Unfortunately, eLearning has become associated with self-paced linear modules that are often slide-based information dumps with a quiz at the end. But eLearning could be so much more. Learning technologies offer possibilities for powerful social and peer learning, spaced learning over time, and personalised adaptive learning.

In last week's webinar I found myself getting tongue tied about whether 70:20:10 is a framework, a model or a concept. Should I really have been worried about the difference? Maybe I'm just being too academic. This post is me sorting out my own thinking about this.

 

Content curation was one of the buzz terms at the recent Melbourne Learning Cafe Unconference. The basic premise of content curation for learning is that all the information a learner needs exists on intranets or on the wider internet BUT it is hard to find.

This is a ‘working out loud’ blog post about some work we’re doing with spaced learning. Most learning people have seen this graph.  

I’m sure we’ve all personally experienced times when if it isn’t used, learning is quickly forgotten.

An LMS is often seen as a core building block to enable digital learning. Recently I've been questioning this focus on the LMS as the core of a digital learning strategy. LMSs are everything that is wrong with eLearning.

Often the problem with just ‘doing a job’ is that the majority of work tasks that people face are not tough enough to accelerate their learning. We often think about the 70:20:10 model as focusing on the 70, the on-the-job learning.

I find that visual planning tools can be powerful thinking aids that allow for rapid design and communication of complex ideas. I've just drafted a new tool for designing Communities of Practice that is based on the Business Model Canvas.

This blog post is a write-up of a webinar we did a while ago on virtual classrooms in the 70:20:10 model. Cheryle Walker ran that session, and this post is a combination of her thinking about virtual classrooms as well as my own.

There is often a moment when an instructional designer is designing a blended-learning program when something comes up that is best dealt with as a conversation between the learners.

Great online discussion forums don't just happen – they need to be designed, managed and supported. Sometimes I hear people complain that learners don’t use discussion forums.