It was good to find some great public domain sites that focus on sharing best practice.
Take for example: http://www.instructionaldesign.org/public_domain.html
and
http://www.elearninglearning.com
The latter is a great place for consolidated e-Learning blogs.
Interestingly, I noted recently from: Marc J. Rosenberg’s, ‘Building Successful Online Learning in your Organisation’:
that according to him there are 2 types of e-Learning portals: Ones that you can buy and ones that you build.
Marc further suggests that an organisation needs to determine if it is interested in a portal’s functionalty, but not the content that may come with each. If this is the case he suggests that the organisation works with the e-Learning portal supplier to separate the two.
Focus must also be kept on both easy maintenance and upgradable
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