Category: e-learning
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E-Tools Galore
Here is a great wiki chock full of e-tools and a stack of other interesting and useful information. Well done!
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Narrating Elearning
I have been doing a lot of narrating on elearning projects lately and I admit that I find it challenging. This resource might help you when you have to record your voice. My own practical tips are: Always write out the script – it takes a while but it saves you a lot of time…
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Learning from the best
I am continually being impressed by how the universities of the world are taking to the internet and sharing knowledge. There are many options here such as podcasts, video, online webinars and online courses. Here is another new program: The Faculty Project. It is basically a list of impressive lecturers who provide a series of…
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Gamification
I don’t expect that everyone, all the time, follows some of the comments on this blog so if you missed it Nygell Topp, a regular reader, attached a video which does a good job of defining gamification. So if you want to learn a little more about the hot topic out there in training watch…
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Games and Training
Games have always been apart of training. Generally though, from my experience they are short and to the point and quickly summarised so we can move on to the next chunk of content. I have played with longer concept games but they do take up considerable time to design and the outcome ca be variable…
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E-Learning Tips
A quick post today. The elearning guild has released a new ebook, 58 Tips for Breakthrough eLearning Instructional Design Yes, its free, and yes you will need to go through the usual form filling process but it is worth the read, particularly of you are new to elearning design.
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Get Into Google Plus
What are you doing during the Easter Break? How about spending a few hours playing around with Google Plus and seeing how it works. To get you started here is a great little guide to to its use. Have fun and link up to me if you want.
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Gaming and learning
Gamification is the use of game design techniques, game thinking and game mechanics to enhance non-game contexts. Of course this has implications to learning and it is already here. There are countless games which are learning orientated and they have been around for a long time. Even when I was a kid we have computer based learning games…
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Getting Virtual
Do you want to know more about the Virtual World movement and more particularly its uses in Education? Well get virtual and visit the Virtual World’s – Best Practices in Education 5th Annual Conference starting the 15th March and never have to leave your home of office. Here is the registration desk and this link…
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Viral Training, is it possible?
I just liked this video (see below). I am puzzled by the whole viral thing though. Why does one video gets more hits than another? Some of my own training videos have had a lot of hits (nothing really compared to a viral video) while others have had very little and I can’t work out…