E-Learning Council blogs

Content Curation - Best Practices

snasta — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:34:49 +0000

Content curation has become a hot topic in 2012. Corrine Weisgerber, an associate professor at St. Edwards University, has an excellent presentation on content curation. She differentiates content curation from content aggregation--content aggregation can be automated but content curation requires the human touch for finding, evaluating and contextualizing information.

Mastery and Deliberate Practice

snasta — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:29:17 +0000

"Mastery arrives through what Ericsson calls “deliberate practice.” This entails more than simply playing a C-minor scale a hundred times or hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket.

E-Learning Project Management Workshop Resources

snasta — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:02:38 +0000

Resources for the Planning and Project Managing an E-Learning Project Workshop.

Books

Project Managing E-Learning (ASTD E-Learning Series) >

Taming Information overload before it devours

rshadrin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:46:45 +0000

We are pleased to have a guest post from Richard L. Shadrin of Wonderful Brain. Rich is •Owner and Strategic Learning Design Leader at Wonderful Brain. You can follow Rich on Twitter @richshadrin .

Not too long ago we needed tools like an artist’s palette provides a variety of colors. Now we have the technological capacity to deliver learning to anyone in the learning style to which they best respond across multiple platforms irrespective of time and geography. With the gate down learning designers can roam far and wide (and deep) to match content, to methods of communication to outcomes.

The challenge is just because we can do anything doesn’t mean we have to do everything. The temptation to employ every idea and methodology is an organic consequence of information overload. And pushed at us by the hour (minute, second?) in all kinds of forms has in many ways had the effect of distracting our ability to solve problems. Rather than making learning design more direct and focused, content is too easily diluted by non-essential information—that, while interesting and valuable—does nothing to amplify the quality of the learning solution. At the same time, as this graphic illustrates, our brains just can’t take it all in. We’ve run out of cognitive space—and most of us do not delve any deeper, wider and in some cases outright ignore anything new having burnt out chasing the innovation comet.

Planning and Project Management of an E-Learning Project

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:44:19 +0000

The success of your E-Learning initiative begins and ends with project management. E-Learning projects are more complex to manage than traditional learning projects because they involve technology and training. There's more risk, more time constraints, more budget pressures, and more failures in communication.

By the end of this seminar you should be able to manage an E-Learning project so that it is:

Effective
Within budget
On Time

Our Managing E-Learning Projects workshop will show you an adaptive and agile methodology for E-Learning projects that will help you prevent pitfalls commonly found in an E-Learning project. Topics covered include:

Content Curation - Can you add value to your learning programs with content curation?

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:17:34 +0000

There's a tremendous amount of content that has already been created. What role does content curation play in learning strategy? What are some of the important functions of a content curator? What are the ethics of sharing content created by someone else? Margot Bloomstein presented on this topic at SXSW 2011. Her presentation starts creating a structure for content creation and discusses how to add value during the process. I hope it will start a discussion at E-Learning Council on this learning function.

Registration is now open for E-Learning Symposium 2011 Houston!

nstallings — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:45:34 +0000

E-Learning Symposium is headed to Houston October 25th! ELS 2011 is an interactive conference designed to help professionals and key decision makers learn how to execute E-Learning programs within their organizations. This event is essential for professionals who manage and design web-based education programs in healthcare, government, higher education, energy, and corporate settings. E-Learning Symposium 2011 Houston brings industry experts from Texas and beyond to share their knowledge on of-the-moment topics, processes, and technology within the E-Learning world.

Become a little bit famous--Join the E-Learning Symposium 2011 Blogger Panel at ELS Houston

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:01:28 +0000

E-Learning Council is looking for three bloggers to join our blogger panel on Social Learning at E-Learning Symposium 2011 in Houston on October 25th (workshops on October 26th). E-Learning Symposium is an annual conference targeted at decision makers and producers of E-learning. Past attendees have included decision makers from Fortune 500 companies, State and Federal Government, and Universities. Our goal is to provide the resources to improve the quality of E-learning produced. Selected panelists will:

E-Learning Symposium 2011-Austin Photos

admin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:16:55 +0000

The Five Superpowers of the Learning Age

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:31:29 +0000

Anders Gronstedt is speaking about The Five Superpowers of the Learning Age at E-Learning Symposium 2011.

Tell a story: Hollywood-style, character-rich, story-centered learning simulations are redefining learning-by-doing.
Play a game: Game concepts such as points, levels, time pressure, and cut scenes make learning engaging.
Make it social: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and similar company internal social networks are embedding learning in every-day work processes and connecting people with each other.
Make it immersive: A new generation browser-based, high fidelity 3-D virtual simulations are energizing learning.
Make it mobile: Podcasting and mobile and location based apps are changing the paradigm from employees coming to the class room to the class room coming to the employees.

An example of an immersive experience is the 3-D immersive Emergency Shelter Simulation developed by the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the City of New York Office of Emergency Management (video below).

New York City Hurricane Shelter Simulation Training from Anders Gronstedt on Vimeo.