Building Interactivity Into E-Learning- May 24, 2005 Bill Bruck points out that the e-learning industry today has a problem. Specifically, Most e-learning replicates the worst practices of education electronicallyand very much in line with my complaint of the limited "choice space": Even when the courses are not mere page-turners, interactive is defined as choice points in the software, with pre-defined answers provided for pre-defined choices. Evaluation most often consists of is simple recallrecognition quizzes - the lowest skills in the...http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/05/building-interactivity-into-e-learning.html Setting limits on the number of posts by students in discussion forum- May 22, 2005 When online courses are taught using discussion forums, it is common for teachers to set minimum number of posts requirement.In a discussion forum (ITForm), I suggested, instead, set a maximum on the number of posts by the learners.My reasoning goes something like this.1. Obligation of participation is implicit. As participants for a credit-earning course, they have their own motivation and reason to take a particular course. The students know that to get the credit, they need to participate. .http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/05/setting-limits-on-number-of-posts-by.html cheap film and sneaky teaching- May 11, 2005 By using free software and inexpensive digital camera, Steve Brooks shows us how to ask the students to produce a video. That would be great fun and LOTS of things to learn. The technology is the minor objective here. As Steve correctly points out, Students frequently know how to do the tasks, they just lack the ability to take a big problem (or opportunity) and break it down into its piece parts (lifecycle phases). By giving them a fun but challenging project and a methodology or tool to...http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/05/cheap-film-and-sneaky-teaching.html Ideas on asynchronous pull technologies in course design- May 1, 2005 Eric Tremblay in his e-Learning Acupuncture blog posted a list of very interesting and useful ideas of asynchronous learning activities which are basically ACOLLA (asynchronous collaborative learning activities). Instead of repeating all his wonderful ideas here, please go and visit his page.I totally agree with him thatSo the permutations and combinations of asynchronous learning activities and resource presentations are almost endless. Some work better than others. Simple designs work best...http://acolla.blogspot.com/2005/05/ideas-on-asynchronous-pull.html |