The Boggs e-Learning Chronicle

Jacob Nielsen Comments on Web 2.0 AJAX Implementations...Any Relevance For Corporate Online Training Development?

While I do not normally do this, today I am going to post what I wrote on my other blog, the Online Training Content Journal, where I have had some posts in regards to AJAX technology.  I am posting it hear because it fits with theme I have been talking about for a while here.
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Jacob Nielsen Comments on Web 2.0 AJAX Implementations...Any Relevance For Corporate Online Training Development?

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

SyberWorks announces a new ‘e-Learning Podcast Series’

Here is our latest press release.

SyberWorks announces a new ‘e-Learning Podcast Series’

Episode #1 -Selecting the Right e-Learning Development Tool for You and Your Company

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 Project Management

Here is a recent article up on ASTD's web site on e-Learning / Learning Management Systems project implementation......

Project Management and E-Learning: MORE is Worse by Lou Russel

Below are some posts from our recent  series, 'Guidelines for Insuring a Successful LMS Implementation'

Installment #1 - Actively lead and manage the process
Installment #2 - Practice strong process management techniques and document along the way
Installment #3 - Partner with internal and external vendors
Installment #4 - Develop a suitable skills base for e-Learning

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

K-12 Online Education on the Increase

Here is an article I found through one of my news aggregators.  Confirms what we already know, but has some interesting examples......Online Education A Growing Trend by Lyanne Melendez

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

Bridging the Strategy and Execution Gap

Here is some interesting stuff....Surveying the Gap: Study Suggests Nearly Half of All Leaders See a Disconnect Between Strategy and Execution 

Excerpt: ".... Surprise . . . "vision" isn't the problem. The majority of respondents (75 percent) believe their companies have clear and inspiring visions. Furthermore, among those who perceive a gap, 69 percent believe the strategies are realistic and 63 percent believe the visions are clear and inspiring. So the gap is not likely to be a result of unrealistic, poorly articulated visions or unclear or unattainable strategies.

"This finding contradicts conventional wisdom, which is that the real challenge is crafting the direction of the company and gaining the buy-in and commitment of the employee population," says Lepsinger. "Proponents of this idea would argue that once a company has a vision in place and gets everyone on board, the rest is all down hill. Our study shows the fallacy of that thinking."

They outline eight factors that facilitate company employee's ability to execute:

• "Change is well managed by top management

• Decisions and actions are well coordinated across different levels of management

• · The actions and decisions of top management are consistent with their espoused objectives, values, and priorities

• Decisions and actions are well coordinated across different work units

• Effective human resource management systems and practices are in place for selecting, training, and compensating employees

• The current organizational structure supports the implementation of the business strategy

• There is a proper balance of centralized and decentralized responsibility required to achieve the strategy

• Top management appropriately involves people in decisions"

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

Go Figure..After 2 Comes 3..Big Drum Roll..Web 3.0

Get ready my friends, they are already talking about Web 3.0

Can 'Spiritual Computing' Drive Web 3.0?

A Glimpse Into The 'Web 3.0'

Easy Going Web 3.0

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

Learning Objects Article Resource

In my travels over the Internet, one of my news aggregators  picked this post up on various Learning Object Articles  from the Instructional Design for e-Learning Approaches blog and thought it might be useful for you in regards to custom e-Learning development, so I decided to pass it along.

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

Learning Objects, Constructivists, Objectivists, Oh My!

Here is another look at the much asked question about the validity of learning objects in various  learning theory models.. by Lex Milton, The Pros and Cons of Learning Objects and Object Oriented Instructional Design

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

e-Learning Case Study Repository

Its always great to have another tool in the e-learning development tool chest........

The Electronic Hallway "serves as an online repository of quality teaching cases and other curriculum materials for faculty who teach public administration, public policy, and related subjects. Cases are available in numerous policy areas; economic development, education, environment and land use, human services, international affairs, nonprofit, state and local government issues, utility and transit issues, and urban and regional issues."

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks

Blended Learning Course Development, Delivery, and Integration

Here's a white paper on  a learning management systems initiative.....

Integration of e-Management, e-Development and e-Learning Technologies for Blended Course Delivery  by Lynn Johnson And Michael Tang, University of Colorado at Denver

Introduction:

"This article describes and assesses a preengineering curriculum development project called Foundations of Engineering, Science, and Technology (FEST). FEST integrates webbased
technologies into an inter-connected system to enable delivery of a blended program at multiple institutions. Tools and systems described include (a) technologies to deliver courses in a blended mode; (b) application of a learning management system to act as a content management system; (c) application of the same system to facilitate collaborative course development;
(d) developing a Collaborative e-Learning Library System (CELLS) web site to serve as a
learning objects archive; and (e) developing a mobile multimedia studio to produce learning objects. The article is divided into three sections devoted to (a) the e-Management of an educational project; (b) the e-Development of learning objects; and (c) e-Learning as it applies to enhancing, storage, and delivery of blended courses. It concludes with an assessment of the successes and the complexities of using these technologies in the described project. These complexities include using various software applications for varied purposes and unforeseen human factors that contributed to participant resistance to the new technologies."

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks