Infographics continue to evolve and improve. A particularly nice example has emerged from the Australian VET (Vocational Education and Training) E-Learning Strategy project. It’s largely self-explanatory (as it should be!), a toolkit for implementing e-learning based on the ADDIE model. Continue reading
Tag Archives: e-learning
Guest post*: Changing Times, Changing Face of Education
Education evolves continually, responding to changes in society and advances in our understanding of how learning unfolds. Technology itself plays a major role in the way we access and absorb information, so advances open new doors for educators striving to reach students in ways they relate to. This has never been more pronounced than what we see in the current digital age, where the shift from pencils and blackboards increasingly sees educators learning on keyboards, computer screens and other emerging education technology. Continue reading
Guest post*: e-learning, MOOCs and the changing face of UK universities
As a recent(ish) university graduate now working in the digital recruitment industry, I definitely have more of a vested interest than many of my peers when it comes to the future of UK universities – and I’ve been particularly keen to try and keep up to date with the recent changes that have been going on with the higher education industry in my country. Continue reading
Oh no, not another QA book!
A while back Tat Meng Wong and Insung Jung asked me to help out with the final stages of a book they were editing along with Tian Belawati: Quality Assurance in Distance Education and e-Learning: Challenges and Solutions from Asia. I happily obliged and forgot all about it until last week heard a knock at the door and there was the FedEx man with a parcel containing my copy of said book. Continue reading
Life by e-learning
Now I don’t often write to the newspaper (you know, the whole ‘Angry of Mayfair’ thing), but I couldn’t help myself when I read the opinion piece ‘Death by e-learning’ in the Higher Education section of ‘The Australian’ newspaper. Writtten by one Gerry O. Nolan, ‘an e-learning technical consultant at a university in Sydney’, the article made a number of what I consider to be unsupported claims related to e-learning, universities, distance education and academics. Continue reading