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E-learning Curve Blog is Michael Hanley's elearning blog about skills, knowledge, and organizational development using web-based training and technology in education

Entries Tagged as 'assessment'

Discovering Instructional Design 6: Developing Objectives

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Continuing this E-Learning Curve Blog series on Instructional Design. Today I’m going to discuss Describing the Target Audience and Objectives Writing.

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Tags: ISD · assessment · conditions of learning · e-learning · instructional design

Irish Government to tax learners with "failure fee"

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Irish Government is set to tax learners with a “failure fee” in the budget next week.
Today, a source close to the ‘Grandpa Simpson of Irish Politics’ Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe TD (yes, that really is his name) announced that the Department intends to tax the corporate sector through a levy on incorrectly answered [...]

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Tags: assessment · evaluation · tax · tests · workplace learning

M-Learning 8: Mobile Learning Channels

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments

What categories of content can you deliver to your audience via m-learning?
We can all appreciate the potential of m-learning as a component of an integrated online educational strategy in the medium- to long term. However a number of factors, encompassing everything from still-developing IT and telecoms standards and infrastructure through to the diversity of [...]

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Tags: assessment · content types · m-learning · performance support · podcasts · video podcast

Capture that E-learning Demo 3: Captivate and Camtasia

January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In the previous two blog posts, I outlined – at a very high level – some of the features and functionality of TechSmith Camtasia Studio and Adobe Captivate, and in today’s post I will provide a equally high level assessment of these products, not so much in comparison to each other, but rather more at [...]

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Tags: Camtasia · adobe captivate · assessment · asynchronous · authoring tools · content authoring · content delivery · content development · e-learning · elearning content · learning technology · online learning · review · technology in education · web-based learning

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 4: assessment of authorStream and SlideShare

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

After yesterday’s short digression into some of the finer points of heuristic evaluation, today I’m returning to the matter at hand: an assessment of the features and functionality provided by the authorSTREAM and SlideShare hosted presentation distribution services.
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authorSTREAM is a web-based PowerPoint presentation sharing platform from authorGEN Technologies. After creating a [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · content authoring · elearning content · media distribution · slideshare · training evaluation model · webtop authoring tools

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 4: assessment of authorStream and SlideShare

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today I’m returning to the matter at hand: an assessment of the features and functionality provided by the authorSTREAM and SlideShare hosted presentation distribution services.

Now read on…

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · content authoring · elearning content · media distribution · slideshare · training evaluation model · webtop authoring tools

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 4: assessment of authorStream and SlideShare

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

After yesterday’s short digression into some of the finer points of heuristic evaluation, today I’m returning to the matter at hand: an assessment of the features and functionality provided by the authorSTREAM and SlideShare hosted presentation distribution services.
Now read on…
authorSTREAM is a web-based PowerPoint presentation sharing platform from authorGEN Technologies. After creating a [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · content authoring · elearning content · media distribution · slideshare · training evaluation model · webtop authoring tools

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 3: heuristic principles in evaluation

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the last couple of days I’ve been looking at the presentation-sharing channels authorSTREAM and SlideShare and how these two services enable the delivery of content via the Web. Both services rely on common read/write Web design and interaction patterns; like many other social sharing services, users are able to add tags, rate, comment, and [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · heuristics · nielsen · slideshare · usability guidelines

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 3: heuristic principles in evaluation

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the last couple of days I’ve been looking at the presentation-sharing channels authorSTREAM and SlideShare and how these two services enable the delivery of content via the Web. Both services rely on common read/write Web design and interaction patterns; like many other social sharing services, users are able to add tags, rate, comment, and [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · heuristics · nielsen · slideshare · usability guidelines

Learning Evaluation and Strategy: Using an e-learning readiness survey

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

During this series of posts on evaluating non-formal learning programs, I have mentioned carrying out an e-learning readiness survey without characterizing or discussing how to implement such a research instrument.
This was deliberate; in my view e-learning readiness surveys represent an alpha and an omega of evaluation: on one level they are the starting point for [...]

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Tags: Horton · Rosenberg · assessment · data collection · e-learning readiness survey · evaluate learning · guidelines · learning strategy · non-formal learning · quantitative data