Instructional Design in 5 parts

Instructional Design 

Part 1 – Teaching Habits That Inspire You Out of Learning?

Part 2 – I Have Bragging Rights, Because I Am …?

Part 3 – Is PowerPoint Evil?

Part 4 – No Stupid Questions! I am Serious!

Part 5 – Show Up to Throw Up! 21st Century Thinking? 

 

New method for storing Web content could make Internet access more affordable around the world

Closing the divide: Students surf the Web at Ghana’s Kokrobitey Institute, a conference center with an Internet connection only about four times as fast as dial-up. The link is enhanced by Princeton’s low-cost, low-power HashCache technology, which stores frequently accessed Web content. 

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Becoming a Network Learner

Ecourse Training – How Does an Ecourse Work?

Question from an Ecourse Central training subscriber: “How does an Ecourse work?”

Sometimes, even the basic of questions go right over people’s head. I’m talking about ME! Here I teach people to not assume anything and then I go and NEVER talk about how an Ecourse works….until now.

Will OpenSource Concepts Define Education in 21st Century?

Eliminating Control – Mark Pesce on the potential of a shared and connected, opensource educational environment.

In the process of web surfing, there are times you stumble on some gems – some material so transcendent you find yourself spellbound.

Such is the case with the work of Mark Pesce at The Human Network. David Parry, assistant professor of Emergent Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas, offers his assessment of Pesce’s work on his AcademHack blog:

Why Do 42 Percent Fail the GED Each Year?

 

The primary thing the GED measures is thinking skill: the test taker’s ability to comprehend, apply, synthesize, evaluate and analyze. Most adult education programs follow the same curriculum used in high school, focusing on teaching facts and skills instead of teaching analysis, evaluation, and other thinking skills. Not only is this curriculum not relevant to the skills people need in the workplace and life, but it is taught in the traditional factory school approach. It is failing, just as the high school system is failing. The students who succeed with this approach have already passed high school. Students who dropped out of high school need a different approach.

At MIT – The Slow Death of the Classroom Lecture

Jodi Hilton, writing for the New York Times, begins her discussion of a fundamental change in the teaching methodology for the course introductory physics at MIT thus:

“For as long as anyone can remember, introductory physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was taught in a vast windowless amphitheater known by its number, 26-100.”

Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013

A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This increase will include more spending on social networking tools, mashups, and RSS, with the end result being a global enterprise market of $4.6 billion by the year 2013.

Open the page to e-learning 2.0

Companies have started blending formal and informal sources of learning onto one platform.

The knowledge fountain in any organisation is, more often than not, either the water cooler or the canteen. How many times have you met colleagues at the water cooler and picked up valuable tips — whether it was about how to ask your boss for leave or a shortcut to complete the report you were working on. Wouldn’t it be great if timely and valuable advice was available to tackle all learning processes at work?