Author Archives: Mike Taylor

eLearning Guild Research Reports : eLearning Technology

Via Tony Karrer’s elearningtech blog with the newly restructured access from the eLearning Guild comes a bushel full of great elearning resources. It’s interesting to see how the free options compare, usually favorably, to the commercial ones. Definitely worth a visit for a few downloads. Link to eLearning Guild Research Reports : eLearning Technology

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Epic – blended learning and knowledge solutions

I found this via a white paper on Blended Learning from the Epic web site. This could be helpful when you’re looking at which components of your learning plan should/could be online and which could be offline. Their three categories are: (1) Offline (face-to-face) (2) Offline (Individual work) and (3) Online. I think the onlineContinueContinue reading “Epic – blended learning and knowledge solutions”

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VectorMagic | Web-based image tool

VectorMagic might be a pretty handy tool to add to your bag of tricks. I know there have been times when I’ve wished I could enlarge a non-vector image but couldn’t without it becoming so pixelated it was no longer useful. If you don’t know why a vector image is different; they can be enlargedContinueContinue reading “VectorMagic | Web-based image tool”

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Clive on Learning: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction

http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2007/04/e-learning-and-science-of-instruction.html Use of media Use words and graphics rather than words alone (89% gain in learning). Keep graphics and text that relate to each other near each other (68% gain). Where possible, describe graphics using audio narration rather than text (80% gain). An exception here would be text (unfamiliar terms, instructions, etc.) which require timeContinueContinue reading “Clive on Learning: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction”

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Sharedview: New take on NetMeeting?

 Via Webworker daily I see that Microsoft now has a beta of SharedView. My 1st question is how is this better/different than NetMeeting? Other than aesthetics, etc? Yes, it looks nicer but it actually takes extra steps to get someone into Sharedview as compared to NetMeeting. Am I missing something? If you don’t already useContinueContinue reading “Sharedview: New take on NetMeeting?”

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