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THE LABYRINTH OF e-Learning ACRONYMS

deeps4582 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:10:21 +0000

See what others have learned while developing their e-Learning projects. If you are new to e-Learning this document is a great case study to read and also to get yourself familiarise with some of the e-Learning acronyms that you might come across. Page 5 of the document contains these acronyms.

The best one I found is the way the SCORM standard is explained. I always found it difficult to explain people who are new to e-Learning, the concept of SCORM. In this journal the author say: “When railroads first started to be built, each railroad company would use their own size tracks, so that other companies couldn’t use them. Then standards were put in place to ensure that all the tracks were the same size, so any train could use any track in the country. The same thing is happening with e-Learning today. Standards such as SCORM and AICC ensure that all e-Learning and LMS programs create information that is interchangeable with other programs, so information can be shared, regardless of what company created the program.”

Go on and read the other explainations as well, they are worth a read.

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e-Learning Project Specifications

deeps4582 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:38:49 +0000

As pointed by one of the e-Learning Guild’s publication (~the previous post~) first items in your Design document is ‘Project Specifications’ that requires you to write a brief description of your project, its learning objectives, the intended audience, targeted length, and any prerequisites.

How to write your learning objectives?? Here are some links to some practical examples of how projects objectives are written.

e-Learning Blueprints: The Design Phase

e-tream project’s e-Learning

The second link also has an example of what can project deliverables mean?

Plan your e-Learning course

deeps4582 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:51:05 +0000

This is a perfect document by The eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions e-magazine that tells you in detail how to design a ‘Design document’ for your e-learning course. As mentioned in the document, there is a lot to think about, and a lot of work involved, in writing a well-crafted design document but when you have a detailed design plan in place, it becomes your standard for development, and the course practically writes itself.

A well-written design document helps solve these problems by outlining the design specifications, standards, and conventions specific to your e-Learning development.

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the emerging trend of Rapid e-Learning

deeps4582 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:53:39 +0000

This is a reviewed guide by published by Ufi/learndirect and Kineo. The Guide explains:

It explains:

What rapid e-learning is – and is not

What benefits it can deliver to the organisation

Practical steps for rapid development

How some organisations are successfully using rapid e-learning

Where rapid e-learning is headed

What rapid e-learning is – and is not
What benefits it can deliver to the organisation
Practical steps for rapid development
How some organisations are successfully using rapid e-learning
Where rapid e-learning is headed

Rapid_Elearning_Reviewed_final (PDF, 261 KB)

This guide is a great start to know about Rapid e-Learning.

e-Learning development cycle

deeps4582 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:42:11 +0000

While there are 1000′s of articles describing e-learning development processes, this article by Khan, B. H. (2004, September-October). People, process and product continuum in e-learning: The e-learning P3 model. Educational Technology. Vol.44, No. 5. pp. 33-40 can help those who have no knowledge of traditional e-Learning development cycle.

Click here to view the e-learning-p3model (PDF, 341 KB)

Khan, B. H. (2004, September-October). People, process and product continuum in e-learning: The e-learning P3

model. Educational Technology. Vol.44, No. 5. pp. 33-40.

More on ‘What is e-learning?’

deeps4582 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:07:29 +0000

This is a podcast narrated by Keith and Dom who run the Doing e-Learning blog. They have some good podcasts to get you started with e-Learning. In this podcast they particulary discuss on what e-learning is and what they define e-learning as. Click on the link below to listen to the podcast.

Click to Listen to podcast 1 (14.3 MB, 31 minutes and 20 secs playing time)

Click to listen to podcast 2 (14.4 MB, 31 minutes and 30 secs playing time)

Note: You will need Windows Media player or Quick time player to listen to the above audio. And please be patient while the file gets downloaded. The audio file will play automatically in a browser after it has detected the appropriate player in your computer.

e-Learning a nutshell presentation

deeps4582 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:00:51 +0000

I recently had a chance to present to my team, basics of e-learning. With few weeks of research and with my experience, I put together a presentation which was appreciated by all. Infact I was particulary inspired by a video presentation given by Richard (Atlantic link) at an e-learning conference at Fose 2009 that helped me build my presentation.

Best of e-Learning

THE LABYRINTH OF e-Learning ACRONYMS

Click here to view the document

e-Learning Project Specifications

e-Learning Blueprints: The Design Phase

e-tream project’s e-Learning

Plan your e-Learning course

Click here to view the published document (PDF 330 KB)

the emerging trend of Rapid e-Learning

Rapid_Elearning_Reviewed_final (PDF, 261 KB)

e-Learning development cycle

Click here to view the e-learning-p3model (PDF, 341 KB)

More on ‘What is e-learning?’

Click to Listen to podcast 1 (14.3 MB, 31 minutes and 20 secs playing time)

Click to listen to podcast 2 (14.4 MB, 31 minutes and 30 secs playing time)

Note: You will need Windows Media player or Quick time player to listen to the above audio. And please be patient while the file gets downloaded. The audio file will play automatically in a browser after it has detected the appropriate player in your computer.

e-Learning a nutshell presentation

Click on the above next and back button to navigate through the slides