SmartBuilder
I have not used this tool myself, but a classmate at Capella University mentioned it. In reviewing the product tour for it, my initial impression was a positive one, as I don’t want to dive deep into scripting and programming languages — and I also want results, quickly.
Expanding on the Nine Events Of Instruction — from the eLearning Coach
The column on the left captures the internal processes of learning, according to Gagne. The middle column, which is still useful, shows ways to provide instructional support to promote each internal process. Finally, the column on the right shows how an intrinsically motivated learner can self-generate the processes of instruction…
Here are more than 200 free rapid e-learning tutorials — from the Rapid e-Learning Blog
Below is a list of great tips and tricks that you can apply to your elearning courses right away….
Impact is an online publication of the E-learning Network of Australasia (ElNet at http://www.elnet.com.au), a not-for-profit organisation and Australia’s only national e-learning association. The journal has been established to address the paucity of research publication avenues that provide a particular emphasis on e-learning in organisational, corporate and workplace settings, and which seek to bridge academic and business communities. Focusing on stimulating and generating dialogue, as well as promoting the development and sharing of evidence-based best practice, the journal publishes both refereed and non-refereed contributions from authors worldwide relating to the design, implementation, evaluation and management of workplace e-learning across a range of sectors and industries.
eLearning development is an iterative process — the Upside Learning blog by Amit Garg
Global eLearning Market Reached US$27.1 Billion in 2009, Will Reach $49.6 Billion in 2014 — from The Learned Man! blog and Ambient Insight
From DSC:
To me, this device has the potential to really move multimedia-based communications forward. For one thing, “magazines” will never be the same again.
Colleges See 17 Percent Increase in Online Enrollment — from The Chronicle by Marc Parry
Colleges saw a 17 percent increase in online enrollment, with more than one in four students taking at least one online course in the fall of 2008, according to an annual survey published today by the Sloan Consortium.
The growth rate eclipsed last year’s 12-percent increase and dwarfed the 1.2 percent growth rate of the overall higher-education student population. The report, which has become a widely cited benchmark of distance learning, found a total of more than 4.6-million online students overall. That’s up from about 3.9 million the previous year.
Interest in hybrid courses on the rise — from eSchoolNews.com
Students say they like being able to realize the benefits of both face-to-face and online instruction
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Grant Writers, Get Ready. Bill Gates Is Fired Up About Online Learning. — from The Chronicle, by Marc Parry
The quote below is from the Gates Foundation’s 2010 Annual Letter:
“The foundation has made a few grants to drive online learning, but we are just at the start of this work. So far technology has hardly changed formal education at all. But a lot of people, including me, think this is the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things—especially in combination with face-to-face learning. With the escalating costs of education, an advance here would be very timely (emphasis DSC).“
Paul Simbeck-Hampson has some good thoughts on the term “learning ecosystem” — check them out.
I think, as this blog progresses, blended learning will definitely be a very important element of a learning ecosystem, as it combines the best of both worlds:
I am working on a graphic for “The House of Instruction“. Given all of the building blocks out there, how do we best build such a house? Which materials get used? Can we use them all and let students select which “blocks” work for them?
