Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Cath Ellis recently set out her ten commandments of e-learning and this prompted me to try and articulate my own. Now e-learning's a big subject if you include all its many variants - formal and informal, synchronous and asynchronous and so on - and if you take into account all the issues relating to its management and marketing. So, what I've done is restrict my thoughts to the design of interactive, e-learning content, drawing heavily from the 60-minute masters : Structure into modules.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 28, 2009

I participated in this video debate , hosted by the British Computer Society, alongside Laura Overton, MD of Towards Maturity and Lars Hyland, Director of Learning Services at Brightwave , all with a strongly pro- e-learning perspective; representing the case for classroom training (while not opposing the idea of e-learning), were Samantha Kinstrey, MD of 2e2 Training and Jooli Atkins of Matrix FortyTwo.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 28, 2009

Blogging connections certainly make the world a smaller place. I met Cammy Bean at an eLearning Guild event in Boston, having followed her blog Learning Visions for some time. As a result we went on to collaborate in putting together the 60-minute masters , a curriculum for an e-learning course for rapid e-learning designers. E-learning developer Kineo developed the first implementation of this curriculum.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2009

One of the main decisions a designer of learning interventions has to make is the social context best suited to the learning requirement, the audience characteristics and the practical contsraints and opportunities. The main options that the designer has to choose from are self-study, one-to-one learning and learning in a group. I have obviously been wasting my time trying to convince designers of the need for a rational and considered choice here, because there's a much simpler alternative avai

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2009

Rule 5: Repeat to remember While repetition is covered in this chapter, the main idea underlying this rule is that "information is remembered best when it is elaborate, meaningful and contextual. the quality of the encoding stage is one of the single greatest predictors of learning success. 'quality of encoding' means the number of door handles one can put on the entrance to a piece of information.

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