May 2  - MIT and Harvard announce edX, a $60m venture between the two Boston area universities with the first courses set to launch in the Fall of 2012. Some of you may be thinking this is reminiscent of the 1990′s West Coast versus East Coast rapper wars with a stand-off between Silicon Valley and Boston-based universities. This is not a Stanford vs. Boston Ivy League coastal duel. providing data points to companies in search of trends and the like. Through the magic of the partnerships, the student can be provided the degree for a fee. Money. How so? MORE >>

Using the zero download Flowgram Maker, creators can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, videos etc on any topic, and add a voice narrative which provides context, emotion and consistency. It provides you 3 capture options: the entire page, the current view, or only a selection. Boston College (Front Row). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Friday, October 31. Free Screencasting Tools For Tony! Free Screencasting Tools List (Updated) Tony Karrers blog "Toast! You name it, they record it!" ".Im dont do it very often, so it needs to be free. And then. Free to use. MORE >>

Why does the group in Belgium do it, when the group in Boston doesn’t? Walter Dick, long time Florida State professor, now retired, provided this definition:  instructional design is   applied educational psychology. Tweet A few years ago, Jim Marshall and I surveyed workplace learning professionals about elearning. Although we set out to learn about the contours of the elearning terrain, our project revealed much about instructional design practice today. We pursued this question: when doing elearning, what are you doing? Practitioners inclined towards the familiar in mid 2009. MORE >>

After the eLearning Guild event in Boston I was reflecting with Kineo 's Matt Fox about the sessions that had captured his imagination. Questions that ask the learner to merely recognise or recall information previously provided in the training will not promote learning that trasfers to the job. Make sparing use of links that take the learner away from the current screen or which provide the primary means of access to important elements of the course (because most learners will regard these as peripheral). Use course maps to provide an overview and orient learners. MORE >>

as well as connect with some new folks in the Boston e-learning community. Note: you can generally tell if info was provided by a real user or by an authoring tool company ;) Bryan Chapman, Brandon Hall Research Report, Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase 2009 (A Buyer's Guide to 120+ of the Best E-learning Content Development Applications). Michael Hanley provides a great resource to the eLearning community with his ongoing review of open source tools. If you know me, you know I've never been much of a tool user, although I have been called a tool.) asked "What do you use it for?, MORE >>