By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. (My) 7 Guidelines for Effective Corporate e Learning
Good set of guidelines which should form at least a framework of a corporate e-learning strategy -- or a corporate learning strategy in general. Know any managers who could use this advice. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 6 Tips To Turn Your Presentation Into An Interactive eLearning Course
Christopher Pappas, eLearning Industry, 2015/01/01
The six tips aren't especially interesting, and the relentless overlays begging you to subscribe or like are annoying. But the first 'tip' is actually a pretty good list of what are called 'rapid e-learning tools' - basically authoring suites that allow you to create traditional e-learning. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How To Train Your Attention and Be Effective When Working Online
Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog, 2014/09/29
OK, I have a cat that sits on my desk right in front of my keyboard, so I know about being distracted. But then again, I'm usually playing on Facebook or Twitter, so I guess it's a wash. But I'm not sure I need to go on an Information Diet, even if Clay Johnson recommends it. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Is there a Canadian market for American online programs?
Tony Bates, online learning and distance edcuation resources, 2014/09/18
Really good article from Tony Bates that comprehensively answers the question in the title. It begins with a dead-on accurate remark about hiring consultants, and then explains why the Canadian higher education market is what they call 'mature'. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Announcing K12 Online 2009 Presenters
The online conference has a long list of presenters, and while we don't yet have abstracts or presentation resources (just titles) the page links back to the presenters' home pages, so there's a lot to look at already. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Curator Editor Research Opportunities on eLearning Learning
I have followed the development of eLearning learning with interest. Much like my own site, eLearning learning intends to collect resources from a number of different sources to provide a single (and hopefully useful) access point. This latest plan to come from Elearning Learning incorporates some things I have been talking about recently, such as events. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. efest - eTLC2009
Selena at learning elearning has been providing blog coverage of the 2009 efest conference currently taking place in Palmerston North on New Zealand's North Island, including notes on the unconference and a talk from Derek Wenmouth (his blog). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning to Teach online
Cristina Costa, April 9, 2013
A really good point in a nutshell: "If we believe that learning is anchored in engagement, then we really need to design for engagement. I think this is where creating learning contexts becomes key. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Queen’s University’s report on online learning
Tony Bates, online learning, and , distance education resources, April 8, 2013
The best part of this report is the reaction to it posted by Tony Bates: "Reading this report was like peering over the wall of a monastery watching the monks diligently tending their vegetables with trowels and hoes, then along comes someone who suggests that they might want to use a tractor." One gets that impression, perhaps, on reading in the opening few sentences that "The question that permeates the discussions to date has been whether online learning is demonstrably better than traditional approaches." It's not that it's a bad report per se, it's that it just seems, well, a bit quaint. More...