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E-Learning Debate 2009

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CBT-style, self-paced) has been largely overcome, with the increased use of synchronous online learning, online books, content generated by subject experts and so on. In Reuters, they are getting 3000 e-learning course completions a month; have now reached 65m minutes online with Books 24x7 and a huge ROI.

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The Big Question: Predictions for 2009

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The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for January asks what are your challenges, plans and predictions for 2009? I also want to write a short and really accessible book on learning technology for trainers. Here are my offerings: Challenges Keeping innovation and change on the agenda when all anyone's interested in is survival.

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How online education could mean a very few attain stardom

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It brought to mind a posting I made back in 2009, called How online media helps to create ever brighter stars. I thought I''d bring it back to life here: September 22, 2009 Webinars, video recordings and podcasts provide the opportunity for experts to share their thoughts and experiences with a wide audience.

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Abstracts and Enterprise 2.0

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Harvard Business Press, 2009) by Martin Baker from LM Matters. I’m still glad to have the book,so I can explore particular topics in detail when I need to, perhaps for a particular project, but the abstract gave me a valuable overview - certainly enough to know whether the book would have been worth purchasing.

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Open source instructional design

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The flight from London to Newcastle this afternoon provided an ideal opportunity to remove one book from the pile accumulating on my desk. The book I chose was, to be fair, a short one, the intriguingly titled Open Source Instructional Design by Nathan Eckel (IntelliDesign, 2009). This process is time consuming and adversarial.

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Homo Competens – learning, doing, sharing

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Recently Bert sent me a copy of his intriguingly titled Homo Competens (Beta Book, 2009), an exploration of competence and how humans acquire this. I met Bert de Coutere at Online Educa in December. He chaired the Battle of the Bloggers in which I participated.

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Visual language for designers

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I've spent a couple of happy hours poring over Connie Malamed 's luxuriant new tome Visual language for designers , (Rockport, 2009). Like slide:ology , which I reviewed last month, this book is a work of art in its own right - a real visual extravaganza. It might also explain how Connie also became involved in e-learning.