eLearning Port

Getting Connected

Several months ago, all I ever wanted was to consolidate, aggregate, recreate and put together content for a free e-learning school. i still have this goal, but I realized that this is just the first step.

The next step would be to get connected. Let me explain.

While getting the needed content, for example, a Math course for High School, would probably be God-sent in un-served regions, updating the content later on would always come up. Evaluating the effectiveness of such a course, one would likely change things. If we follow the ADDIE process for instructional design, then this would serve as the input for another iteration of the course. From previous experience, this cycle is seldom repeated, or the evaluation disregarded or forgotten.  If you are like most people, you would consider that portion done and move on to the next.

If “getting connected” on the other hand doesn’t follow the ADDIE process. The ensuing conversation allows freedom to do the updates on the fly. With open content, anybody can immediately mix-mash-re-create even while the original content is still being used.

Now, I’m convinced that going social, connected should be part of my free e-learning school goals.

Otherwise, they might die a natural death, stagnate and wither.

On that note, I’m getting active on social websites, including in the e-learning areas. I’ve joined Learning Town, Connectivism Online Course and Ning in Education and frequent other communities.

Let’s see what we can learn.