Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies.
Learning with e's
MARCH 22, 2018
It was quite exciting to appear on the front cover of Training Journal this month. I was approached by the editor of the journal after my presentation in London at the Learning Technologies annual conference. I was quite new to distance learning, but I was suddenly elevated to ‘expert’ status.
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E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 1, 2015
I don’t read as many journal articles as I’d like. So it was with much gratitude that I read The Science of Training and Development in Organizations: What Matters in Practice. In this paper, the author distinguishes between two directions of human development: horizontal growth and vertical transformation.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
In fact, Michael Grahame Moore editor of the American Journal of Distance Education, writes that interactivity between a learner and the content is “the defining characteristic of education. Horton [3] writes, “Interactivity boosts learning. In The 2000/2001 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook. References. [1]
E-Learning Provocateur
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. While MOOCs typically comprise video clips and perhaps a quiz, they will inevitably include more instructional devices to assist distance learning (and remain competitive). Universities will flip their classrooms. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.
E-Learning Provocateur
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. While MOOCs typically comprise video clips and perhaps a quiz, they will inevitably include more instructional devices to assist distance learning (and remain competitive). Universities will flip their classrooms. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.
eLearning 24-7
JULY 22, 2020
Distance Learning – An interview I saw last week, with the CEO of the 3rd largest school district (Maryland) referred to online learning as distance learning. . She isn’t the only person to do so, it is a term I hear often, but it has nothing to do with online learning as it actually exists.
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