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Keep Up with Emerging Technology Trends in E-Learning!

Change is inevitable, and trends in e-learning are no exception. Mobile devices, multi-channel learning, and "mashups" of many technologies make the future of e-learning, in a word, exciting. Yet, these technological advances are difficult—if not impossible—to keep up with.

In what new and uncharted directions are online learning technologies heading, and how do learning professionals keep from falling behind?

Brandon Hall Research delivers the much-needed answers in an engaging 344-page report by Dr. Gary Woodill that explores 52 of the latest and upcoming technologies used in e-learning. "Emerging E-learning Technologies: Tools for Developing Innovative Online Training" highlights the new possibilities introduced by radical changes in online technology.

Dr. Woodill places new learning technologies in intriguing historical perspective and explains e-learning software architectures, frameworks, and standards in an easy-to-understand way.

This groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind guide contains over 3,000 hyperlinks, representing hundreds of hours of research. These links include:

  • Over 1,400 selected examples and online resources
  • Almost 1,000 bibliographic references
  • Addresses for over 650 innovative companies and organizations
  • Descriptions, analyses, and examples of 52 emerging e-learning technologies

This informative report organizes e-learning technologies into the following five groups:

  1. Developing e-learning technologies—those that are still in early experimentation and prototyping and display promise in the area
  2. Ascending e-learning technologies—those that have recently become products and are currently popular in the e-learning industry
  3. Peaking e-learning technologies—those that dominate the market, today and into the next year, leading learning experts into the future of e-learning
  4. Maturing e-learning technologies—those with considerable history that now only go through incremental updates
  5. Declining e-learning technologies—those that have significantly dropped out of this ever-changing marketplace

Some innovative examples of emerging technologies include avatars, collaboration software, and peer-to-peer environments.

  • Avatars, or virtual characters, represent teachers, coaches, and learners. These technologies are particularly useful in fun, game-based learning activities.
  • Collaboration and social software has moved e-learning from a model of instructor-led teaching of individuals to the more engaging learner-led finding, doing, and collaborating.
  • Peer-to-peer technologies help users share resources and collaborate interactively in educational environments.

Dozens of other remarkable examples abound in the report. This unique compilation of information, available from no other source, can help your company plan a unique, highly effective training strategy.

Anyone involved in learning—subject matter experts, instructional designers, authors, graphic designers, trainers, project managers—will want to pick up this brand new Brandon Hall Research report. Written by respected industry expert Dr. Gary Woodill, it is the only report out there detailing the new and emerging technologies that are driving e-learning—both today and into tomorrow.

Fall behind no longer—follow this report, and the technology, into the future of e-learning.


Features
  • 52 emerging technologies profiled and explained
  • Over 3,000 hyperlinks illustrating the new, innovative e-learning technologies
  • Over 1,000 bibliographic references
  • Contact information for 650 innovative companies and organizations
  • Details about emerging trends: where they come from, where they're headed, who's championing them
  • Advice on how to go well beyond conventional approaches to e-learning as the field moves toward “multi-channel learning”


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Emerging E-Learning Technologies: Tools for Developing Innovative Online Training

Author: Dr. Gary Woodill, Ed.D.

Published October 2006 • Download file size: 2 MB • 344 pages

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