-spot social interactions leading to informal learning. FlockPod lets you add social interaction on any Web page to serve a dual purpose: facilitate social learning and augment the content itself. As you read a page of information open a debate and get others involved, you can share ideas, opinions and experiences from your perspective. The Spot Poll function allows you to take a poll with out leaving what you are reading to get a quick pulse of everyone’s opinion to see a trend and make a deci- sion. You can also leave behind useful links on a page to guide others when they visit that page. While on the page, you can rank the links by relevance to the content. For more information visit www.flockpod.com. DEVELOPERS CONSOLIDATE INTO ONE NEW NETWORK EduGarage is the new home of the Blackboard Developers Network. A wiki-based Website for all Blackboard Building Blocks and Blackboard PowerLinks developers to collaborate, share expertise and access the same tools and resources. Several different groups of developers will now join forces into one Blackboard Developers Network. No longer is the developer site just for downloading the SDK. EduGarage is built on a wiki framework with embedded forums so developers can interact, participate and share expertise easily with other developers across institutions, across the globe. With EduGarage, you can create a more open, externally accessible site that developers can access and add to the content and communication, and then share all of that knowledge and experience with the rest of the education world. For further information, visit www.edugarage.com. Elearning! December 2007 / January 2008 45 http://www.flockpod.com http://www.eedo.com http://www.elluminate.com http://www.edugarage.com

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Elearning! - December 2007/January 2008 Contents Editor’s Note News Google Tops List Learning Hours Increase Web 2.0 Whitepaper Available Listing World-Class Learners Kick Your Career in High Gear Trendline Best of Elearning! Awards Happy Birthday to Us Virtual Worlds for Learning Learning Leaders: Innovation, Excellence Learning Leaders Case Studies The Business Case of E-learning The Business Case for E-learning Case Study: Adecco Case Study: GlaxoSmithKline Case Study: Williams Scotsman New Products Collaboration Tools Content Pop Quiz Last Word

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