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What does eLearning mean to learners and developers!

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We all agree that the Learning through informal ways always have higher retention and recall then the formal learning sessions. and therefore the current eLearning (WBT and CBT) industry in the Web 2.0 era is putting more emphaisis on making the learning experience as much as informal by using various fun games, online live interactions, etc. Some times the objective is not fully well treated by the budget/time requirement and to some extent by available technology.

 

There are many ways the industry is catering to this need is produce of second life concept, virtual worlds, video blogging, Avtars ets and the others tools like Flockpod - Social Learning on the spot, kind of tools really helping a lot in achieving the objective.

 

In the race of rapid development of learning content and presenting it in a very jazzy form, we forgot to take care of the effectiveness of the content. the effectiveness very much lies in liking of learner. the each sections should itself drag the attention and interest of learner to the next.

 

I have talked about two things here. first is importance of informal learning in formal learning environment and second the rapid development .

 

Hope you liked and this helps you to put your thoughts out here!

 

 

Submitted by Bhanwar on June 6, 2008 - 20:15.

Jim, have you seen the Art of Hosting wiki?

Submitted by George Por on July 7, 2008 - 19:40.
http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/view/community/wiki/762

What we need is a WikiWebSite tool.

Submitted by jimmiller5417 on July 4, 2008 - 15:12.

Bhanar:

Your perception is very good. There is one other element to consider. There is an old say which fits your theme: “If Siemens only knew what Siemens knows.” There was a study of Siemens which tracked threads of knowledge for which Siemens paid dearly. The study documented that at different times, different sub-parts of the company would have the same issues, create a team to study and solve the issue and put the solution in to effect – several times over.


While revisiting an issue (with fresh knowledge) is sometimes valuable, yet we need some crafty way of finding what we know. Search engines seem to be part of the answer. Here is Helen's take:


Helen: I am member of a number of communities, who can learn a lot from each other. I have been a member of AoH for 18 months: it has so much knowledge that they don't know they have. ENexus is the only way that the community can see what it knows, and be able to consult it. We need to catalog the knowledge that is out there and encourage people to bring it to the unloading bay. Put it where it makes sense to everything else. This is not a job that can be done by one person, but by a community - to attend to the knowledge garden. To start: the community of AoH - what did we learn​?

http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/wiki/notes_skype_conversation_hosting_online_community


Finding out what “we” know is part of eLearning-- probably the most valuable part since if we can “reload” what others have learned, we can save our time and broadcast the new knowledge in a wider swath.


The solution is the use of two tools: A WikiWebSite which allows comments, edits, nesting, new material; and, secondly, a good search engine. The forum (or the old “Bulletin Board”) approach is not the best tool. Blogs are a forum approach. We need a WikiWeb approach. Currently, I am using www.wetpaint.com as my wiki. There are plenty of good open source software programs for wikiwebs. What we need is a good WikiWeb administrator to set up our Barefoot Wiki. Once you get used to using it, you will seldom want to use a forum approach to eLearning.


Jim Miller

jimmiller5417-at- yahoo.com