7 fails in elearning and 7 solutions
Editor’s note: A thought-provoking talk from Donald Clark – the video is around 50m and throughout Clark provides some challenging reflections and ideas.
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What price MOOCs?
Editor’s note: Time to get your head around MOOCs – massive open online courses – says Donald Taylor. They will become a part of the learning mix and L&D professionals will need to know about how they work and their commercial models.
8 tips for elearning success from the RNLI
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution scooped the Charity Learning Award 2012 for Best Overall Online…
Can text messages (SMS) support learning?
Editor’s note: A look at research that shows text messaging can be an effective way of motivating learners.
Models, Theories and Personality Tools
Editor’s note: Reflections on learning theories and models by Sukh Pabial. Do we learn more in life than we do from our theories and models?
The eLearning Guild: conference videos
Editor’s note: Videos from DevLearn2012 are now available, but you have to be an Elearning Guild member to access them.
Twitter users can download their entire archive by year-end; now sees 1bn tweets every 2.5 days
Editor’s note: It took three years, two months and one day for the first billion tweets to be sent on Twitter. it now takes two and a half days. Not only is this a reflection of how technology is changing but it also serves as a reminder of the exponential rise in data on the web. Clearly, maligning sense of the data is a huge challenge – something the new Twitter archive might be able to help with.
Are you the learning architect or the learning builder?
Editor’s note: Jonathan Vernon pulls apart the idea of the learning architect. Can L&D be the architects or are they the builders?
Parabolic learning
Editor’s note: Steve Wheeler shares what happened when he threw an idea into his class . . . the result is still work in progress but it involves finding, sharing and curating content and shows where just a germ of an idea can take you (both the teacher and the student).
Manage data with organisational structure
Editor’s note: How can organisations reap the rewards of the data they produce. A federated approach involving departmental data groups could be the answer . . .
Experiments in social learning
Editor’s note: Dave Briggs shares how he developed a more social approach to learning by creating some simple sites to help support a face to face event. A simple and effective approach. Thanks to Shirley Ayres for sharing.
Khan Academy releases new app for iPhone and iPod Touch
Editor’s note: Khan Academy has added to it’s iPad app with an iPhone and iPod app – providing access (bot not interactivity) with its thousands of videos.
Storify: Engage for Success event 26 November 2012
Editor’s note: Rachel Miller’s Storify from yesterday’s Engage for Success event in London. If you haven’t seen Engage for Success then check out their site, which provides lots of tools around employee engagement.
Easy as ABC
Editor’s note: Should we – and can we – measure informal learning? Andrew Jacobs opens up the debate and lots of people have commented.
Emotion based teaching meets artificial intelligence
Editor’s note: SMARTeacher has figured out how to use galvanic skin response (GSR) technology to map students’ emotions. Using a GSR sensor embedded into a wristwatch like device, the company is able to consistently monitor student engagement levels while the device is worn.