Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Where e-learning differs from early CBT is in the way it employs the Internet to make possible all sorts of collaborative activities that simply couldn't be accomplished in a face-to-face setting. Each of the above - and the endless other options yet to be invented -is an online resource which contributes hugely to learning.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Now I'm a bit of a fan of Gilly's work as a pioneer in the field of collaborative online distance learning. This was the question that Professor Gilly Salmon asked at her presentation at ALT-C in Leeds yesterday.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 7, 2008

They are better suited than tutorials to performance support applications, where learning is not the primary objective. What's more they can be as powerful as interactive materials when used in combination with other media, in the classroom, in a distance learning course, in a blended solution.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

Self-paced learning has great advantages, but live events provide an exciting counterpoint, encouraging social networking and punctuating a distance learning programme with milestones that help to keep everyone co-ordinated and on track. This has been my experience too.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2008

Of course we don't know exactly what Jakob has in mind when he talks about e-learning - traditional, self-paced instruction? live online learning using web conferencing software? collaborative distance learning? informal learning using web 2.0 technologies?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2006

We have text books, lectures, podcasts, tutor-supported distance learning courses, classroom courses, coaching, blogging. No, no examples there (except, strangely, The Economist magazine, which has a long-standing policy of anonymous journalism, and reference works such as dictionaries and encylopaedias, including the Wikipedia).

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

The course is hosted in Moodle, which in my view is ideal for supporting a collaborative distance learning model. The course consists of a three week period of online study culminating in a two-day, face-to-face workshop. During the online period, learners have the opportunity to consume some content that I prepared in advance.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

It utilises the Internet as an alternative channel of communication for distance learning, an inexpensive way to deliver linear (non-interactive) content to geographically-dispersed learners and to enable them to engage with one another and with their tutors using standard Internet tools, such as email and forums/bulletin boards.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2006

As I saw it there were three 'big ideas' in e-learning, each of which seemed to function independently (for no good reason) of the others: the first, and the dominant, being the use of computers to deliver interactive, self-study lessons (aka CBT in a web browser); the second, the use of the Internet as a channel for the delivery of distance learning (..)

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

You use a variety of methods, employing different social contexts, but this time you use a variety of media as well, e.g. a mix of face-to-face workshops, self-study with printed materials and CDs, online forum discussions, telephone tutor support.

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