Categories: "Learning" or "Assessment" or "Connectivism" or "OCC2007" or "Designing Online Courses" or "Evaluation" or "FOE2007" or "Large scale programmes" or "Learning Ecosystem" or "Learning Objects" or "Learning to learn"
Jul
09
I was in a meeting today where it was suggested that purchasing organisations could differentiate between potential elearning suppliers by using a standard "problem" as a challenge. A problem like "Create some elearning about how to open a bottle of… more »
Jan
16
Jay Cross, many moons ago, likened the job of a learning designer to that of a gardener. Yet too often, we treat learning as if it was a part in a machine.
Just like plants, people are complicated. Each individual needs just the right combination of… more »
Dec
12
Last Saturday, I spent the morning working with a group from Church in the Peak who wanted to learn how to setup and run our PA system.
We started by unpacking all the component parts: the mixing desk, cables, multicore, microphones, mic stands, DI b… more »
Nov
13
Characteristics of good elearning
Learning, Designing Online Courses, Psychology 2 feedbacks » 6681 viewsYou may as well ask "What makes a good book?" when thinking about the characteristics of good elearning. It depends on what it's trying to achieve, who it's aimed at, and the context in which it will be used. Are we talking about a novel, a textbook, a… more »
Oct
23
First posted on Xyleme's "Dawn of Learning" blog. Reposted with some slight changes.
It seems that, for years, people have been writing obituaries for the corporate Learning Management System (LMS). Just do a quick search for “LMS is dead” and you’ll… more »
Oct
02
Over the last 12 years or so, as I've learnt to become a self-sufficient learner, a number of articles from the early years have played a seminal part in developing my thinking. So much so, that they have become my "goto" places when I need to explain… more »
Sep
20
Jane Hard ( @C4LPT ) is compiling the 6th annual list of Top 100 tools for learning.
Here's my current set (based on what I'm using at the moment):
Flipboard - one of the best mobile apps I've seen for consuming and filtering content.
Jing… more »
Jul
27
Quite out of the blue this week, I received a comment on one of my posts, from Prof Laurie Thomas (if I've got the LinkedIn link to the wrong person, let me know!)
I wonder whether you have identified the source of the scientific term "Learning_Conve… more »
May
08
Creativity, problem finding, education and training
Not yet categorised, Learning, Book 4 feedbacks » 7517 viewsA small crowd of teenagers were gathered in the quiet computer room on a Wednesday afternoon. They watched in astonishment as, on a small square monitor screen appeared a rapid succession of numbers - prime numbers - those numbers that can only be divid… more »
May
04
Tongue-in-cheek, but also true-to-life, animated video showing the conversation between an organisation and their elearning specialist.
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Via: Nick Shackleton-Jones' challenging post on the future of online learning, w… more »
