Week 2: (September 14-20) Rethinking epistemology: Connective knowledge Week 3: (September 21-27) Properties of Networks Week 4: (September 28-October 4) History of networked learning Week 5: (October 5-11) Connectives and Collectives: Distinctions between networks and groups Week 6: (October 12-18) Complexity, Chaos and Research Week 7: (October 18-25) Instructional design and connectivism Week 8: (October 26-November 1) Power, control, validity, and authority in distributed environments Week 9: (November 2-8) What becomes of the teacher? months. MORE >>

When they talk about video as a technique for distance learning, they actually mean virtual classrooms. researchCegos 2011 learning trends survey draft, final may 11 When I received this presentation from CEGOS, which describes the results of their latest survey of L&D practices across Europe, I couldn't understand why they wouldn't want to share every aspect of the results as widely as possible. It provides some interesting insights but also raises many questions. Anyway, I asked and they were happy for me to make it available here. MORE >>

" I'm sure I won't be the first to identify the link between these two findings: money's short so cut back on external spend, particularly conferences and classroom events, and try and get the job done with e-learning. Try mixing self-study with virtual classrooms and collaborative activities using forums and other asynchronous tools. Tags: research It's that time of year again. Attendance at external conferences, workshops and events has decreased the most, with a quarter (26%) of organisations using it less." MORE >>

So, if the classroom experience is synchronous and collaborative, then the online experience needs to be the same, which probably limits you to virtual classroom sessions. Now researchers probably don't want to be limited to comparing synchronous collaborative experiences in real and virtual classrooms, because most online learning is actually asynchronous, i.e. self-paced. As a classroom intervention is always synchronous, the issue here is not whether you are moving the learning online, but the change of method, from live to self-paced. MORE >>

live online events using virtual classrooms? The classroom is effective for x, coaching is effective for y, e-learning is effective for z. More than three quarters (79%) feel e-learning is not a substitute for classroom-based learning' : Of course it's not. Do we ask whether coaching is a substitute for the classroom? Or whether the classroom is a substitute for coaching? And, of course the same is true for other media: the classroom is more effective when combined with other forms of learning; coaching is more effective, etc. MORE >>