Two very good recent posts by Jay Cross and Brent Schlenker discuss the Death of Courses. 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.... Let's be clear. Courses and Courseware are not really dead and will never die out completely. There will always be the need for self-contained learning delivered in sequence. These will cover things like compliance training, basic skills, math, etc.

The .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.... All links under the categories below are listed in alphabetical order.

Captivate , Lectora ), it looks like things are slowly shifting again. 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. It is created via an Authoring Tool or an Learning Content Management System. Often there's period quizzing to test understanding.

9 Enhancing retention and transfer to other contexts Never happens! The course ends here, you're on your own mate. I completely understand his point about the misapplication of this model and the fact that applying it without some creativity leads to boring courseware. But, let's not throw this away as irrelevant quite so quickly.

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. 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 ...Tags: rapid elearning tools audience analysis courseware rapid elearning classroom training instructional design reference hybrids technical software product training.

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 E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals. Find out more... ...Tags: e-learning online delivery Camtasia Studio elearning content streaming media adobe captivate review courseware development content authoring asynchronous e-learning toolkit.

Dave Boggs recent post No eLearning Tectonic Plate Shift Here had some interesting comments about my article Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids.... what he is talking about is NOT some grand revelation that has just started and he is certainly not the first one to see it.

Continuing my evaluation of Captivate and Camtasia Studio... In my previous posting, I discussed the two applications' user interfaces and audio capabilities. Today, I will look at workflow and... The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals. Find out more... ...Tags: e-learning online delivery Camtasia Studio elearning content streaming media adobe captivate review courseware development content authoring asynchronous e-learning toolkit.

For those of you on Twitter: since Twitter doesn't have a Groups capacity in its own right, I've set up a branch of the Courseware Development Group on tweetworks - please click this link to join, or to just look around. Thanks - Ted ...Tags: tweetworks Twitter eLearning Courseware.

LearnHub (which I first mentioned in this blog in April 2008) now has its own branch of the Courseware Development group . Please take a look around and join if interested. Also, if you would like to contribute lessons (including PowerPoint presentations) and tests to the community, please feel free to do so (I put a test there as an example - those of you who looked at the previous blog entry may be familiar with it!). ...Tags: LearnHub lessons tests Courseware.