The Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual E-Book

Rob Hubbard

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 328

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Technology has revolutionised every aspect of our lives and how we learn is no exception. The trouble is; the range of elearning technologies and the options available can seem bewildering. Even those who are highly experienced in one aspect of elearning will lack knowledge in some other areas. Wouldn't it be great if you could access the hard-won knowledge, practical guidance and helpful tips of world-leading experts in these fields? Edited by Rob Hubbard and featuring chapters written by global elearning experts: Clive Shepherd, Laura Overton, Jane Bozarth, Lars Hyland, Rob Hubbard, Julie Wedgwood, Jane Hart, Colin Steed, Clark Quinn, Ben Betts and Charles Jennings - this book is a practical guide to all the key topics in elearning, including: getting the business on board, building it yourself, learning management, blended, social, informal, mobile and game-based learning, facilitating online learning, making the most of memory and more.

Leseprobe

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: So What is eLearning?

Where does elearning come from?

What forms can elearning take?

What use is elearning?

Moving on

Chapter 2: Getting the Business on Board

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 3: Build In-House, Buy Off-the-Shelf or Outsource?

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 4: Production Processes – Making it Happen!

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 5: Making the Most of Memory

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 6: Blended Learning

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 7: Informal and Social Learning

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 8: Facilitating Live Online Learning

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 9: Mobile Learning

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 10: Game-Based Learning

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Chapter 11: Learning Management

What’s the big idea?

Give me the details

So how do I do it?

Hints and tips

The usual suspects

It’s a wrap

Index

This edition first published 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hubbard, Rob, 1975-

The really useful elearning instruction manual : your toolkit for putting elearning into practice / Rob Hubbard.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-118-37589-1 (pbk.)

1. Computer-assisted instruction. 2. Educational technology. I. Title.

LB1028.5.H78 2013

371.33'4—dc23

2013027979

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-118-37589-1 (hardback)

ISBN 978-1-118-37587-7 (ebk)

ISBN 978-1-118-37588-4 (ebk)

Cover design: Andrew Ward

Preface

It has been my great privilege to be involved in the eLearning Network (eLN) for many years, including four as an elected Board member and two as the Chair. As a Community Interest Company the Board are volunteers and the eLN is owned by its members, existing solely for the good of the elearning community as a whole. The eLN has 3000+ members, judges awards, runs events, provides mentoring, shares knowledge and generally does all it can to enhance the elearning industry.

There were many things I enjoyed about being Chair (the ermine robe, the sceptre, the private jet) but most of all was the opportunity to talk to, work with and generally pick the brains of the smartest people in the elearning industry. So, when Wiley asked me to write this book I immediately thought how much more we could offer with chapters authored by world leading experts in elearning.

Now I might get punched at a conference for saying this – but I don’t think you need to know a vast amount of ‘stuff’ to create effective online learning experiences. You just need to know the ‘right stuff’ and this typically comes from the ‘right people’. So that’s what we’ve done here – assembled the leading experts in each of the main areas of elearning to share their hard-won wisdom, tried and tested methodologies, tips and experience with you.

Knowledge however, is not enough. You need to put it into practice, so we’ve designed this book to be highly practical. Each chapter follows a set structure and includes hints, tips and guidance to help you explore new areas of elearning whilst avoiding some of the common pitfalls.

This book follows the ethos of the eLN – that of sharing knowledge and helping others for the benefit of all. If having read this book you want more, visit the eLN website http://www.elearningnetwork.org where you’ll find further information, support and like-minded people.

Rob Hubbard

Chair of the eLearning Network 2011–2013

Clive Shepherd is a consultant learning technologist, writer and speaker. He works with a broad range of public and private sector organizations internationally, helping them to build capability in the application of new media to learning, and to transform workplace learning through the effective integration of formal, informal, on-demand and experiential learning.

He established his interest in interactive media while Director, Training and Creative Services for American Express in EMEA. He went on to co-found Epic, one of the UK’s major producers of custom elearning.

He is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s foremost experts in workplace learning and development, with hundreds of published articles to his name. For four years he was Chairman of the eLearning Network. Currently he is a Director of Onlignment Ltd, which provides expertise in all aspects of online communication.

Blog: http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com

Twitter: cliveshepherd

It might seem strange to start a book on elearning by asking what it is. After all, you’ve presumably already purchased this book, so you probably have a pretty good idea what it is about. The trouble is, what you call elearning is not necessarily what others mean when they use the same term. Like so much specialist terminology, after a while it becomes ambiguous and confusing, with different camps claiming they have the one true definition. Well, as the author of this first chapter, I have a unique power at my disposal – to squash all this doubt and confusion and settle once and for all what we mean when we say “elearning”.

Elearning is when we use computers and the networks to which these are linked to in some way support the learning process.

That’s about as broad as I can make it, and it needs to be broad because, in this book, we’re going to be adopting a very eclectic perspective on the subject of elearning. We’re going to include just about any use of computers, in all their many and various forms, to help people learn. We’re happy to include, on the one hand, self-study lessons delivered on a PC, while also accommodating social learning conducted using mobile devices. We’re as happy with online video as we are with the use of virtual classroom tools to deliver live group workshops. And while the primary focus of this book is on the use of elearning in the workplace, we understand that very similar applications can be found in schools, colleges and, indeed, the home.