About eLearning

This is a comprehensive guide on eLearning. This document is currently a work in progress - contribute if you can - or come back to see this document develop.

What Is eLearning?

What Is eLearning?
eLearning is the use of digital media such as the Internet, CDs, Cable TV and streaming media to facilitate education, training, lifelong learning, communication and online meetings. eLearning includes Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, simulations, games, audio, video and web conferencing, and more.

Technology Enables New Learning Opportunities
New technologies are complementing learning in the classrom and workplace settings, and it is enabling eLearning opportunities that can provide access to meetings, events education and workforce development opportunities accessible from the convenience of the home or workplace. Technologies such as audio and video conferencing; webcasting, podcasting and streaming media; web conferencing; CD Rom; and Cable TV enable realtime or on demand delivery of audio, full motion video, animation, and multimedia content. These technologies enable the near realtime transmission of events as they happen or make it possible to conveniently distribute pre-recorded/pre-edited media on demand. In other words, media that is stored can be made available for access at any time.

Why eLearning?

eLearning is saving money, providing exciting new options for education and workplace training, and it is creating new business development and customer relations opportunities. Today organizations are launching eLearning initiatives aimed at employees, customers, investors and more.

eLearning is enabling:

eLearning Options

There are many forms of eLearning, distance learning, computer based learning (CBL) to support education and training. Your choice will be based upon a number of factors such as: your goals, funding, size of your organization and number of learners, availability of technology, instructional level (i.e. high school, workplace, etc.), and instructor and student comfort with technoloy.

 

The following is a quick summary of eLearning alternatives.

eLearning Delivery Styles

Synchronous: Real-time, instructor-led online learning (virtual) classroom. All participants are logged on at the same time and communicate directly with each other. The instructors have the ability to “call on" students, individually. Interaction may also be via audio or video conferencing, Internet telephony, or two-way live broadcasts.

Asynchronous: Learning via interaction between separated instructors and students and occurs intermittently with a time delay. Examples:

Clearinghouse

 

Access to learning is a basic right for everyone. Our goal is to make learning resources available to everyone.

Conference News

Interesting upcoming conference news...

International Symposium on Integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving: IREPS 2011

There is a growing academic and societal need for the integration of academic activities among themselves and with Society, including private and public sectors. An increasing number of academics have noticed the importance of integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving among themselves and with societal and corporate real life problems. Information and Communications Technologies enabled different ways of supporting these kinds of integration processes. Informing Science is at the heart of academic activities (research, education, and consulting).

More information at: http://www.iiis2011.org/demset/website/default.asp?vc=51

Curriki

 

 Lots of resources at this site.

More information at: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

 

ELL to Go

Two schools transform their ELL programs by giving students around-the-clock access to some of the latest mobile devices.

  • By Jennifer Demski
  • 05/02/11

The typical student at the Newcomer Center, an alternative school in Township High School District 214 in Arlington Heights, IL, is a recent immigrant with little or no English skills. The school is a temporary stopover for these students--they stay at the center for about a year, building up their English-language skills, and are then transferred to an ESL program at their home school in the district.

 

http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/05/02/ell-to-go.aspx

Education News

Read about the latest in Education News links.

SAT Reading Scores Fall To Lowest Level On Record

By JUSTIN POPE   09/14/11 11:08 AM ET   AP

- Scores on the critical reading portion of the SAT college entrance exam fell three points to their lowest level on record last year, and combined reading and math scores reached their lowest point since 1995.

The College Board, which released the scores Wednesday, said the results reflect the record number of students from the high school class of 2011 who took the exam and the growing diversity of the test-taking pool – particularly Hispanics. As more students aim for college and take the exam, it tends to drag down average scores.

Still, while the three-point decline to 497 may look small in the context of an 800-point test, it was only the second time in the last two decades reading scores have fallen as much in a single year. And reading scores are now notably lower than scores as recently as 2005, when the average was 508.

More information at:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/sat-reading-scores-fall-t_0_n_962138.html?icid=maing-grid7|ipad|dl25|sec3_lnk1|95626

The World Is Becoming More Educated Than The U.S.

 

By Claire Gordon, Posted Sep 14th 2011 @ 1:33PM

Today the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released some hard numbers that confirm this startling decline of the West and the rise of the rest. Although the West that's declining is almost exclusively America.

The United States, with only 5 percent of the world's population, is still home to over a quarter of the world's college graduates, according to the OECD's "Education at a Glance 2011." This triumphant statistic is less comforting, however, when you break it down by age. A smaller percentage of 25-to-34-year-olds in the United States are as educated as their 55-to-64-year-old parents, while the rest of the world's young people are earning college degrees in ever-higher numbers. As a result, America has experienced a striking relative decline. An astounding 36 percent of 55-to-64-year-olds with a higher education are in the United States, but only 21 percent of 25-to-34-year-olds with higher degrees do the same.
More information at: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/09/14/the-world-is-becoming-more-educated-than-the-u-s/?icid=maing-grid7|ipad|dl7|sec3_lnk1|95582

Getting a Foothold In Social Media: A Get-Started Guide for Small and Medium Businesses

One of the most frequent questions I get asked, especially by those in smaller businesses, is “where do I start?” Getting off the ground in social media can be like trying to eat an elephant all in one sitting, but it doesn’t have to be.

So I’ve taken some of my best practices for getting started, and packaged them into this free e-book called Getting a Foothold In Social Media: A Get-Started Guide for Small and Medium Businesses. I focused it on this group because they seem to have the fewest resources and most questions, but by all means, I think many of the tenets remain the same no matter what size business you’re in.

 

More information at: http://altitudebranding.com/getting-a-social-media-foothold/

Top 100 eLearning Items

eLearning Technology - Top 100 eLearning Items


Top 100 eLearning Items

Using eLearning Learning, I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time.

  1. Learning 2.0 - The Things
  2. How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
  3. Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
  4. The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
  5. 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
  6. How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website
  7. Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog
  8. Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
  9. Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
  10. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
  11. 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner (Fiona King)
  12. LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers
  13. Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos | OEDb
  14. e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education
  15. Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools
  16. Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary
  17. PR 2.0: Introducing The Conversation Prism
  18. eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008
  19. TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart
  20. How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations
  21. LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account
  22. Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS
  23. Corporate Policies on Web 2.0
  24. Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems
  25. Stock Photo Image and Other Media Sources
  26. Learning for the 21st Century
  27. Flash Quiz Tools
  28. Rubric for Online Instruction
  29. Michael Wesch and the Future of Education
  30. How to Download YouTube Videos
  31. Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology
  32. eLearning Examples
  33. The Art of Building Virtual Communities (Techlearning blog)
  34. ROI and Metrics in eLearning
  35. My Top 10 Mobile Tools for Learning
  36. Training Method Trends
  37. No Significant Difference Phenomenon Website
  38. What is eLearning 2.0?
  39. Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers
  40. Web 2.0 Applications in Learning
  41. Rethinking Learning Styles
  42. Understanding E-Learning 2.0
  43. Second Life is not a teaching tool
  44. Tool Set 2009
  45. New Design for My Smile Sheet
  46. The art of changing the brain
  47. Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives
  48. How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course
  49. Social Media makes this course stand out
  50. Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?
  51. Try Before You Buy
  52. Tools Used
  53. Better Conferences - Response Needed
  54. Roles in CoP's
  55. The science of learning
  56. Learning 2.0 Strategy
  57. Online Education - Introducing the Microlecture Format — Open Education
  58. Informal Learning - Let's Get Real
  59. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
  60. Technotheory.com - Getting Started with Social Media - A Guide and Resource List
  61. Online Polls: Find the best Web Polling Software for your needs
  62. Building a Studio for Instructional Videos on a Tight Budget
  63. 50 Practical Tips & Tricks to Build Better E-Learning
  64. Alternatives to Kirkpatrick
  65. Open Source life, LMSs beyond Moodle
  66. Social vs. Not – Pictorally
  67. Social Networking in Education
  68. Informal learning - what is it?
  69. My Top 25 blogs for 2008
  70. Blogging as Reflective Practice
  71. The Elearning Apprentice
  72. Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI.
  73. LMS RFP
  74. The Nature of Online Collaboration
  75. Connectivism and the modern learner
  76. Nursing Simulation in Second Life
  77. eLearning Course or Online Demo - which is better?
  78. Deeper Instructional Design
  79. Creating a Learning Ecosystem - Why Blended Learning is Now Inadequate
  80. E-induction
  81. Twitter for Learning
  82. eLearning Authoring Tools
  83. Paul's E-Learning Resources
  84. PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning
  85. Definition: Massively Multi-learner Online Learning Environment (MMOLE)
  86. The ladder of participation in social media
  87. Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction
  88. E-Learning Queen: The Best Way to Learn in an Online Course
  89. Learning 2.0
  90. How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts | Smackdown!
  91. Communities of Practice
  92. Facebook as a Learning Platform
  93. We Need a Degree in Instructional Design
  94. Learning styles don't exist
  95. 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments
  96. How long does it take to create learning? | Bryan Chapman
  97. Tips for facilitators in Ning
  98. The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle
  99. No more excuses for poor e-learning content
  100. eLearning Defined

Top Educational Apps on iPad

Here are the top educational apps on iPad.

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