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Doing E-learning
http://www.doingelearning.com/
E-learning podcasts released twice a month, providing information and guidelines that HR, Training, and Learning & Development professionals can act on today.
A Doing E-Learning podcast is designed to support people in organisations wanting to embrace technology as part of their people development strategy.

ADELIE
http://www.le.ac.uk/adelie/
ADELIE ... Advanced Design for E-Learning: Institutional Embedding
The ADELIE project came out of the e-learning benchmarking pilot at the University of Leicester and aims to address key challenges associated with building capacity among university teachers. We aim to:
* embed good practice in re-design for e-learning
* build capacity within the institution
* enhance the learner experience
* make tutors’ jobs more effective and rewarding
* stimulate institutional change

A professional development framework for e-learning
https://www.lsneducation.org.uk/user/order.aspx?code=072821
A professional development framework for e-learning
The Learning and Skills Network (LSN) has carried forward the initial work of the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) to develop a professional development framework of competencies in the application of e-learning techniques, tools and associated guidance.
The professional development framework and the associated topics for e-learning outlined in this document is intended to support the raising of e-learning capability within the teaching and learning environment at all levels. It will achieve this by providing a platform from which targeted e-learning programmes can be built, focusing on individual needs and promoting sound pedagogical practice in the application of e-learning strategies.

Learning design toolkit for educators
http://www.nettle.soton.ac.uk/toolkit/Default.aspx
A learning design toolkit to create pedagogically effective learning activities
Learning design toolkit for educators
This article describes a learning design toolkit which guides practitioners through the process of creating pedagogically informed learning activities which make effective use of appropriate tools and resources.
Finding, or creating, suitable e-learning resources and embedding them in well designed learning activities can be both challenging and time consuming. Sharing and adapting effective designs and solutions is both a stimulant and a time saver. This article describes the background to the specification of a learning activities design toolkit to support teachers as they create or adapt e-learning activities.

e-Learning : What it is, why it is important and how it will develop
http://www.shambles.net/elearning/publications/elearning_naace_aug07.pdf
e-Learning : What it is, why it is important and how it will develop (August 2007).
A guide to E-learning for teachers, school senior leaders,curriculum and assessment planners and policy makers.
This paper arose out of a (UK) think tank event was organised jointly by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and Naace, the Association for Advancing Education through the use of ICT.
When you use the terms ‘ICT’, ‘ICT Capability’ and ‘E-learning’does your audience precisely understand what you are referring to?
pdf file 194KB published August 2007 ... recommended!

Success Factors for an Efficient Blended eLearning
http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=27790
Success Factors for an Efficient Blended eLearning
Blended Elearning, Online Content, Instructional design, Delivery Environment, learning management system.
This paper presents an enhanced blended elearning model and discusses the essential success factors of an efﬁcient elearning system. The success factors in an elearning system are related to students, instructors, the developed course content and the delivery medium and environment. A new framework for the delivery of the online content is presented and mapped to the activity theory. This mapping explains and organizes the interactivity relations between instructors, students and online learning objects as they are bounded by the technology, Learning management system (LMS) and ebvironment

E-Learning Glossary
http://www.trainingshare.com/resources/glossary.php
E-Learning elearning Glossary

Kineo Audio Interviews (elearning)
http://www.kineo.co.uk/audio-downloads.html
Kineo Audio Interviews (elearning)
Listen (online or download) to some excellent interviews related to different areas of elearning
e.g.
- Mark Harrison asks Laura Overton how you can align your learning strategy to the visions and goals of your organisation.
- Stephen and Mark were challenged to a debate on books and face to face vs e-learning.
- Stephen Walsh interviewed Charles Jennings, Global Head of Learning at Reuters.
- Stephen Walsh interviewed Emma Goss of the Improvement and Development Agency about Learning Pool, the IDeA's e-learning service for local authorities and councils.
- Stephen talks to Kevin Kruse, aka 'the e-learning guru', to get the view from the US.

The Open Content Initiative (OCI)
http://oci.open.ac.uk/
The Open Content Initiative (OCI)
The Open Content Initiative (OCI) will make educational resources freely available on the Internet, with state of the art learning support and collaboration tools to connect students and educators.
From The Open University (UK)
"The philosophy of open access and sharing knowledge is a wonderful fit with the founding principles of The Open University and with the University's very strong commitment to opening up educational access and widening participation. The University will be developing forms of open content e-learning which will reach less experienced learners and, we hope, encourage an appetite for further learning. The Open University will be the first in the UK to offer Open Content materials under a Creative Commons licence. We are deeply grateful to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for its generous support."

How to create effective web based training
http://www.readygo.com/isd/
Do you know what it takes to create effective web based training?
Take this free online course and learn the basics.

834 tips for successful online instruction
http://www.elearningguild.com/pbuild/linkbuilder.cfm?selection=doc.1114
834 tips for successful online instruction
This FREE Digital Book, 834 Tips for Successful Online Instruction is an amazing collection of tips from 336 of your professional colleagues. Nowhere will you find a more comprehensive set of tips that you can use to improve your knowledge and skills in online instruction. This eBook is available for everyone regardless of their affiliation with The eLearning Guild - so don't hesitate to tell all your colleagues about it!
This FREE Digital Book was made possible by a generous contribution to its development from WebEx Communications.

eLearning Planning Guide
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/lt/pguide/map.htm
eLearning Planning Guide
Preparing the eLearning Plan | Identify Current Positions and Vision Requirements | Approving and Evaluating the Plan | Reviewing the eLearning Plan | Creating an eLearning Vision Statement | Learning Environments for eLearning | Preparing a Professional Development Plan | Case Studies |

Virtual Learning, an e-learning resource
http://www.virtuallearning.org.uk/index.php
Virtual Learning, an e-learning resource
In the Virtual Learning site you can find case studies, research papers, conference presentations, publications and a range of resources to support e-learning.

eLearning Awards 2005
http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards2005/index.htm
eLearning Awards 2005
The eLearning Awards are awarded for the fifth time in 2005. The eLearning Awards aim at identifying and awarding excellent practice in using ICT for learning.
The eLearning Awards correspond to the main focuses of European and national efforts in education. They highlight common European cultural values by investing in human capacities and teachers' professionalism.
The eLearning Awards support teaching and learning at European schools by awarding excellent resources, effective services, working ideas and imaginative solutions.

West Midlands (UK) e-Learning
http://www.staffselearning.net/
This site has been developed by the West Midlands e-Learning to provide help, support and information on all things e-learning for Staffordshire's UK online centres and community organisations.

ICT and e-Learning : Three case studies (UK)
http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/wbl_use_ict_elearning.doc
REPORT : ICT and e-Learning : Three case studies (UK)
Work-based Learning - Three case studies from Industry
A report comprising three case studies of ICT and e-Learning used in the care-home, land-based and printing industries

Packaging and publishing learning objects Jan2005
http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/industry/content_packaging.pdf
Packaging and publishing learning objects: Best practice guidelines
BECTA Publication
These guidelines, together with the Conformance Regime, provide a standardised and agreed framework for the packaging of learning content, and its delivery and use in education. With an increasing number of different learning platforms now in use in compulsory education, the wide adoption of a standard, consistent and technically robust method of exchanging learning content packages between systems is essential to the future growth and success of ICT in education.

eLearning Awards 2005
http://tinyurl.com/7bbah
The eLearning Awards are awarded for the fifth time in 2005. The eLearning Awards aim at identifying and awarding excellent practice in using ICT for learning.

elearning (page at agelesslearner)
http://agelesslearner.com/intros/elearning.html
elearning (page at agelesslearner)
E-learning is the unifying term to describe the fields of online learning, web-based training, and technology-delivered instruction.
Although we have strong opinions about where eLearning is likely to go and how quickly it may or may not get there, this page is dedicated to linking you to the myriad of e-learning resources in the e-world.
A definition of e-learning | Websites focused on e-learning issues | Organizations you might want to know about | Good articles and magazines | Interesting books |

Stephen Downes : Webpage
http://www.downes.ca/me/presentations.htm
Stephen Downes : Webpage
He has made available on his page PowerPoints of presentations he has given on elearning
Projecting Quality (the use of learning object evaluations) | Emerging Trends in E-Learning | The Four-Dimensional Future of Metadata | Learning Objects in a Wider Context | Open Content - Open Learning | E-Learning Decisions: Modes, Models and Strategies | Toward a Learning Object Repository Network | Designing For A Viable Online Professional Development Community | Understanding Online Learning |

E-Learning Strategy (England) March 2005
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/e-strategy/
Harnessing Technology: Transforming Learning and Children Services, sets out the first joined-up approach to utilising technology across the education system, enabling schools, colleges, universities and adult and community learning organisations to tailor education around the particular needs of their learners.
Parents will be able to check up on their child's progress in school at the click of a mouse under radical plans to exploit technology to personalise education for young people published March 2005 by the Schools Minister, Derek Twigg.

e-Learning Research Centre
http://www.elrc.ac.uk/
e-Learning Research Centre
This website provides details of publications, events, seminar programmes and other news items relating to the eLRC and of interest to the e-learning community generally.

The potentiality of quality e-Learning
http://www.naace.org/resource.asp?menuItemId=1&resourceId=1000
The potentiality of quality e-Learning
A group of Naace members spent an interesting day on October 6th 2004 at South Nottingham e-Learning Centre exploring the potentiality of e-learning.
Presentations from the day and a collation of the groups final thoughts on e-learning are available here.
eLearning in European School | Virtual Classroom | eLearning in Northern Ireland | assessment for learning | E-Reflections | REflections |

elearnspace : elearning model + resources
http://www.elearnspace.org/
Welcome to elearnspace! This site is intended for users, managers, developers, and facilitators of elearning.
Many resources exist for elearning, yet a model of how the pieces fit together is often missing. elearnspace has been organized to present a whole picture view of elearning.
The site navigation is based on the graphic displayed below. recommended elearning model to view

Learning Circuits
http://www.learningcircuits.org
Learning Circuits is a source of background information, articles and resources for online and e-learning.
ASTD launched Learning Circuits in January 2000. Its goal was to promote and aid the use of e-learning, creating a body of knowledge about how to use technology efficiently and effectively for learning.
It delivers a fully interactive Website with discussions, demos and resources, and articles on a weekly basis. A bi-weekly opt-in email newsletter, LC Express, sends news, teasers, and links to subscribers.
There are over 500 articles currently on the Website.
elearning

The Lolas : Annual Live Online Awards
http://www.TheLolas.com
The Lolas : Annual Live Online Awards
The Lolas recognize outstanding achievement in the design, delivery and production of live online learning events.
Award categories include
Excellence in Facilitation of a Synchronous Event | Creativity in Synchronous Design | Excellence in Blended Learning Design | Meaningful Collaboration Among Online Participants | Most Effective/Unique Use of a Synchronous Feature | Most Compelling or Engaging Online Learning Moment | Most Compelling Use of Video During a Synchronous Event | Interactivity and Engagement in a Large Webcast |

Checklist for supporting effective e-Learning in schools.
http://www.new-media-learning.com/documents/Recipe_for_Success_LBKC.rtf
Recipe for Success : A possible checklist for supporting effective e-Learning in schools.

Training 2004 Conference Highlights
http://www.pqhp.com/vnu/training2004
VNU is pleased to offer, at no charge, the biggest collection of video- taped conference sessions yet from its Training 2004 Conference.

'Realising the vision for e-Learning'
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/elearningstrategy/uploads/BETT2pre.ppt
'Realising the vision for e-Learning' presentation given at BETT 2004 by Diana Laurillard
PowerPoint Presentation ... file is very big at 4M

Responses UK 'Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy'
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/elearningstrategy/online.cfm
Report on analysis of responses to the consultation UK 'Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy'
Report providing analysis on the 430 responses received to the consultation document 'Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy'.

Key e-Learning publications (UK)
http://buildingthegrid.becta.org.uk/index.php?resId=905#res905
Key e-Learning publications
e-Skills passports | EU e-learning action plan | eEurope 2005: an information society for all | ESRC: Implications of networked e-Learning in Higher Education | e-learning in local government report | Wired-up Communities (2000-02) |

Theory and Practice of eLearning
http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/
Theory and Practice of eLearning
This book is concerned with assisting providers of online education with useful tools to carry out the teaching and learning transactions online. It presents, in an easily readable form, the theory, administration, tools, and methods of designing and delivering learning online.
The full book may be downloaded for free as a pdf file.

Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy (UK)
http://www.naace.org/resourceview.asp?menuItemId=1&resourceId=798
Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy ... is a UK Gov document sent out to the community for consultation .. deadline Jan 2004
This is a response to that consultation document from Naace ... one of the main UK ICT professional associations.
A Naace view is that these proposals have the potential to transform education using ICT, along the lines of the Estelle Morris 'Transforming the Way we Learn' vision, exactly because the proposals 'grab all the levers' that are necessary for the concerted programme of change that the strategy aspires to."

eLearning? Or learning with ICT?
http://www.eep-edu.org/InnService/Innovation_Profile/InnProf072.htm
eLearning? Or learning with ICT?
Is ?-learning?distinctly different from traditional learning processes or is it just part of learning? Though learning happens without the ?? can e-learning happen without any of the other aspects of learning?
Moveable type did not just create book-learning, it fundamentally changed education and learning processes and the curriculum. Likewise, e-learning is the catalyst that is fundamentally changing education, learning and the curriculum today.

Guidelines for Electronically Delivered Programs
http://elearn.wvu.edu/Policies/edpchecklist.pdf
Guidelines for Electronically Delivered Programs
A basic assessment inventory "Guidelines for Electronically Delivered Programs".

Accrediting Agency Documents on Electronically Offered Degrees
http://www.wcet.info/resources/accreditation/
The Statement of Commitment by the Regional Accrediting Commissions for the Evaluation of Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs and Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs were developed by the eight regional accrediting commissions through its Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions.

Presentations by Sally Johnstone from WCET
http://www.wcet.info/resources/StaffPresentations/
Presentations by Sally Johnstone from WCET
Weathering the Perfect Storm: Information Technology in a Limited-Resource Environment | The Big Picture: e-Learning Issues Nationally & Internationally | Pedagogical and Fiscal Planning for Successful Distance Learning Programs | Update on Open Educational Resources | Implications of the Trends in E-Learning Activities | Challenging Our Assumptions in an Online World | The Computer and Instruction ?Better? Cheaper? Both? Depends | Accreditation of e-Learning Programs | Distance Learning Trends and Future Directions | Online Education Using the Internet: U.S. Activities |

e-Learning Policies
http://www.edutools.info/policy/index.jsp
e-Learning Policies
This site focuses on the unique policy issues that are created by the e-delivery of higher education courses and programs. Learn more about policy areas, search for policies and compare policies.

Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards
http://www.masie.com/masie/default.cfm?page=standards
Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards: A Decision Maker's Guide to their Adoption
The area of learning standards is one of the most powerful and misunderstood aspects of the e-Learning revolution. As organizations make significant investments in digital learning content, they seek greater assurances of portability and reusability. Organizations also desire the ability to more easily store, search, index, deploy, assemble, and revise learning content.
One goal of The MASIE Center's e-Learning CONSORTIUM is to lower industry confusion surrounding learning standards and to accelerate their adoption. Thanks to the hard work of the S3 subgroup, we are able to release the Second Edition of "Making Sense of Standards and Specifications." With over forty new pages of content, this new report focuses on the changes and learnings that have occurred since the First Edition was released in 2000.

e-Learning: Production (G79J 16)
http://www.sqa.org.uk/
PDA E-LEARNING: PRODUCTION - SQA has developed a Professional Development Award (PDA) e-Learning: Production (G79J 16), which is designed for professionals interested in the preparation of e-learning materials for delivery.

The Impact of E-Learning on GCSE Results in Knowsley, 2002
http://tinyurl.com/qvqd
The Impact of E-Learning on GCSE Results in Knowsley, 2002
Published Autumn 2003, this report by Knowsley Council is based on independent research by Fischer Family Trust - an independent charity that undertakes and supports projects addressing the development of education in the UK. The report, based on 1,768 pupils in 11 secondary schools, proves - to 95% confidence limits - that e-Learning significantly improved GCSE performance.
A hard copy of the full report is available on request by email helpdesk@samlearning.com or telephone 0845 130 4160.
On average pupils with six or more hours of e-Learning achieved five GCSE points higher than pupils with similar prior-attainment - equivalent to more than half a GCSE grade per subject.
Pupils in the lower quartile of prior attainment pupils achieved nine GCSE points higher with six or more hours of e-learning in total.
Pupils with medium prior attainment achieved six GCSE points higher with six or more hours of e-learning in total.
The improvement for boys is more than for girls.

The e-learning Strategy Unit ... UK
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/elearningstrategy/
The e-learning Strategy Unit's overriding objective is to achieve coherence in Government ICT initiatives which support learning and teaching and in working with our external partners.
The Unit is responsible for cross cutting issues across all sectors of learning from pre-school, through school, FE and University to community-based lifelong learning.
If someone is learning in a way that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs), they are doing e-learning.

Learning in an Online World 2003 - 2006 : Australia
http://icttaskforce.edna.edu.au/documents/learning_online_infrastruct.pdf
Learning in an Online World 2003 - 2006
633kb pdf file

National Education Technology Plan + Goals (USA)
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/elearning/index.html
National Education Technology Plan (USA)
In response to the educational opportunities made available by dramatic technological innovations in the early and mid-1990s, U.S. Secretary of Education released the nation's first educational technology plan in 1996, Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century: Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge. This plan presented a far-reaching vision for the effective use of technology in elementary and secondary education to help the next generation of school children to be better educated and better prepared for the evolving demands of the new American economy.
The document lists five Educational Technology Goals for USA Schools .....
The paper also highlights elearning.

e-learning white papers
http://www.e-learningguru.com/wpaper.htm
Hey, everybody loves e-learning white papers, and now you'll find them all in one spot! Well, not exactly all of them.
We're not going to post the blatant product brochures or poorly written ones, just the white papers from vendors that cleverly disguise promotional info with a thin veneer of academic-sounding theory. ;-) (Click here if you want us to publish your e-learning white paper - remember, it has to be informative in some way, and not just about you.)
elearning | e-learning | Strategy, Mission & Vision | LMS / LCMS | e-Learning Benefits, ROI, Business Case, Analytics | e-Learning Vendor Selection & Management | Industry & Investment Analysis |

Towards a Unified e-learning Strategy (UK)
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations2/16/
Towards a Unified e-learning Strategy (UK) - Launch Date 8 July 2003 Closing Date 30 January 2004
This is a consultation exercise to help us shape an e-learning strategy for all learners and potential learners and all sectors of education and training from early years through to Higher Education and lifelong learning.

e-Learning Hub
http://www.e-learninghub.com/
e-Learning Hub - This Web site helps you use e-learning successfully.
e-LearningHub.com stems from the book that Brooke Broadbent wrote for the American Society for Training and Development and Jossey-Bass. The book and this Web site include information that will help you launch e-learning successfully.