Or as one MIT OCW student put it “, Engagement of two senses (hearing and seeing) results in greater comprehension than one or the other.” eLearners strive to be able to click, search, rewind, skim, seek, pause, highlight, download and do a million other actions. In our last blog, we started to introduce you to recent results of a survey of online learners at MIT OpenCourseWare. MORE

Or as one MIT OCW student put it “, Engagement of two senses (hearing and seeing) results in greater comprehension than one or the other.” eLearners strive to be able to click, search, rewind, skim, seek, pause, highlight, download and do a million other actions. In our last blog, we started to introduce you to recent results of a survey of online learners at MIT OpenCourseWare. MORE

One of my Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 was around Open Content for Workplace Learning: I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER. Do a search on something like “instructional design”. MORE

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) today launched a beta site featuring our interactive transcripts and video search plugins. Video search has become increasingly important for MIT OCW, which has grown to over 2,100 online courses covering virtually all MIT undergraduate and graduate courses taught at MIT. The new MIT OpenCourseWare interactive transcripts allow users to search within a lecture or across an entire course. Read the interactive transcript study at MIT OCW. MORE

Prediction #9 => Open Content I’m not sure why this already hasn’t had a bigger impact, but workplace learning is going to start to catch up on the value of OCW and OER. Do a search on something like “instructional design”. Before I start with any of my actual predictions, let me throw in an overall prediction that the year is going to start off slow for most people, but by the end of the year, we will all be thinking: “Wow, 2010 was a crazy year!” MORE

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) today launched a beta site featuring our interactive transcripts and video search plugins. Video search has become increasingly important for MIT OCW, which has grown to over 2,100 online courses covering virtually all MIT undergraduate and graduate courses taught at MIT. The new MIT OpenCourseWare interactive transcripts allow users to search within a lecture or across an entire course. Read the interactive transcript study at MIT OCW. MORE

In many cases this had to do with our transcript search feature , the ability to search for a keyword and jump to that specific point, not only in the lecture but throughout the course videos. “It’s It’s now easier to search for particular content in the video- no more manual sliding,” said one respondent. We’ve all become accustomed to a world where information is just a search away. MORE

In many cases this had to do with our transcript search feature , the ability to search for a keyword and jump to that specific point, not only in the lecture but throughout the course videos. “It’s It’s now easier to search for particular content in the video- no more manual sliding,” said one respondent. We’ve all become accustomed to a world where information is just a search away. MORE

LMS and Learning Tracking Still Struggling While LMS solutions continue to get better, more powerful, more diverse, I continue to find myself searching for just the right solution for particular needs. For example my search for an LMS Solution for Simple Partner Compliance Training didn’t really arrive at just the right solution. MORE