Two papers from Epic Consulting group - more available on their website.
Blended learning
link to pdf
by Donald Clark, CEO Epic Group plc
and
Blended learning II
blended learning in practice
link to pdf
By Mark Harrison, Head of Consulting, Epic Group plc
One thing I like about these papers is this list from page 16 of the first paper:
"It doesn’t make sense to talk about possible blends unless we consider the components. A recipe is useless without ingredients. Without a list of the possible components, we are simply relying on our own limited experience, the familiar, or worse, our prejudices.
What follows are components, split into 12 groups, in turn split into 6 offline and 6 online groups. It is important to separate these, as access to intranet and Internet technology is a necessary condition for any of the 6 online groups.
Six offline component groups:
1. Workplace learning
2. Face-to-face tutoring, coaching or mentoring
3. Classroom
4. Distributable print media
5. Distributable electronic media
6. Broadcast media
Six online component groups:
1. Online learning content
2. E-tutoring, e-coaching or e-mentoring
3. Online collaborative learning
4. Online knowledge management
5. The web
6. Mobile learning
link to website from Felicia Douglis, Educational Technology Department, San Diego State University.
Personally I'd change the word "content" on the outer wheel to "design" or "learning design". I printed out the wheel image onto light card, cut out the circles and used a skewer through the middle to make spinning tops, purposely a toy to play with during the afternoon slump after lunch in a workshop.
hosted by LSDA in UK. abstracts available but full papers not
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Conference Papers from "Mobile-Learning: Reaching the Parts that Others Don't Reach" held at University of Wolverhampton, Telford Campus , 23rd June 2003
check out the list of publications
link to website
By Brent Muirhead
"Introduction
Interactivity research studies involving online classes reveal that students value their opportunities to communicate with their peers and instructors. The author will briefly highlight student expectations for their online classes, discuss important findings from interaction studies and recommend several instructional ideas to enhance the quality of interaction in today’s distance education classes."
By Pamela Tate & Becky Klein-Collins, April 2004, from Chief Learning Officer
This article talks about the motivators of employees and employers in providing learning in and around the workplace.
Rob Wall writes:
'I refer to it as antwork because it has the characteristic of how ant colonies arise out of the actions of individual ants. Individual ants carry out their actions as individuals, and each individual ant does a miniscule amount of work. But when there are several thousand or tens of thousands (like in my basement), the aggregate effect can be staggering. Like ants, each of the students did just a little bit of work gathering or entering information. Many students (and other teachers involved with the project) were surprised how quickly the sites came together once they started entering information.'
and
'My students' work is, I believe, a prime example of convergence in action. The work was decentralized because they were each working as autonomous agents (well - semi-autonomous really since I did make this a requirement for the class). They developed interview questions, found people to interview, took picures and did all the knowledge-gathering work. I set very few restrictions on the interview (and was rewarded with a couple of interviews that I wouldn't have thought of including, but turned out to be dynamite). As much as possible, however, I gave them the responsibility to go out into the world and gather the resource we needed (interviews with farmers, in our case).'
Here are the results of some initial searching
What should be included:
PIM - calendar to-do memo contacts
Online web browsing
Adobe Reader for pdf
Windows Media Player
Word and Excel apps
picture viewer for native jpg files
file management so can move files to and from expansion cards
Not sure if included but should be:
image viewing and resizing - jpg gif png -
mp3 player if capable
What also is available:
Offline web browsing - iSilo is a possibility
email - through GPRS and sync access
advanced note taking including checklist feature
database - HanDBase for Pocket PC Professional Edition looks good but there are some reviews here as well
Flash Player from Macromedia
Peripherals:
HP Camera 1.3 megapixel HP FA185A#AC3 Photosmart Mobile 1.3 MP Digital Camera for iPAQ 1900, 2200, 3900, 4100, 5100, 5400 and 5500 Series
can camera software integrate with email?
conduits for
.doc ideally that include images (jpg)
native .jpg
native .gif
.ppt
A report for the JISC E-learning Pedagogy Programme by Sandy Britain, May 2004
This is a draft report so the location/file name may change. It includes a review of software tools to support IMS Learning Design. As Britain writes on page 2,
· The first general idea behind learning design is that people learn better when actively involved in doing something (i.e are engaged in a learning activity).
· The second idea is that learning activities may be sequenced or otherwise structured carefully and deliberately in a learning workflow to promote more effective learning.
· The third idea is that it would be useful to be able to record ‘learning designs’ for sharing and re-use in the future.'
A Model for Sustainable Student Retention: A Holistic Perspective on the Student Dropout Problem with Special Attention to e-Learning
As the editorial states, 'In this month's article Drs. Berge and Haung propose a customizable model of student retention that takes into account personal, circumstantial, and institutional factors, as well as the interconnectedness of these factors. The authors suggest that the model can provide useful guidance for institutional—and to some extent students’ personal—decision making.
Zane L. Berge and Yi-Ping Huang
from wwwtools for teachers
need to enter email address to read the article, and I particularly liked the section Current Implementations of RSS in Education
Publications of David Boud: UTS Faculty of Education
Some publications are available as PDF's or as a normal webpage indicated by the icon after the publication name.
2004 Conference Papers
The seventh Australian VET Research Association Conference
"Learner & Practitioner - the Heart of the Matter"
17-19 March 2004
Refereed Papers | Non Refereed Papers are both available online
ISBN: 1562863010
Publication Date: September, 2001
Author(s): Karen Mantyla
Edition: 1st
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Use the practical advice, real-life examples and other useful, concise information in this book to guide your organisation toward making strategically sound and effective blending decisions. Case studies from the manufacturing, academic, retail, and the financial/consulting service sectors supply the in-depth perspectives you need. Plus, an interactive CD-ROM illustrates how two world-class organisations created a successful blended approach to training.
ISBN: 0874255392
Publication Date: January, 2000
Author(s): Darin Hartley
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Number of Pages: 171
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How can you make learning as accessible and easy-to-use as many of the everyday tools we use?
Find out how with this HRD Press book!
The prevalent on-demand services that are available in other walks of life must be adapted to the education and learning field if training departments are to be successful in the new millennium. As our affinity for technology and on-demand service and satisfaction grows, this culture will permeate itself in other parts of life. In particular, learners will demand equal capability for their personal and professional development. Training and development practitioners must take action now to provide learners with what they will soon want regularly - On-Demand Learning!
This book provides managers, human resource specialists, and training personnel with a forewarning of the impending learning revolution along with ideas for developing new learning tools to meet the demand for self-service learning. It includes a comprehensive profile of the on-demand learner and a checklist for action for purveyors of learn
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Conference papers
2003: Strategic Directions for VET
Simply Brilliant
ISBN: 0273654187
Publication Date: March, 2003
Author(s): Fergus O'Connell
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Number of Pages: 176
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Leadership Coaching : A Practical Guide
ISBN: 1741031958
Publication Date: August, 2003
Author(s): Kirsty Hayes
Edition: 1st
Number of Pages: 112
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Innovation and Imagination at Work
2nd Edition (Available May)
In the revised and expanded second edition of this best selling business book, AIM presents the thoughts of leading Australian management thinkers and practitioners on how to create innovative organisations.
link to website (print friendly version)
10 Principles of Change Management
By John Jones, DeAnne Aguirre, and Matthew Calderone
Tools and techniques to help companies transform quickly.
By R. Thomas Berner, who writes:
"As someone who has developed and taught four online courses and who in the decade before retiring turned all of his residence courses into hybrid courses, I have found online teaching to be just the opposite: It is not an overtime job and it’s fun. But in order to obtain that state of grace, one needs to design an online course with an attitude that it is different from a residence course. Instead of piling on the assignments that instructors must grade and making irrational promises to answer all posts, the instructor must design a course with one thought in mind: less is more. "
link to website (print friendly version)
Training Packages @ Work article about using simluations. This information is drawn "mainly from the Training Package Assessment Materials Kit, published by the Australian National Training Authority and the Department of Education, Science and Training."