E-Learning Trends
There is so much hype about what technology can do for learning that has prompted industry leaders to comment that the impact of technology is grossly overestimated in the short-term and grossly underestimated in the long-term. People have begun to differentiate the early days of the web and learning with the status now - Learning 2.0 and Web 2.0. Dr. Tony Karrer, a respected technologist describes how he sees E-Learning 2.0 playing out in the short-term and medium-term for people in corporate E-Learning. To get to know about E-Learning 2.0, we need to get to know Web 2.0. Five things distinguish Web 2.0:
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Software Services - just a browser to access the software that runs outside your system. |
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Harnessing Collective Intelligence - When the facts indicate that the more other people have linked to something, the greater likelihood that it has value. |
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Everyone is a publisher - the barrier to create content has dramatically fallen. |
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Aggregation & Tagging- helps us manage information overload. |
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Lightweight programming and Composition - software is being designed and built very differently to enable to plug into other applications. |
Understanding E-Learning 2.0 requires us to grasp the different viewpoints such as:
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E-Learning |
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Collaboration and Communities |
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Knowledge Management |
In the corporate world there is a need for faster learning, on line job aids, blended learning. This takes place through smaller pieces of content delivered regularly closer to the work place.
Elliott Masie, the guru of e-learning will be delivering a keynote on trends in learning technologies at the Asia HRD Congress via a specially recorded video and live Q & A. Several other speakers from the business world are also addressing this issue. To register, please email inoka@hrdcongress.com.
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