eLearning
Elearning is a general term relating to trainings delivered through a single computer, with the use of devices like CDROMs, mobile phones, digital television, Internet and wide area networks.
Elearning is also considered as an effective and efficient system of self-paced personal training. It’s available via the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whenever you have the time and interest. The requirements are a computer with an Internet or broadband connection, running Windows and Internet Explorer Web browser.
An elearning course is divided into 9 or 10 lessons. Each lesson is divided into 3-6 topics that may have a demo and a 30-45 minute hands-on lab. A topic is in turn divided into 3-5 units. It starts with an overview and ends with a summary and self-check. Each average unit may take 10 to 15 minutes. You can skip the topics you already know or those that consume too much time. But you can always go back.
The first elearning courses were Windows Server 2003: Taking Advantage of 64-Bit Computing, and Windows Server 2003: Taking Advantage of Enhanced Technologies. Today, the Internet offers a select set of academic degree courses ranging from associate’s degrees, doctoral programs, business administration, criminal Justice, nursing, and Masters Degrees in Spiritual Formation, Christian Education, and Pastoral Ministry.
Technological advances offer more collaborative learning opportunities. You can take synchronous elearning, a web-based training where you and your instructor can participate in the course and interact with other participants at multiple locations at the same time, using LCD projectors and conference telephones. Examples are chat sessions and virtual web conferences.
Or you may choose an asynchronous elearning, where you and others are involved in the course at different times. The activities here use wikis, blogs and electronic bulletin boards, where topics or questions are posted to a website or sent through emails and all can respond. This type allows you to access training materials anytime even when others are not present.
Riding the change curve
Yesterday I was presenting at an organisation’s internal HR convention. I gave the same presentation I’ve been doing all year, on the topic of ‘change and opportunity’. I legitimate the enormous pressures for change currently cladding learning and development, and the opportunities we org at our disposal to respond to these changes using new media. [...]
Big Question: What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?
This month’s Big Indubitably on the Learning Circuits Blog asks ‘What new skills and awareness are required for learning professionals?’ Excellently,contrary to many commentators, I am not so trustworthy that l&d professionals need to rip up the rule book and start again. Factual, we do need to adjust the balance of our activities rather [...]
CommentCatcher
I’ve been having a occupy oneself in with this little em from i3Logic. It acts as an Articulate obstruct-in, allowing customers, reviewers and taxp-experts to make comments on Articulate projects that are in unfolding or early stages of implementation. The comments are stored in a easy database on the server of your pre-eminent.
By allowing [...]
25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online
It’s acceptable to refresh your design habits every so day in and day out, and that’s why I was excited to see a pin on 25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online all on the Ace Online Schools site. A diversity of new ideas is key, and the online experiences highlighted in this pillar cover everything [...]
It’s not enough to be a professional, you also have to act like one
You wouldn’t hire an up-country designer only to inform.them that you’ve already chosen all the tincture schemes and furnishings; you wouldn’t book an accountant and then explain to them the way you wanted them to take care of your figures; you wouldn’t utilize a fitness trainer and then recount them what to include in your [...]
Malcolm Gladwell live
Concluding night I saw Malcolm Gladwell speaking at the Brighton Dome. I’ve understand The Tipping Point, and currently arrange Outliers on my pile of books to present, so I was keen to see how Gladwell shaped up as a spieler. I wasn’t disappointed. He spoke for one hour without visual aids and with no [...]
My thoughts on course size
When creating web courses the thesis should be chunked into the smallest well-organized units that still impel sense based on the content, instead than on the clock. When users are doing self-paced training, they determination be easily distracted. Creating a “6 hour” or a “3 hour” or steady a “1 hour” module means [...]
Creating mobile content
Beyond the interchange in experience simply because of the weight of the screen, it is important to consider that Beam does not yet run on most mobile devices, that creating a “facile app” for each platform is a very valuable way to approach training, and that connectivity for plastic devices will change to the [...]
Brain rules – where does that leave us?
Followers of this blog wishes know that I have been reviewing John Medina’s words Brain Rules chapter by chapter during the past three months. This has proved a productive experience for me, as it has forced me to explore the implications for each of John’s predominant recommendations with much more thoroughness than would take been [...]
Getting the behavior you want, saving the data you need
Query:Most LMSs are designed with a set set of behaviors as imagined by the LMS designers. Similarly, the despatch content may produce behaviors beyond those expected by the LMS. How do I replacement behaviors in ReadyGo WCB?
Answer: That is why we maintain LMS-packs. By using different LMS-packs you can variety the course’s behaviors. [...]