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Podcasting as an E-learning Tool
Podcasting is the latest in web technology, and is creating waves in the e-learning world. It has already been adopted as teaching tool in many well known universities like - Drexel University, Allegheny College, the University of Chicago, University of Michigan and Purdue University Duke University and Stanford University.
P2P – Will It Change The Face Of E-Learning?
Every now and then, e-learning is so inundated with new technologies that almost everybody involved with it has become used to the latest one being upheld as the hottest upcoming trend in the e-learning market. So, is this technology, like most others, just a passing phenomenon as far as e learning is concerned?
E-Learning – In-House Or Off The Shelf Products
With more and more organizations the world over waking up to the e-leaning trend, the breed of e-learning champions is dying a slow death. The scenario has changed considerably over the years, with earlier, managers asking ‘is e-learning right for the organization’, to now, implementers finding an answer to ‘what solution is best for the organization’.
Evaluating E-Learning – The Kirkpatrick’s Way
Nobody can deny the importance of continuous improvement upon the courseware by redesigning and customizing to meet learner needs. Evaluation steps in here, when it helps address the above mentioned issues. For, without evaluation, it is impossible to know on what fronts does the course lacks.
Virtual Classroom Basics
Think learning and the first picture that comes to mind is that of an organized classroom where students listen to the gems of wisdom from the teacher in rapt attention, sometimes out of curiosity and often out of fear of a chide from the stern teacher.
Improving The Virtual Classroom Collaboration
Virtual classrooms closely try to replicate the conventional ones, where face to face interactions between learners and the instructor make all the difference. And even though virtual classrooms have come close enough to their traditional counterparts in implementing a successful and rich learning experience, they are yet to equal them on counts of interaction and collaboration.
Learner Encouragement In E-Learning
While much stress is laid on the design, user interface and other technology centric aspects of e-learning, no light has been shed upon how to encourage learners to buy the concept of learning, leave alone sticking through to its completion.
Virtual Classroom - A Learning Tool Of Prowess
Web based learning cannot rival conventional classroom training for some very obvious reasons. Since it is mostly delivered through asynchronous communication methods, it provides thin scope for interaction among the learners as well as between the learner and the instructor.
LMS Implementation - From Worse To Better
Identification of problems is the first step towards addressing them. The process of implementing an LMS in the existing infrastructure of an organization is not devoid of troubles either. But, before you start addressing the issues in LMS implementation, you need to thoroughly analyze the problem areas.
Dealing With Technophobia Among Learners
More often than not, an LMS seems to be the center around which the whole learning environment revolves. While this is not meant to question the ability of an LMS in achieving particular learning objectives, it is a faulty system nonetheless.
Are LMS’ As Efficient As Touched?
More often than not, an LMS seems to be the center around which the whole learning environment revolves. While this is not meant to question the ability of an LMS in achieving particular learning objectives, it is a faulty system nonetheless.
SCORM And AICC Standards – A Comparison
The e-learning bourse is bursting at its seams with LMS softwares, each one trying to create its own niche in the cut-throat competition. Creating your own solution through an assortment of learning objects from different courseware is often the easier option than getting an LMS tailor made for your e-learning needs.
Scorm Basics
The remarkable growth of e-learning market in the past few years has contributed in a large way to the over-abundance of learning platforms and courses alike. This trend was unanimously hailed by e-learning experts, who contended that it had empowered customers to pick and choose, which was not the case a few years ago.
A Discourse On Synchronous and Asynchronous E-Learning
With e-learning rapidly gaining ground both in educative and corporate environments, there has been a proliferation of varied media of instruction. It is rather interesting that all these media are based either on synchronous communication techniques or asynchronous communication techniques.
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