Planning e-learning in vocational and technical education

By Tony Bates, on March 1st, 2010

Clark, L. (2009) Plan e-Learning Australian Flexible Learning Network

This site provides comprehensive guidance and support for practitioners in planning and implementing e-learning (with a focus on vocational and technical education). It includes designs using web 2.0 tools as well as LMSs.

Thanks to Richard Elliott’s e-Learning Watch for directing me to this useful resource.

March 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, Teaching and learning, Technology, blogs in learning, course design, social software, vocational and work-based training | Leave a comment

The state of e-learning 2009

By Tony Bates, on December 18th, 2009

It’s that time of year again. Here’s a personal look back at e-learning in 2009 (I will do another blog on priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010, and a third blog on international trends to watch in 2010).

What I did

This year I worked in Alberta, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, [...]

December 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Blogs, Strategies, planning and management, Teaching and learning, Technology, Tony's Blog, Tweets, Web 2.0, administrative software systems, change management, clickers, current state of the art, design of virtual learning organizations, geolocation, leadership, learning management systems, lectures, mobile learning, open content, open source, planning, policies and management - institutional, social software, virtual worlds/Second Life, vocational and work-based training | 11 comments

Low use of web 2.0 in e-learning

By Tony Bates, on November 28th, 2009

Parry, M. (2009) Online Programs: Profits Are There, Technological Innovation Is Not Chronicle of Higher Education, October 19

A news report of a study by the consulting firm Eduventures, “Benchmarking Online Operations: Snapshots of an Emerging Industry,” (not yet available as of November 28, 2009, except to Eduventures members).

From the Chronicle’s news report

Online education [...]

November 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Featured, Strategies, planning and management, Technology, Web 2.0, costs and benefits, current state of the art, learning management systems | 7 comments

Web 2.0 in Education: Policy, Practice and Progress

By Tony Bates, on September 2nd, 2009

Bosco, J. (2009) Web 2.0 in Education: Policy, Practice and Progress The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Washington, DC

One of two papers recently published by The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)

From the Executive Summary:

From December 2008 to February 2009, CoSN conducted an online survey of school administrators to determine their perspective on
[Web [...]

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Strategies, planning and management, Technology, Web 2.0, change management | Leave a comment

Why is Web 2.0 Important to Higher Education?

By Tony Bates, on April 18th, 2009

Batson, T. (2009) Why is Web 2.0 Important to Higher Education? Campus Technology, April 15

An opinion piece that doesn’t say anything more (e.g. ‘the “traditional classroom” with one speaker and many listeners is now an oddity, a throwback, a form that should represent 15 percent of undergraduate interaction with faculty, not 85 percent as it [...]

April 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Bibliography, Teaching and learning, Technology, Web 2.0 | Leave a comment
 
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