147 pages pdf - ICT Digital Literacy

The Learning Tools & Technology Tsunami – Will You Sink Or Swim?
#312: Message Before Medium
Technology will not replace good design. Focus on the message rather than the medium.
Charles D. Hunter
Williams Scotsman
#313: More Things To Ask Yourself (or Others)
How do you intend to house the library of courses, make updates to the e-Learning, and track
student/employee progress? Do you have an LMS? Is the CBT/WBT AICC compliant? SCORM
compliant? Does you audience have special technical needs? If a good number of you
audience is using dial-up, does your software take into account the slower download of
graphics, animation and especially the voice files needed? Is there an alternative to playing
them live such as downloading them for play later?
Michael Tucker
Compuware Corporation
#314: No One Tool Does It All
In e-Learning, as in other projects, don't fall into the trap of having to fix all the problems with one tool.
Tom Pears
#315: Time Well Spent
When working with occasional e-Learning developers (such as SMEs that are not familiar with
most development tools), keep the tools as simple as possible. Use templates to even further
simplify the creation process. Create a tool that lets SMEs develop and own their modules and
remind them on a regular basis to update content. The time spent on programming to create
such tools is well spent -- it pays back in reduced support time and standardized interfaces.
Jan Buhmann
PeaceHealth
#316: Don't Get Caught Up in Tools
Sometimes the best solution is a simple HTML page. Some vendors would have you believe their tool is
the end-all be-all when you could probably build HTML pages that do the same thing. Plus, you don't
waste time and money learning and buying an un-needed tool. Anyone with Notepad can edit HTML. This
rule also applies when the company you work for tries to force feed you its own proprietary tool. K. I.S.S.
(Keep it Simple Stupid) applies to e-Learning as weel as to tools and everything else.
Bronson Beisel
IBM
#317: Use Your Selected Tools To The Fullest
E-learning is to Instructor Led as TV is to tickets on the 50-yard line. The game is the same, the players are
the same, the score is the same, and the result is the same. So the result of your learning should be too!
You can't be in the huddle at the live game, neither can you feel the heat of the field on TV. In e-Learning,
make the most of the tools offered to differentiate the experience from the Instructor Led experience.
Ken Seemann
Nextel Communications
#318: Keep The Traffic Moving
Beware of network "traffic cop" applications if you are implementing AICC/SCORM courses that
are not hosted on your Intranet.
Bernadette McIntosh-Estep
Country Insurance and Financial Services
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