I just completed presenting and attending the BYOL eLearning conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Having an opportunity to present for the attendees as well as attend a few sessions I had a unique perspective on the conference and came away with a few revelations about eLearning in general.
This is the second eLearning focused conference I have presented at and certainly will not be the last. I enjoyed the interaction with the others at the conference and enjoyed teaching two Actionscript Sessions and a shorter introductory session on Flex.
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I agree with you. elearning needs a revolution. Good to meet you at BYOL. See my response at the link below.
http://returnelearning.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-formal-e-learning-dead-or-alive.html
Your post was really good.
I am very interested about the certifying body that can certified an eLearing course. Do you have any ideas on who can do something like that?
Thanks,
Christopher
P.S.: Keep posting!
In my opinion, the closest we could come right now are the eLearning Guild and ASTD although neither is currently certifying courses or people. I am advocating eLearning certification to provide a minimum level of competency for developers and professionalization of the trade.
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Nice post!
I agree with your ideas here. Certification sounds good. Just like real estate agents and counselors have to get certified and earn CEUs, I think eLearning folks should too! Totally agree with the eLearning should not be designed by anyone is 2 hours. No way! To build really effective learning programs takes time. There is no magic pill to design an effective eLearning course in a super fast amount of time and that “anyone” can do it. You can design eLearning in a short time (applying rapid approaches, etc.), but not in a day, and definitely not in 2 hours.
As for the rockstars, we do need more of those!
Great post and certainly topics that we need to be concerned about. I don’t know about other companies, but in my organization we are light years away from implementing social media. Just trying to get collaboration in communities is pulling teeth! I think this is a two-fold problem. Technology makes it way too easy to put up “stuff” and call it learning and learners don’t want to step up to be accountable for actually learning.