Newly Published E-Learning Guides
From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing, an always useful guide: "The UK's Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), is a network of 24 subject centres based in higher education (HE) institutions throughout the UK which aims to promote high quality learning and teaching through the development and transfer of good practices in all subject disciplines, and to provide a 'one-stop shop' of learning and teaching resources and information for the HE community. More...

E-learning Grows in Workplace
This otherwise typical article about e-learning in the workplace contains one eye-popping statistic: "Currently, 13 per cent of all training in Canada is delivered through e-learning technologies, and that is expected to double by 2004." The source for this item is the Conference Board of Canada, which is in a good position to know. More...

Federal Government Contributes $7.5 Million for Research on Distance Learning
This has been in my email pile for a bit, but it is worth passing along. Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has approved a $7.5 million grant for a project called LORNET, "a new NSERC research network that will develop tools needed to create effective, interactive web-based training courses and programs." The project is largely the work of Gilbert Paquette at TELUQ-LICEF, in partnership with the University of Waterloo and Simon Fraser University. More...

e-learning Stakeholders and Design
The comment from elearnspace reads simply, "If the designer isn't in contact with the end user, how can the learning environment / software / course / resource be designed to optimize their experience?" It points to the necessity of feedback, but while I would agree that feedback is useful, I draw the line at saying it is necessary. More...

We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning
Nice survey article that tracks many of the threads converging to become what is now being called social software. More...

The E-Learning Market: It's About the Learner, Not the Instructor!
It has been a long time coming, and the concept still hasn't penetrated class-based university online learning systems, but the re-emergence of e-learning is beginning to happen with a greater realization on the part of vendors that their client is not the instructor, but the learner. More...

Techno-News Blog. In recent years, there has been a lot of focus on adaptive e-learning, fueled by the advances of machine learning and artificial intelligence. As the one-size-fits-all approach of e-learning loses its appeal and online course attrition rates continue to rise, there is a move toward more personalized and adaptive learning to engage learners and achieve better learning outcomes. More...

Techno-News Blog. Online courses give learners and instructors flexible class options, but they also pose difficulties that instructors must overcome. Research shows that online students crave more interactions with their peers and instructors. More...