https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve Michael Hanley's blog about education and digital learning & teaching Fri, 01 Apr 2022 08:03:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1707_MHC-logo_white_bg_512px-50x50.png https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve 32 32 https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/definition-elearning-content-authoring/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/?p=127 The process of authoring, delivering, engaging with, supporting and administering content are time-critical components of the delivery chain. E-learning can be authored in a time-frame appropriate for the audience, meaning that subject matter experts are able to author content in a way not possible a decade ago. Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/more-defining-elearning/ https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/more-defining-elearning/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/?p=28 Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/more-defining-elearning/feed/ 1 https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/irish-govt-announces-new-approach-primary-teaching/ https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/irish-govt-announces-new-approach-primary-teaching/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:01:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/classroom-based-training-a-new-approach-for-the-21st-century/2010/04/01/ Government to convert regular school classrooms into behavioural conditioning chambers. Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/irish-govt-announces-new-approach-primary-teaching/feed/ 1 https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/towards-definition-elearning-2/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/?p=124 E-learning is based on 3 basic criteria. First, it's networked. Next, it's delivered to the end-user via a computing device using standard internet technology. Finally, it focuses on the broadest view of learning: learning that goes beyond “e-training”. Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/towards-definition-elearning/ https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/towards-definition-elearning/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/?p=123 “E-learning” means different things to different people. When you consider that you can call the discipline “e-learning”, “elearning” or even “eLearning”, it’s no surprise that there is a range of definitions of the subject: we prefer to define things according to how we use them. Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/towards-definition-elearning/feed/ 1 https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/history-informal-learning-early-years/ Fri, 01 Jun 2018 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/characteristics-of-informal-learning/2009/03/20/ The emergence of digital / digitisation / digitalization is forcing organisations to rethink and evaluate how workers learn and how to support effective performance. How do people learn? Why? What accounts for the upswing in interest in informal learning? Does it work? Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/informal-learning-way-forward/ Mon, 28 May 2018 14:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/defining-informal-learning/2009/03/25/ Informal learning should no longer be regarded as an inferior form of learning whose main purpose is to act as the precursor of formal learning. Yet, I have some doubts as to whether informal learning is the best way forward. Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/constructivism-13-double-loop-learning/ Thu, 24 May 2018 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/?p=121 In double loop learning, goals or decision-making rules are modified in the light of experience; the second loop facilitates their modification. Double-loop learning recognises that the way a problem is defined and solved can be a source of the problem. Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/constructivism-pt12-organizational-learning-contd/ Mon, 21 May 2018 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/?p=120 Chris Argyris and Donald Schön suggest that each member of an organisation constructs their own representation of the actual, tacit, applied organisational behaviours, also called its “theory-in-use”. Argyris and Schön modelled theory-in-use to investigate its three components. Continue Reading →]]> https://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/constructivism-11-organizational-learning/ Thu, 17 May 2018 07:00:00 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/?p=119 Argyris & Schön support the argument that individuals have mental maps both for their skill assets and how to act in situations. They assert that it is these mental maps that guide people’s actions rather than the theories they explicitly espouse. This has implications for approaches to organisational learning. Continue Reading →]]>