Open Source content management and learning management solutions like Joomla! and Moodle offer an amazing - and affordable - toolset for building highly interactive, socially-networked learning communities. Examine how a small organization leveraged these technologies to launch a powerful learning 2.0 community for supporting civic activism among its membership base.
Learning Objectives & Key Takeaways
Identify open source options for building an online knowledge and learning community,Formulate Web 2.0/social media strategies for driving learning outcomes,Understand challenges faced in an actual open source CMS/LMS implementation