Wednesday, May 21, 2008

10 Facts About Learning

Donald Clarks Plan B blog is always a great and informative read. The following post does not disappoint.

In this post Clark offers a short list of scientifically proven learning facts (not flavor-of-the-month variety) that should be printed and kept close by as you develop your courses.

10 Facts About Learning


Make sure to review them often to help with retention.

I do wish there was a reference list included but some of the comments to include to sources for this list.

Friday, May 2, 2008

The eLearning Guild has made several archived webcast recordings from their online conference Converting Existing Course Content to e-Learning available for free to anyone who signs up as an associate member (minimum). There are some great presentations about how to go about converting live classroom materials for delivery over the web.

These web casts, delivered by Adobe Connect feature audio, slides and live screen action along with participant text chat. This provides the feel of attending the session live, of course, without the ability to comment or vote in the occasional polls.