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Saturday, October 04, 2003
Catching up: the past six weeks of The eLearning Developers' Journal.I had been posting summaries of each week's articles in The Journal here, but my father became seriously ill in late August and helping him has kept me busier than usual. (Dad's doing much better now.) In the past six weeks, topics and authors have included:
In the coming weeks, we will be addressing such topics as:
I hope you'll join the Guild if you are not already a member. And remember that The eLearning Producer Conference & Expo in San Francisco on November 12 - 14, 2003 is specifically designed for e-Learning designers, developers and managers who work in corporate, academic, or government settings. You are invited to attend even if you aren't a Guild Member or Associate! 2:34:35 PM 
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What To Do When The Turkeys Are In Charge.Time pressure is common in most jobs, but it seems to be a standard feature of e-Learning development projects. Without a well-developed, proven set of strategies for dealing efficiently with this, an e-Learning developer will be lost. Last week I collaborated with three well-known, highly experienced e-Learning developers to put together such a set of strategies. Joe Ganci (Dazzle Technologies), Karen Hyder (Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting), and Chopeta Lyons contributed their favorite things to do when the chips are down. The article will be published in Monday's The eLearning Developers' Journal, and I may post some of the ideas here over the next few weeks. 2:16:59 PM
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Learning from a curriculum and learning from a network.The curriculum vs. the personal learning network. George Siemens on learning communities and learning networks: Courses work in an environment when knowledge/information is fairly static and developing slowly. The more rapidly information develops, the more quickly courses cease to serve the needs of learners. The information is outdated before the ink is dry.
[...] learning communities allow us to become knowledgeable in a specific area of interest...much like courses teach one specific subject matter. Most of us belong to more than one learning community. These multiple communities form a personal learning network. If a learning community equates somewhat with a course, then our learning network is equivalent to a degree program. Yes! Definitely. Precisely. Spot on. As the evolution of the different fields of knowledge speeds up, each crosses a threshold point where it makes more sense for most learners to give up on courses and embrace learning networks. In IT this is already happening. While I agree that learning from other people, outside of formal curricula, is (and always has been) important, I don't know that I can exactly agree that "our learning network is equivalent to a degree program." Some problems with this concept of equivalence include accountability, accuracy, and completeness. Communities are certainly repositories of information - much of which, unfortunately, may be wrong. Why is the original headline posed as a "vs." relationship? Wouldn't it be much more appropriate to make it an "and" relationship? 4:26:18 PM
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Monday, September 29, 2003
Weblogs in education.Thoughts about weblogs in education.This is a very nice summary by Dan Mitchell at De Anza College about a variety of issues related to the use of weblogs in education. Headings: How weblogs are used in educationEasy web sites Blogs about teaching and learning Blogs as dynamic teaching web sites Publishing News . Student publication and peer-editing Institutional blogs Personal blogs
Goals for faculty weblogs
Bringing blogs to De Anza College
How I use Manila in teaching
An experiment with student collaborative learning blogs
Weglogs versus Learning Management Systems (LMS)10:50:07 AM
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