Do not create and assign targets for members to fill up defined subject areas with content. Not every community member needs to be only a content expert or contributor. Effective learning communities need only 10% of the members to regularly make content contributors. It’s not all about content. Learning or professional communities are “healthy” and beneficial to the organization when its members are intrinsically motivated to participate and contribute. Members of a learning community must have a desire to network, collaborate, and share information or the community will not thrive

Firstly, instructional design principles are embedded in many of the readily available “content development” tools.  Secondly, open source methods provide peer-to-peer reviews, a continuous formative evaluation process (in the form of ratings, comments, discussions, and reuse), and provide more opportunities to “tailor” the content to local settings and individual needs.  There are some things we can do to help people in an open source environment increase their What would you say if I told you that I know where you can find some FREE , HIGH QUALITY , and REUSABLE courses, modules, and lesson plans?  I

The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are redefining scholarship as we grapple with issues of top-down control and grassroots scholarship. T oday’s learners want to be active participants in the learning process – not mere listeners ; they have a need to control their environments, and they are used to easy access to the staggering amount of content and knowledge available at their fingertips. Experience with and affinity for games as learning tools is an increasingly universal characteristic among those entering higher education and the workforce .

Technically, the definition of an AICC course is spread across several files, which describe the course's content and structure. See the Cross Domain Course Content section below for more details.) Cross Domain Course Content One Here is the press release on the article: SyberWorks Media Center Presents a New Article: “AICC and the LMS” The article, “AICC and the LMS” , can be found in the SyberWorks Media Center .

guess the best course would be when a participant gets so enthralled in the content that it turns into self-education. Awhile back I did a post on Training Prisoners and how we can help participants not feel “trapped” in class. I’ve been reading a blog called: Better Learning Better Earning and it has some interesting articles.

Through structured discussions in forums, students can discuss content and support and challenge one another. In my childhood, school was rather like the public library; you sat alone in silence until your work was done. More contemporary views of learning and information favour collaboration, connection and social intercourse. The premise is that we accommodate