http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog the ecampus.com.au blog Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:04:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Define your objectives. The first step in developing an e-learning strategy is to define the objectives of the intiative. What knowledge do you need to transfer to your students? Determine what time frame you would like to develop your initiative in and you cost restraints. And ask yourself, how you will ... http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/how-to-develop-an-e-learning-strategy 1. No Overall Aim. Make sure students understand why they are taking the course and what they'll get out of it. 2. Vague planning. Decide what you want students to learn and how they'll learn it. Vague aims will not usually suffice. Find out the technical options. The course must be defined in ... http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/ten-reasons-elearning-can-fail There's nothing more fascinating for an e-learning course designer than watching users interact with the courses online. From where they click, their mouse movements, scrolling and so on, you can tell you a lot about what is good and what is bad about the course and the user interface surrounding ... http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/e-learning-usability-testing-on-the-web http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/ken-robinson-ted Very occasionally in life you come across something that can really make your life easier. I had one of those moments today when I saw this. This will really increase the quality of life for a select few… including me. Kudos to the Connections & Conversations posse for drawing our attention ... http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/training-packages-unwrapped I picked this up from Learn Me Happy . "If you don't 'get' Web 2.0, or know someone else that doesn't 'get' it, you or they should watch this video, to the end." - Barry Sampson http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/why-web-20-is-changing-learning About six weeks ago Composica contacted us to see if we were interested in having a look at their elearning authoring tool "Composica Enterprise". We get about ten calls a week from authoring tool vendors peddling their wares, but the groupware functionality of Composica was enough to get me interested ... http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/composica I was having a discussion with a phd student at a University a week ago. The student told me that the administration at the University took 20% of her research grant for administration. And that this was standard. Another student was told by the University administration that unless she signed ... http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/pilot-project-in-open-e-learning This is a fascinating, practical example of mobile learning in use. A short podcast investigating how PDAs have been used at Pilbara TAFE. technorati tags:mobile, learning, PDAs, TAFE, elearning Blogged with Flock http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/using-pdas-with-workplace-trainees The average web application has a torturous UI that kills goats at fifteen paces. For some more complex activity, such as laying out graphics, it just doesn't work as well as, say, as your average well-designed desktop-based application from 1996. It can't do obvious things: such as access you web ... http://www.ecampus.com.au/blog/flash-multimedia-e-learning