I was just brainstorming with a friend from our Corp. Communications on a name for our LMS. I've been looking into this for a bit, but it slipped my mind and now I need to come up with something.So we threw around the words "university", "college", "academy", "elearning", "online", "intranet". Finally we came up with Southlake Online Learning. Sounds plain. Sounds simple. SOL is catchy. It's "brightening our Stars for tomorrow.Oh ya, in case you missed it the acronym is S. O. L. If you don't know what else that stands for....give me an email.Back I go to brainstorming.

Image via Wikipedia WHY #2: Social Learning Personalizes Learning. The next verb of Social Learning is that it will personalize your learning.  I donâ¬"t know how many training classes I have been to that I was told what I was going to learn instead of learning what I felt I needed to learn to do my job.  Some of the instruction I definitely needed â ... often is high in training classes because their mind is on their work, yet they are being pulled away to learn something ... ourselves, whoâ¬"s agenda is it that a person learns a particular subject or information.  If the answer is not ...

ASTD’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” This month it’s: I’m ... person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. a person who knows little about the term. I think one place to start is to look at the competencies and skills needed for various “e-learning” jobs. E-learning, of course, encompasses many areas - courseware designer, curriculum development, online trainer, blended learning specialist ... to e-learning should focus on: history, trends, and direction (history, evolution, impact of technology, etc.) Here is ...

... particularly distance learning where we outline the objectives the performance metrics and the outcomes and all of ... prime example of this: every child is expected to meet the grade level goals, regardless of learning or other disabilities. We start from the assumption that everyone will learn and be assessed equally. A better ideal for the system would ... that everyone will learn and be assessed in the same way. If we start with the assumption that individuals will find their own path in learning, and that our job is to give them lots of opportunities and ways to participate, we’re ...

I often get asked by people in our field (the learning-and-performance field) about how to select a graduate school ... fundamentals of learning at the same time focusing on what is practical, but this is hard to find. Be prepared to have a ... for the top tier. Beware of the programs labeled as "adult learning, curriculum studies" and the like. These often are weak in the foundations of human learning (but not always). If you go to a school focused on instructional technology, make sure you find one with good background in learning. If you want to build learning interventions when you ...

Last night I attended an award ceremony for the UK National Training Awards and was delighted to see one of my blended learning designs for the child development charity Plan International recognised with a national award. The Plan Certificate in Management, a one-year programme for middle and senior managers around the world, was designed in conjunction with Learning and Development Manager, Karen Coleman and course tutor, Gary Ford. The solution had not only to be economical in terms of travel requirements, but also practical in the way it could be deployed in third world countries ...

In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning. What ... e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, a developer, or a moderator/instructor? You also need to be clear whether you see yourself working primarily in education or in workplace learning ... recommend joining the main e-learning associations, i.e. eLearning Guild, wherever you are in the world, as well as the eLearning Network (workplace learning) or the Association for Learning Technology (education), if you're based in ...

... hand-to-hand application of anecdotal and scientific wisdom on human learning and cognition. Here in the United ... I find it intriguing from a learning-and-cognition standpoint. Here are some things we (as learning professionals) can learn from the political wizards. Repetition is worth repeating. Space your repetitions over time. Have ... theme. Vary the delivery of your messages, but stay consistent in the underlying message and theme. Learning messages ... overcome a bad economy. It is only the rarest of learning messages that can overcome irrelevance or everyday ...

... instructional situation. Give a kid a hammer…. Cases are a crappy way to learn a something like the basics of ... crib sheets on topics like finance and marketing management. Most of my learning came from working on cases with my ... others to learn how they think about things. Cases on wikis would expand in utility as students built on one anotherâ¬"s observations. Case discussion is a mix of team and individual learning. The student reads the case and performs a ... learning environment Iâ¬"m constructing. I already know the last few sentences. â¬SThe project manager, George, is ...

IgnitePhilly — Five Minutes To Communicate - Practical Theory 5 minute presentation (20 slides) by Chris Lehmann on school reform and what we need for School 2.0. Several good lines in here–a bunch of memorable ideas packed into a few minutes. Assessment should be projects, not tests. Data is what kids do every day, not what they do on a test. Passion, metacognition, and lifelong learning matter. “If you want to see what kids have learned, give them a project.” tags: education, change, technology, 21stcenturyskills, assessment, lifelonglearning, inquiry, ...

... interconnectedness that distinctions will be difficult to identify. Anyway, is this good for distance learning? YES! The telephone is important for distance learning. Not only is it a simple and reliable way for an instructor to communicate with a ... that a student can perform in support of their own learning using a telephone.Can you suggest a candidate for the most successful network in history? If so, can you explain how this network might support learning in a practical ...