December 1, 2013
Top 10 e-Learning Statistics for 2014 You Need To Know
Christopher Pappas,
eLearning Industry,
December 1, 2013
Good fodder for your corporate e-learning presentation, outlining the size of the market and the costs saved by e-learning. (Yes, I know many people say there are no savings to be had in e-learning, but count me as among those who believes that the cost of learning can ultimately be reduced using e-learning, and reduced a lot. If this makes professors nervous, so be it. Just remember, if your unit sale price drops, then, if you want to maintain employment, sell more units. Or, in English: if professors want to keep their jobs, they should be prepared to find a way to offer learning to everybody, not just a select few. Because if they don't then - as these statistics surely indicate - someone will.)
MOOC Roundtable: The past, present and future of the platform
Corporate Learning Network,
YouTube,
November 30, 2013
Here's a video that deserves rather more than the 70 views it has right now: "We're just coming off a summer where it seemed like you couldn't go a week without seeing massive open online courses in the headlines. We've assembled an expert panel to assess the current landscape and talk through all of these moving parts in the world of MOOCs. Panelists include: Kevin Currie, executive director of Northeastern Online, Curtis Bonk, professor of education at Indiana University, Craig Weiss, founder of E-Learning 24/."
Talk About Mooc with Stephen Downes
Christophe Batier, Stephen Downes,
YouTube,
November 30, 2013
Nice interview with Christophe Batier about MOOCs - the first MOOC, our French MOOC coming up in January, my talk in Clair, my first visit to France, and why I only follow one person on Twitter. And where MOOCs will be in five years.
User guide to developing an employer survey on skill needs
Nick Sofroniou, Alena Zukersteinova,
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop),
November 30, 2013
If you are doing a survey on skill needs, and you haven't really done anything like this before, use this guide, It's clear and informative, and I think it covers the ground well, leading the user toward an accurate and appropriate methodology (section 4, which details coverage of sectors and coverage of occupational groups, is evidence for this). "It illustrates an approach tested in 2012 for identifying employer’s skill needs, in nine Member States. The guide offers recommendations for a survey covering a range of occupations, sample size calculations, maximising response rates, and ensuring the validity of the instrument as well as subsequent inferences."
Ban government use of instant messages, access watchdog says
Karina Roman,
CBC News,
November 30, 2013
Normally I wouldn't comment on something like this but I want to draw out the presumption, obviously held by the access-to-information commissioner, that instand messages are like emails or even mini documents. But that's not what they replace. Instant messages are and ought to have the status of replacements for phone calls. And just as I don't think access-to-information laws are intended to require officials to record their phone calls, I don't think they are required to preserve instant messages.
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs
Audrey Watters,
Hack Education,
November 30, 2013
This is the fourth in her year-end series of articles (I'll run a retrospective of all ten later in December) and focuses on MOOCs. As she says, there has barely been a week this year without news stories about MOOCs. And she captures it all through the first 46 or so weeks of 2013 in this article.
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