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A few recent posts by Jay Cross , Brent Schlenker , and me ( Tony Karrer ) discuss Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning . The general sentiment among many in the workplace learning and performance industry is that the course model is beginning to fade and one of our biggest challenges is figuring out what comes next. Just as it is today when we design a Blended Learning solution, undoubtedly we will have a variety of delivery models and the specific ... on the Learning Circuits blog, I'm hoping to help add to this conversation as it is probably the most important ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... , 2006 Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog : eLearning Technology Updates recent studies show additional reasons: Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Blogging -- Its Good for You . Update on Nov 21, 2007 - Theres been a lot of discussion recently around using blogs for learning and I wanted to point to a few newer thoughts on this: Learning and Networking with ...

I saw another post from Dave Boggs, Has The Blogging Trend Begun To Fade, Even Before It Ever Got Started In Corporate Training / e-Learning Environments? In this post, Dave unfortunately lumps together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together). However, I think the answer about adoption ... Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to create reference hybrids - Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids - easily and maintain them easily. We will dump Dreamweaver and ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Start with Courseware or With the Other Stuff? : eLearning Technology ... about my article Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids . He seems to see the same thing, but ... and he is certainly not the first one to see it. Its a natural progression for a company to start with the courseware ... progression ... start with the courseware, and then move to adding other elements ... " is simultaneously making my ...

... in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids . He seems to see the same thing, but claims that it has ... certainly not the first one to see it. Its a natural progression for a company to start with the courseware scenario, and ... ... start with the courseware, and then move to adding other elements ... " is simultaneously making my point and missing the bigger picture. Three years ago, most every company would follow the pattern courseware -> other elements. In other words, the general model was to build eLearning solutions by thinking about the courseware first and ...

Two very good recent posts by Jay Cross and Brent Schlenker discuss the Death of Courses. If you read my blog you know that I've discussed similar themes (see Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids and Start with Courseware or With the Other Stuff? ) and I have the same basic feeling that there is definitely a shift going ... delivery models. Let's be clear. Courses and Courseware are not really dead and will never die out completely. There will ... better than the ease of use is that it gets you out of the Courseware mindset and into the information/support mindset.

Courses. If you read my blog you know that Ive discussed similar themes (see Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids and Start with Courseware or With the Other Stuff? ) and I have the same basic feeling that there ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning : eLearning Technology ... training towards other delivery models. Lets be clear. Courses and Courseware are not really dead and will never ...

Greetings! You may have noticed that the LinkedIn Courseware Development Group membership total has temporarily started to decline. LinkedIn has imposed a rule that no member can belong to more than 50 user-created LinkedIn groups ... - that's right, eight - other Courseware Development groups! If interested in this subject, please feel free to join one or more of these groups - just click the appropriate link under the Group Scoreboard on this blog. Thank You, Ted Courseware Development Group ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... , 2006 Is Gagne Relevant for eLearning Courseware Design? : eLearning Technology ... to boring courseware. But, lets not throw this away as irrelevant quite so quickly. I personally am a big fan of a model ...   2 comments links to Is Gagne Relevant for eLearning Courseware Design? Permalink: Is Gagne Relevant for eLearning Courseware Design? Bookmark this page ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? : eLearning Technology I saw another post from Dave Boggs, Has The Blogging Trend Begun To Fade, Even ... together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together ... being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids : eLearning ... looks like things are slowly shifting again. The shift Im seeing is away from the design of pure "courseware" solutions ... terminology around eLearning Patterns is problematic. In my mind, "courseware" is interactive (to some level) instruction ... Glossary , youll find that there are hopeless definitions of "courseware" and no definition of "reference." ...

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Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog Weblog for Penn State ... students with blogs, social networks, and all sorts of other great tools. What I see lacking is the innovative use of ... many folk reading this blog. I’m somewhat critical of a pay-per-page model if you want to get a hard copy. For the ... impact on our existing business models ? Ken - thanks for keeping this initiative going - An engaging and compelling blog ... context is a bit off, what it meant was the kids had being paying attention to a blog posting I had flagged during ...

... widespread (Stephenson, 2001) and with one or more courseware management systems employed as OLEs in all of Australiaâ??s 34 ... Weblogs (or blogs) initially came into being as regularly updated websites that contained links to websites of interest to ... research (Herring et al. 2004) across the blogging spectrum has indicated that there is a possibility that weblogs ... Proceedings, Orlando, Florida. Lawley, L. (2004) Blog Research Issues [viewed 19 July] Levine, A. cogdogblog . [viewed 19 ... learning online: Pedagogies for new technologies. Kogan Page, London. Perseus Inc. The Blogging Iceberg .

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LearningTown is a new Ning network started by Elliott Masie, noted training expert. This network is dedicated to learning, and has many members and groups that are eLearning-oriented. Please take a look around, and if interested, sign up! Once signed up, you are encouraged to join the LearningTown Courseware Development Group by clicking the L'town link on this blog, under the Group Scoreboard. For more on Elliott Masie, please click this link .

Posts on eLearning Tools: What is Rapid eLearning? eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More eLearning Course Authoring Tool Satisfaction - More Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups Use of Wikis as Compared to Other Tools Captivate and Articulate for Interactive Slide-Based Presentations Shift in eLearning Solutions from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids Direction of eLearning Solutions - Emergence or Big System Future Platforms for eLearning Solutions View of eLearning Development Software - Ease vs. Power Point Solutions ...

I'm trying Slideshare for the first time. I've embedded the presentation from last week that I mentioned before . SlideShare Link A few posts that go along with the content: Delicious Upgrade Have Work and Learning Changed or the Way We Do Work and Learning? Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) What is eLearning 2.0? eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0 Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 ... Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - ...

... eLearning 2.0 The following are the best posts from my blog on eLearning 2.0 as of 2007/04/01. I will attempt to update periodically to continue to keep this up to date. Starting Point: What is eLearning 2.0? eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0 Practical Suggestions: Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Start-Up Guides Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary Issues: eLearning ...

Brent Schlenker's blog in an article entitled More BW on Web2.0 and Blowing up the ADDIE model pointed me to a whitepaper by Neil Lasher entitled The 4A's of Learning Design . Brent's post and the whitepaper both point out that we ... from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids . While Neil's whitepaper is somewhat underwhelming because it doesn't give much prescription on how to accomplish rapid learning design, it does point out how eLearning Courseware that relies ... ) always re-findable . I would ask if putting content in courseware buried in an LMS is ever going to meet these ...

Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The ... my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Managing your RSS Feeds - If you are considering subscribing to this blog, you might want to read this. Blog Description This blog covers trends in eLearning and more ... courseware kinds of issues to specialized kinds of tools and sites. My background includes things like being the CTO of eHarmony ... $110M venture round to working on interesting eLearning and tools for companies like Lexus, HP, IBM, etc. Thus, the blog ...

Jim Belshaw posted a comment on the Learning Circuits blog today.  He was responding to the ongoing conversation around the end of courseware and the growth of informal learning.  He has a long,  but very well stated post on the topic.  Its nice to hear from others outside of the learning profession and I really appreciate Jim adding to the conversation.  It's also another great example of how wonderful the new web is...Jim is in Australia.  ... and have been blogging about.

2.0? First Time Visitor Guide Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog Rapid eLearning Tools Fun ... with Blogs? eLearning 1.0 vs. 2.0 - Help Needed Stephen Downes is Wrong? Is It Really Cool? Better Questions for Learning Professionals Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids Authoring in eLearning ... ? Q&A - eLearning Standards Especially SCORM Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning Web 2.0 and ... engines rather than from RSS readers or from links on other blogs. One of the surprise sources of traffic was ...

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Given the nomination , I'm not sure how much new traffic will come to check out this blog, but I know that it's always hard to come to a blog and get a sense of what the person talks about. This is the reason I created the First Time ... Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog 1,500 22 52 Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 ... Courseware towards Reference Hybrids 832 4 10 Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning ... Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS 702 5 ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Brent Schlenkers blog in an article entitled More BW on Web2.0 and Blowing up the ADDIE ... and The Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids . While Neils whitepaper is somewhat ... eLearning Courseware that relies heavily on present-review models are often not great design. The other really great point ... ) learn, use and forget and (b) always re-findable . I would ask if putting content in courseware buried in an LMS is ...

I received a question about a particular eLearning Design challenge that someone was facing and I realized that the title of my blog and the way I post doesn't really do justice to talking about design and patterns in designing eLearning in this blog. I'll try to work on that, but here's a list of posts that are relevant to eLearning design and eLearning patterns: What Clients Really Want The basis for many of the eLearning design decisions. Top Ten Suggested New ... Courseware are Fading - The Future of eLearning How we must adapt to the fact that our designs cannot rely on larger ...

The recent article by Dion Hinchcliffe - Blogs, wikis, and Web 2.0 as the next application platform got me thinking again about what corporate eLearning development will be like in five years. Actually, I'm not even that sure what it ... is expected to grow significantly. We also are seeing a Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference ... Composition . What's the bottom line? In five years, I would expect us to be building much less SCORM courseware and much more ... document and updates are instantaneous. Hopefully I'm the first to be saying it, but: Courseware is the new ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... - Wikis, Blogs and More - Alternative eLearning Software tools. Use of Wikis as eLearning Software - another post on Wikis ... Software is changing based on Web 2.0 technical approaches. Shift in eLearning Software Approaches from Pure Courseware ... by a blog administrator.   Post a Comment ... Technology Jumping into my Blog Roll Problem finding Podcasts and ...