This aggregated resource comes from Dustin Betonio at Tripwire Magazine. While specifically targetd at web designers, I believe elearning developers and mobile learning developers would also benefit from these ebooks. A few that I will be adding to my iPad 2 are: Introduction to Good Usability Integrating Accessibility Through Design A Practical Guide To Web Typography The Elements of Typographic [...]
Break out your lightsabers, astromech droids, and Correllian pirate lingo … From my favorite little digital magazine Zite, I received a great chuckle today from the folks over at Mindflash on How Star Wars Characters Could Have Benefited From Online Training. I encourage you to pop over to their site to see the full image. If you’re an elearning developer, [...]
Last week at the Professors of Instructional Design & Technology (PIDT) meeting in Virginia, one of the sessions turned toward a conversation that was very similar to one I had at the American Educational Research Association last year in 2010. These are folks and their blogs who speak about instructional design regularly as community support and/or practitioners. So, I thought [...]
I left the undergrad education program of UNC-Chapel Hill 8 years ago, and it is amazing the new ‘hot topics’ (like inclusion & the iPod/iPhone/iPad revolution) that have evolved insuch a short amount of time. Then I began to wonder…What will I have learned in my master’s program that I will be obsolete in four years? Of course this blog [...]
Incorporating video in your instruction can have its rewards and challenges. When utilized properly, videos can assist the learning process. According to Alessi & Trollip (2001), video is becoming popular in interactive multimedia. You can create videos to demonstrate or model a procedure, interview an expert, provide visual activity, and present plays. Videos can be appealing, entertaining, and promote higher [...]
After reading Siemens’ “Questions I’m no Longer Asking,” I spent the next week pondering my own questions from the entrance of my instructional design and technology program. For example, walking into class the first night, I was looking for the girl named ADDIE. (Obviously, I didn’t find her.) Since then, I have found answers to these questions. A few of [...]
After coming to the US for higher education, I have taken several online courses toward completion of my Masters Degree, and I am taking some as I pursue my doctoral degree. I also design online courses for faculty members, and I think I have an insight of judging an online/web based course from three different perspectives – a student, faculty, [...]
Before … A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a grant program from the federal government that was going to require that the course content created be SCORM compliant. This was based on an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education that said: Some higher-education leaders say a little-noticed technical note in a new $2-billion federal grant program could make [...]
Rapid eLearning is a term used to denote short development times of online instruction with limited resources versus traditional instructional design approaches involving lengthy periods of time and large amounts of money (De Vries & Bersin, 2004). Another important distinction between the two is that rapid eLearning is oftentimes developed by the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) using simple-to-use tools while [...]
In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, SCORM’s limited value to eLearning and training has become more high profile. The Chronicle reports: Some higher-education leaders say a little-noticed technical note in a new $2-billion federal grant program could make it difficult for colleges to use the money to build free online course materials. The issue centers around a [...]
