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The people from CommonCraft have created a new video about SharePoint. If you want to learn what it is and what it can do for you in 3 minutes, this is the way to go:

Jane Hart posted some links to free e-learning content about … e-learning. The content was created by Brainshark, and is very traditional (slide based), but of high quality. I embed my favorite below, check Jane’s site for the other content.

Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Live Services plugin for Moodle. This extension for the popular Learning Management System Moodle adds two major functions to the LMS:

• authentication in Moodle via Windows Live ID
• a Windows Live Services block in Moodle that allows students to access their Windows Live Services (mail, messenger…)

This extension could allow a school or institution to use Microsoft’s Live@Edu offering, together with a full blown LMS like Moodle.

More info in this video (Silverlight required):

Today, I attended a seminar organised by BE-ODL about the use of a Learning Management System. Lots of interesting presentations and a good discussion. One of the returning topics was the contradiction between the upcoming usage of social learning tools (“Learning 2.0″) versus the formal aspect of a LMS (reporting, tracking…)

In my opinion, this will always remain a contradiction (that’s why one is called “informal” and the other “formal” ) but if you do not provide your learners the possibility to use the newer tools on your own network, then be prepared to find your company content open and freely available on YouTube, Twitter, Delicious, Google Docs and others… Learners will find a way.

I stumbled upon an interesting presentation … on SlideShare. And if you wander off to other similar presentations (is that so bad?), you will find even more…

If you want to have a look at how we will possibly interact with computers in the future, have a look at the video below. Great tip from Danny.