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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Ross Dawson discusses a Gartner report on social software, looking at some particular forecasts for the next three to five years out:
20% of businesses using social media instead of e-mail by 2014
50% of businesses using activity streams, such as micro-blogging, by 2012
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
One of Saffron’s senior instructional designers, Stephanie Dedhar, has been named Instructional Designer of the Year at the IT Training Awards 2010!
The instructional designer category was new for the 2010 awards, which were announced at a gala dinner held at The Dorchester in London on Thursday 4 February. Chief executive of the Institute of IT Training, Colin Steed, described the event as an ‘annual celebration of outstanding
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
It doesn’t take a genius to make a presentation look great. All you need is a set of well designed master slides. Now read on for five top tips to help you get the most out of your master slides.
1. Use
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
I watched "Understanding Computers and the Internet" - downloaded the video lectures, transcript, slides and jargon doc to my computer. Very cool. "On the new site Academic Earth you can watch lectures on physics from M.I.T., or catch a Yale history course on the origins of World War I, or see a U.C.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
A wake up call for everyone … especially those who think eLearning is as easy as providing an electronic resource! Please, don’t!
“Would 8220;Would you do this to your face-to-face students? Then don’t do it to your online students.”
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
In my previous article , I proposed a Taxonomy of Learning Theories to organise a few of the myriad of theories into some semblance of order, and to assist instructional designers in using theory to inform their work.
In this article, I go one step further by listing specific, practical instructional design tips that are informed by those theories.
But beware…
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
In a previous post, I shared some free handwritten fonts . Today, we’ll explore how you might use them in your elearning courses.
We already looked at how fonts are more than the text you read . As a graphic element, they convey meaning and play a role in the message you communicate.
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