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In this article, the use of student mobile learning technologies is discussed. The author then goes on to examine how he, as a college instructor, needs to implement better mobile learning interactions in his math classes. By connecting to the current literature on mobile learning, the author has tried to show how the development and implementation of mobile learning should occur. It is the authors hope that this article will motivate other college instructors to implement mobile learning interactions in their courses.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Mobile Learning
In Part 3 of 4 in his series on learning communities, eLearn contributor Nic Laycock discusses how to get started in building an online community by having a clear purpose and having all your ducks in a row at launch.
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TAGS: Social Learning
Video is steadily gaining popularity as a valuable design tool for visually demonstrating soft skills in eLearning courses. But people tend to shy away from them because of misconceptions of high productions costs or the draw on resources. This article provides five tips on when to use video, how to maximize its effectiveness, and how to keep costs reasonable. The article focuses more specifically on using video for behavioral modeling of soft skills, keeping video length short and sweet, generating interactivity with video, considerations for resources and budget, and notes on self-production.
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TAGS: Design and Development, News and Trends
In the words of acclaimed author, Thomas Freidman, our world has gone flat. The workforce has gone global galvanizing international competition. The billion dollar question is Do our students have the skills to succeed and excel in this 21st century market? According to an exhaustive 2006 study conducted by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management, the answer is a grim no. The next question should be "How do we rectify this?" The potential solutions are to redefine, reinvent, and rebuild our schools to mirror 21st century exigencies.
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TAGS: News and Trends, Program Evaluation
Abigail Wheeler talks us through the project management required to develop creative eLearning while remembering the importance of developing yourself along the way.
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TAGS: Assessment, Needs Analysis, Program Evaluation
Craig Wiggins prioritizes paper and pencil over authoring tools and talks to eLearn Magazine about storyboarding as the essential for all designers.
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TAGS: Design and Development
Immersive environments, such as Multi-User Virtual Environments and virtual worlds, are increasingly being prototyped, explored and assessed as tools to help students master content, domain-specific thinking skills, and general problem-solving ad decision making skills. This article suggests that immersive environments may hold the same learning potential for teachers as for students.This article explores a few of these programs while outlining strengths and weaknesses of immersive environments as professional development mechanisms. It argues for more comprehensive examinations of immersive environments for teachers' professional learning.
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TAGS: Games and Simulations, Social Learning, Theories and Principles
As our use of technology becomes more social, the amount of information shared and distributed has exploded. Understanding how to organize and manage our online experience will be the work of computers not humans. This is the idea behind the semantic Web. In his latest article for eLearn Magazine, Reuben Tozman explores learning in the dawning age of the semantic Web.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, News and Trends, Theories and Principles
The ISD graduate program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is well established in educating training and development professionals. Six graduate students who recently experienced an informal learning course reflect on their transformational learning experience: tweeting, blogging, reading, sharing, and growing personal learning networks. Here's their story, along with a number of tips and tricks for using various Web-based tools to help to discover, create, organize, and share.
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TAGS: News and Trends, Program Evaluation, Social Learning
In Part 2 of 4 in his series on learning communities, eLearn contributor Nic Laycock discusses what distinguishes a community from a network.
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TAGS: Social Learning
The need to stay up-to-date is becoming ever more important. Sole reliance on traditional forms of education and training, which are orchestrated by others, means a lot of informal learning and practical experience goes unnoticed and unrewarded. To overcome this more and more people are using eportfolios as personal, online learning spaces to capture experiences and earn recognition or credit toward a qualification; gain employment, a promotion or industry accreditation; or simply achieve their personal/professional learning goals.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Mobile Learning
"Only 20 percent of performance issues are rooted in the individual versus the system (or environment)." You may have lost count of the many times this well-known phrase has been repeated. It's popular, but is it true? And more importantly from whence did it come?
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Theories and Principles
A curator takes objects and creates a meaningful experience by organizing them within a useful context. This model is a blueprint for the future of learning, where the role of the learning professional is to enable meaningful consumption of information.This to do list is your guide to start implementing curation in your organization, with recommendations for creating, collecting and sharing-and building a culture of open conversation.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Social Learning
In this first in a series on learning communities, eLearn contributor Nic Laycock defines what makes a community and discusses the importance of online communities for learning and development.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Social Learning
Is it possible to hold a conversation with thousands of voices? Multinational firm Deloitte uses Yammer to strip away distance, hierarchy, and service line divisions to enable real-time knowledge sharing among its employees. Simon Townsend was there from the start and watched the micro-blogging tool grow from a small virtual water cooler to a global network of more than 180,000 users.
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TAGS: News and Trends, Social Learning
In the past five years, online learning has augmented significantly. However, the question is, with this increased proliferation in its popularity, has online learning been authentically preparing students for 21st century skills? According to a myriad of statistics and studies, the dismal response is no. Recognizing the mounting interest in online education and whether or not schools are genuinely equipping and priming students for 21st century skills, this article suggests five strategies to not only improve the online learning experience, but to integrate and polish students for the 21st century with skills requisite to capitalize upon for global success.
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Program Evaluation
Edupunk refers to a style of teaching and learning that's part of a storm of disruption invading higher education.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Lifelong Learning, News and Trends
A learning style is supposedly a mode of learning that is most effective for an individual. It supposedly helps to improve learning results. Why does this myth persist? Twenty-five years of research on this and related themes have not provided any form of conclusive evidence that matching the form of instruction to learning style improved learning or even attention.
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Theories and Principles
Although we hear many expressions of enthusiasm for mobile learning and support, there isn't a lot of documented activity, not yet. This article describes possibilities and focuses on figuring out why it is not yet happening. What gets in the way of the use of mobile devices for learning, support, and community?
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TAGS: Mobile Learning
You should be thinking about presenting at a conference, but you need several things: an appropriate topic for the audience, a good presentation, and a compelling description to send to the conference organizers. In this article, consultant and semi-professional conference presenter Clark Quinn covers knowing your audience, knowing what makes an engaging session, and knowing what organizers are looking for.
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TAGS: Lifelong Learning, Social Learning
The purpose of the article is to present first-hand experience of developing distance delivery courses, including technical and course development considerations. The article provides practical considerations into the use of distance delivery tools for combining the live classroom experience and includes challenges and lessons learned.
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TAGS: Blended Learning, Delivery Technology, Learning Platforms
Whether you design classroom training, eLearning, m-learning, or work with another medium entirely, storytelling is a learning tool that possesses the power to motivate, persuade, educate, and even entertain. This article explains how the value of storytelling is supported by adult learning theory, outlines the elements to include when writing a story, and suggests specific methods for incorporating stories into eLearning lessons.
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TAGS: Program Evaluation, Social Learning, Theories and Principles
The Internet has moved from one-way, static pages to two way, real-time streams. One of the easiest ways to evolve with this digital shift is to have a mental model or metaphor that helps you make better sense of this new online world. Learnstreaming is framework for helping you and others make better sense of today's online world.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, News and Trends, Social Learning
Is gamification just another empty buzzword, or can the principles that game designers employ to engage players really be applied to the design of eLearning software? What exactly is gamification? And, can the theories of gamification be applied to a variety of projects regardless of scope and budget? This article will address specific ways that game mechanics can be applied to your eLearning projects.
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TAGS: Games and Simulations, News and Trends, Theories and Principles
Today's era is one of pervasive technology. Encompassing laptops and smart phones to wikis and blogs, the digital environment makes communication, collaboration and information sharing easier than ever imagined. As a result, the world of higher education has been revolutionized by the digital age.
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TAGS: Assessment, Blended Learning, News and Trends, Program Evaluation
The art of storyboarding is simply a matter of style and letting go of the rules. Whether your style is textual, visual, or both it's an integral part of the eLearning design process.
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TAGS: Design and Development
As we become increasingly connected via social media, the amount of information available to us is mounting. How can we manage it all? Aggregating, filtering, and curating are all approaches to consider. Content curation can include a wide range of sources such as professional associations, publications, and vendors and there are techniques and applications to help with the process. Social networks also play a role, offering more than just member profiles.
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TAGS: Social Learning
Social media not only creates a link to a like-minded community, but is also a useful tool for knowledge sharing. Unlike note passing in the classroom, the background chatter of Twitter can provide a wealth of information to learners separated by distance and time.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Mobile Learning, Social Learning
In this excerpt from "Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition," Dr. Itiel Dror explores how to make eLearning more brain friendly and effective.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Theories and Principles
Online scheduling can be a valuable solution in education, if you are an educator your time is in short supply. Teachers can benefit from tools and practices that save them time and make them more efficient. While students have been proactive in figuring out how they can make Doodle work to their advantage.
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TAGS: News and Trends
Presented are 11 issues that indicators of necessary course design. The Absence of one or more indicators in an online class can create difficulty for students and, in turn, cause learning to suffer. The result is an unsuccessful online learning experience.
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TAGS: Design and Development, Program Evaluation
Good design doesn't mean over accessorizing. Part two explores how to add graphics that enhance, not distract from the learning experience; incorporate interactive elements that are useful; and find that "inner bling."
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TAGS: Design and Development
Bling makes it easy to overlook a poorly designed elearning solution. How do you create long lasting, intriguing programs that are visually pleasing without sacrificing the needs of learners? In part one of a two-part series on clicky-click bling-bling, learn how to create good design while avoiding the "seductive-details effect."
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TAGS: Design and Development
In 2008 Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) was awarded a grant from the Department of Education to develop and improve distance learning at the college. Tri-C's senior instructional designer offers lessons on how to survive and thrive in a committee-driven course creation environment.
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TAGS: Design and Development
To encourage the use of technology in the classroom, an equipment lending program was initiated within the Faculty Technology Resources Center at the University of Cincinnati. Faculty were asked to evaluate the utility of various tablet computers.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Mobile Learning, News and Trends
Making the decision to use an outside vendor to meet your e-learning needs is never an easy task. But before you tie your project to a service provider, a careful analysis should be done. No two projects are alike, your needs will vary. Are you lacking expertise that an outside vendor could provide? Maybe you have the skills, but don't have the time to dedicate to the project. Whatever the case, having a clear sense of your e-learning needs will result in a more successful outsourcing experience.
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TAGS: Needs Analysis
Presented herein is a simple and pragmatic framework for primarily analyzing and evaluating the design quality of a learning game. The framework focuses on the characteristics of learning games compared to computer games, in general, to find the key parameters to analyze. The key variables in the framework are integration, focus and motivation.
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TAGS: Games and Simulations
In less than a year since its debut the popularity of the iPad has not waned. In fact mobile devices are predicted to replace traditional PCs. At the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa, instructors were certain that incorporating mobile computing into the examination environment would benefit not only the university, but students as well. Read more about their experience in moving from paper to paperless exams to evaluate second year medical students.
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TAGS: Mobile Learning, Program Evaluation
Academic institutions understand the importance of cutting edge, comprehensive course offerings; and having a robust LMS makes all the difference in attracting and retaining students. Creating an LMS strategy is not only about picking the right vendor; institutions must also do their due diligence when it comes to updating or replacing their systems.
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TAGS: Learning Platforms
At the start of each year, eLearn Magazine's editors, advisory board members, and other contributors predict what changes are afoot for the coming 12 months. Here are our predictions for 2011.
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TAGS: News and Trends