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Using Moodle For Business

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:48:47 +0000

From business case to Mature Product: A step-by-step guide to using Moodle in your business. A presentation prepared for Midwest Moodle Moot by Penny Mondani.

http://pennymondani.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Using-Moodle-for-Business-by-Penny-Mondani.pdf

Source: http://pennymondani.com/tag/elearning-for-small-business/

Download: E-Learner Survival Guide

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:59:19 +0000

Everything you need to succeed in the wild and wooly world of mobile learning and e–learning, and hybrid college, K–12 and career courses. By Susan Smith Nash

Download PDF: http://zenzebra.net/elearner-survival-guide.pdf

Minister releases NZ tertiary education briefings

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:31:12 +0000

From the the Beehive website: www.beehive.govt.nz

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has released the Briefings to the Incoming Minister from the Ministry of Education, the Tertiary Education Commission and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

These documents are available below in pdf format.

Download: Populating the LearnScape: e‐Learning as Strategy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:45:33 +0000

Populating the LearnScape: e‐Learning as Strategy. Quinn, C. (2009).

In M. Allen, Ed. Michael Allen’s eLearning Annual: 2009. Pfeiffer: San Francisco.

While adaptation and change are necessary for continued success, neither organizations nor individuals find them easy. Information, communication, and learning technologies offer assistance, although no single solution fits all organizations or all individuals. Author Clark Quinn explores e-learning, information portals, and e-communities in a quest for a coherent understanding of the options and a schema for effective deployment.

Download: Populating the LearnScape: e‐Learning as Strategy (.pdf)

Download: Using e-Learning to build workforce capability: A review of activities

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:33:37 +0000

This report was commissioned by the Ministry and undertaken by the Waikato Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Industry Training Federation. The report’s main objectives were to:

Identify how e-Learning is employed in work-based and work-placed learning both internationally and nationally.
Describe the impact of e-Learning on building workforce capability globally and nationally.
Assess the demand from employers, providers and learners for e-Learning in improving individual and organisational capability.
Demonstrate how, and in what ways, e-Learning can aid particular industry sectors in building workforce capability.
Examine reasons why e-Learning is not being used in particular industry sectors to support work-based and work-placed learning.
Recommend further activities that could be taken to promote and embed the effective use of e-Learning in work-based and work-placed e-Learning.

Download the full report: Using e-Learning to build workforce capability: A review of activities (.pdf 1.2MB)

Author: John Clayton, Richard Elliott, Sarah-Jane Saravani, Nicholas Huntington, Nicholas Greene
Date Published: October 2008
Released on Education Counts: 16 November 2009

Education by Brash and the 2025 Taskforce

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:12:55 +0000

Recommendation 11 from the 2025 Taskforce chaired by Don Brash deals specifically with education.

11. Education:

a. The substantial increases in subsidies since 2005 for early childhood education and day-care should be reversed.

b. A funder-provider model should be adopted for the school sector, allowing new providers to enter, with all-up per student funding equivalent to that for existing state schools.

c. In the meantime, governance and accountability structures in the school sector need to be reformed to provide better incentives for stronger performance and greater accountability for teachers, principals and schools.

d. Government-imposed fee caps on university fees should be abolished.

e. Market-based interest rates should be reintroduced for student loans.

f. Governance of the public tertiary sector should be reformed, including exploring the rationalisation of the non-university sector and the establishment of universities as independent foundations.

g. A full review should be undertaken to identify, and recommend reform of, those areas in which various government education agencies (Tertiary Education Commission, Education Review Office, Ministry of Education) have become overly prescriptive, and to explore other, less intrusive, monitoring and accountability options to achieve policy ends that pass a cost-benefit test.

For further information see the full reports and supporting information from the 2025 Taskforce.

Questions Senior Executives Ask About eLearning Specifics

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:36:34 +0000

Executives today know that business depends on well-skilled and knowledgeable employees who make the right decisions, work effectively and efficiently, and keep their skills up-to-date.

Especially in today’s economy, executives want to make successful financial investments when deciding what methods to use to keep staff well trained.

Therefore, they demand to know the data and case studies that support new learning approaches like eLearning.

This document addresses five key questions that senior executives ask about eLearning benefits and challenges.

Questions Senior Executives Ask About eLearning Specifics (.pdf)

Executives today know that business depends on well-skilled and knowledgeable employees who make

the right decisions, work effectively and efficiently, and keep their skills up-to-date. Especially in today’s

economy, executives want to make successful financial investments when deciding what methods to use

to keep staff well trained. Therefore, they demand to know the data and case studies that support new

learning approaches like eLearning. This document addresses five key questions that senior executives

ask about eLearning benefits and challenges.

Download: Nestle upskills global workforce

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:45:53 +0000

In this very succinct download, key lessons from Nestles experience upskilling its global workforce using elearning are described. The importance of learning as an integral part of organisation culture is identified, and the link between elearning culture is also hinted at when this brief case study mentions internal branding for example.

The Nestlé training team has gone one step further to ensure that continual learning is a central part of the organisation’s culture. After discussion with, and agreement from their managers, employees have no restrictions on what courses they are able to take, i.e. someone in a production job could take the MCSE or Oracle certification. By opening up learning in this way, every member of staff, from factory workers to top level management, is given the opportunity to further their personal and professional development. From the outset, the supplier’s services team has worked hand-in-hand with Nestlé, from designing the right solution to meet its specific needs, to customising the learning interface to match Nestlé’s internal branding.

The Nestlé training team has gone one step further to ensure that continual learning is a central part of

the organisation’s culture. After discussion with, and agreement from their managers, employees have

no restrictions on what courses they are able to take, i.e. someone in a production job could take the

MCSE or Oracle certification. By opening up learning in this way, every member of staff, from factory

workers to top level management, is given the opportunity to further their personal and professional

development.

From the outset, the supplier’s services team has worked hand-in-hand with Nestlé, from designing the

right solution to meet its specific needs, to customising the learning interface to match Nestlé’s internal

branding.

Nestle upskills global workforce (pdf)

Download: Effective online facilitation

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:40:11 +0000

This overview from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework is an excellent summary of key aspects of good online facilitation. It begins to explore the complexity of this function and demonstrates why this is a skilled and specialised role in effective elearning.

Just as the teacher manages discussions and learning activities in the traditional classroom, so it is online.

However, online teaching has some special challenges: students often have not met one another or the teacher, the nature of communication is limiting and void of visual cues, and there are challenges keeping tabs on individual students’ learning when they are studying remotely.

The role of the online teacher or facilitator is therefore both special and crucial for effective learning outcomes and enjoyable learning experiences.

Download: Effective online facilitation (.pdf)

Download: Peer Group and Collaborative Learning

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:45:34 +0000

The recommended download this week is really a whole series of downloads. Peer Group and Collaborative Learning in real and virtual worlds was the theme for the eLearning at Edinburgh Conference held in August. The full conference programme with links to abstracts, presentations and videos is available.

The information is intended for elearning professionals and is heavy going if you are new to the field, but even a quick glance through the abstracts will give you a sense of the scope of collaborative elearning in practice.

If you have a thorough understanding of elearning practise there is some excellent knowledge on offer.

To view the downloads click HERE