As you’ll know if you viewed my post on Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4PT) I feel that the more exposure learning professionals have to the range of tools at our disposal, the more effectively we can develop effective learning solutions for our customers.
In a similar vein, I’ve just received a nice [...]
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100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: College Education · Features · Productivity · VAK · collaboration tools · learning styles · mind tools
An Open Environment for E-Learning Course Development: Project Lifecycle 2
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Phase One: Using a Constructivist Theoretical Approach
Bruner’s 1966 text Toward a Theory of Instruction described the key principles of constructivism (p.225):
Table 1 Principles of constructivism
Principle
Definition
Readiness
Instruction must be concerned with the experiences and contexts that make the student willing and able to learn
Spiral organisation
Structure.
The content must be [...]
Tags: Bruner · Constructivism · conditions of learning · learning styles · learning theory · open e-learning environment · principles of constructivism
Instructional Design 101: Orwell’s Five Rules for writing good English
April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Whatever your views on George Orwell’s politics, I hope you agree with me that his writing style is the quintessence of English prose. I think that the influential English author and critic’s skills are particularly represented in his essays and short stories.
For no reason other than the relevance of his writing to the art of [...]
Tags: Orwell · conditions of learning · content development · instructional design · learning styles
Non-formal learning in action: Information Sessions
February 4th, 2008 · No Comments
As discussed in my last blog entry, learner intention - specifically deliberative learning (where the worker schedules time to learn) is a key definer of non-formal learning. As such, the development of an educationally sound theoretical framework, pedagogical approach and instructional design process (are essential in create a learning environment (both synchronous and asynchronous) [...]
Tags: Gagne · Information Sessions · Social Constructivism · deliberative learningConstructivist theoretical model · events of instruction · learning styles · non-formal learning · rapid elearning
Typology of non-formal learning
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Similar to Rogers’ learning continuum (2004), Eraut establishes a matrix to identify varying types of non-formal learning, based on the timing of the stimulus (past, current, future) and the extent to which such learning is implicit, reactive or deliberative. A key component of the matrix is the intention of the learner’s activity. Eraut makes a [...]
Tags: Eraut · learning styles · learning theory · non-formal learning
Introduction to Non-formal Learning
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Well, I had to redefine all learning in order to write the book because the world is changing so fast. The concepts we had when knowledge was fixed in place, like something you could put in a library, don’t work anymore. So I look at all learning as adaptation to the communities that matter to [...]
Tags: definition of learning · formal learning · informal learning · learning styles · learning theory · non-formal learning
More on defining e-learning, elearning, eLearning…
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
As I wrote yesterday, Don Morrison has defined e-learning as:
The continuous assimilation of knowledge and skills by adults stimulated by synchronous and asynchronous learning events – and sometimes Knowledge management outputs – which are authored, delivered engaged with, supported and administered using internet technologies.
(2004, p.4)
I briefly touched upon “continuous assimilation of knowledge and skills by [...]
Tags: Colvin Clark · Information Sessions · Mayer · Schank · asynchronous · definition of learning · e-learning · learning styles · learning theory · organizational learning · synchronous
Towards a Definition of E-learning
January 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been building a theoretical and conceptual framework for how I approach e-learning, beginning with an interpretation of a general theoretical view about how learners learn, through the multifaceted approaches of constructivism and begun to place this in the context of learning in organisations and even touched on how organisational [...]
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What is learning?
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments
I guess it’s now time to move on to some of the “big picture” stuff and begin to outline how I characterise terms like “learning” and “e-learning.”
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In the field of organisational development, the terms ‘training’ and ‘learning’ are often used interchangeably: both broadly refer to the acquisition of new or enhanced knowledge, skills, attitudes [...]
Tags: Argyris · Kolb · Lev Vygotsky · Schon · e-learning · experiential learning theory · learning styles · learning theory
Constructivism Pt.11: Organizational Learning
January 16th, 2008 · No Comments
In their 1974 work Theory in practice: Increasing professional effectiveness, Chris Argyris and Donald Schön support the constructivist argument that individuals (and in the context of this paper particularly knowledge workers) have schemata or mental maps both for their skill assets and they contend, with regard to how to act in situations. This directs the [...]
Tags: Constructivism · Eraut · Schon · formal learning · learning styles · learning theory · non-formal learning · organizational development · organizational learning