LTGR Ep. #28 - “Seven Revelations about e-Learning”
In this show, Dan and Susan review an article from Training Magazine entitled, “Seven Revelations about E-learning.”
Show Notes:
Dan and Susan review an article from April 2006 Training Magazine: Seven Revelations about E-learning.
Article discusses Tweeter’s shift from classroom training to e-learning.
- There’s no funeral yet for the classroom. Use the classroom to your advantage; simulations, role plays, etc. that you can best do face to face.
- Designers need to curb course overload. Hunk things into smaller units. We don’t always need a full blown course.
- Wham bam thank you mam works. Rapid instructional design. There are tools to help designers build courses quickly.
- Somethings never change. You still have to find a way to engage the learner.
- Some elements get lost in translation. Learning objects have not been as popular as we thought they’d be.
- Designers need to understand learning styles. This also speaks to mindsets that come with certain professions.
- E-learning is more effective to the work it supports. This spoke more to serendipitous problem solving that came from developing e-learning. Very fuzzy for both Dan and Susan.
This was a short article that puts forth basic ideas. We would like to hear from listeners about their own revelations through the past 5 years or so related to e-learning.
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August 6th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
[…] Dan Balzar makes a provocative statement that inspires me to listen to a Green Room podcast again. He says, “You can’t cobble together a bunch of little pieces, and that makes a good course” (Seven Revelations about e-Learning, The Green Room, Episode 28 [that’s episode 28, regardless of the “38″ in the URL], July 16, 2007)…. […]