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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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On the other hand, in Europe more sites use inhouse and open source implementations (Vuorikari, 2003). These allow custom extensions, which may pave the way for the development of open APIs for connection by PLEs. APIs ) available. There are unconfirmed media reports that the VLEs supplied by Blackboard Inc.

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Ple - LTCWiki

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Numerous other factors play a role: content creation tools, content storage, tools for communication, protocols/APIs, and identity management. APIs and Protocols. Open APIs and open protocols are key requirements for PLEs to grow as a concept. Its the connections that make a PLE. Aggregating People. Mashups Teqlo.

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The Next “Facebook Platform” for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter’s Running the Wrong Way

Stay N' Alive

With the advent of mobile, entire operating systems running on the browser, cloud-based personal information stores and APIs such as Kynetx to manage both user and application data for the user, we are so close to being where we want to be! The first person to do it gets the opportunity to lead the pack, and hundreds of millions will follow.

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7 Steps to Creating Million-Dollar Web Apps (And a Big Announcement)

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37 Signals – Creators of popular web apps like Basecamp, Highrise and CampFire, reportedly made over $8m in 2008 (up from $5m in 2007) with their services which cost a monthly fee. The open source community didn’t become big by protecting stuff, it became big by sharing.

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Toward a New Knowledge Society

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Slide 1: Toward a Future Knowledge Society Stephen Downes VENUS Seminars Gebruary 14, 2007 Slide 2: Once upon a time there was order We had two types of knowledgeâ?¦ Like open source â?? Developers & API. All embeds: 77 views: [link]. 11 views: [link]. 7 views: [link]. 7 views: [link]. 4 views: [link]. 3 views: [link].

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