Reflections of another…

May 30th, 2005

Expectations

Posted by Kate in E-Learning Experiences, E-Learning Online



The objectives for my course are as follows:

This class will provide a general overview of scrapbooking’s growing popularity around the world as well as how to scrapbook! You’ll build your scrapbook vocabulary as well as your layout and design skills. Learn how to journal and add embellishments to your page. With these newly learned ideas and techniques, you’ll become a confident scrapbooker — ready to shop at an independent scrapbook retailer, a large craft chain, online store, or even a national home shopping network. Then, with these products and your digital photos, you’ll be able to create beautiful memory books for yourself and future generations.

By the end of the course i hope to have a completed scrapbook that is a collection of memorabilia and keepsakes that provokes memories and inspires dreams. i expect the learning experience to be quite structured as there will be quizzes and tasks to complete but also very interactive and loads of fun. there are discussion forums for other learners to participate in and also an assigned instructor who will guide the learning process which will hopefully be supportive throughout my learning.

May 22nd, 2005

Online Learning

Posted by Kate in E-Learning Experiences, E-Learning Online, E-Learning Technology



Ive chosen to complete an online course in the art of scrapbooking?!

I was originally looking for a course on digital photography but after searching through the online courses on the HP website I noticed the scrapbook class would be so much more fun

click here to take a look!

I was surprised at how hard it actually is to find an online course of decent quality that is free. Everyone I found you had to pay for or was just a slab of text on a screen that you could read and say you’ve done a course. I was also considering this AGFA digital photography course but it doesnt look half as interesting.

: )

May 15th, 2005

Compare, Contrast & Conclusions

Posted by Kate in Case Studies, E-Learning Experiences



While considering the successfulness of an e-learning program in regard to the inclusion of activities that cater for all learning styles it is essential to point out that many organisations consider blended learning to be the answer. This requires a combination of both e-learning and traditional classroom based learning. Both my case studies have highlighted organisations that felt for the specific courses that they were developing e-learning would be the approach used rather than a combination of different styles. It was then left up to the software developers to create a training program that facilitated the learning of visual, aural, read/write and kinaesthetic learners. 

Cannon addresses this issue directly by specifically mentioning the different activities throughout the learning packages that will engage various types of learners while the design of Colgate’s training packages are focused on interaction and combining reading activities with visual activities, it does not seem to value the design of training for the differences in learning styles.

However, it can be shown in both case studies that blended learning does not necessary need to be approached in terms of the physicality of the learning. Blending classroom training and online training doesn’t necessarily create the best results. Defining the best aspects of both methods such as the interactivity of classroom learning and the flexibility of online learning and blending those will create better results. The blend of these aspects can be embedded in the design of online training and create a more successful training package in itself.

It can be argued that traditional classroom learning is geared towards Aural, Visual and Kinaesthetic learners whereas online tutorials that require reading and comprehension could favour the read/write learning styles. In order to provide a training package suitable for all learning blending learning activities may be necessary. It is possible to incorporate all these aspects into the design of an e-learning program this can be shown by the success of Walter the interactive cartoon that is present in Canon’s online training packages.

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