Stephen Lieb: Principles of Adult Learning
Stephen Lieb: Principles of Adult LearningShort summary on adult learning approaches. "As do all learners, adults need to be shown respect. Instructors must acknowledge the wealth of experiences that adult participants bring to the classroom. These adults should be treated as equals in experience and knowledge and allowed to voice their opinions freely in class."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 08, 2003
Grant McEvan College: Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses
Grant McEvan College: Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Online Courses"The criteria presented in this guide are based on the national and international experiences of staff in the Instructional Media and Design department at Grant MacEwan College. Although they were developed to assist educators in evaluating the effectiveness of online courses, they may also be used as guidelines for course developers."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 08, 2003
Global Brand Forum 2003
elearningpost: Global Brand Forum 2003My notes from the Global Brand Forum 2003.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 04, 2003
Optimize: The Lessons Of E-Learning
Optimize: The Lessons Of E-Learning"Top business leaders who abandoned E-learning to training departments must now get personally involved. By far, the best E-learning efforts include the involvement of CEOs, CIOs, and COOs who relentlessly link interactive education to bottom-line, real-life business drivers. This is a hands-on undertaking in every sense. When executive-level support is present, E-learning can show a quick ROI and help business audiences accomplish their goals
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 04, 2003
BBC: Concorde Tour
BBC: Concorde TourNice interactive that explores Concorde's cockpit, cabin and crew areas.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 04, 2003
Section508: Accessibility tool: Step508
Section508: Accessibility tool: STEP508STEP508, the Simple Tool for Error Prioritization for Section 508 compliance, is an electronic tool that:
- Prioritizes the repairs you should make to ensure that your Web site is compliant with the accessibility requirements of Section 508.
- Provides the metrics to report your progress in improving the accessibility of your site over time.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 03, 2003
European Commission: m-learning
European Commission: m-learning"The products and services in development are designed to capture the interest of young adults (16 to 24) who are not currently taking part in education or training and to assist them in the development of life long learning objectives. The learning themes focus on subjects of interest to young adults, e.g. football and music, and the modules include activities designed to develop aspects of literacy and numeracy. m-learning's target audience includes young adults who are unemployed, under-employed or homeless."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Learning Circuits: It’s All About Alignment
Learning Circuits: It's All About Alignment"Talk of aligning training with corporate goals is a time-honored tradition in training circles as the source of endless how-to books and conference sessions. But experts agree that too often, alignment remains stuck in the talk stage because the learning function isn
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 01, 2003
DepticT! 2003: Winners List
DepticT! 2003: Winners List"DepicT! 2003 is the unique competition that challenges you to make a micro-movie of under 90 seconds." Check this one out -- Terrance Eats Knowledge.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 01, 2003
CIO: How to Create a Know-It-All Company
CIO: How to Create a Know-It-All CompanyThis article deals with strategies to enable employees share knowledge. "Very simply, the effort of sharing knowledge has to be less than the value of participating. KM is not like other IT applications. Most of the time, employees just ignore it if they so choose. Therefore, the act of sharing knowledge
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 01, 2003
Utah State Univ: Pitch Journal
Utah State Univ: Pitch Journal"Pitch is a peer reviewed online journal in Instructional and Learning Technology. Articles in Pitch focus on pedagogical, technological, sociological, legal, and moral issues related to opening access to educational opportunity. Example topics include reusable media/learning objects, scalability issues, informal social networks for supporting learning, legal schemes for the sharing of open educational materials, and the right to education. Pitch is run by the OSLO Research Group at Utah State University."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, November 28, 2003
HBS Working Knowledge: Your New Core Strategy: Employee Retention
HBS Working Knowledge: Your New Core Strategy: Employee Retention"Nevertheless, one day in the not-too-distant future the job market will swing back toward the job seeker's advantage. And when it does, the effect on some organizations
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 27, 2003
Academic Technologies for Learning: The Web: Design for Active Learning
Academic Technologies for Learning: The Web: Design for Active Learning"This handbook will present the idea of interactivity as it applies to a cohesive design including high interface, content, and instructional design."
[thanks elearnspace]
instructional design, interface Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 27, 2003
XPLANE: The life cycle of a high-performance workforce
XPLANE: The life cycle of a high-performance workforce"Efficiency in any company begins at the point of impact -- where an employee does a job. Beginning with corporate objectives, see how a real-time organization engages, develops, deploys and rewards its people to achieve optimal performance." Nice poster that describes the process.
[Free Registration Required]
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Optimize: Turning Mind Into Matter
Optimize: Turning Mind Into Matter"The most central role in helping ideas take root, however, is that of the idea practitioner
innovation Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 26, 2003
IBM DeveloperWorks: The importance of documentation
IBM DeveloperWorks: The importance of documentation"As documentation decreases in quality, users stop turning to it. As users stop turning to it, companies stop trying to maintain it -- why bother, if the users won't read it? This line of reasoning is dooming the future of documentation to failure. Documentation is important and needs to be taken seriously."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, November 26, 2003
LTSN: e-learning guides
LTSN: e-learning guides"The Generic Centre e-learning guides are the first fully comprehensive guides on e-learning aimed at specific audiences within UK higher education.
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Xplana: Avoiding Plagiarism in an Online Environment Part I
Xplana: Avoiding Plagiarism in an Online Environment Part I"Plagiarism is one issue that the academic community will be forced to confront, and resolve, if academic integrity is to have any meaning in our rapidly evolving educational market."
[Part 2]
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 25, 2003
BodyWorlds and Learning
BodyWorlds and LearningI went for Prof. Gunter Von Hagens' fabulous BodyWorlds exhibition yesterday and was amazed at his work and his collection. Most of what I knew only through words and descriptions were laid out explicitly in front of me. For example, I only knew through imagination what a knee cap prosthesis might look like, but looking at a knee cap prosthesis in front of me, along with all the muscle, bone, and tissue, gave me a different insight. But even with the explicit exhibits and the information cards, I would not have captured the entire essence of some exhibits if I did not happen to listen in to a doctor explaining the exhibits to his girlfriend. I found his explanations so interesting that I took his route and followed him till he became conscious of my omnipresence. Instruction and experience seem to take different routes in explaining. The informality of experience just seems to explain things a lot better, and at a higher plane too. We can call it the power of the narrative, or it just could be that we humans (me at least) are hardwired to make sense of the informal. We are sense-making creatures and thus thrive on fuzzy conditions that force us to make sense of the situation. Maybe that's why we consider the formal to be mundane. Maybe this is just another rant.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Learning Circuits: E-Learning Trends 2003
Learning Circuits: E-Learning Trends 2003LC has published the results of its annual survey and stacked it up with the 2001 and 2002 results.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, November 24, 2003
Denham Grey: KM strategy is easy!
Denham Grey: KM strategy is easy!- Do we really recognize and value knowledge creation (innovation)?
- Do we reward learning (even when it comes from failure?)
- Do we match quality talent with quality ideas even when they are not our own?
- Do we cultivate relationships and show empathy for intellectual diversity?
- Do we encourage deep dialog and creative abrasion
- Can we discover, share and use key business rules
knowledge management, innovation Add tag Permalink | Monday, November 24, 2003
Open Source LCMS: ATutor
Open Source LCMS: ATutor"Tutor is a Standards Compliant Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, November 24, 2003
Xerox PARC: Stolen Knowledge
Xerox PARC: Stolen KnowledgeHere's a quote from the classic paper by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid on the difference between learning and instruction: "The alternative view sees learning as part of an inevitably unfinished, but continuous process that goes on throughout life. Each event, circumstance, or interaction is not discrete. Rather, each is assimilated or appropriated in terms of what has gone before. The process is not, then, like the addition of a brick to a building-where the brick remains as distinct and self-contained as it was in the builder's hand. Instead, it is a little like the addition of color to color in a painting, where the color that is added becomes inseparably a part of the color that was there before and both are transformed in the process. Thus, what is learned can never be judged solely in terms of what is taught."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 20, 2003
Masie: Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards
MASIE Center: Making Sense of Learning Specifications & StandardsWe have placed this document in the public domain for the widest free dissemination... As organizations make significant investments in digital learning content, they seek greater assurances of portability and reusability. Organizations also desire the ability to more easily store, search, index, deploy, assemble, and revise learning content.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, November 20, 2003
Optimize: The Innovator’s Solution
Optimize: The Innovator's Solution"The cycle of disruption starts when a company offers a new product that gains only limited acceptance. To understand what's wrong, the company gets good at listening to customers. It makes improvements and wins business, gradually penetrating ever larger and more profitable customer segments. Eventually, though, the improvements its up-market customers demand exceed what many customers want. These overserved down-market customers become an opportunity for new entrants, whose less costly products are still good enough."