Course perceptions of distance education students.

This paper examines the levels of knowledge, motivation, and course preferences for students enrolled in both online and onsite management courses. Findings indicate that these students are much more similar with regard to these factors than previous research has indicated.

Horizon Report 2007

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium’s (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program. The Horizon Project, a research oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies is likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education.

Designing Pedigogical Templates for DEdu.

The main objective of this report is to provide an overview for IoE academics who are interested in integrating e-learning into their courses. This report has been designed to guide practitioners on how e-learning can be used in the context of a course, and the description of each template focuses on the pedagogical aspects of using e-learning.

Questioning the Student Use of and Desire for Lecture Podcasts

Student IPod use. The use of audio files, specifically podcasts, has become more visible and accessible to students in higher education. Despite a lack of pedagogical research on the benefits of podcasting, several universities have adopted the technology of using audio for instruction outside of class and sharing of information.

Using Vignetts to Develop Higher Order Thinking and Academic Achievement in Adult Learners in an Online Environment

A case study investigating the use of vignettes as a teaching strategy and learning activity of the Generative Learning Model in a hybrid online course.

Learning from Media

An excerpt from Richard E. Clark's book, Learning from Media: Arguments, Analysis, and Evidence, and some info about his view on media and cognitive efficiency studies that need to be done.

Reusable Learning Object Authoring Guidelines

A white paper provides the structure and guidelines used by the Cisco Systems Internet Learning Solutions Group(ILSG) to build reusable learning objects (RLOs).

The Learning Object Metadata Standard

This standard will specify the syntax and semantics of Learning Object Metadata, defined as the attributes required to fully/adequately describe a Learning Object.

A Multi-Agent Enabled E-Education Object

In this paper, firstly, the design philosophy of MEEOCAS was identified: All the roles (i.e., Learners, course /EEO designers and teachers using MEEOCAS) are both consumers and producers who do not only benefit from but also contribute to this system.

RLO, understanding the different definitions

In understanding the different definitions: learning objects can be composed of anything, but a reusable learning objective (RLO) is self contained according to Wiley.

Course Development Costs

This article does a decent job of summarizing the Estimate of Hours Needed to Develop WBT. While dated, it does provide a fair guestimation with viable references.

Moodle - an LMS Pilot Report

The Instructional Technology Resource Center of Idaho State University prepared a paper on the findings of their pilot initiatives of the Moodle LMS.

This I Believe minute paper

In this paper we propose a means of eliciting student beliefs using a This I Believe minute paper. We also share the results of our initial usage of this process and describe what we believe to be the most important global implication to leadership teaching, learning and education. Additionally, this concept for elicitation of student beliefs can be extended to any subject or context.

Learning Objects

Thomas Cochran discusses developing and evaluating multimedia Learning Objects to enhance both face-to-face (f2f) and distance e-learning environments.

EPIC 2015

While most all content on this blog is grounded in research and directed towards the educator, we are stepping out a bit to share Epic 2015 by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson view. This projected view of resulting technology mergers and how merged technologies are used brings a new spin to the future of technology for educators alike. Comments are welcomed.

Developing Employment-Related Office Technology Skills

This project focused on teaching practices. While dated, it is still relevant. Teaching software effectively is becoming increasingly important. If almost all employed workers will need to use some portions of such software, clearly, large numbers of people need to learn to use general business applications software. Most importantly, they need to transfer their knowledge from the learning setting to business settings, and they need to be able to continue to learn new software as versions change and new software displaces old.

Road Map for Educational Multimedia Design

The Road Map for Educational Multimedia Design is a Content Developer’s Approach into the field of Instructional Technology. Ellen Dornan, University of New Mexico, paper on computer literacy and how it impacts the ability of a user to learn and enjoy computer-based media and why it remains a serious obstacle when designing for older audiences.

The First Instance of a CORDRA Registry

This article will provide a brief overview of CORDRA and detailed information on ADL-R. A subsequent article in this month's issue of D-Lib will describe FeDCOR, which uses the same approach to federate DSpace repositories.

Master Online Teacher Competencies

Virgil E. Varvel Jr., writes, although qualified in their field, many instructors have no education in the methods of instruction or facilitation. Those that have such training often do not have any additional training or experience specifically in the field of distance or online education. But what should such training consist of, and what additional faculties of an individual help one to be a proficient online educator? Furthermore,...

Blogging as an Educational Technology

Blogging is a collaborative tool widely used by the Internet users. Blogging technology allows users to create knowledge by means of collaborating with others. Communication and collaboration is central to the constructivist theory in education. Constructivist theory states that we create and apply new knowledge through collaboration with others, and more...

Instructional Design & Learning Theory

Brenda Mergel asks, Why does it seem so difficult to differentiate between three basic theories of learning? Why do the names of theorists appear connected to more than one theory? Why do the terms and strategies of each theory overlap? Her need for answers to these questions sparked her investigation into the available literature on learning theories and their implications for instructional design.

Designing a Web-Based Learning Ecology

This is the second in a series of three articles related to ASTD's upcoming workshop on Learning with Blogs, Wikis, and Web 2.0. Read more on:
Informal learning, it is more democratic. It's responsive to learners and often ad hoc. It's not the opposite of formal learning so much as a different range on the spectrum of all learning. Most learning incorporates a bit of formal along with some of the informal kind.

Learning Wisdom

Clark Quinn, "Some of that is smart ‘in the moment’ through performance support, and some of that is ‘smart over time’ via elearning. It is broader, with a whole process about moving up the ‘value chain’ of elearning strategy..."