Tools of e-learning

I noticed this post from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies [CL4PT] on ten key tools for learning. There’s a very clear triangle forming of course/ content “authorware” [eg, screenr or prezi], collaboration tools [eg, etherpad or dimdim] and individual tools [eg, evernote or arguable posterour].
This highlighted a question would be how these might [...]

informality 2.0

A very interesting post from Dan Pontefract on the integration of corporate learning and development and enterprise 2.0 in to learnerprise 2.0. Obviously, the concept needs further development but makes a useful point that too much L&D provision is focused on formalised learning and this is exacerbated in the context of much e-learning which relies [...]

Edgeless everything

The UK think tank Demos has recently published a report on the state of higher education in the UK, “the edgeless university“. In particular the report points to technology as a driver of change and as [part of] the solution for edgeless universities that are:
“no longer contained within the campus, nor within the physically [...]

Predictions for 2009

Happy New Year!
Predictions are a great way to start the year and so eLearning Magazine offers its’ predictions here. Enjoy!

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Interesting post from Clive Shepherd on synchronous e-learning debunking a few myths – I must say I was surprised by some of this and would be interested to see if these experiences are generalisable.

Subject Matter Expertise in E-Learning – link

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on the ‘problem’ of expertise versus practical excellence in developing learning. I broadly agree with the post but have a concern that this approach reinforces inertia – the reinforement of “this is how we do things round here”. At some point, what the excellent [...]