eLearning Perspectives
Idle thoughts of an idle eLearning Specialist.
Pirongia Heritage newsletter
I have been fascinated with the Newsletter concept since, as a teenager, I used to cut stencils for our local Youth Hostel group and later University publications in Earth Science. So I found it an interesting challenge and having recently…
An Ethics Training Storyline
The challenge was a makeover of a piece of US government web-based training: NOTE: This is not a complete course, just enough to give an idea. https://community.articulate.com/articles/give-this-ethics-training-course-a-makeover. This will give you a flavor of the original site: With this kind…
When SCORM can be problematic.
Do you really need SCORM objects in your Moodle courses?
Course Design and Usability
Some thoughts as presented at the Sydney Schools Moodle Moot. These are based on the course that Nina Pollock and I designed in one day at the New Zealand Moodle Moot.
Moodle Course Design
In her book Learner-Centred Teaching [1], Maryellen Weimer discusses five key changes to teacher practice that can lead to improved outcomes for learners. We consider each of these in turn and their possible relationship to the implementation of an LMS…
Essential Principles of Blended Learning
This article encapsulated out philosophy at The Southport School very nicely: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/08/four-essential-principles-of-blended-learning/ How does it relate to corporate training, if at all?
Using Mahara for Social learning
Mahara is an ePortfolio in which the default for all stored information is private. It makes a great “walled garden” for introducing students to the concepts of social and mobile networking as well as being a great learning tool for…
School Trek
In the keynote I try to show why it is that the time for technology to finally change the nature of education has arrived. For me, this is a journey that started in 1990, for others (notably Apple Classrooms of…