Gilly Salmon, Professor of E-Learning & Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, talks about designing elearning. When designing online learning, it’s more important to drive it from the learning challenge rather than the technology perspective. You also need to design for student activity rather than delivery of content. Unlike a classroom setting, all the material needs to be prepared and structured in advance.

Skills Tasmania are offering the following professional development activities over the next couple of months.  Please note registration using the online registration from at the bottom of the page is essential.

NOVEMBER SESSIONS

Exploring e-Innovations   |   Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5  Online

Exploring e-Innvations 09 showcases the latest innovations in e-learning from around Australia. The focus will be on flexible e-learning outcomes developed through industry and business training provider partnerships and models designed to enhance the learning of specific client groups.

The sessions run from 10:30am - 4:30pm AEDST on both days.

Gain insights from the showcased innovations: Find out how VET practitioners, training providers and businesses are using e-learning pedagogy and technologies to promote new and flexible training options through 8 – 10 online web conferencing sessions over the two days.

Ask questions of e-learning expert panel: Drop-in to online ‘Experts Lounge’ to ask your questions and interact with a panel of e-learning experts in real-time in the afternoons of Day 1 and Day 2 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm (AEDST)!

Come and explore…

http://networksevents.flexiblelearning.net.au/

Tas-e Day09 making e-learning work for you

On the 18th November Skills Tasmania will be holding their end of year event, Tas-e Day09 making e-learning work for you, at the University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Campus. For further information - see here.

Each person attending will need to register using the following form.

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created as an art piece this application gives a fascinating snapshot of what is out there on the Internet about you. click here then type in your name and you are away.

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what I like about this little tool is it gives us a way to start thinking about how history and the Internet will co-exist and in what form.

September 22nd 2009

WORKSHOP

In this ARED workshop we will be covering basic usage of the AREDv2.1 application, which is available as a free download from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. See: http://tinyurl.com/aredv2-1

The workshop will cover six ARED functions:

1.    Presenting information about a topic
2.    Labelling targets in a scene
3.    Sequencing steps in a process
4.    Reviewing knowledge about a topic and
5.    Applying control measures to targets in a scene
6.    The learning sequence tool

Note: we will be covering the decision tree tool in a separate workshop later in the year.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Twitter, Moodle and Ning get you excited about learning, and blogs, wikis and RFIDs are common terms in your vocabulary. Visiting a virtual world is the norm, and you can’t understand why your colleagues don’t jump on board the e-learning super highway immediately.

Well, according to Dr Karen Becker, a lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology with a PhD in ‘Unlearning in the Workplace’, many people need to unlearn past behaviours before they can accept that e-learning is a powerful teaching and learning tool.

Unlearning involves breaking down what you think you know, opening up your mind to new concepts and then relearning over time. And it’s something many people find difficult to do.

One of the biggest issues with introducing e-learning in education and training is the manner in which it is debated, applied and evaluated within the learning environment. Here, Dr Becker tells us how to avoid committing the ‘seven deadly sins of e-learning’.

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