- The Difference between Teaching and eLearning
Many people have asked me – “What is the difference between classroom teaching and online teaching?” – which is, in fact, a very good question as the answer is not immediately obvious.The answer, simply put is that in most forms of eLearning students cannot raise their hand to question their teacher!Now for some background…Since all of the questions about the difference between eLearning and traditional teaching come from those familiar with traditional teaching, I think the easiest way to illustrate the difference is to provide
10/23/2008
- Developing Effective eLearning Material with Free Programs (1)
There are many tools available on the Internet that are used or could be used for development of eLearning materials. I will write a number of posts that focus on building eLearning materials on a shoe string.Audacity is an audio recording and editing program that is exceptionally powerful. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ I have talked to a number of people with broadcast careers and they have said that this program is just as good as most commercial high-end programs.I have used Audacity for creation of EFL/ESL audio content as well as
09/27/2008
- Instructional Design — what is it?
According to one ‘popular’ definition, Instructional design, also known as ‘ID’ is ‘The discipline of creating educational materials, often with the implication of alternative media.’ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/instructional_design ID involves more than just the teaching material and is more than just what a teacher does – deliver learning material to a student. ID lives somewhere between an art and a science. It is about knowing who your audience is, what vehicle you will be using to transmit the learning material and w
08/29/2008
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