Introduction to Moodle for corporate L&D
Overview of the pros and cons of Moodle in the corporate realm
Donald Clark Plan B: Moodle: e-learning’s Frankenstein
How Moodle has evolved from its original educational roots
Web Accessibility for Online Learning
Guide for accessibility specifically for online learning, looking at accessibility of the LMS and online content. Includes best practices and universal design information.
I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: Development Times for Captivate eLearning
Estimates for the production part of Captivate development. A large project (80-150 slides) should take 8-10 hours to produce. That doesn't include storyboards, scripts, voiceover scripts, or creating templates or skins. One hour of Captivate e-learning is estimated at 200-240 hours of total development time.
Working with SMEs in elearning » Making Change
Very practical tips for dealing with SMEs who want to dump lots of information and preserve their text-heavy PowerPoint slides
1. Read what they gave you.
2. Involve them from the beginning
3. Ask them to help identify what people need to do<br> and why they aren’t doing it
4. Ask them to help brainstorm activities and limit information
<p>If your SME keeps suggesting fact checks instead of more realistic decision-making activities, you might try the following questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>If a person doesn’t know that fact, what do they do wrong on the job? How would that affect our goal?</li>
<li>How could you tell by watching me do my job that I know that bit of information?</li>
<li>What mistakes do new people make?</li>
<li>What mistakes do people make when they get over-confident?</li></ul>
This helps remind the SME that the only information that should go into the material is the info that’s <strong>required to perform the activities</strong>
Custom E-Learning Training & LMS Solutions Kineo - New Skills for Instructional Designers
Slides from a presentation on ID skills, specifically at the intersection of instructional design and IT. Especially interesting were the comparisons of word clouds from descriptions of graduate programs in ID with word clouds from ID job descriptions.
Blender - Training Solutions: Moodle Reporting and User Management: Is MOOMIS the answer?
Info on a tool for creating custom reports in Moodle
MOOMIS Report Creator
Information on the MOOMIS report creator for Moodle--create reports by groups over multiple courses
Interaction Equivalency in Self-Paced Online Learning Environments: An Exploration of Learner Preferences
Case study examining what types of interactions (student-teacher, student-student, student-content) students found most valuable in an instructor-led self-paced online course.
Visual Design of E-learning Systems
Criteria for evaluating the visual design and usability of e-learning systems. (Usability, readability, attractiveness)
Interviews with Designers - Christy Tucker
My interview with the UW-Stout ID certificate students in March 2010. Students contributed possible questions on a wiki, then decided as a group what the top questions would be for me to answer.
Using Moodle: Rubric
Information on using rubrics for assessment
Moodle.org: Modules and plugins (Assignment Rubrics)
Assignment rubric plugin info
21st Century Teaching and Learning: Learning in the Social Web: Online Teaching and Learning 2.0
Presentation on teaching online with VoiceThread & Ning, including survey results with learner perspectives on how these tools helped create a sense of community
NCVER - E-learning in Australia and Korea: Learning from practice
Lengthy study from 2005 comparing how e-learning is used in Australia and Korea, finding some similar concerns. Like most other studies, this one has found that e-learning "cannnot on its own guarantee successful learning outcomes for students. The way in which the teacher and the learner utilise the technology continues to be important."
Workshop Tool in Moodle
Guide to using the Moodle Workshop module
Using Moodle: Workshop Grades Not Posting to Gradebook
Forum info on how to synchronize legacy grades using the Workshop module
Ten Myths about Video in e-Learning: Part 1 by Stephen Haskin : Learning Solutions Magazine
Myths about video: Macs are better, Flash is best, Final Cut Pro is the only adequate software, you must have a streaming server, everything must be able to play on an iPhone
eLearn: Opinions - Better Design Doesn't Take Longer!
A boring introduction to e-learning takes just as long to write as one that tells learners WIIFM. I think scenario-based assessments do take longer to write than traditional forced choice answers, but overall, the idea is right. After the initial transition period, better design doesn't have to take much longer than crappy learning design built for regurgitation.
MoodleTuts | 5 Minute Moodle Tutorials
Quick tutorials on Moodle, including info on SCORM and making Captivate play nicely with Moodle
Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers - Cat's Pyjamas
Matrix showing how different types of activities can be completed with different tools in Moodle. The focus is on the activity and end result, not on the tool--the guide shows what tools fit the outcome you're looking for.
Writing for the reader: banishing the business speak and energising your e-learning
Use a conversational, engaging writing style for e-learning, not dull, jargon-filled language
Social Networks in Action - Learning Networks @ UOW
Tool to analyze forum conversations in an LMS, create network diagrams, and identify behavior patterns.
SNAPP uses information on who posted and replied to whom, and what major discussions were about, and how expansive they were, to analyse the interactions of a forum and display it in a Social Network Diagram.
Kapp Notes: 11 Free Game Creation Software Programs (At least for 30 Days)
Free tools (or at least tools with free demos) for developing games
Learning Benefits of On-Line Spaced Education Persist for 2 Years
Summary of follow-up research on online spaced education with medical residents showing that the benefits could still be detected 2 years later.
On-line spaced education can generate improvements in learning that are retained 2 years later. Although the effect size is modest, the persistence of detectable knowledge differences between educational interventions after such a long duration is exceedingly unusual.
SpringerLink - Journal of General Internal Medicine, Volume 23, Number 7
Research on interactive spaced education with med students. Seems to be more knowledge focused than skills focused, but positive results with both knowledge transfer and student recommendations.
Emerald | Industrial and Commercial Training | Enhancing coaching skills and emotional intelligence through training
Research comparing training spaced over multiple weeks versus an intense burst of training in two days. Not a controlled study, but promising results for spaced learning.
<em>Purpose</em> – <it>The purpose of this paper is to compare the impact of a long-term (13-week, spaced learning) with a short-term (two-day, block intensive) coaching skills training programme on participants' coaching skills and emotional intelligence.</it>
<em>Findings</em> – <it>Participation in the 13-week training course was associated with increases in both goal-focused coaching skills and emotional intelligence, whereas the two-day block intensive training was associated with increased goal-focused coaching skills, but not emotional intelligence. Further, the magnitude of the increase in goal-focused coaching skills was less for the two-day programme than for the 13-week programme.</it>
Spaced education improves the retention of clinical knowledge by medical students: a randomised controlled trial - Kerfoot - 2006 - Medical Education - Wiley Online Library
Research summary on spaced education for medical students. The e-learning included emailed scenarios and questions. The summary and conclusion talk about medical knowledge, but since this is about scenarios it seems like there might be some decision-making skills being reinforced here too.
<b>Conclusion </b> Spaced education consisting of clinical scenarios and questions distributed weekly via e-mail can significantly improve students' retention of medical knowledge.
Adobe - Adobe eLearning Suite 2: 3 Ways to Try
Download the full version for 30 days or try it online without needing to install it.
How Long Does it Take to Create Learning?
Bryan Chapman's updated research survey results on how long it takes to develop ILT and e-learning