E-Learning Species:

1. Self-Directed WBT
2. Facilitated WBT
3. Web-Conducted Classroom Course
4. E-mail Correspondence Course
5. Discussion Seminars
6. Guided Tours and Onscreen Workbooks
7. Learning Games
8. Telementoring and E-Coaching

Terms, etc.

Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning
by Anna Distefano, Kjell Erik Rudestam, and Robert Silverman

Best-Known Portals – Off-the Shelf

1. www.ddi-usa.com
2. www.headlight.com
3. www.learn2.com
4. www.learning.thinq.com
5. www.netg.com
6. www.verticalnet.com
7. www.vitallearning.com
8. [Google: training portals]

Best-Known ASPs – Application Service Providers

1. www.digitalthink.com
2. www.eutectics.com
3. www.geolearning.com
4. www.mindlever.com
5. [Google: application service providers training]

Course Development Firms

[Google: e-learning course developers]

Selling Postures:

To Consumers of Training

To Producers of Training

Consultants

[Google: e-learning consultants Chicago]

Multimedia Developers

What Project Pieces

Do I Want to Do?

1. Assess needs
2. Design solution alternatives
3. Sell Solution
4. Project Manage
5. Author higher-summary pieces

SPECTRUM OF
DEVELOPMENT POSTURES, ROLES

·   Pay for services, tools

·   Buy courses

·   Pay for external development

·   Self develop

·   Develop for others

·   Develop tools for others

Contract Job Titles & Rates

1. Staff Job Titles & Salaries
2. Talent Banks, Job Boards

Best Career Oportunities, Roles

     Contractor Selling Turnkey
         Custom E-Learning to US
         Government

Trends To Watch

Software Required For
      Contractors To Know

1. Authorware
2. Dreamweaver Extensions

Credentials and Exhibits Pecking Order

Chicago Organizations

1.       ACM E-Learning SIG

2.       Chi Human-Comp Interaction

National Organizations

1.        US Distance Learning

2.        Soc for Applied Lng Technology

Communities

1.        ASTD E-Learning Community

2.        alt.training.technology

3.        alt.education.distance.teaching

National Conferences

1.        ASTD

2.        U. Wis. Annual Conf on D/L

Trade and Academic Journal Sites

1.        Infobits

2.        Learning Circuits, ASTD

3.        Learning & Training Innovations

4.        The Technology Source

5.        Trainingmag.com
    vnulearning.com

E-Learning Education

1.                  D/L Programs List

2.                  Athabasca

3.                  Jones International

Status in Schools of Education

E-Learning Information

    Free Web Resources

ü         Designing WBT, W. Horton

ü         The Massie Center, Eliot M.

    E-Learning Glossary

    Encyclopedic A-Z

        WBL Resource Library
    Roundup Sources: “The
        Year In”

        ’01-02 D/L Yearbook

    Industry Data; Popularity
        Tallies, Sales Volumes

    Influential Studies

    Master Guides to E-
         Learning Marketplace

    Reference

ü         ACM Archives

ü          Online Learning Archives

Promising Books

    Interactive D/L Exercises that 
         Really Work!

Vendors To Watch

1.                  Centrax

2.                  Allen Interactions

3.                  44 Clickable Chicago Vendors

Industry “Names”

Bill Schakelford

William Horton

Collaboration Software

For live proctoring, etc.

Centra Symposium www.centra.com

InterWise Millennium  www.interwise.com

MS NetMeeting & Exchange Server

The LearnLink Virtual Campus and Virtual Classroom www.mentergy.com

Learning Space  www.lotus.com

PlaceWare’s Conference Center

www.placeware.com

Business Meeting

Software for Smaller Projects

MShow  www.mshow.com

PlaceWare www.placeware.com

Typical Plug-Ins Required:

Macromedia Authorware

Mentergy Quest Courseware

Standards:

IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee groupier.ieee.org/p1484

Advanced Distributed Learning and SCORM

www.adlnet.org

Aviation Industry CBT Committee

www.aicc.org

IMS Global Learning Consortium

www.imsproject.org/specifications.html

File Conversion Software
for Blended Approaches:

--For Word

WordToWeb www.solutionsoft.com

HTML Transit www.systemiksolutions.com

--For PowerPoint

Impatica  www.imatica.com

Presentia Publisher www.presentia.com

Learning Management Packages:

Docent  www.docent.com

Pathlore  www.pathlore.com

Saba  www.saba.com

LearnFrame www.learnframe.com

Click2Learn Librarian  www.click2learn.com

Mentergy’s Manager’s Edge

www.mentergy.com

Producer, Authoring Tools:
Web-oriented:

1.  Coursebuilder Extension Programs for Dreamweaver

www.macromedia.com

2. Designer’s Edge and Net Synergy from Mentergy

www.mentergy.com

Originally disk-based CBT:

3.   ToolBookII

www.click2learn.com

4.   Authorware

www.macromedia.com

Server-based with management tools included:

5.  WebCT

6.  TopClass

Production tools:

Rendering with Freehand and refinement with Photoshop.

Audio for Flash in SoundForge.  Video sequences in Adobe Premier.  Save sound and video files in RealAudio and Real Video formats and uploaded to a RealSystem server

www.reralnetworks.com

What And Why Of E-Learning

            Concepts And Buzzwords

Famous Examples

     MIT Open Courseware

E-Classes Worth Taking

    --Software

        Learn2

        PPI

        elementK

Types of Examples

    Simulations

         Coursebuilder

         Solar System Views  

    Tours—

         Club Med

       Ancient, 3D

     Reference

         Ancient Civilizations

      Entertainment Quizzes

         Personality Tests

         Do You Know Chicago?

    Micro learning

        Training Bytes

Trends To Watch

Planning And Management

    Program Design

    Learner Data

    Evaluation

        Judith Hale

Construction

    Preliminary Issues

    Project Methodology
         Templates—budgets

            ZD Tech Republic

   Tools

       --Exam Makers

       --Screen Motion Captures

             Lotus Suite

       --Web Multimedia:

            sound                                                  DHTML

            Flash movies

            load timers

            flaw finders    

         --UI Focus Groups, Pilots

Pitfalls

      Tools Superceding Objectives

Education Policy Issues

Who’s Making Money?  How and
            Why?