The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

Today’s post concludes my short review of Kineo’s 80/20 approach to rapid learning content prioritization and development.Previously, I considered how the 80/20 Rule could be applied to e-learning, and suggested that Juran’s Axiom of “the vital few and the trivial many” meant that we could say 80 percent of learning results originate from 20 percent [...]

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My experience of the e-learning industry is that the best and most effective practitioners are always looking for even more efficient content development methodologies, media production technologies, and approaches to content distribution to enable them to design, develop and deliver content to learners.

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Bersin & Associates Principal Analyst Chris Howard has just sent me their recent report Integrating Learning into the Enterprise.
The document covers the following topics:

Planning & Strategy
Content Development
Learning Programs
Learning Technology
Analytics & Measurement
Talent Management
Leadership Development

Mr Howard would assert, and I would agree, that a transformation is taking place in organizations, and we are witnessing the emergence [...]

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Phase One: Requirements gathering - Developing the Instructional Design
In 1996, ISD guru David Merrill et alia asserted that there were indicators to demonstrate that educational instructional design (ISD) had gone awry:
Too much of the structure of educational technology is built upon the sand of relativism, rather than the rock of science. When winds of [...]

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Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, the current version of this popular add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, is a freely available application that facilitates the capture, synchronisation, and publishing of audio, video, slides, and images. The primary reasons for choosing this application for content integration were it’s low learning curve for non-media experts, as well [...]

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Designing the structure of a syllabus, curriculum, or course is one of the key activities to be undertaken well to ensure the course meets the learners’ needs. A discussion about approaches to instructional design is beyond the remit of this series of posts on developing learning content in an Open Environment; I recommend Benjamin Bloom’s [...]

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Having discussed two key components of this Open Environment for E-learning; an XML-based authoring and content-generation tool, and an image-manipulation application, today’s post will discuss an XML-based productivity suite - a word processor, spreadsheet application, and presentation tool called OpenOffice.org.
In my view, tools like DocBook XML/XXE are excellent primary content creation / generation applications; [...]

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The second open environment authoring tool highlighted in this series is a flexible image editing application called the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a freely distributed raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include:

creating graphics and logos
resizing and cropping photos
colour management
combining multiple images
removing unwanted [...]

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After the diversions of the last few days, I will now return to my discussion on developing e-learning content using an open environment. As discussed in a previous post, we can say that there are certain unresolved philosophical matters surrounding the notion of open environments; I will return to these presently. However, the gratis / [...]

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It’s just over two months since I posted on Recession and the Challenge to E-learning. It’s a subject that I said I would monitoring as the “Credit Crunch” became a downturn, which may or may not lead to a recession.
As a reminder, at the time I suggested that the appropriate social and economic innovations required [...]

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