• 7 Tips for Better E-Learning Scenarios | The Rapid E-Learning Blog

“A scenario can put the course content into a context that is relevant to the learners because they can use the information in a real world setting. Even if you don’t create a pull-type course, scenarios are still effective in helping your learners.                     

As always the challenge for many instructional designers is that as you have to work with time and resource constraints. Many times it’s just a lot easier to build an information-based course than it is to build a scenario. Scenarios can take more time to develop and not everyone is a Hollywood scriptwriter (not that it means anything considering most of the movies that are released nowadays).”
(tags: eLearning Learning Technology RapideLearning Scenario Quality Push Pull)

• OLPC Peru: Teacher’s Technology Talk on XO Laptop | OLPC News

“While I don’t understand their Spanish, I’ve enjoyed watching Rocío Flores and Hernán Pachas discuss One Laptop Per Child in Peru on “Teacher’s Technology Talk”. At least check out their fancy threads…”

(tags: OLPC Peru Technology XO Laptop)

• Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu | Ars Technica

   

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, Canonical has unveiled a prototype Android execution environment that will allow Android applications to run on the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

(tags: Linux Ubuntu Developer Canonical Android Google)

• 25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009 | eLearning Weekly

Jane Hart recently published the Top 25 Tools for Learning Professionals. This list was compiled by surveying learning professionals from around the world, and a majority of the tools listed are free!           

Check out the slides for an overview of the tools, and be sure to visit Jane’s site for more great information.

(tags: eLearning Tools SocialLearning MicroBlogging MindMapping RSS Wiki InstantMessaging Email Video Authoring Courseware Management Screencasting Presentation Audio Podcasting SocialMedia)

• The Distance Ed Tipping Point | Inside Higher Ed

But what about after distance education takes off? At what point does the question shift from what a college does to offer quality online programs to how a college needs to change in its entirety when it reaches a tipping point in enrollments — and at what point does such a change take place?

(tags: DistanceLearning eLearning HigherEducation Quality Faculty Technology)

• Should learning organizations make a financial investment in new forms of learning? | eLearning Technology

“Before you start shutting down training departments, hiring Chief Learning Officers, and coining an umbrella term for different learning methods, you need to establish what you are actually talking about and why it is preferred over other methods. And you need to back this up with some empirical data.”

(tags: TonyKarrer eLearning Investment Learning FormalLearning InformalLearning SocialLearning CollaborativeLearning PersonalLearning)

• Use Twitter in PowerPoint | Poll Everywhere

Your audience is tweeting
How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides. With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in real-time, while still blocking inappropriate or off-topic tweets. You can also ask multiple choice questions and watch a graph evolve as people vote.

(tags: PowerPoint Twitter eLearning)

• The Semantic Web and E-learning | eLearn Magazine

“The goal of the Semantic Web is to provide the capacity for computers to understand Web content that exists on systems and servers across the Internet, ultimately adding value to the content and opening rich new data, information, and knowledge frontiers. Billions of Web pages are downloaded daily and are easily understood by humans. The knowledge gap exists for computers as these pages are only structured in the hypertext markup language (HTML) formatting language. When applied to the realm of e-learning, be it content interactions or learner management, the potential to add value is almost limitless.”

(tags: eLearning Semantic Web HTML RDF OWL XML LMS)

• 2009 E-Learning Awards | Hosted by e-Learning Age

Submit your entries now…

“…there are 15 categories to choose from so there’s bound to be one to suit you. We’ve split the extremely popular ‘Excellence in the production of learning content’ category into three sections and there’s a new mobile category too – even more chances to win!”

(tags: eLearning Awards)

• Back to the Future: Distance Learning, Correspondence … | eLearn Magazine

“Converge Magazine reported that the World Future Society predicted that one of the ten breakthrough technologies that “will transform life as we currently know it” is distance education. I was amused because (1) it has already transformed so many people’s lives and (2) most people no longer call it “distance education”.”

(tags: eLearning DistanceLearning Education)

• Best Practices: Evolution of a Video-Learning Object Format | eLearn Magazine

“In a previous article for eLearn Magazine I emphasized the value of creating an identifiable format for video-learning objects. Developing such a format requires an investment of time and creativity, yet the return-on-investment is significant as it allows a producer to “paint by numbers” when generating new episodes. In addition, viewers (or learners) know what to expect from each video-learning object-of key importance with video objects because they can’t be perused in a glance. Learners are asked to blindly invest their time and attention in viewing a video-learning object and should be rewarded with a consistent, concise, and engaging video.”

(tags: eLearning Video RTM)