Vancouver Community College’s online moves

Robin Popow wrote this report for the BC Educational Technology Users Group:

Vancouver Community College has entered what appears to be its next phase of life with regards to educational technology. Over the past four years, we have gone from less than a dozen programs utilizing online environments to a robust Moodle environment in [...]

The cost of one hour of training

Defelice, R. and Kapp, K. (2009) Time to develop one hour of training Learning Circuits

And, as readers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy know, the answer is 42 (actually, 43 for stand-and-deliver face-to-face training). But for digital simulations, over 1000 hours.

This is a serious attempt to try and compare costs of different forms of [...]

Online conference on social networking in the workplace

The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education invites you to an online conference on 16 December at 1:00 P.M. Eastern on:

Social Networking in the Workplace

Stephanie Taylor, Manager of Systems Development Services at the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo hopes to better engage our citizens, champion innovation, improve employee collaboration, and [...]

E-learning games for emergency and safety training

A Canadian group, CSA Standards, has announced the launch of a suite of interactive solutions that harness the power of e-learning gaming technology to teach emergency preparedness and safety procedures.

For more on this, including a YouTube video, click here

Book review: Distance and blended learning in Asia

Latchem, C. and Jung, I. (2010) Distance and blended learning in Asia New York/London: Routledge

Hong Kong

Overview

This is one of the best books I have read recently on distance education and has lots of good material on e-learning in Asia, as well. It casts its net amazingly wide, from Turkey and Syria in the west [...]