Your hopes for Elearning in 2009

[Robin Petterd]

Hi Everyone,

Not wishing away the rest of 2008, how about we start thinking 2009
and get some discussion underway. It would be wonderful if people
could just post a short sentence about what there hopes eLearning in
2009 in are and then we can see where that takes us.

My hopes for 2009 is that people stop thinking about SCORM packages
and pages of text as being what elearning is about.

I'll looking forward to reading everyone thoughts

Cheers

Robin

[Michael Coghlan]

Great idea Robin.

I'm sure there are lots of things but the first two that come to mind are I hope that

• the free webconferencing tools (Wiziq, DimDim, etc) get better
• Yammer https://www.yammer.com takes off in my workplace so staff can see there other new ways to connect and share information

- Michael

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[Lee Graham (elearning30.com)]

Wow... excellent topic Robin!

I'm hoping people/companies get away from the crappy voice-over-
powerpoint training and focus on more engaging and better quality
eLearning.

Video Game Learning - I think the US military is actually doing
something right... ;-) ...they are using video game like systems to
train their troops, saving a good amount of money and time.

Confidence-based Learning - I would like to see better testing methods
rather than just quizzes/tests. People can memorize facts all day long
in their short term memory and recall them, but what if we actually
made them learn and apply.

Social/Collaborative Learning - as Michael mentioned web-conferencing
and tools like Yammer, Twitter, Ning, Facebook, etc... I think we are
going to be a very large part of eLearning over the next year. A nifty
example is Supercool School (www.supercoolschool.com/)... people
volunteer to teach a class and then member of this Facebook app/group
take the class.

With the global economic downturn, I think traditional universities
are going to be pushed more to eLearning/Distance Education. Distance
education is more profitable than traditional methods, but the quality
is much lower. So if the quality was up-to-par with classroom training
I think it would be a logical and viable solution for more
universities.

2009 is going to be an exciting year for the digital education sector.
Just my $0.02

Cheers to All,
Lee

On Dec 22, 7:31 am, Michael Coghlan <micha...@chariot.net.au> wrote:
> Great idea Robin.
>
> I'm sure there are lots of things but the first two that come to mind
> are I hope that

>     * the free webconferencing tools (Wiziq, DimDim, etc) get better
>     * Yammerhttps://www.yammer.comtakes off in my workplace so

> staff can see there other new ways to connect and share information
> - Michael
>

> ----------

>
> At 06:57 AM 12/21/2008, Robin wrote:
>
> >Hi Everyone,
>
> >  Not wishing away the rest of 2008, how about we start thinking 2009
> >and get some discussion underway. It would be wonderful if people
> >could just post a short sentence about what there hopes eLearning in
> >2009 in are and then we can see where that takes us.
>
> >My hopes for 2009 is that people stop thinking about SCORM packages
> >and pages of text as being what elearning is about.
>
> >I'll looking forward to reading everyone thoughts
>
> >Cheers
>
> >Robin
>
> >No virus found in this incoming message.

> >Checked by AVG -http://www.avg.com

[Lee Graham (elearning30.com)]

I forgot one more point... Mobile eLearning I think will start to
become more adopted with iPhone, Blackberry, etc...

On Dec 22, 9:46 am, "Lee Graham (elearning30.com)"

> >     * Yammerhttps://www.yammer.comtakesoff in my workplace so

[Gurmit]

Hello group,

I'm new to e-learing, I've just joined this group, and am enjoying the
discussions here.

I agree with the comment on improving the social aspects of e-learning
in 2009, and look forward to innovations that design e-learning as a
social space. Because if we think socially, we move away from old
thinking of learning as transmission from teacher to learner, and can
start seeing learning as a complex ecology, with many facets and
aspects contributing and limiting to which type of student succeeds in
what type of online space.
Thus, why do some become active participants, and others resist? I
think politics, identity and cultures of learning online become
important to investigate.

So definitely, more funding for research into what works in this
light.

Maybe some of us can start a comparative analysis among what we are
doing?

Happy New Year,
Gurmit

[Nik]

Hi Robin

After a decade of being in the TALO biz, I am almost at the end of my
patience. People tend to think of EL as being an IT thing. i keep
telling them IT is the least of the problem. There are other more
important think to consider, like content. But whenever I approach
them about EL, I almost always end up talking to an IT person who
knows zip about TALO! I do not see this phenomena changing much in my
country, Malaysia in 2009.
For the record, I now distribute content from SkillSoft
(www.skillsoft.com). Of course, I am referring more to the SMI market.
the big MNCs seems to be warming up to the idea of TALO, especially in
these recessive times. TALO will be able to save $$$ on their training
costs. So, in spite of my dismal achievements, I will still give 2009
a chance.

Regards
Nik

[Robin Petterd]

Hi Nik,

Thank you for your response.

Sometimes I think we need to take out the e or online out of what we
talk about what we do. One solutions could be to just call it a new
learning solution and then bring in the online part later. This means
you might end up talking to some in Human Resources at the first stage.

How to bring people on board with TALO is complex. Return on
Investment and cost saving is one way for numbers based people, but it
doesn't work for everyone. Nik how else have seen people start to
engage with TALO ?

Cheers

Robin

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[Robin Petterd]

Hi Gurmit,

Welcome to TALO mailing list. I

Yes this is the key, it's about people not technology !!! Some of the
free web conferencing tools that Michael talked about the key to some
of these social aspects. I remember one course I took that was
completely discussion based where one student was really frustrated
becomes she could find the content she had read.

Gurmit I would be really interested to hear more about what you mean
by politics, identity and cultures and participation ?

Does anyone else have some links or information about participation in
online courses ?

Cheers

Robin

[Leo Wong]

Dear Robin ,

Thank you for bringing this up , My hope for 2009 is very specific too like Michael

1 Platform like Http://wikieducator.org can stop beating around bush ,and stop talking about so called Open education Resources ,but meanwhile still canot go and support languages Like Chinese ,OER should be Open Education Reform instead of Open Education Resources like Alex said here before

2 in China there are more people who are really thinking more about Learning instead of E part for Elearning . and there will be some web service like wikispaces which can display Chinese better ,so it will look beautiful instead of like a crap .

Tks Happy the year of COW for 2009

Cow means hardworking in China .

Leo

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[Alex P. Real]

Hi Gurmit,

Glad to find you here too! I owe you an email :(
C'mon, expand about your interests, even if you feel some are off-topic.
Many people here have a far broader scope than you may have initially
expected.

Speak soon,

Alex P. Real

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