article thumbnail

eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift

Tony Karrer

I just finished reading a blog post on Read/Write Web - eLearning 2.0 - All You Need to Know. I'm a big believer in eLearning 2.0 and it's interesting to R/WW's take on eLearning 2.0. As you read through the post, you really don't get any sense for what eLearning 2.0

article thumbnail

Micro to Macro

eLearning Weekly

I started in the world of computer science and web programming, but quickly transitioned to educational technology and then eLearning. Building eLearning courses came naturally to me because I was used to building web sites and web applications. Web site development / web application development.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

eLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat

Tony Karrer

All the marketing was done through viral means - blogs primarily. One interesting result is that the audience for my eLearning 2.0 I just put this in a separate blog post. You learn about this using these tools and scanning sources like blogs, trying things out, forcing yourself to make time to learn. grassroots?"

article thumbnail

Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools?

Wiki 105
article thumbnail

Peer Review vs. Search Engine Places - Quality of Information in a Web 2.0 Sources

Tony Karrer

Of course sometimes, both things happen such as in the case of Stephen Downes' article on eLearning 2.0 which comes up first in the Google search of eLearning 2.0. But that's not always the case, even in a Web 2.0 Consider what happened around the definition of eLearning 2.0 What Web 2.0

Search 100
article thumbnail

ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Last week at ASTD TechKnowledge , I did a keynote on Work Literacy and eLearning 2.0, an online Q&A Session for the Virtual Conference and a session on using Web 2.0 Tools for eLearning. For example, we still teach Cursive Writing instead of Touch Typing to kids. Work Literacy eLearning 2.0

article thumbnail

Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary

Tony Karrer

Background Over the past six weeks, I've been leading a course: Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 This course is designed to teach how to design and build collaborative learning experiences using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 approaches. This turned out not to be the case.

Summary 113