E-Learning Provocateur

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Udemy for you and me

E-Learning Provocateur

Simply open an account and you are provided with the tools you need to structure your curriculum, upload your content, and publish your course to the world. Creating lectures, rearranging them and uploading the content is a dream. Udemy assumes that the bulk of your course will be lectures. Udemy is incredibly easy to use.

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Let’s get rid of the instructors!

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We live in an era where “training”, “lecture”, “course” and even “teaching” have become dirty words. To many L&D folks, these types of courses (there’s that word again) are mere replicas of the lectures and exams that they so despise. Ergo, xMOOCs are bad.

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The future of MOOCs

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Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners. And isn’t content sourced from some of the world’s best providers a giant leap in that direction? Universities will finally accept they are service providers. The role of the teacher will evolve.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners. And isn’t content sourced from some of the world’s best providers a giant leap in that direction? Universities will finally accept they are service providers. The role of the teacher will evolve.

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The two faces of blended learning

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Consider the following examples: Providing an online module as a primer to a face-to-face session. Customising a lecture on-the-fly with Twitterfall. In terms of instructional design, the complementary face is more sophisticated than the alternative face. Playing a video clip in class to illustrate a real-life scenario.

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Of posters and round tables

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Jan provided an overview of a series of workshops undertaken at UOW in which both teachers and students learned how to develop vodcasts for dissemination via PDAs and iPods. I would suggest a similar situation exists in the corporate sector. It’s time to get smarter about m-learning!

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Shades of green

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In the second part of my 2-part interview with Dr David Bubna-Litic, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Technology, Sydney, I posed the following questions. But it’s a whole different kettle of fish to integrate their meaning and intent into your strategic plan. In other words, to walk the talk.

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