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E-Learning Award Winners 2010

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Just in case you weren’t one of the 500 at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square in London last night, here are the lucky ones for this year: Best use of mobile learning Gold Winner: Learnosity Best use of rapid e-learning content Gold Winner: Bupa Health and Wellbeing UK and Brightwave Silver Winner: Everything Everywhere Bronze Winner: ispeakuspeak (..)

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Is e-learning effective?

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On balance, the evidence would suggest that the medium, the delivery channel, is much less important in determining effectiveness than the learning strategy you choose to address the task in hand (exposition, instruction, guided discovery, exploration, etc.), Collaborative, distance learning like the MOOC described above?

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What if learning technologists ruled the world?

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Now I'm a bit of a fan of Gilly's work as a pioneer in the field of collaborative online distance learning. educational establishments had to innovate? teachers let go and allowed learners to direct the learning experience? learning technologists actually helped each other? excellence in teaching were rewarded?

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E-learning: the fad that's lasted 30 years

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Computer-assisted learning is as old as computers themselves, and certainly more established as a discipline than the IT training which Rob purveys. Of course, all things are relative, and when you compare e-learning to classroom education then perhaps a fad it is - after all, we've had classrooms for hundreds of years.

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E-learning: an oxymoron?

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Under the sub-heading E-learning: an oxymoron? he writes: I continue to believe in the linear, author-driven narrative for educational purposes. 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?

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Time to put an end to faceless e-learning

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OK, so what about education and training? We have text books, lectures, podcasts, tutor-supported distance learning courses, classroom courses, coaching, blogging. Nope, nothing there either. In every case there is a real person, remote or right there in front of you.

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Paradigm war

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Whereas paradigm one has its origins in corporate and military training, paradigm two comes out of further and higher education. Paradigm three makes the immediacy of the classroom available to learners at a distance. Needless to say, we're not seeing the best. Let's face it, it's time to stop the paradigm war.