I’m Chairman of Questionmark and I’m speaking at the European SharePoint Conference on “Measuring Social Learning in SharePoint with Assessments” and thought you might be interested in some recent articles around the web on SharePoint in learning, education and training.
If you’re looking at using SharePoint in Higher Education, you might be interested in how University of Lund use quizzes in SharePoint to help engage students – see http://blog.sharepointlearn.com/2011/09/01/embed-quizzes-in-sharepoint-to-engage-your-learners-thought-leader-interview-with-peter-jochumzen/
This post is not new but it’s still very relevant – on the death of the corporate LMS due in part to systems like SharePoint. See
http://media1derland.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/learning-portals-death-of-the-corporate-lms/.
A great list by Ray Fleming of Microsoft Australia with screenshots of ten ofthe best Australian education websites built on SharePoint at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/education/archive/2011/08/11/ten-of-the-best-australian-education-websites-built-on-sharepoint.aspx. He makes the point very well that design is important to have your SharePoint site successful.
You can see more on SharePoint in learning, education and training at my blog at http://blog.sharepointlearn.com. Look forward to meeting others interested in SharePoint at the conference …