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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

An estimated 1 million students in K-12 took at least one online course in 2007-2008 (Piccano and Seaman, 2009). Students who take some or all the schooling online performed better than students who took the same course in a traditional learning classroom ( Department of Education, 2009). Where is the engagement level here?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points

Learning Visions

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points Jane Bozarth : Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint. Creating asynchronous instruction. When you say it, I sound articluate and concise. And you sounded even better than I make you sound really. Not PPT 101.

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Go Global by Thinking Local: Delivering Online Training Courses in Multiple Languages

Mindflash

Online training is a powerful learning vehicle—it allows people to learn on their own schedule (asynchronously), at the own pace (on-demand), and on their device of choice (flexibly). Sound complicated? And developing online training via a LMS is scalable, as you can train thousands in a short time. Here’s another cautionary tale.

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Battle of the Bloggers – last words – part 5

Clive on Learning

I continue my re-cap of the responses I gave to the questions posed at last week’s Battle of the Bloggers at Online Educa 2009 : Question 5 is: What type of learning has the most impact? Instructionally sound or contextually relevant? My response: This is a difficult one to unpick because these are not mutually exclusive concepts.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Instructional Design and Market Sector Differences

Learning Visions

Based on comments, it sounds like an advanced degree is a requirement more so if youre working in the academic sector. It sounds like you have online sessions as well as self-paced experiences. The courses themselves are primarily asynchronous, with the occasional synchronous chat. 10:00 PM Cammy Bean said.

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Teaching Online Courses – 60 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

About five minutes into the presentation, with me alone in my office, and everyone muted (literally there is zero sound coming back through) and no prepared stopping points for interaction. No problem, right? I was not at all prepared for what I experienced.

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Here’s How You Can Save Your Training Job in this Economy

Rapid eLearning

I was in Atlanta at the Training 2009 and got to meet many blog readers who presented me with some interesting elearning challenges. However, no software replaces the need for sound instructional design. The irony is that one of the benefits of online learning is the asynchronous access to information and training.