Here are a couple more webcasts from Innovate-Live with a focus on video conferencing and streaming: Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the October/November 2005 issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). These webcasts are produced as a public service by ULiveandLearn. If you wish to participate in the…
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Qantas game plan
It’s great to see LTUG members making page 3 – of the SMH Technology feature!There is a half page article (in the paper-based version) highlighting the benefits of the new QF safety compliance training that has been developed by Tata Interactive Systems in India. Typically this type of complaince training can be rather..ummm…dry – but…
Read MoreNew Media in SMH
An article in the SMH’s (Sydney Morning Herald) technology feature – Next – New media hands power to the people – talks about the use of new media – specifically podcasting, blogs, RSS, & wikis – with a focus on their application in community contexts. A good example from Phil Cleary (a former federal politician…
Read MoreEducational Gaming Conference
NMC Online Conference on Educational Gaming December 7-8, 2005 –( via the Internet – obviously)What the organisers say: "Educational gaming has seemed tantalizingly close, yet somehow not quite within our reach for a number of years. The singular focus of the Online Conference on Educational Gaming, part of the NMC’s Series of Online Conferences, is…
Read MoreMore on Blackboard & WebCT
What more can I say? I think Stephen Downes has captured the most amazing range of responses to the Blackboard WebCT merger – best go there and spend some time reviewing these… The press release talks about a merger…yet…isn’t it an acquisition? Looks to me like Blackboard has the lead role…with the merged brand name…
Read MoreBlackboard & WebCT to merge
Breaking news….. We’ve just been advised that Blackboard and WebCT are to merge…these are considered the 2 largest LMS in Australian universities (guestimates at 80% of the market)! It’s too early to predicate the implications but…here is the link to the press release on the Blackboard site! http://www.blackboard.com/WebCT
Read MoreThe Future of e-Learning
Alison Bickford – RocheMark Lee – Enable Learning, Charles Sturt Uni Mark: a quick tour of m-learning, blogging & RSS….Where does the future of e-Learning lie…? in the content…. in the tools/technology in the people… I reckon it’s in the way people interact with the content through the technology….Mark wouldn’t tell us his opinion! Open…
Read MoreVirtual Success
Jenny O’Farrell – Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) How people could learn in small chunks and be actively invovled in learning – so – Jenny bought some virtual classroom software. Jenny’s learning philosophy – Winston Churchill: "Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." Jenny recommends: virtual classrooms as…
Read MoreDeveloping e-Learning Content
Christie Schneider – The Learning Group – Lead instructional designerBarry Gordon – Savv-e – Lead Instructional designer These guys started then a cute little banter – really challenged some of the previous presentations….challenging that e-Learning is not really about content – how they handle the clients and strategies to develop content! Christie: Designing e-Learning that…
Read MoreOvercoming Learner Resistance
Bob Spence – St George Bank Managing Expectations: many promises are made: saves money & reduces costs, reduces classroom facilities, reduces facilitators, more effective, from paper to "e" is easy etc Learner Expectations: (most important component in the equation!) – of course! they want relevant learning, time to complete, quality learning, be able to use…
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