e-learning – making it work; from the preserve of enthusiasts to organisation-wide implementation QIA and ALT, with the support of Becta, JISC, LSC, LSN will be holding a conference: Place: Nottingham Date: 11 November 2007 Intended for: for practitioners and leaders in further, workplace, adult, and community learning. The conference
I’ve discovered a new blog from Wayne Hodgins He discusses an excellent online learning resource about tying knots (think sailing!) and describes Pecha Kucha, the fast and furious new presentation format from Japan now sweeping America (of which more anon).
So often those who start using learning technologies (or creative technologies, or social technologies….) carry over into the new context assumptions, methods and processes that were appropriate in the old context but not in the new. However, it can take time for new ways of working to be discovered and
McConnell, D. (2006) E-Learning Groups and Communities: Imagining Learning in the Age of the Internet. Jochems W, van Merriënboer J and Koper R (2004) Integrated E-Learning: implications for pedagogy, technology and organisation, London: Routledge and Falmer Collis B and Moonen J (2004) Flexible Learning in a Digital World (2nd edition),
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Jakob Nielsen, usability guru, on Web 2.0 – I don’t think he’s impressed!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6653119.stm
The BBC still have available various short self-study online courses. They include several in creative writing. Of course, a “real” course like Season of Inspiration, with tutors and fellow students to feedback on the exercises and writing, is much more useful than self-study, but until we announce the next Season
Curt Bonk – a larger-than-life e-learning expert from the University of Indiana – has posted “A Quick 30 Writing Tips for the Start of an Academic Career” on his blog athttp://travelinedman.blogspot.com/ He’s also briefly mentioned the Learning Futures conference at Leicester, and discusses Ten Observations Related to E-Learning in the