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E-Learning Debate 2009

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Today saw a tremendous gathering of the who's who of UK learning technologies in the historic debating chamber of the Oxford Union. Many thanks must go to e-learning developers Epic for putting together this event and allowing their own industry to be placed under the microscope. Today's e-learning is marginally useful.

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The Big Question: What did you learn about learning in 2009?

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How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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UK survey shows e-learning's the downturn winner

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Professional skills learning provider Cegos polled 254 senior L&D professionals during the last two weeks of November 2008. Face-to-face learning will remain the number one method used by organisations. Trainer development will see the biggest cuts with more than 25% of companies planning to reduce efforts in this area.

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What every learning and development professional needs to know about e-learning

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The following copy accompanied the release yesterday of a free 20-page booklet entitled What every learning and development professional needs to know about e-learning : Change and opportunity Surprising as it may seem, most educational and training methods are relatively timeless. So what’s the big deal?

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Battle of the Bloggers – last words – part 3

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I continue my re-cap of the responses I gave to the questions posed at last week’s Battle of the Bloggers at Online Educa 2009 : Question 3 is: Is there a common language in the learning field? My response: Sometimes I wish there was a little more agreement on some key learning terms. What can we agree on?

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Stacey - learner of today

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I was really impressed by the work shown at Learning Technologies 2009 last week by Kirstie Donnelly and Deborah Prynne of learndirect.

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Articulate has me lost for words

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Although I have decades of experience using (and at one stage designing) more sophisticated e-learning authoring tools - you know, the highly configurable ones with their own scripting languages - I now find myself turning more and more often to the so-called rapid development tools.