Raymond Yee’s notes from Canadian Elearning Workshop 2004

http://raymondyee.net/wiki/
CanadianElearningWorkshop2004

Well, I can’t be there myself, but reading Raymond’s notes in his wiki is the next best thing. He is involved in the hugely intriguing Scholars Box project, part of the Interactive Univeristy Project at UC Berkeley, and brings his own great context to these notes. Thanks for sharing these, Raymond! – SWL

Timeline and Discussion Extraction Tools from UBC

http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/michelle/
archives/000545.html

Michelle Lamberson has a note about two really interesting tools recently released by the instructional technology support folks at UBC’s Faculty of Arts. The first is a forms-based Flash Timelines builder. The second a tool to extract and then re-import distinct pieces of threaded discussions from inside WebCT. – SWL

HunterStone THESIS – another Office to SCORM convertor

http://www.hunterstone.com/eduProds.aspx

Another in the growing list of Office-to-SCORM-package conversion products. This one is, in fact, certified as ‘SCORM conformant,’ as testified to on the ADL site. Which led to another handy discovery, a concise (as concise as you are going to get from the American military) description of the various SCORM certification levels and what they actually mean. – SWL

June Lester on the ‘SME’s Viewpoint’

http://thejuniverse.blogs.com/afterhours/
2003/10/surviving_cours.html

June Lester is a mathematician and an educator, and one of the people brave enough to help facilitate the ‘blogtalk’ we tried over the last few weeks. She’s posted a great piece on the frustration a ‘SME’ can feel in the so-called ‘course-development wars.’ She’s right of course – subject matter experts in education have also often taught the material before and understand quite well how to communicate it’s intricacies, and treating them solely as providers of content will almost certainly produce a lesser learning experience (as well as antagonize them.) …
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More thoughts on ‘Surviving Course Development Wars’

http://www.xplana.com/articles/archives/course_dev_wars

This piece by Susan Smith Nash on Xplana made me laugh. I wonder if anyone working in online instructional development in post-secondary *hasn’t* experienced this kind of situation…
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