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Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:59:33 -0700

Our system recently issued a policy that to drive any vehicles for school purposes, one would have to pass an online Defensive Driving course. I logged on recently to take care of this requirement but also to look at the...

comment by: John Tangney

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:50:49 -0700

Whew! Thanks so much for the real-world example of what truly sucks about eLearning (or whatever it's called nowadays.) I had the pleasure of working with some really smart people on an innovative system to do "adaptive" eLearning (i.e. the system adapts to you, rather than the other way 'round.) We did some nifty things. Pity it never saw commercial viability.

There is more to it than learning modality. It's a matter of being engaging rather than BORING as your blog underscores. It's a matter of providing multiple paths through the material. It's a matter of allowing the learner to explore and then (and this is the key part) understand what they are doing so the system can develop a model of what the learner has processed. And then there's retention. Ploughing through the material in a perfectly engaging, exploratory, multi-modal environment is worthless if the learner has forgotten it all by Tuesday.

Anyway, keep up the thoughtful blogging!
--johnt

comment by: Karen Chisvin

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:26:31 -0700

I'm a distance learning graduate student who hopes to make a contribution to continuing professional education (in a profession I've been involved in for over 20 years) by taking it beyond "next..next..next" to be as exciting as the real world example here. At this stage I am new to creating web tools, and for the moment my own search is exciting, but the results that I can produce with the tools I understand are still yawn inducing.Thanks for the reminder that I will be able to collaborate with others to create those engaging learning environments

comment by: Ron Lubensky

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:47:25 -0700

I too rail about boring elearning, including projects that I've had to build because clients demanded it. Trouble is you can't compare your learning situation with that of the students of Defensive Driving. Alan, you are a lifelong learner who is self-motivated and self-directed. The students on the other hand may be less enlightened and are being pushed into completing the online topic. So the challenge for elearning designers is to provide environments that motivate learners, provide a sense of freedom yet also guarantee to the learning sponsors that a particular set of ideas, facts or skills is transferred effectively.

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Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:44:45 -0700

Excerpt: cogdogblog: Beautiful, Textbook Instructional Design... I Yawned All the Way to the Post Test This is an older entry I meant to comment on last week but the dissertation proposal work took up my time. As David Miller alluded to...
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:35:12 -0700

Excerpt: cogdogblog: Beautiful, Textbook Instructional Design... I Yawned All the Way to the Post Test::Alan Levine compares his experience with a beautifully designed, technically perfect piece of online instruction with the way he really learns what he needs ...
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:39:58 -0700

Excerpt: I think that Alan has perfectly illustrated the difference between a "design formula" - ADDIE in this case - and real design. It is not that ADDIE is not good design, but if you A then D then D then I then E you have copied someone elses design. We nee...
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