20 September 2010

Information overload :s

I loooove tools like Twitter because they put you in touch with other like-minded people all wanting to share information, which is a great thing on a number of levels. But I found myself this morning reading through recent Tweets from my connections and I realised that there is absolutely no way I will ever get to read all the information being shared. This made me a little sad because I love everything about learning, so I wonder what I'm missing out on. At the same time I could feel myself getting a little stressed about the pile of links I have started accumulating that I will have a look at "when I get time". Is there a tipping point where all this information is of absolutely no use to us at all because we'll never get the time to read it, absorb it and learn from it?

13 September 2010

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10 September 2010

GAAHHHH I hate e-learning!!

I was looking for Twitter users to follow today and did a keyword search on elearning & e-learning. It was interesting to see some of the results that appeared with people's negative comments about elearning. Here's a few examples: "omggg e learning is soo stressful!", "e learning made easy. Lol.", "Omg *** i hate e learning", "GAAHHHH I hate e-learning!!". So I'm thinking, is this down to bad design? Is it the content? Is it the duration of lessons? Maybe we'll never know. This just goes to highlight the importance of doing a needs analysis prior to developing elearning. Find out what people's past experiences are and what their drivers are for learning and you stand a far better chance of engaging them, not driving them to Tweet!

01 September 2010

The eLearning Brothers

Being a bit of a geek, I spend a lot of time on the internet and today I found The eLearning Brothers. This website sells elearning templates which are fully customisable. In a world where speed is of the essence, these kinds of tools can save heaps of design/development time so if you're creating elearning programs it's definitely worth checking out what they have on offer.