... form of January's The Big Question: What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning ... participate via blog posts, see the side bar.) Points to consider: Quality learning experiences involve having ... blends, but designing and developing higher quality programs cost more and take longer. Rapid e-Learning often involves ... ? Has there been fat that could be cut without risking quality? Name Blog The Big Question Response Tom Haskins growing changing learning creating The politics of quality Tony Karrer eLearning Tech Big Question for January - Quality ...

... tempted to put out any old thing, recorded using poor quality equipment and with little care. If Reeves and Nass are right ... expensive kit what can you do? Well I've just purchased a high quality condenser microphone that sits on a table stand and ... . Once you're set up, you can make high quality voice recordings without fuss, as easily as you did using a headset / ...

... and peer review assured the quality of what is produced. In Web 2.0, quality theoretically comes from public review and ... the quality of the content. Without us in the mix, how do we know that the content being created by learners is accurate, of high quality, appropriate, etc. These are fair questions for us to ask, and there certainly is a problem ...

... anyone tell me where QUALITY comes into play with these collaborative enterprise 2.0 technologies? Or does anyone even care about that anymore? Later they say: Invariably, quality will mean very different things to different elearning providers. Also, different needs will necessitate different solutions. My quality concerns: Is it instructionally sound? What ... has always been: Is the person able to perform? Force marching someone through something that is high quality ... . I'm not sure, but it seems that the commenter is making an assumption that this lowers quality. It theoretically ...

... to the quality of its visuals. Yes, PowerPoint has more widgets, gizmos, gadgets, and doodads, yet it still manages to ... , SlideRocket . SlideRocket is built upon Adobe’s AIR foundation and promises Keynote-quality slides and animations ... , is often Articulate Presenter (and Engage). Now, Presenter is limited in the number (and quality) of PowerPoint ... link, simply not able to allow Keynote-quality animations. However, seeing what SlideRocket is doing with Flash is ... Keynote-quality visuals. Not now. Probably not ever. But will a Web-based tool like SlideRocket someday give me ...

The Big Question on the LCB for January is: What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide? There's a lot involved in this question and I plan to revisit it several times during the month. I'm hoping to see some contributions that will help thinking. Let me start with some important words of wisdom that I like to use at meetings: You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles. Props to the first person to leave a ... when its really worth it to spend dollars on what we might consider a higher quality solution than providing ...

Quality Initiatives ... Quality Initiatives ... access to a high quality education. In order to support both students and faculty in the online arena, the eLearning area has implemented a Quality Course Review ( QCR) process utilizing the 2005 Quality Matters® rubric. The ... ; The Quality Course Review Process  The QCR process is a voluntary program whereby ...

Tim Davies has produced some great examples of how small, targeted and (crucially) well designed resources can be highly effective in learning. Tim's One Page Guides on subjects such as wikis, blogs and sharing stories give novices the confidence to take some action of their own. As Brent Schenkler comments: "I'm certain it did not take ANY ISD knowledge to create these. But I'm certain ...

Quality and Online Learning Just a quick link to a collection of “standards” for determining whether your online courses are of sufficient quality or not. I wonder how my open courses would rate… Quality Matters Online Course Evaluation Project Standards NACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses About this entry You’re currently reading “Quality ... Tags: quality ...

Model Workshop: Example Documents Describing e-Learning Quality The following documents were used to define the ... Gamson, Z.F. (1986) http://www.tltgroup.org/seven/home.htm Quality on the Line Benchmarks Institute ... useful when considering what defines e-learning quality: QUT«s Teaching Capabilties Framework http ... for Quality of the Electronic Campus of the Southern Regional Education Board http://www.ecinitiatives.org/publications/principles.asp Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in ...

The Learning Circuits big question for January asks "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" Well, there's an assumption underlying this and I'm questioning it. Who says e-learning materials that take a long time to produce are necessarily high quality, let alone relevant or effective? There isn't a member of the e-learning community who hasn't worked on projects that were over-engineered, over budget and appeared way past their deadline, only to flop dramatically. As early as 1984 I can remember working on a ...

... article is about the dichotimies between quantity of contacts and quality . I call it shouting versus dialog(ing?) . It ... Twitterverse about quantity vs. quality . (Read it from the bottom-up.) If you click-through to the twitterstream above, the ... there are various reasons why people continue to focus on quantity over quality, but as we continue to become more wired ... quality of their interactions. A large following is not necessarily a bad thing - especially when you've built it by ... network, you work in direct opposition of the sharing, community-building and quality exchange that can take place, ...

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... eye was the statement: For information-seekers using their favorite search engine, quality is simple to define. If a ... to be of high quality. Moreover, because the seeker has quickly been successful in obtaining a work of high quality, there is a transferal of quality to the work's authors, who receive a high "expert" ranking. The effect may not be rational ... in-between two things by Stephen (who coined the term), definitely lends a mark of quality and high expert ranking for ... : In the Web 2.0 world, the quality of a resource is determined by the intensity of its use. What is rated as "the best" ...

Today we decided to redesign the content for our multimedia e-courses without the H.264 codec. It was just not possible to assure a good work flow with this codec, although the quality is obvious.

Let the battle begin! Remember Netscape? As most everyone knows, Google has entered the browser wars with Chrome. A blog I regularily monitor, DemoGirl , has a great, high quality screencast which demonstrates Chromes' key features.

... that is happening in media today. I believe content and context is more important than media production quality. You ... on YouTube. In learning situations the content and the context is more important to learners than the production quality ... , learn a skill, etc. I will easily endure a low quality video if the content is exactly what I need. No level of slick production helps. The only time high quality production value helps is when you are trying to "sheepdip" your entire ... "high quality" production people will be entertained, and therefore learn. There's definitely a problem with this, but ...

Games by GAMBIT: AudiOdyssey A game developed so that visually impaired users can play it, using either a Wiimote or keyboard. One of the goals was to create “an engaging game that relies more on high quality audio than visuals.” Very interesting concept; quality accessibly game design could also help designing for other applications. tags: games , accessibility From Degrading to De-Grading Alfie Kohn on reasons to abolish the current ... for challenging tasks… Grades tend to reduce the quality of students' thinking… ...

The Big Question for January - Quality vs. Speed received some responses that caught me a bit off-guard. Several ... drill down a bit on some of the bigger issues being raised. First - a lot of the complaints stem from the word "Quality" (and even more so, the definition of a "Quality Learning Experience" in the original post). Some of the responses say that Quality is "changing a person" or "achieve a performance goal" ... I hate to say it, but these folks are theoretically correct, but they are ignoring the reality of most situations. I'd suggest that Quality gets defined by the ...

Dennis Daniels has posted a bunch of Moodle videos on Google Video. Most are for Moodle 1.5.2. Update: I've had a chance to watch a few of Dennis' videos. Geared for very tech savvy folks. The video quality is not great; so if you are not familiar with the interface, it may be difficult to see what is happening.

Over the last 12 weeks, Stephen Downes and I have facilitated a course on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge . The final “project” for enrolled participants is to reflect on the quality of their own learning networks. Wendy Drexler has posted a video of her final project that is (deservedly) getting significant attention: Connectivism: Networked Learner ( also available on YouTube ) ...

Some great posts are already out there around the Big Question for January: Quality vs. Speed . You can find them listed in the post. One thing that is definitely clear from the posts so far is that there seems to be a really difference ... design and still maintain quality? Does iteration work? When? If we didn't have constraints on time/cost, would we really be our own worst enemy? Is quality, speed, cost and learning really like sliders that as you push one up others ... ... What do you do when you are in an organization that only wants low-quality, rapid - even if it only checks the box?

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I won't be blogging on Friday due to spending quality time with my family and recovering from eating all that turkey. So just, remember to be thankful for all you have, I know I am. Enjoy the holiday. And if it isn't a holiday you celebrate...take some time to just give thanks. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

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Enjoying my vacation ... on Ocracoke Island , one of the most remote islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks. The previous link is via Wikipedia, which is why this Google Tech Talks will be on one of my "must view" lists when I get home: Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval with Wikipedia When you link, watch in "high quality" ...

... could create e-content and make it available to the organisation at large. Why, because the quality would not be predictable and this could bring e-learning in general into disrepute? I disagreed. After all, variabilities in quality do not bother YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare and any number of other web 2.0 sites. That's because (1) even low quality content can be of extreme interest to someone and (2) high quality content will always rise to the surface when users are ... their exalted positions as arbiters of quality, but that's what they must do if we are to enfranchise the whole workforce ...

... elearninglive.com » Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part One - Encoding Bitrate Results of an experiment on the encoding bitrate for Captivate. Mark Siegriest is trying to find the best audio settings to balance sound quality and file size. The most surprising finding in this is that at the lowest bitrates, the file size actually went up, not down. 32kbps was the smallest file size in his sampling. tags: captivate , e-learning , audio ... losing quality. Facilitating online communities - WikiEducator Course from Wikieducator on ...

... comments that Clive got back on his blog was that people were producing poor quality stuff with these tools. I guess it depends on what you mean by poor quality. Is what I'm writing now poor quality? Probably it depends on the context. If you are here trying to learning about Rapid eLearning Tools, then this is definitely poor quality. But, the intent of ...

Wow! I had no idea what I was missing in sound quality. The right earbud from my iPhone headset mysteriously went quiet last week. Apple had a sale on black Friday so I ordered an upgraded headset - the Vmoda headset. So worth it! The FAM is asleep and I'm chillin with Miles Davis and the Meat Puppets and a little Molly Hatchet sprinkled in...strange, I know...its a long story from DevLearn. Good times!