This is the 2nd post in my "Online Course Design Tips" series and today's expert advice has been very kindly contributed by Instructional Designer Jason Willensky : Old news: Make sure your learning objectives are clear and measurable, then make sure that your content and assessment align with your objectives. Tags: Instructional Design Top 5 Design Course Buildin The current crop of eLearning tools are sensational and feature-laden, but don't lose sight of what's essential to a powerful training experience. Forget that you ever saw a PowerPoint presentation. Use text judiciously.

Self-study courses Virtual classroom sessions which are packaged as courses or which form part of formal, blended solutions Forums, wikis and blogs as part of formal online or blended courses Tags: Designing Online Courses Connected Learning Environmen Following my last post on " Getting started with social software for learning ", I've had a number of conversations about how social learning fits into a more formalised training environment. Clive Shepherd's recent post on " Elearning in all its forms " gives an overview of the three main facets of elearning

Facilitators using Moodle start with an empty course container and use a handy collection of tools/apps/modules to build a collection or series of focussed collaborative activities for a group of people. Tags: Designing Online Courses Moodle Elg Via Jane Hart . George Siemens is discussing whether the future of learning is in Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Social Networking Systems .

The Work Literacy online learning course is over and Michele Martin - Deconstructing the Work Literacy Learning Event and Harold Jarche - Post Work Literacy have posted their thoughts around the event. Here are some thoughts on the course and the implications for design of similar kinds of online learning courses. Social Network as Course Platform Like social networks generally, Ning, unfortunately feels a bit scattered. We also have some great Feedback from Participants . I think they've both captured a lot of what worked and could have been changed.

The way she build her course is a great example of combining several relevant Social media to enhance a course. Here is an excerpt of her post: "Here is a tour of my course in which i use several web tools external to the moodle, the course management system. Some of the tools used in the course are : http://twitter.com/etap687 - for course announcements http://voicethread.com/share/38310/ - an audio/video/text ice breaking activity Thanks to the great College20 community started by Eduardo Peirano, I could read a post by Alejandra Pickett that really blew my mind.

Technology has provided us with the ability to take an online course from anywhere.  However, the key to being an excellent online course instructor [...] Related Tags: Online Forums Uncategorized video webcasting elearning Forum online courses Online Forum Reinforcement Webina While this may make being a student easier, it doesn’t necessarily make it easier to be an instructor.  Actually, in direct contrast it can make our jobs as trainers more difficult. 

75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course! In short, this article (or post) is about exploring and discovering free educational games that could be useful to embed within or across courses (and programs) to spark more engagement, challenge, mystery, exploration, collaboration, problem-solving, decision making, imagination, fun and thinking into the learning process. EDUGAMES SITES? From UNICEF with Microsoft support. EyeWitness Is an Interactive Situation Simulation Software (ISSS) that let users experience skip to main | skip to sidebar

I don't know if I've seen this reported by the eLearningGuild , but their reports showed some interesting information about satisfaction levels reported by members on course authoring and rapid eLearning tool satisfaction levels. Second Life ReadyGo Web Course Builder Desire2Learn Learning Environ.. Lists of Course Authoring Tools and Unfortunately, my blog is not wide enough for these images, so click on the image to go to a page with the full size image. Courseware Authoring Tool Satisfaction - Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction - I'm only showing

George Siemens and Stephen Downes will be co-facilitating a course this Fall hosted by the University of Manitoba on the topic of Connectivism. The best part of this course is you can have a choice to 1) take it for FREE in a non-credit fashion, or 2) take it for credit in a paid-for version. There's going to be videos, blogs, rss feeds, discussions - everything that fits into the Connectivism model will be woven into this course. Are you in EdTech or the Online Education field? If so, this blog posting will interest you.

I was just asked by someone about how they could test a course they were creating against a particular Learning Management System (LMS) (in this case Docent 6.5). We are developing a SCORM or AICC compliant course either custom or using an authoring tool . And we run into the same tough situation each time: If there's an integration issue, like the score or completion is not getting set appropriately, we want This is something we run into fairly often. We don't have direct access to a version of the LMS to test on.