From Mark Oehlert comes the notion of 6 word learning plans. Recently in a workshop Marie Jasinski intorduced me to the notion of writing a 32 word summary, then reducing it 16, then to 8, then to 4, then to 2 - a game called essence. To be able to pull…

link to website From the IT Training Doctor, “The story illustrates the difference between traditional training and ROLF training (constructivist-based, reality focused). The training happens to be “soft skills” - if you can call defence against the undead a…

link to website from Dave Warlick : “Rather than getting their content exclusively from a packaged information product, designed to make learning slick and easy, students are asked to visit a variety of information sources, that, hopefully, do not agree on…

link to website This website has been developed by and includes lots of short and useful PD resources on the following topics:

link to website from Alex Havalais about a uni course that incorporated blogging as a learning activity: “I asked students to reflect about what they had learned over the course of the semester, and though I didn’t ask about blogging specifically, many of…

link to website Found through SCOTFEICT is this website about Finding and Using Digital Images. It is fairly detailed in parts (eg when talking about digitisation projects and creating image banks at the organisational level), and could also work as a…

link to pdf From Educause “A screencast is a screen capture of the actions on a user’s computer screen, typically with accompanying audio, distributed through RSS. In the same way that a screenshot is a static representation of a computer screen at a point…

link to pdf from Mark Harrison of http://www.kineo.co.uk comes this 40 page pdf about Informal Learning. He defines it as: “all the learning that takes place away from the world of organised formal training. It is: • deep and pervasive (representing over 80%…

link to website Published from 1997 to 2003, The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030) was a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical whose purpose was to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that would assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating…

link to website both an article and podcast providing some guidelines on podcasting in education, quite a bit of commonsense, and would provide a good summary for beginners in this area. Conversation between Susan Smith Nash and Rob Reynolds of Xplanazine .

link to website A short ‘howto’ guide to podcasting from the University of Wisconsin, including some advice which hits the mark to my mind… # Instead, talk as if you were speaking with a student sitting right in front of you in your office. # Express your…

link to pdf This looks like it would be a good reference/ handout for using with colleagues. I particularly liked the scenarios on the first page comparing two people - one using bookmarks based on their computer, and the other using web-based social…

link to pdf “Collage, a collaborative LD editor that is intended to be used by teachers. It allows an easy editing of UoLs by reusing and customizing best practices, which are formulated as patterns (CLFPs), in structuring the flow of collaborative and…

Ron Oliver Keynote from our internal Learning Design Showcase in early October. “Learning designs that promote learning” Slides for this presentation available at http://elrond.scam.ecu.edu.au/oliver/2005/tasmania.pdf There’s lots of doom and gloom about the…

This toolkit grew out of discussions with teaching teams, looking at and using the Designing Elearning website and searching for tools to use in my work. The visual nature of the learning design maps in the Designing Elearning website seem to strike a chord…

Clive Chappell afternoon session: Integrating Learning and Work: issues for pedagogy Message about changing pedagogy came through the High Level Review of Training Packages - learning needed to become more learner centred, work centered, attribute focused…

Recently we hosted an internal Learning Design Showcase. Two invited speakers were Clive Chappell and Ron Oliver who both presented keynotes and afternoon talks. These first notes are from Clive Chappell’s keynote session titled “The Future of Learning and…

Anne Bartlett Bragg Can Technology Enhance Learning? Thanks to some arguments with my computer on Monday, I missed part of this session and also lost the notes I did make. So thank goodness that the sessions are recorded, as I was able to go back to the…

link to website from George Siemens’ Connectivism Blog “I’m trying to wrap my head around how learning objectives became the de facto approach to learning design (in particular in elearning). Almost all training and learning design begins with a “learning…

link to website from James How you SHOULD use blogs in education and How NOT to use blogs in education

link to website from Albert Ip about games in learning…. “While educators can select games which have attributes positive towards learning, I would still like to ask if “playing game” is the best use of time of the students. For those who are motivated to…

link to website includes link to pdf Three types of e-portfolios are described in this report: student e-portfolios, teaching e-portfolios, and institutional e-portfolios. E-portfolios can support student advisement, career preparation, and credential…

Weblogg-ed - The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : RSS: The New Killer App for Eduators

link to website “The Clinical Skills Online (CSO) is a project aimed at providing online videos demonstrating core clinical skills common to a wide range of medical and health-based courses. This project has been funded by the Higher Education Academy…

link to website from Learning Circuits by Eva Kaplan-Leiserson Implications for learning Listening to digital audio content won’t replace reading, listening to live presentations, or the multitude of other ways learners take in information, but it can…

From the Creating Passionate Users Blog come a few posts about learning …. link to website This is where so many teachers (and books) go wrong. In trying to make the learning smooth, and in a well-intentioned attempt to save the learner from having to learn…

link to website Learning Development Cycle: Bridging Learning Design and Modern Knowledge Needs from George Siemens “To better reflect the centrality of learners, the term “learning design” will be used in place of instructional design. Instructional design…

link to website by Barry Wellman Connecting Community: On- and Offline “> The Internet is no longer a separate world for the in-group; millions of people routinely come online. Rather than isolating users in a virtual world, the Internet extends community in…

Notes on a presentation from the Collaborative Learning Conference 2005 Enterprise Use of RSS for managing information by Kathleen Gilroy (from The Otter Group ) Prefers the term ‘learning network’ to ‘learning community’ - as believes the tools we are using…

link to website from Godfrey Parkin “Training, as we have known it, is not driven by consumer demand, has uninteresting ROI, provides really fuzzy benefits, and cannot be easily differentiated. But that can change. Education focuses on helping people know…

link to website Presentation by Dr. Gary Woodill on Effective Management of Distributed Online Educational Content list of possibilities: 1 Advising/Counseling Tools 2 Arts-based Experiential Tools 3 Automated Online Assessments 4 Blogging 5 Collaboration…

Maarten Cannaerts writes a blog called Conference Blog - Towards a learning society which records thoughts prompted by the conference. Many leads to follow up here.

I’m cleaning out my Bloglines account - Lately I’ve been flagging articles that look interesting but not getting back to them. I’m focussing this afternoon on Learning Design…. As long as we focus on lectures/ instructor led workshops for our staff…

link to website by Ellen D. Wagner “The heightened interest in mobile possibilities for teaching, learning, and research can be attributed to a number of factors: the continuing expansion of broadband wireless networks; the explosion of power and capacity of…

link to website this blog post from Jay Cross has a neat graphic of workflow learning as performance support. link to website Workflow Learning Gets Real by Jay Cross Given That Workers in most American factories spend just 20 percent of their time making…

link to website a very quick quiz to help determine an adults learning style with brief descriptions of the styles

link to website by Stephen Downes “Probably the best indicator of what works in informal e-learning is what works on the web in general. After all, this is where much informal learning is already taking place. And the web is a medium that supports informal,…

accessibility resource A bundle of resources developed through a LearnScope Project in 2004 tackling the issue of building in accessibility from the word go. Addresses issues for html, word, powerpoint, flash, forms, navigation, pdfs and more

link to website Page of Digital Storytelling Resources prepared for a workshop at MCLI

link to website Denham Grey writes: “My thoughts around learning have been profoundly altered by reading Wenger, Brown & Duguid and von Krogh and focus on collective workplace practices. Have come to appreciate the role, value and importance of social…

link to website “Images Canada — the gateway to images of Canadian events, people, places and things! Search the collections of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada. Type a keyword in the search box, select the…

link to website Via James Farmer, a link to “(My) 7 guidelines for effective corporate e Learning” by Anol Bhattacharya. The first being: 1. The business world is not about learning, it’s about doing business.

link to website in this article from the NorthWest Regional Educational Laboratory (US), comes a summary about skills that self directed learners which are: student motivation, metacognition, self-efficacy, self-regulation, locus of control, and goal…

link to website From Jakob Nielsen “Lower-Literacy Users Summary: Lower-literacy users exhibit very different reading behaviors than higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view. We’ve…

link to website from George Siemens “Informal learning is too important leave to chance. But why don’t we have theories that provide guidelines (I imagine “steps 1, 2, and 3″ approaches would be a bit at odds with informal learning) to designing in these…

link to website From the site: What’s a PodGuide?. “A PodGuide is a very simple thing. It’s the combination of a map (PDF) of a certain place and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod. Think of an audio tour in a museum, but not…

link to website includes link to mp3 of students talking about what their experience of eportfolios and several other resources.

link to website Educating the Net Generation A New EDUCAUSE e-Book Celtic Knot The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they…

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ePortfolios Portal ePortfolios: a portal site The ePortfolio Portal serves as a resource to assist you in gaining knowledge around the concepts of eportfolios. “You’ll be introduced to the concept of an eportfolio, the brief history of the electronic…

Learning_Theories Learning Theories site that summarises a range of theories.

LC Interviews Dr. Michael Allen “E-learning is often boring for the same reasons much traditional instruction is boring. It focuses on content presentation rather than the learning experience. In fact, I find that 99 percent of it all follows the…

CSU, Chico WebCT Institute: Reference Tools Reference Tools “So you’ve taken the training and started developing your course. Need more help? Our reference tools can help. Below we have compiled the most common tools needed by beginner and advanced course…

aug04_06 Introduction iLEARN is an interactive distance learning framework designed specifically for analyzing, understanding, and implementing technology-oriented education but generally applicable to other computer-assisted instruction. It is a pedagogical…

link to website by Philip C Candy for DEST “This study was undertaken to explore the extent to which and ways in which Information and Communication Technologies or ICT (basically global networks of computers and other associated digital devices) have…

link to website from Felicia Douglis, Educational Technology Department, San Diego State University. Personally I’d change the word “content” on the outer wheel to “design” or “learning design”. I printed out the wheel image onto light card, cut out the…

Two papers from Epic Consulting group - more available on their website. Blended learning link to pdf by Donald Clark, CEO Epic Group plc and Blended learning II blended learning in practice link to pdf By Mark Harrison, Head of Consulting, Epic Group plc…

link to website By Brent Muirhead “Introduction Interactivity research studies involving online classes reveal that students value their opportunities to communicate with their peers and instructors. The author will briefly highlight student expectations for…

link to website I really do like the look of this site. Great example of how the template stuff could work.

link to pdf report by BECTA “This report examines the evidence of where Managed Learning Environments and Virtual Learning Environments (and their constituent tools) are being used, and the potential benefits which are being claimed. It looks across all…

link to website Clive Shepherd argues in this (short) article for short, easily accessible nuggets of information being available from workplace intranets. In his conclusion he writes: “Short tutorials suit everybody. They suit trainers because they are…

link to pdf (1Mb) Generic Skills in Vocational Education and Training: Research Readings Edited by Jennifer Gibb This volume of readings summarises some of the research undertaken into generic skills in 2001-02 as it relates to vocational education and…

link to pdf (905kb) Exploring assessment in flexible delivery of vocational education and training programs Report by Patricia Hyde, Berwyn Clayton and Robin Booth which concludes that there are “four critical issues for assessment in flexible delivery: -…

link to website By Richard E. Ferdig, Ph.D., and Kaye D. Trammell, University of Florida Multiple page article “In this article, we will describe the pedagogy behind blogs. We will address the reasons why blogs should be used as one of many teaching and…

link to website interview with Katy Campbell by the Idea Group Excerpt: “IG: What is the importance of learning objects and repositories? KC: A new model of courseware development provides a solution to the problem of expensive and time-consuming original…

link to pdf by Harvey Singh - has a good overview of different blends of learning. encourages the use of different modes to suit the context including performance support, unstructured and collaborative learning. ‘This article has two objectives: 1. To…

IFETS - Discussions International Forum of Educational Technology & Society Moderator: Bill Williams Setubal Polytechnic, Portugal Introduction… ‘Groups of learners on online courses, in common with other online communities, are generally found to comprise…

Types of Information By Kathy Tyner “To optimize learning , information must be logically organized and made explicit to the learner. This page will focus on the types of information presented in a training program and the levels of performance expected of…

link to website About: This Guide provides an introduction to e-learning: what it is and what it looks like. It comprises short, one-page summaries of e-learning topics, with links to key external resources (articles, examples, etc). This Guide is a dynamic…

link to pdf file Readiness Checklist “Before you embark on your multimedia/web project there are some basic things that must be in place including, existing content, a vision, and resources. Go through the 5 items one-by-one in order to lay a solid…

link to website This site was developed to assist instructors who are new to using technology in the classroom by creating a reflective document to assist in planning the use of technology in your teaching. This tool will ask you a series of questions…

link to website By Anne Bartlett-Bragg (UTS) “Have you considered using blogs within your pedagogical practice? Do you know what a blog is? This excellent article makes a significant contribution to the flexible learning debate. Anne Bartlett-Bragg describes…

Curtin’s IBL Guide Web: Ideas for using email for teaching and learning “Here are some ideas from the University of NSW for using email in your teaching; some refer to email lists; others are about the more individual uses of email. They tend to share an…