Podcasting & E-Learning

Podcasting is one of the great, albeit not-so-new technologies for distributing information FAST!   If you haven’t already dabbled with it, I encourage you to get your feet wet and try it out.  Here are a few good resources to get you started:

E-Learning Centre – Library Podcasting
Ponderance – Podcasting & E-Learning
Podcasts for Educators Weblog
SANTEC Seminar: Podcasting & [...]

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Different Flavors of Content Reuse and Reusability

Not all content that is intended for reuse is created equal.  Before deciding upon the destiny of your content, it makes good sense to understand and plan how it will be used (and reused).  To this end, I was recently contacted by RAND Corporation to participate in a study entitled:  “Reusable Digital Training Content:  Obstacles [...]

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E-Learning 2.0: A simple Definition

If it is true that we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes, we can say with certainty that we’ve learned tons since e-learning first made its mark in the digital landscape.  It hasn’t always been a pretty sight:  The initial efforts towards learning, adopting and using standards like AICC and SCORM were [...]

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So, What is E-Learning 2.0?

The answer to this depends upon whom you ask.  You see, “e-learning 2.0” (as a defined and accepted principle) doesn’t really exist.  Not yet, anyway.   Oh sure…you’ll find a few pretty good definitions floating around out there in google-space, but each of them will tell you that a, b, and c are e-learning 2.0, but [...]

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In the beginning…

…there were books and instructors and blackboards and lectures.   And they worked pretty well for several hundred years.   Then, around 1969, the Internet was born as a Cold War project to create a communications network that was immune to a nuclear attack. The U.S. government created ARPANET, connecting four western universities and allowing researchers to use the mainframes [...]

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