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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

On the other hand, in Europe more sites use inhouse and open source implementations (Vuorikari, 2003). the leading commercial vendor of academic VLEs, was granted US patent 6,988,138 on " Internet-based education support system and methods ", even though there is evidently a long history of virtual learning environments.

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

Viper Chill

A custom content management system (CMS) aimed solely at people building affiliate sites, giving them everything they need to quickly build attractive minisites. I’m quite close to releasing my first paid module. The open source community didn’t become big by protecting stuff, it became big by sharing.