Posted 8:58 PM by George Siemens
Just a quick note: if any readers registered for the elearning non-course and I have not confirmed, please email me again. I lost several registrations when my computer crashed this morning...

Posted 8:33 PM by George Siemens
Theory & Practice: Learning Content Management Systems
Quote: "Traditional methods for developing online learning material tend to be expensive, time-consuming, and require specialized skills that are often hard to acquire. To fully realize the benefits of e-learning, many companies have found "a better way" by using a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to rapidly author, deploy and manage e-learning content."
Comment: Simple overview of difference between LCMS and LMS. Before organizations start thinking of investing in an incredibly expensive LCMS, open source options like Zope or PHP-Nuke should be explored...

Collaboration Tools: What Works and What Doesn't
Quote: "Almost everything today seems to be sold as some type of a collaboration tool. As a starting point -- and to be sure we are on the same page -- let’s define what a collaboration tool is: any product or service that lets multiple users communicate or share information."
Comment: Very basic article...would be more useful if examples of collaborative tools was included.

Posted 10:53 AM by George Siemens
Ray Ozzie: "According to observers, there was formerly but a single effective way to get messages out to an audience - through major mass-market publications that possessed exclusive control of the final form of those messages. "Add Weblogs to that mix", one highly-respected and influential journalist recently wrote, and an entire industry's "world view was shaken"."

Posted 10:08 AM by George Siemens
Machinimas
Quote: "Part cinema, part video game, these so-called machinimas don't need real actors, props, cameras or sets -- just a home computer."
Comment: We'll see more of this in learning...has much potential, especially in simulations.

Posted 8:50 AM by George Siemens
Information Architecture
Quote: "We often see interaction design and IA compared. Let’s acknowledge once and for all that information architecture is the more difficult of the two."
Comment: Information architecture ("At its most basic, information architecture is the construction of a structure or the organization of information. In a library, for example, information architecture is a combination of the catalog system and the physical design of the building that holds the books. On the Web, information architecture is a combination of organizing a site's content into categories and creating an interface to support those categories. from 10 Questions about IA) WILL be an important role in the online learning design model. Coincidentally, I'm currently obsessed with online learning design models...current systems don't seem to work - they are too expensive or not flexible enough to account for the reality of an instructor's work day. I will post an article on this within the next month. MSWeb: An Enterprise Intranet #1 is an example of a massive IA project...