Michael Hanley is a learning consultant based in Dublin, Ireland. He specialises in e-learning for knowledge workers; this elearning blog is about some aspects of his work. He is particularly interested in the role of e-learning in enhancing organizational performance. At the moment he is investigating how non-formal learning initiatives enable workers to achieve organisational goals in the corporate learning environment.
E-learning Curve Blog at Edublogs
E-learning Curve Blog is Michael Hanley's elearning blog about skills, knowledge, and organizational development using web-based training and technology in education
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David Hoare
// Aug 27, 2008 at 3:40 am
Hi there – great site!
I am a technology teacher in Ontario, and recently I started http://www.ClassRunner.com in order to help teachers bring online learning environments into their classes in an easy and affordable way. Many teachers I know have wanted to extend their class online, but have balked at the complexity. My goal is to provide a simple, friendly yet powerful option, giving teachers just what they need, without any headaches.
Using Moodle, I setup, host and manage very affordable course sites for teachers, which can provide a class message-board functions, blogs, assignment posting and collecting, online markbooks, posted resources, glossaries, calendars, etc…
I hope you think your readers might find it appealing. With your permission, I will be adding a link to your site on our ‘links’ page, and if you think it appropriate, perhaps you could reciprocate?
Wishing you continued success in your endeavors,
David Hoare
dh@classrunner.com
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michaelhanley
// Aug 27, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Done! Your website is now displayed in my blogroll.
Best of luck with ClassRunner, David; it looks like a great site.
Michael
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Michael Douma
// Sep 17, 2008 at 8:49 am
DEAR Michael ,
The Internet has transformed how we communicate with the public, but there are still many challenges in making information easy to find. Since you cover e-learning in The E-learning Curve at Edublogs , I thought you might be interested in a study that my nonprofit published this summer about how people find information online. The study covers three groups: non-profit organizations and cities; web designers and firms; and the general public.
The study was fascinating on a number of levels, and I invite you to read the executive summary or download a PDF of the findings at http://www.idea.org/find-information.html .
The survey results sparked ideas about tools we could provide that might make finding information online easier. This fall, we will start beta testing a cool new new navigational tool. I don’t have your email, so if you are interested, you can sign up for our beta here: http://www.spicynodes.org/ or to stay abreast of our (very) occasional new projects, you can get our newsletter here: http://www.idea.org/newsletter.html
Thanks,
Michael
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michaelhanley
// Sep 17, 2008 at 9:14 am
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your comments and for reading my blog.
I’ll be very interested to take a look at the research your carried out this summer about how people find information online. This is a subject very close to my heart, given that people generally (and knowledge workers in particular) spend up to 30% of their time searching for information across a range of resources including local intra- and extranets and, of course, online.
If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know that I have written on this topic previously on a number of occasions, and I am always motivated to discover new work undertaken in this domain. If it’s OK with you, I’ll put some remarks on the research on the E-learning Curve at Edublogs, naturally including links to your own site and the primary research itself.
Best regards,
Michael Hanley
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