Mobile phones are an integral part of our daily life. We no longer miss our computer while traveling; our phone provides the functionalities of a computer. What a change from a few years back when we would use the mobile to only make calls! This extensive reach of mobile phones has opened up the scope for learning using mobile phones (mLearning). Given below are a few things that we noticed as we stepped into mLearning using FlashLite.
Geetha Krishnan is among the most respected learning specialists in the learning and education circles today. In a guest session at Kern, Geetha put forth some interesting and thought-provoking ideas about technology and learning. He questioned myths, challenged popular beliefs, shared interesting examples from everyday life and engaged us with wit and humor. Read more…
Geeta Bose presented this paper on Learner Centered Methodology - A New Approach to Effective Learning at the 3rd National Seminar on ‘eLearning and eLEarning Technologies”, (ELELTECH India) November 5-6th, 2009. This seminar was organized by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad and JNT University Hyderabad in association with Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Government of India.
Geeta Bose presented this paper written by Archana Narayan on Learnability Testing of Online Courses at the 3rd National Seminar on ‘eLearning and eLEarning Technologies”, (ELELTECH India) November 5-6th, 2009. This seminar was organized by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad and JNT University Hyderabad in association with Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Government of India.
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During our first few Twitter sessions at Kern, Geeta posed the following question:
Do IDs with visual design skills design better learning? Any instances that you can share?
Read the responses to this here.
Formally using Informal Learning - An initiative
As a learning solutions company, we emphasize a lot on internal learning and training sessions. Typically we allocate 1-2 days a week of 1.5 hrs each to these sessions. One among us presents the session and we have a discussion around it. People find these sessions extremely valuable as a lot of learning and sharing happens during the sessions.
Over time, there have been certain challenges in driving the sessions. Most of our people are very active on the web; they blog, tweet, are on Facebook, part of groups on LinkedIn and are active contributors as well. Read more…
Do you invest time to learn? I have tried to identify the learner personae who hate to learn. I have also tried to find answers as to why they hate to learn. Do you see yourself in one of these personae? Go on watch the presentation and share your thoughts. Read more…
The main aim of this presentation is to help you understand what scenario based learning is, what its characteristics are, and how effective it is. Here, we share several examples and explain how scenario based learning is designed. Read more…
This presentation highlights Kern’s contextual inquiry (CI) process using a case study. It explains the concept of contextual inquiry, the phases of CI and the guidelines for CI on the field. To know more, view the following presentation. Read more…
Many companies are reluctant to invest in social learning using the Web 2.0 tools. You can try and convince your clients about its power and usefulness. But this may not be the only thing stopping IDs from using Web 2.0 tools. In India, Internet and Web 2.0 tools are accessible to very small percentage of learners. Read more…
