Topics this issue:
1. In e-Learning, Is Content King?
2. Featured vignette: “Let
'Em Digest More Than They Want or Need“
3. Costing e-Learning Projects
1. In e-Learning, Is Content
King?
Just as some elementary school teachers considered Albert
Einstein a mathematical dunce, others gave up early on the language
skills of Winston S. Churchill - recognized today as a genius of
English prose. Here is one incident during a class in Latin:
"Why, Churchill, can you not
remember the ablative absolute?", a Latin master once asked
him in exasperation. "It is very simple. When addressing
a table in Latin, for instance, one says, 'O, tabula.' Why is
that a sticking point with you?"
"Sir," the chubby young
student replied, "a Churchill never speaks to tables."
Many instructors will insist that
their students must learn all about a given subject. Their attitude
hampers online learning. Other, more effective, e-teachers recognize
that their online students are much more likely to learn information
that equip them to perform their job functions.
e-Learning trainers and program developers
who stress "total content" at the expense of "functional
information" risk producing trainees who have mastered neither.
If that is a problem in your elearning programs, consider:
- Making elearning easy by providing
search tools that help e-students quickly find the content most
useful to them.
- Adding note-taking capability to
your elearning programs, which permits individual students to
identify functional information on the fly and save it for future
use.
- Permitting elearners to rank the
relevancy of content to them.
2. Featured Vignette:
“Let
'Em Digest More Than They Want or Need“
This Vignette shows that
learners are not required to go through the whole elearning content
before they can get to the topic that is essential for their learning.
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3. Costing e-Learning Projects
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