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Learning in Communities
With talk of online courses, learning objects, and other forms of online content, people have stopped talking about the "learning community". But learning still occurs for the most part in communities. This is the eleventh in a series of twelve articles by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
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What is flexible learning?
Flexible Learning as a term can mean a range of different things to different people. In this article we define what we think flexible learning encompasses. |
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Opinion Piece: Flexible Delivery
In March 2004 Kathy Rankin from Australian Business Limited let us know her thoughts on "flexibility". |
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Beyond Learning Objects
Developers should go beyond learning objects in the assembly of learning resources - things that are not learning objects may play a similar and necessary role in online learning. This is the tenth in a series of twelve articles by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
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Opinion Piece: Professional Development
Adrian Morgan from the Australian Institute of Training and Development shares his thoughts on the future of PD. |
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Simply the Best - Workplaces in Australia
This study by University of Sydney found that the significant factor that differentiated *good* from *great* workplace environments was the quality of the relationships. |
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Flexible delivery and working conditions
This NCVER project set out to determine how practices have or need to be changed to accommodate flexible delivery and changing roles and patterns of work for TAFE staff. |
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Legal Issues in Flexible Learning
Cathy McNickle, Project Officer from the Legal Issues in Flexible Learning project, was our special guest from 2 – 10 December 2003 and hosted a general discussion on legal implications for elearning. |
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How Learning Communities use learning
Simulation or online environments will play a major role in future e-learning systems. This is the ninth in a series of tweleve articles by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
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Ask a Lawyer
This article lists the questions and answers that arose in the Ask a Lawyer Expert Spruik held 3 - 14 November, 2003. |
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Using Syndicated Learning Content
When you think of online learning as being dynamic aggregations of syndicated content rather than static pages designed well in advance the very idea of course design is challenged. This is the eighth in a series of twelve articles by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
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Distributing Learning Objects
The educational world is likely to find itself moving toward a harvesting model, just as the world wide web has. The seventh in a series of twelve articles written by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
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ACE in SA: Keeping the learner at the centre
This article summarises an event that looked at a case study from South Australia on how one group introduced new learning technologies in Adult Community and Education. The event was moderated by Jan Peterson from the South Australian Dept of Further Education Employment Science and Technology |
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Learning Objects Standards
There is a veritable alphabet soup of specifications, standards and profiles related to learning objects. What does the future hold? The sixth in a series of twelve articles written by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
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VET Learning Object Repository Consultation and Green Paper
During this event, held 1 July - 31 August 2003, Ian Kenny from the VET Learning Repository Project consulted with members on their responses to his project's Green Paper. This article summarises the outcome. |
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e-learning in a culturally + linguistically diverse society
This document reviews current writings and provides teaching and learning suggestions to supplement existing material relating to e-learning in a culturally and linguistically diverse society. |
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Designing Learning Objects
The fifth of a series of articles written by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
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All about e-learning
Rita Bennink's report on her Flexible Learning Leader journey, with links to background on several sessions at the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Conference 2003 is excellent. |
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FLEXing Our Muscles: ACE comes of age
This resource is based on the discussions that took place during the FLEXing our muscles: ACE comes of age event held in the Community 2 – 13 June, 2003 |
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Learning: More Than Just Knowledge
Even to this day, the ‘filling a pail’ learning model prevails. With advanced information and communication technologies, you’d think we could do better. The fourth in a series of twelve articles written by Stephen Downes on Knowledge Management. |
