The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

I’ll start this post by issuing a mixed metaphor alert: today, we’re going to talk about an elephant in the room, which also happens to be an 800lb gorilla.
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Back in February this year, I wrote the first of my occasional series on Recession and the challenge to e-learning; in that first [...]

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In my view, this investment will prove to be a game-changer. As it is, you could say that HMH are the only game in (e-learning) town - if they manage the innovations and outputs afforded by this R&D centre correctly, HMH will grow to become the Google of e-learning.

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Among other things it allows me to see such statistics about site usage, page loads, popularity of site by location (for an English-language site, I’ve an unusually large group of readers in Brazil, for example: Olá! Como vai?), location of subscribers (hello also to my most Northerly ready in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada)…

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In my last blog post I wrote about the optimism learning professionals are currently expressing about the short- to medium-term growth of the industry, despite the current economic climate, and the traditional impact that recessionary times have on learning and development in organizations. I’ve been thinking hard about the factors that may be influencing attitudes, [...]

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After a weekend of listening to The Works by Queen, I’ve been trying to find a way to squeeze one of the album’s song titles into a blog post, and by Jove, I think I’ve got it!
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Today I’m returning to one of my occasional topics - tracking the state of the e-learning industry [...]

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After a weekend of listening to The Works by Queen, I’ve been trying to find a way to squeeze one of the album’s song titles into a blog post, and by Jove, I think I’ve got it!
Now read on…
Today I’m returning to one of my occasional topics - tracking the state of the e-learning industry [...]

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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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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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Having discussed a range of primary design and authoring tools, today’s post will look at one of the key content development tools, an open source non-linear audio editor (NLE) called Audacity.
[It] is an easy-to-use audio recorder and editor for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems .

(sourceforge.net)
Audacity has the capability [...]

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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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