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Thursday, May 25, 2006
The shift I'm seeing is away from the design of pure "courseware" solutions and much more to "reference hybrid" solutions. To explain this, I need to step back and deal with the fact that terminology around eLearning Patterns is problematic. In my mind, "courseware" is interactive (to some level) instruction run asynchronously. Just when you've made the transition from the prior generation of CBT authoring tools (e.g., Authorware , Toolbook ) to the new generation of WBT authoring tools (e.g.,
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Edu Toolbox Learning Resources in Delicious Blog Form Home FAQs Popular Rankings By Subject By Year Specialty Rankings Top Online Colleges RSS The Ultimate Open Courseware Toolset: 60+ Directories, Search Engines, and Web Tools February 19, 2009 Open courseware has expanded to the extent that directories, lists, search engines, archives and Web tools are available free to anyone who chooses to learn through the Internet. This alphabetical method of organization also shows that we do not value open courseware project
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Sunday, August 6, 2006
If you read my blog you know that I've discussed similar themes (see Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids and Start with Courseware or With the Other Stuff? ) Courses and Courseware are not really dead and will never die out completely. Even better than the ease of use is that it gets you out of the Courseware mindset and into the information/support Two very good recent posts by Jay Cross and Brent Schlenker discuss the Death of Courses. and I have the same basic feeling that there is definitely a shift going on.
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Monday, September 25, 2006
I completely understand his point about the misapplication of this model and the fact that applying it without some creativity leads to boring courseware. There's an interesting discussion sparked by Donald Clark's - Gagne's Nine Dull Commandments . His basic point is that Gagne's: Gaining attention Stating the objective Stimulating recall of prior learning Presenting the stimulus Providing learning guidance Eliciting performance Providing feedback Assessing performance Enhancing retention and transfer to other contexts is in his words ...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
BackgroundI recently read this post by Tony Karrer discussing the development of what we traditionally call pure courseware versus the creation of Reference Hybrids Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids. Tags: rapid elearning tools audience analysis courseware rapid elearning classroom training instructional design reference hybrids technical software product trainin Though posted in 2006, this post seems very relevant even today and I feel like I have a lot to say about the probable solution to the discussion that this course
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Tags: e-learning online delivery Camtasia Studio elearning content streaming media adobe captivate review courseware development content authoring asynchronous e-learning toolki In the previous two blog posts, I outlined – at a very high level - some of the features and functionality of TechSmith Camtasia Studio and Adobe Captivate, and in today’s post I will provide a...
The The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Tags: powermanual SME subject matter expert serena prototyping rapid e-learning iwebkit flash courseware development webcat Stanza LCD As we know, Rapid E-Learning is subject matter expert-centric, based on authoring or developing content with easy-to-use, ubiquitous platforms like PowerPoint & Flash, and enables content to be...
The The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
OnlineUniversities.com released a solid list of free technology (open courseware) courses that you can take for free from leading universities such as: MIT, Utah State University, Capilano University, etc…
Tags: Distance Ed Open CourseWare Capilano University Communication Technology Computer Science courseware education eLearning Engineering free technology Information Technology Mathematics MIT OnlineUniversities.com Programming Security Software Design Utah State University Web Developmen There are numerous courses in each of the following categories:
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Tags: e-learning online delivery Camtasia Studio elearning content streaming media adobe captivate review courseware development content authoring asynchronous e-learning toolki Continuing my evaluation of Captivate and Camtasia Studio...
In In my previous posting, I discussed the two applications' user interfaces and audio capabilities.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
URL: http://oedb.org/library/features/236-open-courseware-collections This collection of 236 free or open educational resources (URL above) is simply yummy (at least for people like me). In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet faculty, developers, and curious students alike. DLORN One-stop source for learning object syndication. I did create my own Open Educational Resources (OER) Index sometime back (Later UNESCO compiled a more organized and useful one named OER Useful resources ).
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