e-Learning by Design (Kindle Edition)
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e-Learning by Design includes a systematic, flexible, and rapid design process covering every phase of designing e-learning. Free of academic jargon and confusing theory, this down-to-earth, hands-on book is filled with hundreds of real-world examples and case studies from dozens of fields.
“Like the book’s predecessor (Designing Web-based Training), it deserves four stars and is a must read for anyone not selling an expensive solution. — From Training Media Review, by Jon Aleckson, www.tmreview.com, 2007
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E-Learning by Design includes a systematic, flexible, and rapid design process covering every phase of designing e-learning.?Free of academic jargon and confusing theory, this down-to-earth, hands-on book is filled with hundreds of real-world examples and case studies from dozens of fields.
E-Learning by Design guides both industrial trainers and academic educators in:
- Inventing engaging learning activities
- Targeting specific goals
- Designing learning games and simulations
- Writing online tests and assessments
It also helps readers select media, ensure reuse of content, specify learning objects, design the display, and make courses navigable. But wait, there’s more! E-Learning by Design goes beyond traditional e-learning to include guidance on creating electronic job aids, virtual classroom activities, and mobile learning for PDAs and SmartPhones.
E-Learning by Design is jam-packed with best practices you can apply right away, using tools you already own.This is the guide trainers and educators need on their journey to creating successful e-learning programs.
This author actually was able to present detailed and effective solutions for E-Learning problems. You could sense that he had to solve similar problems. He also seemed to have encountered a broad range of real E-Learning problems, rather than simply theorize about them. The solutions made sense. In addition, Horton presented a number of well researched issues that appear to have caused problems due to frequent instructional designer beliefs that the E-media itself is good enough to cover the lack true learning assistance…… real learning assistance, that all too often is missing in many E-Learning presentations due to interaction gimmicks that offer no relationship to assisting with the learning process.
Great book! Sits now on top of my Michael Allen E-Learning books. I also liked Horton’s apparent attitude that philosophizing does not solve instructional problems, but offering solid detailed solution approaches can.
This is an excellent book/resource for you if you are involved in eLearning in any way: manager, writer, designer, web developer. Does your eLearning development group have published instructional design and course development standards? This book can help put a framework around reaching agreement among staff and clients. Or benchmark your current standards and definitions of quality eLearning against examples found in the book. Horton’s 2000 edition has been cited in academic texts. And if he wasn’t so cynical about advanced degrees, we would surely be calling him Dr. Horton. Yet, that is essentially what defines Bill Horton. He the eLearning industry’s Henry David Thoreau.
“e-Learning by Design” is a very valuable update of William Horton’s “Designing Web Based Training” (2000). It provides more on recent development with standards for web based courseware. It is particularly useful when using a coursware system such as Web CT and Moodle. You need to worry less about the web design of the course as that is largely set by the package.