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Digital learning content: a designer's guide More Detail
Digital learning content: a designer's guide By Clive Shepherd
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This guide is for anyone with an interest in helping others to learn. You may be a teacher, trainer, lecturer or coach. You may be a subject expert with knowledge you want to share or an experienced... More > practitioner who wants to pass on their tips. You may already be a creator of learning content, looking to update their skills. Whatever your interest, this guide will help you to design learning materials that really make a difference. Digital learning content takes a wide variety of forms, including tutorials, scenarios, podcasts, screencasts, videos, slideshows, quizzes and reference materials. This guide provides you with fundamental principles that you can apply to any content creation activity as well as practical information relating to specific content types. We are fast approaching a point where all learning content will be digital and online. It's time to join the revolution, to contribute as much as you consume. Your learning journey starts here.< Less
The New Learning Architect More Detail
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The New Learning Architect By Clive Shepherd
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We are all learning machines, constantly adapting to the ever-changing threats and opportunities with which we are confronted. We learn through experience, whether consciously or unconsciously; we... More > learn by seeking out the knowledge and skills we need to carry out our day-to-day tasks; we learn by sharing experiences and best practice with our colleagues, and by taking advantage of opportunities for development, both formal and informal. The new learning architect designs environments that enable specific target populations to take maximum advantage of all these opportunities for learning. To do this they need to understand the unique characteristics of their clients and the business challenges they are facing; they need to find just the right balance between top-down and bottom-up learning initiatives, between the formal and informal.< Less
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The Blended Learning Cookbook By Clive Shepherd
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The Blended Learning Cookbook presents a way for trainers and teachers to analyse a learning need and to choose effectively from the ever increasing range of formal and informal media and methods at... More > their disposal. More importantly, it provides imaginative solutions to a broad range of typical problems – solutions that will be readily adaptable to the reader’s own situation. The new version has twice as many recipes so you’ll never be short of ideas.< Less
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The New Learning Architect By Clive Shepherd
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We are all learning machines, constantly adapting to the ever-changing threats and opportunities with which we are confronted. We learn through experience, whether consciously or unconsciously; we... More > learn by seeking out the knowledge and skills we need to carry out our day-to-day tasks; we learn by sharing experiences and best practice with our colleagues, and by taking advantage of opportunities for development, both formal and informal. The new learning architect designs environments that enable specific target populations to take maximum advantage of all these opportunities for learning. To do this they need to understand the unique characteristics of their clients and the business challenges they are facing; they need to find just the right balance between top-down and bottom-up learning initiatives, between the formal and informal.< Less
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The Blended Learning Cookbook By Clive Shepherd
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The Blended Learning Cookbook presents a way for trainers and teachers to analyse a learning need and to choose effectively from the ever increasing range of formal and informal media and methods at... More > their disposal. More importantly, it provides imaginative solutions to a broad range of typical problems – solutions that will be readily adaptable to the reader’s own situation. The new version has twice as many recipes so you’ll never be short of ideas.< Less
Online meetings: a facilitator's guide More Detail
Online meetings: a facilitator's guide By Clive Shepherd, Phil Green
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These are early days for online meetings, so we can expect best practice to evolve, ingenious new features to be added to the available systems, and even cleverer applications to be discovered by... More > those who have to put these tools into practice. At Onlignment, we have put a marker in the sand by developing our own set of rules for better online meetings, based on the best practice that we’ve been able to glean from around the world and from our own experiences as a virtual team.< Less
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Media Chemistry By Clive Shepherd
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All online communication, whether that’s published content, live online events or social media, make use of the same key media elements: text, audio, images, animation and video. The online... More > communicator needs to know when to use each of these elements, how to do so effectively within the particular constraints associated with working online, and how best to combine media elements to achieve their communications objectives. Onlignment has prepared this resource to shed some light on these issues and to encourage more rewarding online communication for all involved.< Less
Live online learning: a facilitator's guide More Detail
Live online learning: a facilitator's guide By Clive Shepherd, Phil Green, Barry Sampson
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Virtual classrooms provide a fantastic opportunity for any organisation that wants to get more training done more cheaply, particularly when participants are widely dispersed. Many of the skills of... More > the classroom trainer can be transferred without difficulty to an online setting, but the experience can still be strange and sometimes a little daunting for those starting off as virtual classroom facilitators. This book brings together best practice guidelines from around the world and from our own extensive experience. It will provide you with invaluable support as you look to transfer your skills online.< Less
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The New Learning Architect By Clive Shepherd
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We are all learning machines, constantly adapting to the ever-changing threats and opportunities with which we are confronted. We learn through experience, whether consciously or unconsciously; we... More > learn by seeking out the knowledge and skills we need to carry out our day-to-day tasks; we learn by sharing experiences and best practice with our colleagues, and by taking advantage of opportunities for development, both formal and informal. The new learning architect designs environments that enable specific target populations to take maximum advantage of all these opportunities for learning. To do this they need to understand the unique characteristics of their clients and the business challenges they are facing; they need to find just the right balance between top-down and bottom-up learning initiatives, between the formal and informal.< Less

About Clive Shepherd

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Clive is a consultant specialising in e-learning, blended learning and business communications. He works with a broad range of public and private sector organisations, helping them to effectively harness the benefits of technology for workplace learning. He established his interest in interactive media while Director, Training and Creative Services for American Express in EMEA. He went on to co-found Epic, a major content developer, where he won many industry awards. He is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s foremost experts in workplace learning, with hundreds of published articles and many books/e-books to his name. He speaks regularly at major international conferences and contributes regularly to his blog, Clive on Learning. For the past three years he has been Chairman of the eLearning Network. Clive is a Director of Onlignment Ltd, which provides expertise in all aspects of online communication.

 

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