Category - E-Learning Design & Management

It looks like more and more language teaching is being done on the web. Let me summarize what online language teachers have on offer, what they do or could do in theory. I will list several examples from Curtis J. Bonk & Ke Zhang’s...

Is Studying 1-to-1 Pairwork?

9th January 2009

Collaborative Learning, E-Learning Design & Management, Groupwork, Learning Language Teaching, Observations

1 min read

Does studying 1-to-1 qualify as pairwork? And is it necessarily teacher-centered and bad? Anyone?

Sources of Frustration for E-Learners

8th January 2009

Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Instructional Design, Observations, Statistics

1 min read

According to research, e-learners are likely to be frustrated by technical difficulties communication breakdowns Source: Hara., N (2000). Student Distress In a Web-Based Distance Education Course.

Interactivity & The 5 Ts that Make it...

6th January 2009

Collaborative Learning, Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Groupwork, Instructional Design, Interactive CD-ROMs, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Teacher Skills

1 min read

Ian Forsyth (Teaching & Learning Materials & The Internet, 3rd edition, p. 135) defines interactivity as emulating the traditional classroom He lists the 5 Ts that cause interactivity to fail on the Internet (pp. 19 -23) time...

E-Courseware Design: Issues

5th January 2009

Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Observations, Teacher Skills

2 min read

Let me list some of the topical issues that keep emerging and need to be addressed asap. usability – what I mean here is all the extra clicks that either my students or I make, which takes time. Distributing courseware in space often...

Web 2.0 Synonyms & Opposites

3rd January 2009

Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Web 2.0 Buzz Words

2 min read

The opposite of hyperlinking is RSS aka really simple syndication. Users find content on the web and hyperlink to it . The opposite is subscribing to syndicated content aka RSS feeds. RSS readers are also known as aggregators. Metadata or...

Learning Tools & Technologies:...

29th December 2008

E-Learning Design & Management, Observations

1 min read

Whenever I come across a book on web-based learning tools and technologies that seems remotely relevant to my current objectives, it talks about tools and technologies that are either as old as the hills and ever so often do not exist any more...

Reading From a Computer Display

18th December 2008

Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Statistics, Web Design

2 min read

Have got a copy of Eleanor L. Criswell’s Design of Computer-Based Instruction at last. Here are some important although slightly dated stats People read about 25 per cent faster from text pages than they do from computer displays (Gould...