I was invited to give a presentation at the Informa E-Learning Summit in Melbourne last week. My talk covered the best practices for managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions, the instructional rationale behind the e-learning development, and the implications for enterprise architecture design. Below are the on-site voice recording and the PowerPoint slides. I look forward to a further discussion with those who are interested in this topic. . . . → Read More: Managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions: a presentation at Informa E-Learning Summit
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 I will be going to present in the “E-Learning Summit: A strategic look at the continuing development in the e-learning industry” on the 22nd of March 2011 at Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, Australia. You are WELCOME to participate in! My topic will be “Managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions”. This includes the best practice of coordinating a large group of content experts for an e-learning project, the implications for enterprise architecture design in higher education for distance online learning development, and the instructional design rationale behind the e-learning development. Full brochure PDF is available for download. . . . → Read More: E-Learning Summit 2011 Melbourne: A strategic look at the continuing development in the e-learning industry Believe it or not, China’s president Hu Jintao just started his Web 2.0 campaign by opening his micro blog on People.com.cn. The account has been certified, and the message has been confirmed as genuine. As you can expect, such breaking news would generate a huge amount of traffic in the website, and therefore, his account had to be closed. According to most reporters, this account attracted more than 15,000 followers on the first day of its opening. Upon this news, I would like to make 3 points: 1. This should not be an official launch of Hu’s Web 2.0 campaign. 2. Political leaders’ participation in Web 2.0 would have a significant impact on China’s policy over the Internet. 3. The Web 2.0 Strategy should be taken seriously. . . . → Read More: Hu Jintao’s microblog: a good sign for China, but good care should be taken! I usually buy books on Fishpond.com.au for their low prices (lower than Amazon.com considering the price plus shipping), but recently I was looking for books about property investment for the Australian context and I found that PropertyBooks.com.au offers even cheaper prices. I gave it a try and it turned out that they dispatched the books on the same day when I placed the order and I received them the next day. I’m impressed and I highly recommend this website to others. . . . → Read More: Recommending PropertyBooks.com.au This article introduces those tools that I have used and found useful for travelling in Sydney, such as 131500, Parkopedia, Link Express, TripView Sydney, Taxi Pro and World Taximeter. Unfortunately there is only a Chinese version here. I may translate it when I have a chance. . . . → Read More: Useful tools to optimise your travel in Sydney On the 7th of December, 2010, I gave a presentation at the ascilite 2010 Sydney conference. It is about how to use the enterprise architecture design technique to help with the development of distance online learning programs in tertiary education. . . . → Read More: Enterprise architecture roadmap for the development of distance online learning programs in tertiary education: a presentation at the ascilite 2010 Sydney conference If you are using Articulate Studio to develop your interactive e-learning course and using an LMS to host the courseware, you may want to do a poll and survey on relevant topics within the course in order to promote the students’ participation and interests. If you would like to embed a poll or a survey within an Articulate presentation, you may firstly think of using Articulate Quizmaker to develop the survey questions. However, many people are concerned about the reporting function of Articulate Quizmaker. With Articulate Quizmaker, you can develop graded quizzes or non-graded surveys. If you set the questions types as survey, you would find it difficult to deal with the reporting process. This blog post will provide you with a solution to embed poll or survey in Articulate presentations utilising the Choice or Feedback activity on Moodle. . . . → Read More: Embedding Poll and Survey in Articulate Presentations on Moodle Pageviews:954 Source: Kogarah City Council (www.kogarah.nsw.gov.au) Today, I got my first traffic ticket in Australia. When I parked near my home temporarily, the car head was opposite to the direction of travel. However, before I saw the ticket, I didn’t realise there was such a rule for this situation. Vehicles are driving and parked . . . → Read More: Got the First Traffic Ticket in Australia 刚刚第一次在网上购买了上海大剧院的歌剧的门票，现在想把刚才的体验与我以前在悉尼歌剧院网站上购票的体验进行一次比较。本文将从市场营销和购票流程两个方面对两个剧院的网站进行比较。 . . . → Read More: Comparison of the Experiences of Purchasing Tickets Online from Shanghai Grand Theatre and Sydney Opera House (Chinese) Since the concept of “Web 2.0” was brought forward in 2004 for the first time, the technologies and their applications of Web 2.0 have been rapidly developed under the help of international venture capitals. At the present, Web 2.0 has deeply infiltrated most parts of internet applications, which has stimulated the grassroot revolution of internet. Meanwhile, the training industry in China has shown vast progress, the potential market scale of which may rocket to 300 billion Yuan in the next 5 to 10 years. These two domains have attracted high attentions from the society. This paper, based on the analysis of Web 2.0 and its derived culture, defines the concept of 2.0 Culture, and points out that 2.0 Culture is likely to have far-reaching influence on training industry, which may cause the grassroot revolution of training industry and the comprehensive upgrade of the whole educational field. Then, whether the leaders of training schools and firms modify their operating stratagems and strategies, determines whether they can achieve the new impetus by seizing opportunities and well-dealing with challenges during this process of culture evolution. Thus, to explore the pedagogical significance of Web 2.0 and 2.0 Culture, the influences for training industry and the countermeasures, has become an important task for training industry in the era of the grassroot revolution of internet. This paper has 6 chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the research which contains the reason for choosing this research topic, the previsions research, and the aim, significance, method and structure of the research. Chapter 2 introduces the origin and definitions of Web 2.0, summarizes the main performances and theoretical foundations and points out that Web 2.0 will have significant influence on the development of the society. Chapter 3 explains what 2.0 Culture is and analyzes its 4 pieces of pedagogical significance. Chapter 4 analyzes the virtual problems that training schools and firms are facing to. Chapter 5 analyzes the influences that Web 2.0 and 2.0 Culture have on training industry from the perspectives of products, teachers and students. Chapter 6, based on the discussion of the former 5 chapters, brings forward that the grass root revolution of education and training industry is coming, and then defines that revolution and provides 9 pieces of relative operating strategies. . . . → Read More: From Web 2.0 to Edu 2.0: the 2.0 Culture Promoting the Grassroot Revolution in Education and Training Industry I recently travelled to China for a short stay. I purchased a prepaid China Mobile Sim card and used it on my iPhone 3GS. However, I had trouble in accessing the Internet via GPRS. I called China Mobile for help. But they said their standard GPRS settings for iPhone 3GS were not available. So I had to go to a local Apple store for help. In this post, I’m going to share the settings that worked. . . . → Read More: GPRS Settings for China Mobile on iPhone 3GS This plan describes the background, purposes, limitations, stakeholders, decisions, questions, methods, participants, instruments, procedures, logistics, and timeline for the evaluation of Chao Yue IELTS Online Tutoring System, which is an e-learning program for IELTS candidates who have purchased IELTS preparation books on www.cyielts.com.au. The methodology, procedures, and instrumentation included in this plan are based on several meetings between members of the development team and the evaluation team, as well as a review of several draft design documents. The primary objective of this evaluation is to provide timely and accurate information to support decisions regarding the enhancement and marketing of the e-learning program. The evaluation project will involve students and teachers who are to go through the standard instructional process and complete tests and/or questionnaire and/or interview. The system log will also be used for data analysis. The evaluation project will start on 1 June 2009 and finish by the end of the month. The estimated cost will be $27,200. This plan is to be reviewed, revised and approved in the first week of June. . . . → Read More: Evaluation Proposal for an Online IELTS Writing Tutoring System Issues and Challenges of Web-Based Systems Integration: a Case Study of Aquarelle.com and Amazon.comThis paper aims to investigate issues and challenges within the tasks of web-based systems integration through a comparative analysis of two cases—aquarelle.com and amazon.com. The investigation was implemented from the customer perspective and the IT perspective. The data were mainly collected from the author’s personal experience of using the websites as a customer. Then the author revisited and tested the websites in order to examine and justify the issues and challenges of their systems integration. Justification of the better business model is made and practical proposition is provided based on the data analysis and the results. . . . → Read More: Issues and Challenges of Web-Based Systems Integration: a Case Study of Aquarelle.com and Amazon.com |
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