ASTD’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” This month it’s: I’m ... ; other coding (w3schools is good) Visit the Learning Circuits blog and find others’ suggestions on this question ... step for me - working at home, etc. started a personal e-learning blog, joined the edublog community. Realized I was ... 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, ...

... 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 ...

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 ... , including learner blogs, managed using Moodle. A three-day, face-to-face, skill-building workshop. It has been great ...

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 ... prefer a more informal, self-directed approach, start reading books, blogs and magazines and attending conferences. Most ... recommend joining the main e-learning associations, i.e. eLearning Guild, wherever you are in the world, as well as ...

... 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 student but it also provides students access to a data network on some telephones. For example, Iâ¬"m writing this blog ... 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 ...

... diversity. tags: connectivism, cck08, networks, learning, assessment, diversity Those of you who’ve taken ... that are scrupulously fair, particularly distance learning where we outline the objectives the performance metrics and ... personal home pages or these days, blogs. I should add to this slide MySpace profiles and things like that, your ...

... iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard A short post, but very pointed–if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems. tags: facebook, education, e-learning, lms, blackboard, openaccess shut down all the groups you belonged to, deleted all your forum posts, removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and forgot who your friends were. What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? Imagine if every fifteen weeks ...

My list of 100+ learning professionals to follow on Twitter has caused a bit of activity this week.  Thousands of ... list. However, there has also been a bit of discussion on some blogs about the value of the exchanges or conversations ... much closer to them than they do by reading their blogs, and the fact that they are also able to interact with them on a much more immediate and personal level (than commenting on blogs allows) is very important  to them.  What is more ... rather impersonal bloggers. {Cammy Bean sums it up well in her blog posting, as does Tracy Hamilton]And that's the ...

Brandon Hall Research is the type of company where you own your ideas. That means when you have an idea, it’s your to implement. I seem to have settled in to all things ’social media’ after embracing social networks, blogging, microblogging, wikis, and presence technologies. As a result, I ended up not getting enough 2.0 action myself but rather working with other people to establish their own blogs, wikis, Twitter accounts, social networks, and wikis, etc ... Murphy, Innovations in Learning Recap (favorite quote: “freakin’ sweet!”) ...

The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World. The list of authors represents a blogging who's who, with contributions from Jane Hart, Tony Karrer, Michele Martin, Mark Oehlert ... authors define Learning 2.0 as 'the idea of learning through digital connections and peer collaboration enhanced by technologies driven by Web 2.0,' which seems reasonable. I've picked out a few highlights from my perspective: Learning 2.0 can play an important role in supporting formal learning in terms of active support and follow-through. Learning ...

... learning professionals putting together learning platforms. For example, the people today were really hot about live help as ... . Likewise, shouldn’t live help be a component of any important in-house learning event? For as long as I can remember ... other people’s profiles, to look for people, to listen to music, or to write a blog post. Here’s the good news for learning professionals: people go to social sites to commune with others; that’s the vehicle for most learning in organizations. So much for another day at the office.