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An e-Journal from the EINet: "Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning A publication of the E-learning Network of Australasia (ElNet) *** Inaugural issue published! *** Editor-in-Chief: Mark J.W. Lee Impact has been established to address the paucity of research publication avenues with a particular emphasis on e-learning in organisational and workplace settings. It publishes both refereed and non-refereed contributions from both researchers and practitioners relating to the design, implementation, evaluation and management of workplace e-learning across a range of sectors and industries. One special issue will be published in the journal's first year of operation (2009). This will increase to two issues in 2010, followed by quarterly publication in 2011 and subsequent years. Articles in the first (inaugural) issue will be freely available electronically to the general public as soon as they are published; thereafter, the journal will adopt a delayed open access model, whereby issues published within the last six months will be restricted to viewing by paid subscribers, including financial members of ElNet, while all other content is accessible free-of-charge. Users are required to complete the free registration process in order to view the open access content on this site." So far the published intro! I recommend a view at the Editorial Board. Thanx to http://www.elearning4.de/2009/12/21/pdf-inaugural-issue-journal-of-applied-research-in-workplace-e-learning/ and @elearnity to pint this out in his blog.

Gerhard Zimmer: "Zur Didaktik des E-Learning" - Aus dem Einleitungskapitel: "Nach der Ernüchterung über das zunächst euphorisch gefeierte E-Learning als zukünftigem Qualifizierungsweg in der beruflichen Bildung schlechthin zeichnet sich nun ab, dass eine geeignete Didaktik zusammen mit professionellem Bildungspersonal wesentliche Erfolgsfaktoren des E- Learning sind. Es wurde bisher verkannt, dass der mit dem E-Learning verbundene paradigmatische Wechsel zum selbst organisierten Lernen nicht bloß der Übergang zur Nutzung eines neuen Mediums ist, sondern vor allem eine neue Kultur des Lehrens und Lernens erfordert. Diese neue E-Learning-Kultur, die treffend auch als telematische Lehr- und Lernkultur bezeichnet werden kann, erfordert zu ihrer Entwicklung * die aufgabenorientierte Aufbereitung von Lerninhalten, die den selbst organisierten Kompe- tenzerwerb für die aktuellen und zukünftigen Berufsaufgaben in realitätsnahen Lernsituationen in das Zentrum stellen, * die Förderung von autodidaktischen Lernkompetenzen, damit die Lernenden sich befähigen können, selbst organisiert in Kooperation mit anderen zu lernen, * die Unterstützung der Lernenden durch professionalisierte Teletutoren, die je nach Bedarf als erste beratende Ansprechpartner und Moderatoren zur Verfügung stehen, * eine hervorragende telematische Infrastruktur, die alle Abschnitte der pädagogischen Handlungen der Lehrenden und Lernenden funktional unterstützt. Dementsprechend wird im Folgenden der Schwerpunkt auf die Darstellung einer didaktischen Struktur für die aufgabenorientierte Aufbereitung von Lerninhalten gelegt."

[eBook] Web 2.0 and e-Learning 2.0 Jun 23rd, 2009 von Martin. For our workshop "Quick Start to e-Learning 1.0 and e-Learning 2.0" at this year ED-Media Conference we prepared an eBook about Web 2.0 / e-Learning 2.0 and we make it free available. We hope it is useful and please contact me if there are any questions, remarks or whatever:

Are you ready to lead a revolution at your school or in your district? Leadership Day 2009. Intro: The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative Back in 2002 in his book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution Howard Rheingold predicted that, "The 'killer apps' of tomorrow's mobile infocom industry won't be hardware devices or software program but social practices. The most far reaching changes will come, as they often do, from the kinds of relationships, enterprises, communities, and markets that the infrastructure makes possible." The prediction, as we now know, was spot dead on. The technology has transformed our relationships, how we are able to collaborate, how we now define communities, what constitutes a network, and what kinds of work we are able to do. According to Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, authors of X-Teams, "…team effectiveness is not just a matter of managing well around the conference table. Success also depends on team's reaching out across their borders to find needed information and expertise."It is this intersection of collaboration and technology that has now allowed us to create and leverage a new form of boundary crossing Professional Learning Community. It's called a Professional Networked Learning Collaborative.

Welcome to my E-learning resources website, my name is Paul Andrews and I am a Learning Technologist. On this site you will find my favourite links to free on-line services that allow you to provide your students with enhanced learning opportunities which you can then embed into, or link from, your school/college/university's website, course blog or VLE/MLE.

"The past week I spent some time in the virtual reality of Second Life, exploring the possibilities for learning activities arranging and for management of a learning process. Also, I read several research papers sharing the gained experience in teaching and learning in SL. It was found that this virtual world …" introduces Malinka Ivanova in her Blogpost

An other awesoem answer about future of education, by da truss. So he told in his Blog: "… and it occurred to me that what I should be looking at when talking about 'Shifting Learning' is the direction we are shifting to in the future, more-so than now. I tried to do as George asked and represent this in something other than words. I spent a couple hours playing with a slide show of images and now I'm just going to salvage the title page to share with you as a frame for what I'll write about. This isn't a crystal ball look into the future, instead it is my perception of some key trends that will have a powerful impact on how learning will be shared in the future." Worth to read many times.

"Financial Literacy 101: Useful Tools for Recent College Grads June 23rd, 2009 For many just finishing college, the transition between school and the real world can be a tumultuous one. Many grads will be on their own for the first time paying bills, budgeting, and repaying those hefty college loans, not to mention learning to adjust to working a regular job and not having the easily accessible pool of friends nearby. Learning to effectively manage finances can be a process of trial and error but grads can stack the deck in their favor by taking advantage of great online resources that can help them learn and keep track of where every penny of their paychecks is going." Thanx to Felipe Morales

Infographic and Information about Mobile learning and educators tipps on podcasting.

(Michael Gorman) Welcome to a post that covers those other ten Word Cloud Generators and some are pretty amazing!  While Wordle is the king of Word Cloud Generators here are some other word cloud tools that have some outstanding capabilities that are worth investigation.  Each tool provides a unique way  that can be used in  the classroom to facilitate the creation and study of word clouds. I especially was impressed with a few tools that actually helped students analyze a group of text using more than just the generated cloud, another that allows the user to be creative with the cloud shape, and still another that connects words in the cloud to web pages! Thanks for the visit, and as always please feel free to follow me on Twitter (mjgormans), I will follow back and we can learn from each other. Also, be sure to visit my 21centuryedtech Blog and check out all of the free resources at my 21centuryedtech Wiki! - Have a great week and enjoy the read! - Mike

Das E-Learning-Länderzentrum, eine der ältesten E-Learning-Einrichtungen auf Bundesländerebene in Deutschland feierte im November 2010 seinen 10. Geburtstag. In der Jubiläumsveranstaltung wurde der Schwerpunkt auf neue Studienformate und die Verbindung von akademischer und beruflicher Bildung gelegt. Das Jubiläum nahm e-teaching.org zum Anlass und sprach mit Dr. Konrad Faber, Geschäftsführer des VCRP, u. a. über die Ideen zur Gründung des VCRP, über dessen Weiterentwicklung, darüber, wohin die Reise in nächster Zeit gehen soll, über das Online-Qualifizierungsprogramm TBDL - sowie über seine eigenen Lieblingsprojekte.

"A new task force to ensure our universities become the first choice across the world for on-line distance learning was announced today by Higher Education Minister, David Lammy.The task force chaired by Lynne Brindley, the Chief Executive of the British Library will advise on a wider strategy to build on our past and present successes and ensure we do not lose pace on increased demand in expanding and new markets.It will be backed by a new Open Learning Innovation Fund aimed at helping universities build on their existing world class reputations to access and engage future markets that are expected to value around £15bn in the future. This is a competitive match funding initiative, with up to £10m from HEFCE and therefore worth up to £20m in total, aims to encourage universities to work collaboratively with each other and the private and third sectors, to bid for money to develop projects to help transform the way people can get a degree." Thanx to cris Sharing this! Awesome, seeing public investment in the right direction!

Self-organised vocational training can benefit a lot from the possibilities offered by e-learning. Dr Stephanie Merkenich from the Glass Working Technical School, Rheinbach, and Dirk Dittmann from the Association of Craft Businesses Märkischer Kreis, Germany, showed that devices and tools such as video simulations, wikis and podcasts can develop intrinsic motivations to learn and to teach.

The ability to relate abstract knowledge to real-world experiences is indispensable in the modern society. Therefore the construction of knowledge from real-world contexts is a major issue of education. This issue is not supported by the current learning management systems. In the RAFT project we develop a system to support remote accessible field trips. One of its applications, the mobile collector, facilitates constructivistic learning processes in real-world contexts.

E-Learning stellt sich heute als eine Bildungsdienstleistung dar, die sich aufgrund ihrer internetgestützten Distribution besonders für den globalen Einsatz eignet. Dabei werden gewisse Schattenseiten sichtbar: etwa dreihundert zum Teil international organisierte Unternehmen verkaufen gefälschte akademische Grade (vgl. Wirtschafts Woche 16.07.2001). Zwei Tendenzen haben zum Neuanstieg dieses 'dubiosen Doktortitel-Discounts' geführt: Einerseits die Entwicklung von Internet und E-Learning, andererseits die Deregulierung des Bildungssektors in den USA. Ist das die Qualität globalisierter Bildung in den kommenden Jahrzehnten?

Rolf Arnold; Peter Faulstich; Wilhelm Mader; Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein; Erhard Schlutz: Research Memorandum on Adult and Continuing Education The growing importance of lifelong learning and adult education appears to be a generally accepted fact. Less well known, on the other hand, are the causes, conditions, forms and types of development in all their variety as well as the changing trends and options for solutions to be observed at different levels. This situation requires broad, intensive and sustained empirical research on adult and continuing education. This Research Memorandum - commissioned by the Section for Adult Education at the German Society for Educational Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, DGfE) - seeks to identify, structure and label focal areas and questions in order to stimulate a more effective, coordinated division of labor in the field of research. This portrayal of the need for empirical research focuses on five fields of research: adult learning, knowledge structures and skill needs, professional action, institutionalization, system and policy. These fields of research are once again broken down into certain focal areas of research or topical areas. Questions are then proposed in order to elucidate the various research options. These questions are by no means exhaustive. Their purpose, rather, is merely to serve as examples. Overlapping between research fields, topics and issues is not random - it is, rather, an inherent aspect of all these phenomena.

An good overview on podcasting and learning from the recieving view on learning through listen to podcasts by Steve Wheeler.

"Should you friend your students? The short answer is no Earlier this year I delivered a further cyberbullying guidance document on behalf of Childnet International for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families. The Guidance follow up (and designed to compliment) cyberbullying guidance, a comprehensive document  that formed part of the Safe To Learn: Embedding anti-bullying work in schools suite of advice. While the initial document was really well received both within the UK & internationally, teachers unions and associations were increasingly being asked to deal with school employee cyberbullying cases - in which the staff member was the person being victimised." so written by Josy Fraser a very intereting Blog Post about what we call in germany the adaequate "Paedagogische Beziehung" - How to care this in ages of social networks and learning.

Vertiefung Comics als Lehrmaterial auf e-Teaching.org. "Eine Abfolge von Bildern, die einen Vorgang oder eine Geschichte erzählen, wird Comic genannt. In der Lehre werden Bildergeschichten gezielt eingesetzt, um für Abwechslung zu sorgen, das Lernmaterial interessanter zu machen, komplexe Zusammenhänge zu verdeutlichen und die Lernenden zu motivieren. Dabei beinhalten unterhaltende Bilder zwar die Gefahr, vom eigentlichen Lerninhalt abzulenken und die kognitive Verarbeitung zu behindern, gleichzeitig gelten z.B. sparsam eingesetzte Comicstrips durchaus als ein Mittel des E-Learning-Gestaltungsrepertoires. Häufig wird in der Praxis auf Comic-Klassiker (z.B. Tim und Struppi, Asterix, Batman etc.) zurückgegriffen, da diese den meisten Lernenden vertraut sind und spontan ihr Interesse wecken. ..."

I found this video on Jim Groom's website set up to support a course on storytelling. Jim says "Here is a fascinating and quick seven minute video that features interviews with a variety of scholars, theorists, activists, and participants in the changing nature of storytelling. How do they frame social media and participatory culture in this equation?" It is particularly good to see that Jim has put the whole course up on an open Wordpress blog. There's lots of explore there - Open Learning at its best!