Posts Tagged ‘dimdim’
“How learning is changing to a more social dynamic” by @wastretchbeyond
WebAnywhere recently published an interesting white paper on the changing landscape of online learning/elearning and how it's being impacted by the innovations large and small providing new ways to connect and learn online. From Google+ to Facebook for learning to Moodle and other free services the landscape is changing more towards [...]
Breaking: Dimdim to discontinue free accounts and open source project in acquisition
Great news for Dimdim staff and founders, but bad news perhaps for most of Dimdim's paid and open source users: Dimdim was acquired by Salesforce.com according to a recent announcement. Dimdim has been available as a Moodle integration for several years and is the first conference tool that I cut my teeth on in 2007. It had been a viable open [...]
Some may say “Good bye, Elluminate/Wimba. Hello, BigBlueButton”
On the recent post, "What the Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle", Denis Zgonjanin commented that a possible open source alternative to both Wimba and Elluminate resides in BigBlueButton. BBB is only 2 years old and is an open source synchronous education tool. In response to the acquisition, the official BigBlueButton blog says, But [...]
What the #Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle
Wimba and Elluminate, both synchronous learning tools, have been purchased by the leading proprietary learning management company, Blackboard and have been re-branded already as Blackboard Collaborate. The news comes as a surprise to many (considering the similar market of both companies). Implications for Moodle users are not yet known, but [...]
