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..."