I had a friend the other day come to me and ask me about what I thought about courses with respect to online college X. College X was a reasonably traditional online college, with degree and certificate programs, etc. I talked to her about the institution for awhile, and then I finally asked the question “what is it you’re looking to achieve?” I realized that we attend post secondary education for a variety of different reasons: Continue reading
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Student burnout in corporate training
Recently we transitioned our training materials from three courses of 2 days each to one course 3 days long, eliminating duplicate materials and also some unrelated materials that will be put in a course later. Continue reading
Branching Feedback Forms in Moodle 2.x
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Feedback forms, particularly in a CBT environment, can be incredibly useful in evaluating the effectiveness of our product, and also gathering information about our target audience. While Moodle 2.x has some extremely well built-in forms available, sometimes we want to create our own, for special purposes.
Roles and Permissions inside Moodle 2.x
For long time users of Moodle, when migrating to version 2.x of Moodle, understanding roles and user definition can be a bit confusing. With Moodle 2.x there has been a drastic change within Moodle. Here we’re going to look at how roles and permissions work within Moodle.
Alternatives to ADDIE
The training department I work in currently utilizes the ADDIE ( Analysis-Design-Development-Implementation-Evaluation) process for course-ware development. This model, developed in 1975 by FSU for the U.S. Army. It’s a tried and true method of development in any educational environment.
However, it was developed at a point in time when technology was not moving as rapidly as it is today. One of the largest complaints about ADDIE as a process is that it is slow. When technology is moving quickly ADDIE development can create a significant lag between the time when technology was released and when training materials are available for it.