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A couple of weeks ago I blogged on 'The Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design (Part 1)'. It received some kind words from some in the ed-tech blogging community. My colleague Mike Malloch was less convinced. He pointed to the poor writing and the lack of well thought through ideas. (He also pointed out there were eight challenges, not seven!)

I plead guilty. But I have a defence. I increasingly see my blog as part of my everyday work. Many of the things I write are the sort of things that never before made it beyond the back of an envelope hurriedly scrawled down in a conversation with a colleague or written in the pub. Should these things be shared? I think so. At the end of the day this blog is mine - and if anyone else chooses to read it that is up to them. I am always gratified when someone reads my notes and even more so when they reply. More so, I think that knowledge development may really take place through an exchange and discourse around half thought out ideas - sometimes born of need (to produce a plan for a project), obsession (or too much beer) rather than in well formulated dissertations.

So you have been warned. Here is Part 2 of the Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design. It is written out of conviction, but also because I have a deadline to produce a plan for the ASSIPA project meeting. Would love to have any feedback - negative or positive.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, e-portfolios, non formal learning, pedagogy, social software

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on 'The Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design (Part 1)'. It received some kind words from some in the ed-tech blogging community. My colleague Mike Malloch was less convinced. He pointed to the poor writing and the lack of well thought through ideas. (He also pointed out there were eight challenges, not seven!)

I plead guilty. But I have a defence. I increasingly see my blog as part of my everyday work. Many of the things I write are the sort of things that never before made it beyond the back of an envelope hurriedly scrawled down in a conversation with a colleague or written in the pub. Should these things be shared? I think so. At the end of the day this blog is mine - and if anyone else chooses to read it that is up to them. I am always gratified when someone reads my notes and even more so when they reply. More so, I think that knowledge development may really take place through an exchange and discourse around half thought out ideas - sometimes born of need (to produce a plan for a project), obsession (or too much beer) rather than in well formulated dissertations.

So you have been warned. Here is Part 2 of the Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design. It is written out of conviction, but also because I have a deadline to produce a plan for the ASSIPA project meeting. Would love to have any feedback - negative or positive.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, e-portfolios, non formal learning, pedagogy, social software

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on 'The Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design (Part 1)'. It received some kind words from some in the ed-tech blogging community. My colleague Mike Malloch was less convinced. He pointed to the poor writing and the lack of well thought through ideas. (He also pointed out there were eight challenges, not seven!)

I plead guilty. But I have a defence. I increasingly see my blog as part of my everyday work. Many of the things I write are the sort of things that never before made it beyond the back of an envelope hurriedly scrawled down in a conversation with a colleague or written in the pub. Should these things be shared? I think so. At the end of the day this blog is mine - and if anyone else chooses to read it that is up to them. I am always gratified when someone reads my notes and even more so when they reply. More so, I think that knowledge development may really take place through an exchange and discourse around half thought out ideas - sometimes born of need (to produce a plan for a project), obsession (or too much beer) rather than in well formulated dissertations.

So you have been warned. Here is Part 2 of the Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design. It is written out of conviction, but also because I have a deadline to produce a plan for the ASSIPA project meeting. Would love to have any feedback - negative or positive.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, e-portfolios, non formal learning, pedagogy, social software

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on 'The Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design (Part 1)'. It received some kind words from some in the ed-tech blogging community. My colleague Mike Malloch was less convinced. He pointed to the poor writing and the lack of well thought through ideas. (He also pointed out there were eight challenges, not seven!)

I plead guilty. But I have a defence. I increasingly see my blog as part of my everyday work. Many of the things I write are the sort of things that never before made it beyond the back of an envelope hurriedly scrawled down in a conversation with a colleague or written in the pub. Should these things be shared? I think so. At the end of the day this blog is mine - and if anyone else chooses to read it that is up to them. I am always gratified when someone reads my notes and even more so when they reply. More so, I think that knowledge development may really take place through an exchange and discourse around half thought out ideas - sometimes born of need (to produce a plan for a project), obsession (or too much beer) rather than in well formulated dissertations.

So you have been warned. Here is Part 2 of the Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design. It is written out of conviction, but also because I have a deadline to produce a plan for the ASSIPA project meeting. Would love to have any feedback - negative or positive.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, e-portfolios, non formal learning, pedagogy, social software

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on 'The Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design (Part 1)'. It received some kind words from some in the ed-tech blogging community. My colleague Mike Malloch was less convinced. He pointed to the poor writing and the lack of well thought through ideas. (He also pointed out there were eight challenges, not seven!)

I plead guilty. But I have a defence. I increasingly see my blog as part of my everyday work. Many of the things I write are the sort of things that never before made it beyond the back of an envelope hurriedly scrawled down in a conversation with a colleague or written in the pub. Should these things be shared? I think so. At the end of the day this blog is mine - and if anyone else chooses to read it that is up to them. I am always gratified when someone reads my notes and even more so when they reply. More so, I think that knowledge development may really take place through an exchange and discourse around half thought out ideas - sometimes born of need (to produce a plan for a project), obsession (or too much beer) rather than in well formulated dissertations.

So you have been warned. Here is Part 2 of the Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design. It is written out of conviction, but also because I have a deadline to produce a plan for the ASSIPA project meeting. Would love to have any feedback - negative or positive.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, e-portfolios, non formal learning, pedagogy, social software

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on 'The Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design (Part 1)'. It received some kind words from some in the ed-tech blogging community. My colleague Mike Malloch was less convinced. He pointed to the poor writing and the lack of well thought through ideas. (He also pointed out there were eight challenges, not seven!)

I plead guilty. But I have a defence. I increasingly see my blog as part of my everyday work. Many of the things I write are the sort of things that never before made it beyond the back of an envelope hurriedly scrawled down in a conversation with a colleague or written in the pub. Should these things be shared? I think so. At the end of the day this blog is mine - and if anyone else chooses to read it that is up to them. I am always gratified when someone reads my notes and even more so when they reply. More so, I think that knowledge development may really take place through an exchange and discourse around half thought out ideas - sometimes born of need (to produce a plan for a project), obsession (or too much beer) rather than in well formulated dissertations.

So you have been warned. Here is Part 2 of the Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design. It is written out of conviction, but also because I have a deadline to produce a plan for the ASSIPA project meeting. Would love to have any feedback - negative or positive.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, e-portfolios, non formal learning, pedagogy, social software

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on 'The Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design (Part 1)'. It received some kind words from some in the ed-tech blogging community. My colleague Mike Malloch was less convinced. He pointed to the poor writing and the lack of well thought through ideas. (He also pointed out there were eight challenges, not seven!)

I plead guilty. But I have a defence. I increasingly see my blog as part of my everyday work. Many of the things I write are the sort of things that never before made it beyond the back of an envelope hurriedly scrawled down in a conversation with a colleague or written in the pub. Should these things be shared? I think so. At the end of the day this blog is mine - and if anyone else chooses to read it that is up to them. I am always gratified when someone reads my notes and even more so when they reply. More so, I think that knowledge development may really take place through an exchange and discourse around half thought out ideas - sometimes born of need (to produce a plan for a project), obsession (or too much beer) rather than in well formulated dissertations.

So you have been warned. Here is Part 2 of the Seven Challenges of e-Learning Design. It is written out of conviction, but also because I have a deadline to produce a plan for the ASSIPA project meeting. Would love to have any feedback - negative or positive.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, e-portfolios, non formal learning, pedagogy, social software

I am designing an e-learning programme for the european Commission funded ASSIPA project. The project aims to develop a face-to-face and e-learning programme for teachers in adult education to develop their skills and practices in self-evaluation . A face-to-face programme has been produced and will be piloted in June 2005. The programme is heavily process oriented, encouraging participants to reflect on and evaluate their own learning experiences. The programme is based around a series of different activities, providing a scaffold for learning. Short input sessions provide the theoretical background to the different activities. As such the programme is highly structured but is also student centred in that it is the learners own experiences which provide the raw material for learning.

Converting the programme to e-learning provides a series of challenges. I think I would argue that these challenges lie at the heart of good e-learning design - whatever the subject.

Part one of this port reviews the challenges will outline my approach to the pedagogy and design.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, pedagogy

I am designing an e-learning programme for the european Commission funded ASSIPA project. The project aims to develop a face-to-face and e-learning programme for teachers in adult education to develop their skills and practices in self-evaluation . A face-to-face programme has been produced and will be piloted in June 2005. The programme is heavily process oriented, encouraging participants to reflect on and evaluate their own learning experiences. The programme is based around a series of different activities, providing a scaffold for learning. Short input sessions provide the theoretical background to the different activities. As such the programme is highly structured but is also student centred in that it is the learners own experiences which provide the raw material for learning.

Converting the programme to e-learning provides a series of challenges. I think I would argue that these challenges lie at the heart of good e-learning design - whatever the subject.

Part one of this port reviews the challenges will outline my approach to the pedagogy and design.

Technorati Tags: e-learning design, pedagogy