The Deployment of Your Materials

The Online Unit Creation Process

  Overview
  Analysing Needs
  Design Issues
       Traditional Instructional Design
       Rapid Instructional Design
  Production Stage
  Deployment Stage
  Evaluation Stage
  Using Web 2.0 Technologies

eLearning 2.0 / Web 2.0 Technologies

  VU Social Networking Site
  The FLU eLearning Blog
  The VU Wiki

  The Learning Technologies Wiki
  The Learning Technologies Blog
  Elgg at Univ. of Brighton (UK)

Cathy Moore's eLearning Blog

Useful Software

Software Main Page

Resources
  Master Resources Page

   Selected resources
       Writing Learning Outcomes

       Ed Technology Conferences
       (A very large Word doc)

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What delivery platform(s) do you intend to use?WebCT/Blackboard? A website? CD-ROM or DVD? A Learning Content Management System such as Equella (The Learning Edge)?

Are your materials intended for blended or wholly online mode?

Are you using synchronous (virtual classroom) or asynchronous learning strategies?

To what degree will you be using communication, interaction and virtual agent technologies?

The answers to these questions will affect the way in which you will deploy your materials. Familiarity with the delivery system to be used is essential to developing operational fluency in the online unit development process.

The main Learning Management System (LMS) in use at VU is WebCT/Blackboard. The Learning Content Management System (LCMS) is Equella (which you may know as The Learning Edge).

Contact the Online Learning Systems Trainer, Ant Marsh , who can provide just-in-time and central support for staff in both sectors using any form of online learning including TafeVC, WebCT/Blackboard, Turn-it-in, and other enabling technologies used for learning. Also watch for regular workshops listed in the Staff College Online Booking System.

The Useful Software section (see the left menu Resources link) provides an overview of applications that can simplify deployment of unit materials to the chosen delivery platform.

Useful Papers

Speed Is King: Rapid Creation and Deployment of Enterprise E-Learning Solutions - A paper from Silicon.com which has a strong business/training focus but contains useful information.
	Rapid e-learning addresses a number of critical issues within an organization. If done correctly, it can provide a powerful competitive advantage. To do rapid e-learning correctly, develop a plan that includes up-front preparation, readily available templates and multimedia assets, effective instructional design and methods for motivating e-learners.
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Trends in eLearning
	This paper presents a framework for the reemergence of eLearning as a set of teaching, training, and learning practices not bound by a specific technology platform or learning management system.
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The upside-down-world of eLearning - Donna Gibbs, School of Education, Macquarie University
	The next generation of learning technologies and systems will only take us forward if educators have a much greater stake in controlling how they are developed. The article identifies some key theoretical and practical issues which should be given priority in newly emerging learning technologies and systems.
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**	eLearning 2.0 Useful Software Is WebCT Standards Compliant? Rapid eLearning

**	David Cummings (Head, FLU) Vyt Karazija (Instructional Design & Production) Ant Marsh (Online Systems Training, Planning & Projects) Lisa Curran (Projects & Production)

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