What I Learned in 2008

Continuing with Taruna's post about reflecting on last year, here's what I learned last year.







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Learning About Learning in 2008

This post is written by Taruna Goel

December's Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog is "What I have learned About Learning in 2008?". It was an interesting question to answer - because it forced me to reflect on everything that I did for my personal learning and helped me rejoice and appreciate some of my key learning events of 2008.

Read about my key learning on my blog.

I enjoyed responding...I am sure you will too.

Try it! It is definitely worth it!

Do Instructional Design Training Programs in India Need a Revamp?

This post is written by Rupa Rajagopalan

I have been looking at some of the training programs that are being offered for aspiring Instructional Designers (ID) in India. I looked at these courses from the perspective of:

• An aspiring Instructional Designer who has no clue about Instructional Designing and wants to quickly gain instructional designing skills


• An Instructional Designer who has started with Instructional Designing at work, but has lots of queries and needs lots of inputs to improve his/her instructional designing skills

DO YOU THINK?

• These courses are really giving the kind of training and information aspiring Instructional Designers need to do their tasks well in their workplace


• Aspiring instructional designers will be able to sustain their interest for such a long course duration such as 15 weeks


• The training programs for IDs in India are very academic and focus more on instruction design theories


• Aspiring IDs or fresh IDs actually retain and use the information they gain from these training programs


• There is lot of information overload in these training programs for IDs


• In-house training programs for IDs in companies in India are useful

If any of you have actually found any training program on Instructional Designing useful, please share your experiences.

If any of you have ideas on improving training for Instructional Designing in India, please share them.

Please leave your responses in the comments section.

I would love to hear from you all.

Example of Game-based Learning

Ken Allen follows up his comment on Rupa's post on 6 Quick Steps to Create a Game Based E-learning Course with a full post on his example of how he has used some of the techniques in the past to build game based learning courses.

Head over to his blog to see the full post.

Call for Peer Review

This post is written by Viplav Baxi

This post is similar to one I put on my blog. I wanted it to be opened to a more general audience outside the CCK08 network. Hoping to hear from you!

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It’s been a great experience reading through all your posts on eCube. I am part of the CCK08 experience - a massively online course on the new learning theory of Connectivism.

As I was thinking about what I should try and do for the final project submission, I thought that a real way of assessing the nature, diversity and strength of my network was to reach out to my peers and request them to review one of my papers. I believe this will be useful from a variety of perspectives. Not only will I be able to receive honest and blunt critique of my contribution, but it will be a good way of evaluating how a peer review process would really work in a network of this kind.

I would really appreciate it if you could spare sometime providing a peer review for my Paper 2 : Changing Roles.

I know it is short notice and may be too much to ask given your own schedule and priorities or that you may not be interested. Do please feel free to not participate in this peer review. Let me know in any case.

If you do decide to participate in the peer review, here are some details:

• The project submission is due end November. I know this would be a very short timeframe for you to respond, but I will be glad if you can provide a review by November 27th.


• Review parameters: I am replicating a marking scheme that has been used by George Siemens which I think should be a good starting point. However, please feel free to suggest any other criteria that you would like the review to be based on.


• The link to the paper is at: http://learnoscck08.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/cck08-paper-2-changing-roles/ and it is titled CCK08: Paper 2 – Changing Roles.


• I will make available results from all reviewers on my blog (http://learnoscck08.wordpress.com) as part of the final project submission.


• My email is viplav.baxi@servitium.com

Assignment: Paper 2 Learner: Viplav Baxi Marker: Date: Marking Criteria: Criteria Comments Arguments presented in the paper are supported with appropriate and relevant citations Citations should include both course discussion (blogs, Moodle forums, live discussions in elluminate and Ustream) and course readings. Synthesis and integration of various concepts discussed during the course Creativity and originality of ideas presented Grade: Comments: