... 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 ... changing learning creating The politics of quality Tony Karrer eLearning Tech Big Question for January - Quality ... Shepherd Clive on Learning The big question for January: quality v speed Howard Cronin e-Training in the ...

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 ...

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 ... . However, the occasions on which these are needed are not that frequent and, even then, the use of e-learning must ...

... 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 about the user experience? Above all, what are the learning outcomes? At what point do lowered standards become the ... has always been: Is the person able to perform? Force marching someone through something that is high quality ...

Quality and Online Learning Just a quick link to a collection of “standards ... left me reinvigorated to the ideal of developing useful and effective standards for evaluating quality e-learning ... GFDL and Wikipedia Relicensing Quality and Online Learning It doesn’t matter who gets the ... enrollment applications! Recent Comments Jon Mott on Quality and Online Learning Jared Stein on Quality and Online Learning Jared Stein on Quality and Online Learning Darren Draper on Quality ...

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 ... when its really worth it to spend dollars on what we might consider a higher quality solution than providing something ... we face all the time. We are pretty sure that people will learn less from a rapid eLearning piece that's basically ...

Knowledgebase   eMM Blog E-Learning Maturity Model Workshop: Example Documents Describing e-Learning Quality The following documents were used to define the ... useful when considering what defines e-learning quality: QUT«s Teaching Capabilties Framework http ... ; You are here:  Home  >  Research  > E-Learning Maturity Model   ... Gamson, Z.F. (1986) http://www.tltgroup.org/seven/home.htm Quality on the Line Benchmarks ...

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... provides me the opportunity to see the high quality work these organizations produce. One of the NSF funded organizations, Wisc-Online has created a large database of online, multimedia learning objects on dozens of topics. There are even ... (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment. These objects ... learning objects cover topics such as: Math Science Health General Education Technical Subjects (HVAC, Plastics, Welding, Forklift Safety) Business Subjects (Quality, Accounting, Business Law) And many, many more You can ...

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 ... workshop. It has been great to see Plan able to deliver a top-quality management development programme at minimal ...

... strength, co-ordination, responsiveness, speed and balance - qualities that could be applied successfully to e-content ... right tools for each job. Quality and speed are not absolutes - you need the right speed and the right production values ... to make the point: "It's not the fastest of the e-learning that survives, not the flashiest, but the ...

I'm in the middle of designing and developing a new blended learning course on the whole subject of embedded learning ... new fangled rapid e-learning tools that everyone's talking about (I know, I'm a little slow on the uptake!). Well anyway ... for). I don't believe I've sacrificed on quality. No piece of material took more than a few hours. I've been able to ... recommend this particular tool to develop long pieces of self-study learning, I don't believe there are many circumstances in which I would recommend anyone to do that anymore anyway. So call me a rapid e-learning convert.

... going to expect fantastic quality. The higher end will show that e-learning at its best can be highly engaging and make ... Two discussions this week, one with rapid e-learning specialist Kineo 's Steve Rayson and the other with virtual world developer Caspian 's Graeme Duncan, has crystallised for me how the bespoke/custom e-learning market in the UK is ... from a few hours to a few weeks, and the cost is likely to be well under $10K. The higher tier is e-learning that ... and attention of professionals, typically working as teams of specialists. You would expect e-learning content at ...

I only got to attend two sessions when I was at DevLearn in San Jose and both happened to be about m-learning. Now I ... article called M is for Maybe , which expressed my reservations about the whole idea of mobile learning. Now no-one doubts the usefulness and the pervasiveness of cell phones, Blackberries, iPods and PDAs, but to view these as serious learning ... -learning is ever going to happen, now is the time. So what will be the killer app? I'm now convinced it's media ... but whose opinion on what worked in m-learning I do remember - she said quite simply 'media, media and more media.' ...

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.

... principles apply as much to e-learning as they do to automobiles, restaurants or plastic surgeons. How so? Well, while chairing a track at Learning Technologies 2008 last week, I found myself at odds with one of the speakers who, although a fervent supporter of the concept of rapid e-learning, would not countenance the idea that any Tom, Dick or Harry 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 ...

... making this about the tool (PowerPoint + audio) when he should be talking about the method and the quality of ... -learning reduce knowledge retention? I turn to Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard Mayer’s book “eLearning and the Science of Instruction.” Clark and Mayer found that “ people learn more deeply from multimedia lessons when ... use of multimedia in e-learning. My own experience - once you have been exposed to proper use of multimedia in ...

... provided an excellent example of this process. He discussed a study looking at the differences between online learning vs. classroom learning. He had a very technophobic audience (teachers). To mitigate their hesitancy with the ... pictures. Week 3 - add images. Each week, he encouraged people to learn something new. He also made interaction ... used the technology and the quality of the content. They emphasized that they did not care about the appearance. The ... don't need to build fancy. In the mobile learning session I attended - A.J. Ripin, the presenter, noted that text ...

Table from Zhang,D., Zhao, J.l., Zhou, L., and Nunamaker Jr., J.F. Can e-learning replace classroom learning ... reaction I get every day when I talk about my plans for online training. My personal learning preferences mirror Mr ... the classroom model continues to hold such sway, even when it is not the best solution for learning a particular topic ... "teacher" in front of the room telling them what to think / do. It doesn't seem like "real learning" if it's not. Over the ... hoping this is a harbinger of at least some change in the expectation of what "learning" looks like.

... developers, etc.). 1. Application Service Providers offer more quick start options 2. Companies integrate e-learning into their infrastructure 3. Churning skill sets require e-learning initiative 4. E-learning cuts the cost of high quality ... I stumbled across another "top ten learning trends" list today, and I got to thinking, "it seems like everyone has a ... Trends for Organizational Learning . 1. Google 2. Blogs 3. Wiki's 4. Open Source 5. IM/VOIP 6. Ambient ... . Growing training budgets 11. More decentralized college programs I think this list from World Wide Learn could ...

Image via Flickr.com : tymesynk WHY #4 : Social Learning Distributes Ownership. Think of a water ... organizational learning where someone or organization or department owns the learning and its delivery and content.  Here, in the ... have seen too many people get upset about that. But with social learning, if I put out information and it is changed by ... are willing to contribute, the better.  More views/perspectives and the more we can all learn. If we combine this ... .  It isn't the same here. After I implemented my first social learning environment I did some ethnographic research ...

Several Web 2.0 entities (YouTube, Facebook, Howcast, Google) plus some academics and the Department of State will be gathering next week to kickoff the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit . The goal is to find ways to use media to counter the messages of violence, extremism, and oppression. It will be very interesting to track the progress of this movement on the "areas of interest". There is a lot of potential to make some serious changes in the quality of the message being delivered to young people in different countries.

What a fantastic speech of Sugata Mitra on education of children in an informal environment!! I will link to the broadcast soon (the video quality is soso, but the message is really worth the effort). Sugata Mitra spoke about ... the children were only speaking Tamil. After three months the children had learned biotechnology ideas and had taken in a lot of the english words of the course. So Sugata Mitra concluded that any child can learn as long as it is left to ... learn whatever content. Now that is something impressive!!!! I will read up on Sugata Mitra. He managed to change ...

... across two separate blogs addressing the issue of research and evidence-based learning. The first was Dr. Karl Kapp's post on the Value of Research , and second was Dr. Will Thalheimer's post on Evidence-Based Learning . I strongly ... establish facts or principles. Evaluation is to judge or determine the worth or quality of something (or to appraise it). The importance of research, evaluation, and evidence-based learning will never go away in this lifetime (that is, there ... learning needs"). As new colleagues, technologies, research tactics, techniques, and strategies enter the field, ...

Today, I’m reviewing SlideRocket , an online presentation tool.  My review is mixed. Let’s start with the good points. It’s free.  You can purchase individual or business accounts with more functionality, but the free account is fine for most uses. The image quality is superb. The user interface is fairly self ... your own learning journeys.  However, the drawbacks are serious enough to keep me from wholeheartedly recommending it at ... was your experience?    Tagged: elearning, free, learning, resources, tool, ...

... critiquing every last play? In my previous post on the "quality" of training that I'm subjected to, there is an interesting revelation to be found. Note that I did not go into an all out bashing of the learning curriculum like I have seen so many other learning folks do. I've seen so many colleagues that could not get past the lack of ________ (objectives, instructional strategies, interaction, feedback, and the list goes on). It makes me wonder if sometimes we as learning people are so caught up finding the negative things wrong with training, that we actually learn less than the ...

... elearnspace points to this wonderful video . 5 mins that will, once and for all, help you understand what's going on with the web. If you are into this stuff new web stuff already, then watch this video for the amazing storytelling quality sans voiceover. That's right an amazingly complete overview of a very complex technical topic all done without narration. You can read O'reilly's Take on Web2.0 or you can be mesmerized by this video . Is there anything in our ... tutorials...damn good ones...and people are learning! (Great tutorials using ComicLife here , here , here ) How ...

... it comes to connectng people to content. However, as a learning resource, it falls quite short. Fundamentally the quality ... . -- Breaking News! Google is doing all kinds of interesting stuff, much of which will have an impact on learning. One of their ... host your content and make it searchable online for free. Sounds like a potential learning object repository to me ... ironically today's search engines are almost too good - there is simply too much content available now. To me learning is always made up of content AND collaboration. I learn more from reading a book and discussing it than just ...

Resources    Site Map    Contact Us Home > Courses > E-learning Model The Concord Consortium e-Learning Model for Online Courses (Abridged Version) Printable version of the full Concord Consortium e-Learning Model for Online Courses (287 K, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader ) The following nine key characteristics define The Concord Consortiums approach to delivering quality e-Learning. Asynchronous ... and 25 participants in a class to keep collaborative learning manageable. High-quality materials. Course ...

The latest Big Question for the Learning Circuits Blog is: For a given project, how do you determine if, when and how much an instructional designer and instructional design is needed? I think the really obvious answer to this ... . All that said...the answer to the "when" question should be "early"...even for the initial analysis because a quality ... implications in a game based environment. In 2001, Marc Prensky wrote a popular book " Digital Game Based Learning " where he ... that process (actually a Thiagi quote from Training magazine in April 2000). and Designing effective learning does not, ...