This page contains a number of useful e-learning resources. The right column contains links to resources made available to you from Connect Thinking, including video and podcast tutorials on our YouTube and iTunes channels. Below is a list of useful links to local and international e-learning thought leaders and institutions. If you have a useful link you think belongs on this page, please Contact Us.
Alison’s Favourite Podcasts:
Click (BBC)
E-Learning Stuff (UK)
Tayloring It (UK)
Geek Beat TV (US)
Web Beat TV (US)
TED Talks (US)
Internet Marketing – Site Visibility (UK)
Small Business Big Marketing (Aus)
Stanford Technology Ventures – Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Series (US)
Thought Leaders/Institutions On E-Learning – Australia:
Jokaydia Virtual worlds in education specialist
Australian Flexible Learning Framework
E-learning Network of Australasia (ElNet)
E-Learning Industry Association of Victoria
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET)
Thought Leaders/Institutions On E-Learning – World:
Marc Rosenberg (US)
Jay Cross (US)
Marc Prensky – In particular, his article ‘e-nough‘ (US)
Stephen Downes (US)
Tony Karrer (US)
Tony Bates (US)
Cathy Moore (US)
Tom Kuhlmann (US)
Jane Bozarth (US)
Clark Quinn (US)
Nancy White (US)
Elearnspace – George Siemens (US)
Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies – Jane Hart (UK)
The Masie Centre – Elliott Masie (US)
The ELearning Guild (US)
eLearn Magazine (US)
E-Learning Learning (aggregator or e-learning blogs)
Learning Circuits – ASTD (US)
JISC (UK)
Association for Learning Technology (UK)
Towards Maturity (UK)
Educause (US)
Horizon Project (Annual reports)
E-Learning Instructional Design:
Instructional development timeline
5 Star ID rating – David Merrill
First principles of instruction – David Merrill
Instructional design in e-learning – George Seimens
Instructional design system handbook – Donald Clark
E-Learning Example
E-learning and multimedia examples
Illustrations of Social Media for Learning:
Virtual classroom concept – BBC story on YouTube
Wiki concept – Commoncraft
Blog concept - Commoncraft
Podcast concept - Commoncraft
RSS concept – Commoncraft
Twitter concept – Commoncraft
Learning manual processes e.g. virtual frog dissection
Business modelling e.g. Lemonade Stand
Venuegen – corporate virtual world platform
Yammer – corporate microblogging
Yackstar – corporate social network platform
Bloomfire – corporate social learning platform
List of Technologies for Online Learning:
Directory of tools for online learning (Jane Hart)
Social Media tools and applications (Go2web20)
