The Boggs e-Learning Chronicle

Global e-Learning Market To Surpass $52.6 billion by 2010

e-Learning Market to hit $56B by 2010 by David Kopf

"With an already strong foothold in the enterprise sector, e-learning is advancing in K-12 and higher education teaching environments, according to San Jose, CA-based market researchers Global Industry Analysts, which project the global e-learning market to surpass $52.6 billion by 2010."

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Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

A look at blended learning from the designer's, instructor's, and learner's perspective...

Multiple perspectives on blended learning design by Betty Collis, Anoush Margaryan, and Marc Amory

Abstract:

"Learning in the corporate setting not only relates to individual competence development but also to a demonstration of business impact and a contribution to the strategic ambitions of the company. An approach to learning design that blends generic principles of learning and instruction with strategic goals important to the particular context, anchored in a commitment to authentic and engaging learning activities is needed. We describe how a particular action-research partnership has developed such an approach to learning design, give examples of learning events that illustrate
the design, and then synthesize results of 12 of these events from three perspectives—the designer/researcher, the instructor, and the participant--in order to reflect on the lessons learned and apply them in an on-going way to a dynamic learning evolution. Although the experiences reported are from one global corporate setting, the research-based reference model used to steer this approach to learning design is by its very nature adaptable to other organizational contexts."

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Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

3 Million Orders And Growing...

One Laptop Per Child has 3 Million Orders

"Governments have ordered 3 million of the inexpensive yet rugged computers for schoolchildren through the One Laptop Per Child project, giving the nonprofit group enough volume to kick-start mass production.

The Cambridge organization would not disclose the countries that will be first in line for its $175 laptops when production starts in October. One Laptop Per Child’s leaders have said they had interest, if not firm commitments, from several countries, including Libya, Thailand, and Uruguay."

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elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

e-Learning Lingo Podcast: Episode #10 CSS

The next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series is up!   This week's word is "CSS".

On the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, there are three ways to comment on each episode. You may post a message to the blog; leave a web-based voicemail by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner; or call in and leave a message about each show.  You may find each weekly episode and its accompanying transcript on the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series page located in the media center of the SyberWorks web site.

Press Release:

The e-Learning Lingo Podcast #10: "CSS"

Blog:

e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series Blog

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elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

A Whole New Look At Summer School...Spicoli can now catch a wave and make up english class....

For those of you who may be wondering, Spicoli was a character who was required to attend summer school in the cult classic film, Fast Times At Ridgemount High, but I guess the perception of summer school is changing.....

Teens thrilled with online summer school By Adam Gorlick

The article suggests online summer school even benefits students with disabilities. 

One of the student's parent states, "These online classes have been a blessing," said Carol Meerschaert, whose 16-year-old daughter, Claire, has an attention deficit disorder. The disorder kept Claire from passing English in her sophomore year at Fallon High School in Falmouth, Maine.

"She's smart, but her grades weren't showing it," Meerschaert said. "Now, if she needs to reread something or come back to it when she's ready, she can. And she's getting better grades."

 

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Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

e-Learning Lingo Podcast: Episode #9 AICC Standards...

The next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series is up!   This week's word is AICC Standards.

On the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, there are three ways to comment on each episode. You may post a message to the blog; leave a web-based voicemail by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner; or call in and leave a message about each show.  You may find each weekly episode and its accompanying transcript on the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series page located in the media center of the SyberWorks web site.

Press Release:

The e-Learning Lingo Podcast #9: AICC Standards

Blog:

e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series Blog

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elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series #11 Hot Button Issues In Training Project Management

Here is our latest press release and e-Learning Series podcast:

Press Release:

SyberWorks e-Learning Podcasts: Episode #11 Hot Button Issues In Training Project Management

Podcast:

Episode 11: Hot Button Issues In Training Project Management

Mark Bower, President and CEO of Bower and Company, Inc., a learning and performance-management consulting firm located in Colorado talks about challenging issues in training project management and provides an answer to the question, “How to turn down a project and not lose your job?”

SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Transcript #11 Hot Button Issues In Training Project Management

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Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

Jane Hart's Top 10 Tools Series...

Jane Hart is running a series right now that features various folks top ten tools. 

Jane is really nice, and emailed to ask if I would like to contribute, but I feel I cannot since the SyberWorks Learning Management System works with many different e-Learning tools.

I do want to give her a plug though because she does a good job with her blog, so go check it out....

Top 10 Tools

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Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

Another Article That Puts Podcasts In Their Place....

Podcasts: Where's the Learning? by Patricia Deubel, Ph.D.  See previous post...

The Jury is in on Podcasting....

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

Update One Laptop Per Child Initiative-Intel Joins the Board

Intel has agreed to join the board of the One Laptop Per Child Initiative.  They had been reluctant to support the initiative in the past because they " recently began selling its own child-focused Classmate PC, which is a more conventional machine than the radically rethought XO computers.The Classmate costs around $225, and Intel expects that to fall near $200 this year."

Intel to join board and make peace with '$100 laptop' project  by Brian Bergstein

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System