Higher Ed but K-12 and corporate/adult training as well. Imagine a hardware platform that blended something like the LifeScribe's SmartPen and an eBook reader - the device both displays the textbook and records the audio of the lecture and links that audio to the relevant text or vice versa. Oh and don't forget the whole not killing trees, reducing ...

... applied to corporate e-learning. [blue is mine] Myth: Videocasting lectures/presentations works. [As part of a blended ... ’s post, how long does it take to create learning provides some comparison ratios between ILT and various levels of e ... -and-paste e-learning. I can go to Amazon.com and order a book and read it. Or I can order a recorded book and have ... ;.well, not so crazy.) Myth: Online learning costs less than face-to-face training. This got me thinking about Tom Kuhlmann’s excellent (as always) post several weeks ago, here’s why rapid e-learning is so darn cool, ...

I've been browsing the recent publication from the eLearning Guild - a compilation of the best articles from the Learning Solutions e-magazine from the past five years (Pfeiffer, 2008). Obviously I was pleased to see an article of mine in there on the ways that blended learning can be designed to bridge the gap from formal to informal learning, but you can ... no theme here - other than e-learning of course - so you jump from The XML e-Learning Revolution to High Attrition Rates in e-Learning: Challenges, Predictors and Solutions. There are plenty of interesting ideas in here to chew on, ...

As I read the blog I'd like to post a few updates on our research and predictions for e-learning in 2008.1. Social Networking is hitting the corporate scene, driving tremendous demand for informal learning, or what we call "learning on ... . E-Learning, as defined, is not as successful as one may believe. I have to say, I started working in e-learning ... -learning grows each year, and now we consider searchable content, audio, video, and web 2.0 interactions as "standard ... ).We just surveyed 800+ worldwide training directors and CLOs and found that 83% feel they have a significant or ...

As I read the blog I'd like to post a few updates on our research and predictions for e-learning in 2008.1. Social Networking is hitting the corporate scene, driving tremendous demand for informal learning, or what we call "learning on ... . E-Learning, as defined, is not as successful as one may believe. I have to say, I started working in e-learning ... -learning grows each year, and now we consider searchable content, audio, video, and web 2.0 interactions as "standard ... ).We just surveyed 800+ worldwide training directors and CLOs and found that 83% feel they have a significant or ...

I've been dipping on and off into Patti Shank's new book The Online Learning Idea Book, which claims to contain '95 proven ways to enhance technology-based and blended learning'. On the basis that I had 95 chances to find something new to ... ideas which I rated with four stars or more:Learning agreements (submitted by Melane McCuller): a process which allows ... choose, they commit to this way of working by completing an online Learning Agreement form. McCuller reports that 'those who choose one of the optional plans seem to be more actively involved in their own learning process'. This ...

Increments: Customers want to purchase training in smaller increments to minimize time away for learning. This causes ... eLearning Blog PowerPoint vs. interactive learning Harold Jarche Harold Jarche LCB ... Like many industries today, there are significant changes going on for Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and Off-the-Shelf ... making their situations increasingly difficult:On Demand: Customers want to have both up-front training and on-demand ... up, while price points do not. Vendor prices are not likely to increase as additional training options continue ...

... seems to be that we'll use e-learning where we have to (typically for compliance training), or where classroom training is ... By and large, the figures coming out of industry surveys in recent times have been kind to e-learning. There's more of ... , I rather supposed that this was a sign that the quality of e-learning was improving and that e-learners were more likely ... in the company of trainers and learners from outside the e-learning community, I hear the same old complaints: boring ... at all for the sort of interactive self-study materials that constitute most of what passes for e-learning ...

Synchronous learning events provide the same sort of structure as classroom training (e.g. meet at a certain place at a ... time. Also, it can be blended with other approaches to minimize the amount of in-person training required, and/or to ... For the longest time I used to resist online synchronous learning. I'm not sure where this negative attitude to real ... education. I suppose I had a bias for asynchronous web-based learning because it freed learners from the twin constraints ... learning events was very near impossible. Also, years back, synchronous web conferencing software was not exactly ...

Based on some discussions around What is Rapid eLearning? and Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference ... robust, complex learning solutions. Many learning applications do not require more powerful tools, thus, the Reference Hybrids that I discussed previously is a blend of low-cost solutions with point solutions when higher power is needed.I ... come through search, I thought I'd include the text here so it can be found: Custom Coding, Flash, DHTMLRapid eLearning, PowerPoint + Audio + Interactions, Form-based Authoring (LCMS), Interactive PowerPoint, Simple HTML, Dreamweaver, ...