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“So, how do we motivate our online participants? Keep this list in mind when designing your online courses and interacting with your learners and you may be amazed at what a difference a little motivation makes.”

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This paper provides an introduction to open source software in the context of Australian schools. It is intended to provide the basis for developing some shared understandings about what open source software is; its benefits; its limitations; and it provides a brief scan of what is happening in Australian schools and sectors. This paper may […]

Toward an effective Quality Assurance Model
Research Questions
After a review of the relevant literature on the quality assurance of Web-based learning, this paper will try to answer the following questions:
Are the quality benchmarks identified in the literature valid in the higher education sector in Hong Kong?
Do the benchmarks taken seriously by the higher education institutions?
To what […]

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This report documents the processes and findings of a research project examining
flexible learning in the workplace. For the purposes of the project, the researchers
determined, through consultation with the project reference group, that the terms
‘flexible delivery’ and ‘flexible learning’ would be used to define the full range of
learning/training activities occurring in enterprises including technology-based delivery
and learning.

BBC - BBCi Learning - Returning To Learning - Homepage
“Returning to learning can affect many areas of your life. You will be fitting your studies in around your daily routine and trying to budget for the cost of your studies. Don’t panic, there is advice on how to manage both of these. There are also […]

DESIGN PLANET
http://www.users.bigpond.com/mariejas/E-Games%20and%20improvisation.pdf
The design and facilitation of email games is based on our belief that adult learners learn most effectively through people-to-people collaboration and construction of knowledge.
Email games are templates (or frames) for facilitating dialogue about different problems and issues and for encouraging the construction and sharing of new knowledge, understanding, perspectives and insights. The core […]

Toolboxes
Louise Housden - Mon, 18 Aug 2003, 11:30
Thanks to the national Toolbox Champions and other clever critters out there using Toolboxes, I have been able to find a few good sites with information that should be helpful to anyone wanting to use a TB in their training.
Here are a couple you might like to check […]

LearnScope
Frankie Forsyth - Thu, 7 Aug 2003, 10:40
Welcome to the discussion about the high and low lights of online facilitation.
List of tips in no particular order here

LearnScope
Discussion message posted during Learnscope Online Week
Mary Aquino - Wed, 13 Aug 2003, 16:09
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Learnscope has been fantastic at my college (Central TAFE in Perth) without it we wouldn’t have our current Learning Technology Mentor program - which gives 6 Lecturers a day a week to mentor colleagues (beginners and “guns”) in online teaching […]

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1-2-3 Steps (or is it 9-4-7?)
This blog is a quick (i.e. not comprehensive) introduction to blogging for educators, with hands-on steps for getting started in using MovableType as well as some conjecture on using MT as a student ePublishing or ePortfolio tool.

Training the e-trainer
by Clive Shepherd
“Perhaps not surprisingly, the virtual classroom appears tantalisingly similar to its bricks and mortar equivalent and trainers can justifiably expect to make use of many of their existing skills. However, there is a difference in working with an audience that could be thousands of miles away and which, to all intents […]

Building Success for E-Learners
By Jennifer Hofmann
“Training research reminds us that the following characteristics must be present in learning environment for programs to be successful:
-adequate motivation
-opportunities for learners to collaborate and interact
-a variety of delivery methods
-user-friendly technology
-active and participative instructors.
When implementing, designing, and delivering online programs, education and training professionals should strive to incorporate these […]

Motivating Online Participants
“So, how do we motivate our online participants? Keep this list in mind when designing your online courses and interacting with your learners and you may be amazed at what a difference a little motivation makes.”

Blogging Across the Curriculum
Quoting Alan(?): “From Quinnipiac University comes this gem: Blogging Across the Curriculum. Pattie Belle Hastings from the Interactive Design Department shares this resource that rose from her 2002 experiments on using student weblogs as alternatives to paper design jounrals. Her site provides a nice overview of blogging, how to blog, the role […]