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Can anybody hear me?

Learning with e's

The sound quality was good. Like an idiot, I frantically tried to get the sound working. VLEs are generally difficult to use, with far too much effort needed to be put into understanding how the system works, to the detriment of the time and effort spent actually learning. All set to go. the microphone was dead. I was on my own.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Messy Learning OK. Messy Training Not OK.

Learning Visions

e-Learning should be all neat and tied up in a nice wrapper with a Next button that moves you through a content checklist and a great assessment at the end. A PLE can be messy. This may be why the concept of informal learning is such a hard sell. Forget about it. Its personal, after all. And people are messy. Its formal.

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Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

This sounds a bit like a sale pitch, so I have to warn you in advance, there are a lot of other solar panels for different equipments out there. In my previous post on this topic, I outlined five change factors: The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals.

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Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning

Xyleme

But as we all know, learning is evolving. Today, we keep hearing that formal presentations are out, that it’s all about informal learning, social learning and user-generated content. So, while structured informal learning sounds like an oxymoron, here are four reasons why structure still matters: 1.

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Micro-Learning: Its Role in Formal, Informal and Incidental Learning

ID Reflections

~Wikipedia With the rise of social and informal learning, and ubiquitous mobile devices (tablets, phablets, smartphones and everything in between), micro-learning as a concept and practice has taken off. And this is just one of the needs that short capsules of learning can fulfil.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Are you being fooled by claims of brain-based learning? Will at Work Learning , June 2, 2010 What happens when people add scientific-sounding words to their arguments–even if the scientific-sounding words have nothing to do with those arguments? But is it safe to rely on peer-to-peer learning? Start here.

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Top Posts from August - Augmented Reality - Social Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

My e-Learning Don’ts - MinuteBio , August 8, 2010 Here is a list I compiled of things I think should NOT be done when designing e-learning courses. believe the following are counter to adult learning theory, sound e-learning design and they just down-right irk me. Pedagogical Foundations For Personal Learning.