OpenStax Homepage - OpenStax 30+ Ideas for eLearning Portfolio Samples - Experiencing eLearning Whether you’re working independently or looking for a full-time job, you need a portfolio. What if you can’t use any samples of your existing work due to confidentiality or security requirements? Revise Existing Work In some cases, it’s enough to remove logos and a few identifying details. In other cases, you can redo an existing activity with brand new content. For example, the Instructional Designer or eLearning Developer demo in my portfolio is based on an activity I originally created for a health care client. Use Short Samples For many people, the best solution is creating new content from scratch. Focus on Your Intended Audience Target your desired audience. I sometimes see overly simply topics like “make a sandwich” for elearning samples. Ideas for Samples If you need to create samples, use the list below to jump start your brainstorming. Soft Skills & Business Training Software Training Other Sources of Ideas More Resources Originally published 7/14/16. eLearning Freelancer Bootcamp
eLearning Feeds - The most recent eLearning articles from the Top eLearning Blogs 11 Questions You’ll Be Asked at a Teaching Interview Congratulations! You’ve landed an interview appointment for a teaching position at a new school, or for a different position at your current school. This is an important first step, but there will likely be a number of qualified candidates vying for the same spot—how can you distinguish yourself from the pack and land the job? Your résumé, references, and professional portfolio will help, of course, but it’ll always be the impression you make during your face-to-face interview that’ll get you hired. In addition to questions related to your content area, anticipate that you’ll be asked questions based on your knowledge of and experience with meeting the needs of the whole child. Here are the types of questions you’ll be asked, along with suggestions and links to resources to guide you in preparing your answers and in practicing citing specific strategies and relevant classroom anecdotes. 11 Questions You Should Prepare For 1. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Curating Content for the Disabled: A Guide to Web Accessibility Imagine this: You’re working on content curation for your business site’s blog. You’ve plotted out different audiences and created personas and researched which customer needs and interests you need to address. You’ve thought about which relevant content you need to keep driving traffic while advancing your other marketing goals. And then a colleague upsets all your plans by pointing out that you’ve ignored everyone with disabilities. Why You Need to Curate Content for People with Disabilities Ignoring people with disabilities isn’t just politically incorrect. If your site content is not accessible, 71% of visitors with disabilities will simply leave, damaging your bounce rate and conversion rates. What’s more, running inaccessible content can even bring a serious lawsuit on your head. Curating accessible content allows you to position yourself as a trusted source, one that opens up new content to people who would otherwise be unable to access it. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 5. 6. 7. Rate this post:
Building Your Elearning Portfolio: It’s Easier Than You Think! Originally presented at ATD TechKnowledge 2015 | Las Vegas, NV January 2015 Standard resumes and cover letters are no longer sufficient if you want to stand out from the crowd. Having a good portfolio has always been important for freelancers, but it’s quickly becoming a must-have for anyone in e-learning who hopes to snag the best opportunities that come along, inside your organization or out. Having a portfolio is a great way to showcase your accomplishments, skills, experiences, and personality. Creating a great looking e-learning portfolio is easier than you think. Be sure to check out the curated collection of portfolio links and resources referenced in this session here. What the audience had to say about it: Extremely helpful.Awesome presenter!! Like this: Like Loading...
Teacher's Technology Toolbox - Looking for a tool to use in your classroom? You'll likely find it here! Technology in the Classroom: Insights for Optimization - Education Elements In addition to choosing the appropriate hardware for your educational technology needs, it’s important to take a careful approach to software selection. Trying to figure out which digital content curriculum and providers are right for your school or district can be difficult. The market is already diverse and complex enough to overwhelm many teachers or school leaders who are trying to decide which products to choose. Faced with the prospect of selecting content from a market in which new companies crop up every month and each product promises great results, school leaders wonder: Where should we begin? How can we narrow down a short list of content providers from the many that are available? To help navigate this arena successfully, work on answering the following questions before beginning to search the digital content market: What role do you want digital content to play in the learning process? What role do you envision the teacher playing in the management of the digital content?
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education | Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Filed by the ACRL Board on February 2, 2015. Adopted by the ACRL Board, January 11, 2016. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. PDF Version Print copies may be purchased from the Association of College and Research Libraries for $15.00 for a package of 10, including standard postage. Payments with a check should be sent to: Association of College and Research Libraries Attn: Standards Fulfillment 225 N. If you have additional questions about ordering the Framework, please contact us at 312-280-5277, or email acrl@ala.org. ACRL has a history of supporting librarians in understanding and using the association’s standards and guidelines. Check for upcoming ACRL eLearning webcasts and online courses. ACRL’s Standards, Guidelines, and Frameworks are provided as a free resource to the academic library community. Contents IntroductionFrames Appendix 1: Implementing the Framework Appendix 3: Sources for Further Reading Notes 1. 2.
The Future of Instructional Design: Experience Design For decades, neuroscience, learning science, experience design and even cybernetics have provided a steady drumbeat of insights for us in the field of learning and development to apply. We’ve taken these lessons as they’ve come, implementing them individually and, often, imperfectly. This has led to a wide segmentation of learning approaches – a massive (and ever-growing) pallet of options we sometimes present to our stakeholders as equally effective, from “bite-sized,” passive “learning nuggets” to fully immersive virtual reality simulations. The problem is, of course, that this approach is completely wrong – learning strategies are not equally effective. We are in the midst of a significant learning junction. Half of the industry is driven by research into how people currently use the web. The other half of the industry is following the explosion of new technologies with rapt attention. The real problem is that we’re not anchoring our approaches to sound learning science.
Free Technology for Teachers reunamo | Progressive feedback Anna-Leena Lastikka has studied in her licentiate thesis the experiences of multicultural children and families in Finland. The thesis name is Culturally and linguistically diverse children’s and families’ experiences of participation and inclusion in Finnish early childhood education and care. Currently, countries around the world are concerned with migration flows, which set challenges to the development of inclusive ECEC services. It is possible to build (see Figure) an empowering pedagogy that is based on the strengths, knowledge and active participation of children and families. The Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (Karvi) has published the Guidelines and Recommendations for Evaluationg the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care in 2017. Evaluation or Early Childhood Education is a multifaceted and complex science and art.Who would be a better judge on the quality of Early Education than the children themselves?
Criteria for Website Evaluation - Evaluating Websites & Internet Sources - Research Guides at Skagit Valley College This list is a guide for evaluating information found on the Internet. It can also be applied to print sources and media. ACCURACY How reliable is the information? AUTHORITY What are the author’s qualifications for writing on this subject? OBJECTIVITY Is there bias? CURRENCY Is the content up-to-date? COVERAGE What topics are covered and to what depth? AFFILIATION Is there a corporate entity (i.e. company, government, organization, university) that supports this site? AUDIENCE For what audience is the material intended? STABILITY OF INFORMATION It’s here today but will it be here tomorrow? PRIVILEGE Were there limitations on who has access to the research or information?