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eLearning Strategies That Work |
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Written by Robert Bilyk
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 18:06 |
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About the challenge Whether it makes sense or not, people with no instructional design background are being asked to create boatloads of eLearning. College teachers generate learning objects and post them to learning management systems. Human resource personnel use tools like Captivate and pump out content in support of one thing or another. Technical writers are called upon to create interactive media. I've had occasion to review a lot of college eLearning and recently I looked at eLearning resources produced in companies by people unschooled or inexperienced in interactive design. The stuff was dreadful. On the flip side, I've worked for design companies that engaged writers, graphic designers, media producers and programmers in the production of eLearning. The results were wonderful; the cost was dreadful. Obviously, it is not always feasible to take every learning objective and turn it into a six figure project. Sometimes we are called upon to produce a resource on a shoestring budget. But it doesn't always have to be dreadful. In fact we can learn a few things from the pros and make our eLearning interactive, engaging and, above all, effective. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 March 2010 19:26 )
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Reaching ‘Hard To Reach’ Children |
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Written by Andy Hannaford
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Friday, 13 March 2009 17:30 |
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There are groups of children that do not attend school for a variety of reasons. Some may have medical conditions that make it difficult or impossible to attend school. Others might be teetering on the brink of exclusion, while some students just cannot face leaving the house to attend school. For some, many avenues and strategies have been attempted to engage them in the learning process, but sadly these have stalled or failed. It was for these students that in September 2003, ConnectEd Online Learning was established, to find another way to engage and educate those students not able to attend school for whatever reason. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 13 March 2009 17:53 )
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Introduction to the Engage Learner Site |
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Written by Robert Bilyk
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Monday, 22 September 2008 00:00 |
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As the director of LodeStar Learning, I have the wonderful opportunity of interfacing with many bright and enterprising professionals who are committed to the advancement of education through technology. They range from: the fellows of Education|Evolving, who are thinking through the redesign of schooling; to professionals at Top Practices, who are forming mastermind groups of people with common interests and goals; to the folks in the trenches who are helping instructors adapt to the ever-changing world of instructional technology. This site is a blank canvas. Its articles will range from high level policy discussions to home-spun examples of engaging learners. There will be something for anyone who is interested in educational technology. It will invite the contributions of teachers, technologists, creative writers, policy wonks, as well as some unlikely candidates for this sort of thing - whoever has something of interest to share. In part, this site was inspired by Clayton Christensen’s book Disrupting Class. Christenson's broad inquiry into education policy and practice has rekindled my enthusiasm for instructional technology -- at a time when the pioneers of this field are somewhat apologetic. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 15 September 2008 01:11 )
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Getting Started with eLearning |
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Written by Robert Bilyk
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:10 |
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Getting started with eLearning can be daunting. You are a college professor or a high school teacher or a corporate trainer. For years you’ve heard about online learning and learning management systems like Blackboard and Moodle. You recognize that these are just tools. The tools are made to be simple to use – so the learning curve can’t be that great, or else few people would do it. But what about the instruction? What about what this whole business of eLearning is really about: teaching and learning. In the classroom, you know how to build rapport with students, how to get them excited about a topic and how to engage them. But what happens in the online world? You have text and graphics. How can you use text and graphics to motivate students – to engage them? I’ve prepared a tutorial that introduces you to the greatest asset you have in preparing for eLearning. (That’s right. I’m keeping it a secret.) I’ve also included examples of instructional strategies that can be used in teaching a subject. The instructional strategies are supported by the LodeStar Authoring tool. The examples are built around the topic of Electronic Health Records. The topic could have been on anything and in any discipline. The main point is that we see how different learning objectives can be supported by different strategies. One of the important skills in designing instruction – for the classroom or the online learning environment – is to understand the type of learning and to match instructional strategies that will increase the probability that learning will take place. That’s the point of the discussion in the Intro to Effective eLearning and the numbered tiles that follow. So please join us on this excursion. Just click on the link below. http://www.engagelearner.org/lodestar/ehr/EHR_showcase |
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Rethinking the Student-Centered Classroom |
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Written by Tim R. McDonald
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:00 |
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Personalization and the Type II Application of Technology
Evoking the Essence of the One-Room Schoolhouse
Liberty, cooperation, self-reliance, and choice The following essay Rethinking the Student-Centered Classroom sets forth to describe how, through proper understanding of the nature of modern technologies, classrooms can become increasingly personalized for the student. This can be thought of in one small way as going back to the ways of the old one-room school house in rural communities: a model that, serving an assortment of ages and abilities was required by its very diverse nature to be personal. I see the essence of the one-room schoolhouse as including, in part, liberty, cooperation, self-reliance, and choice. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 15 September 2008 01:42 )
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