Saturday, January 03, 2004
Learning Circuits -- ASTD's Online Magazine All About E-Learning
Learning Circuits -- ASTD's Online Magazine All About E-Learning: "We-Learning:
Social Software and E-Learning
By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson
Early e-learning traded technology for human interaction. Now, the personal element is being added back in. New social software tools borrowed from business and the younger generations combine tech and touch for the best of all possible worlds (including virtual ones).
In their rush to jump on the e-learning bandwagon, many companies created what is derogatively termed by some as shovelware: text-heavy content dumped online without much thought given to its usability or interactivity. Fortunately, that’s changing slowly. More companies are using real-time learning events, virtual classrooms, and interactive simulations to reintroduce the human (or almost human) element into learning technology.
Those intermediary steps are paving the way for innovations being introduced into the e-learning arena from the business world and the younger generations. Like synchronous learning technologies, these new tools, which can be classified loosely as social software, connect people not only to knowledge but also to other people. And they do it in exciting new ways. "
Social Software and E-Learning
By Eva Kaplan-Leiserson
Early e-learning traded technology for human interaction. Now, the personal element is being added back in. New social software tools borrowed from business and the younger generations combine tech and touch for the best of all possible worlds (including virtual ones).
In their rush to jump on the e-learning bandwagon, many companies created what is derogatively termed by some as shovelware: text-heavy content dumped online without much thought given to its usability or interactivity. Fortunately, that’s changing slowly. More companies are using real-time learning events, virtual classrooms, and interactive simulations to reintroduce the human (or almost human) element into learning technology.
Those intermediary steps are paving the way for innovations being introduced into the e-learning arena from the business world and the younger generations. Like synchronous learning technologies, these new tools, which can be classified loosely as social software, connect people not only to knowledge but also to other people. And they do it in exciting new ways. "
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