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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

Exploring Podcasting for E-Learning (and new podcast episode released)

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m exploring the medium of podcasting. I’ve previously discussed podcasting, but there can (and should) be more to the medium than the ‘fireside chat’ format.

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Tags: podcasts

A Podcast Service for the E-Learning Curve Blog

July 21st, 2009 · No Comments

I’m delighted to launch a content delivery channel I’ve been researching and developing for a while: a podcast for the E-Learning Curve Blog.

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Tags: asynchronous · authoring tools · content delivery · content development · e-learning · e-learning ecosystem · elearning content · mobile device · podcasts · technology in education · video podcast · web-based learning

Is Social Learning a fad? One Organization Seems to Believe So

July 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Reflecting upon the growing adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in enterprises and organizations, I wrote a post called Shiny new technologies used by dusty old professions.

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Tags: e-learning

Streaming Digital Media for E-Learning 4: Delivering Content via HTTP Tunneling

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Communications and collaboration using streaming media platforms only work if the client side has the facility to access the content.

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Tags: asynchronous · content delivery · e-learning · elearning content · streaming media · synchronous

Streaming Digital Media for E-Learning 2: Delivering Content via a Web Server

July 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Deploying streaming media content with the web server approach is very similar to the download-and-play model: it’s a pull technology.

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Tags: asynchronous · content delivery · e-learning · elearning content · flash · streaming media · synchronous · web based training · web-based learning

iPhone: Now an Enterprise Communications Solution

July 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In February I blogged on the iPhone: as a new model and a new version of the OS are both being rolled out, I think it’s a good time to revisit the topic.

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Tags: e-learning · e-learning ecosystem · e-learning industry · emergence of e-learning solutions · iPhone · knowledge worker cognitive enterprise · mobile device · organizational learning

E-Learning Authoring Tools Guide 2009 Released: Some Meditations on the Nature of Information

July 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Brandon Hall have released a comprehensive guide called Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase 2009 A Buyer’s Guide to the Best E-Learning Content Development Applications

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Tags: authoring tools · content · content authoring · content delivery · content development · e-learning · educational media · information resource · mobile device · use of elearning · webtop authoring tools

Shiny new technologies used by dusty old professions

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments

I hadn’t planned on blogging about informal learning today, but an article in Irish e-zine Silicon Republic interested me, and I thought I’d bring it to you.

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Tags: Knowledge Management · Social Constructivism · content delivery · culture of learning · e-learning · educational media · knowledge sharing · multiple channels · new economy · organizational development · organizational learning · organizational style · read/write web · social impact of e-learning · social learning

Seels and Glasgow Model: Discovering Instructional Design 20

June 26th, 2009 · No Comments

And so my friends, we reach Number 20 in our journey of discovery around Instructional Design. That’s a month’s solid blogging. Now read on…

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Tags: ADDIE · Cognitivism · ISD · e-learning · elearning content · instructional design

Gagne and the Events of Instruction: Discovering Instructional Design 19

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

You may be surprised to learn that the ASSURE methodology has it’s roots located the behaviorist-influenced Events of Instruction, devised by Robert M. Gagne

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Tags: Cognitivism · Constructivism · ISD · conditions of learning · e-learning · instructional design