Top 100 eLearning Items

Using eLearning Learning, I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time.

1. Learning 2.0 - The Things
2. How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
3. Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
4. The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
5. 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
6. How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website
7. Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog
8. Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
9. Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
10. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
11. 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner (Fiona King)
12. LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers
13. Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos | OEDb
14. e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education
15. Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools
16. Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary
17. PR 2.0: Introducing The Conversation Prism
18. eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008
19. TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart
20. How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations
21. LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account
22. Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS
23. Corporate Policies on Web 2.0
24. Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems
25. Stock Photo Image and Other Media Sources
26. Learning for the 21st Century
27. Flash Quiz Tools
28. Rubric for Online Instruction
29. Michael Wesch and the Future of Education
30. How to Download YouTube Videos
31. Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology
32. eLearning Examples
33. The Art of Building Virtual Communities (Techlearning blog)
34. ROI and Metrics in eLearning
35. My Top 10 Mobile Tools for Learning
36. Training Method Trends
37. No Significant Difference Phenomenon Website
38. What is eLearning 2.0?
39. Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers
40. Web 2.0 Applications in Learning
41. Rethinking Learning Styles
42. Understanding E-Learning 2.0
43. Second Life is not a teaching tool
44. Tool Set 2009
45. New Design for My Smile Sheet
46. The art of changing the brain
47. Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives
48. How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course
49. Social Media makes this course stand out
50. Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?
51. Try Before You Buy
52. Tools Used
53. Better Conferences - Response Needed
54. Roles in CoP's
55. The science of learning
56. Learning 2.0 Strategy
57. Online Education - Introducing the Microlecture Format — Open Education
58. Informal Learning - Let's Get Real
59. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
60. Technotheory.com - Getting Started with Social Media - A Guide and Resource List
61. Online Polls: Find the best Web Polling Software for your needs
62. Building a Studio for Instructional Videos on a Tight Budget
63. 50 Practical Tips & Tricks to Build Better E-Learning
64. Alternatives to Kirkpatrick
65. Open Source life, LMSs beyond Moodle
66. Social vs. Not – Pictorally
67. Social Networking in Education
68. Informal learning - what is it?
69. My Top 25 blogs for 2008
70. Blogging as Reflective Practice
71. The Elearning Apprentice
72. Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI.
73. LMS RFP
74. The Nature of Online Collaboration
75. Connectivism and the modern learner
76. Nursing Simulation in Second Life
77. eLearning Course or Online Demo - which is better?
78. Deeper Instructional Design
79. Creating a Learning Ecosystem - Why Blended Learning is Now Inadequate
80. E-induction
81. Twitter for Learning
82. eLearning Authoring Tools
83. Paul's E-Learning Resources
84. PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning
85. Definition: Massively Multi-learner Online Learning Environment (MMOLE)
86. The ladder of participation in social media
87. Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction
88. E-Learning Queen: The Best Way to Learn in an Online Course
89. Learning 2.0
90. How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts | Smackdown!
91. Communities of Practice
92. Facebook as a Learning Platform
93. We Need a Degree in Instructional Design
94. Learning styles don't exist
95. 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments
96. How long does it take to create learning? | Bryan Chapman
97. Tips for facilitators in Ning
98. The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle
99. No more excuses for poor e-learning content
100. eLearning Defined

Top 20 Posts for Q1 2009

One of the best things about having kids is getting a Spring Break with them.  I'm fortunate enough to be doing that this week.  So, rather than doing my normal posts, what I decided to do was to go back and do a couple of best of posts during the week.  Of course, I cheated and used eLearning Learning to help me come up with these.

1. Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool
2. 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009
3. eLearning Conferences
4. Tool Set 2009
5. Remote Collaboration
6. Better Memory
7. Share Best Practices – Patterns
8. Information Radar
9. How long does it take to select an LMS?
10. Good Writing
11. What Goes in the LMS?
12. Low Cost LMS
13. Crowdsourcing in the Small
14. Aggregation Types
15. Corporate Training
16. Workplace Productivity
17. Video-Based eLearning Authoring Tools
18. Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant
19. Twitter Conference Ideas
20. Long Live

News Commentary Curation Distribution

The post The Future of the News Ecosystem pointed me to the Stephen Johnson Picture shown above. While I don't necessarily believe that things are nearly so linear, it is a good picture of the kind of flow, enhancement, filtering that happens.

This was great to see and think about with the launch of several new Topic Hubs:

• HR Tech Central
• Nonprofit Marketing Zone
• Green Life Buzz
• Southern California Tech Central

Like earlier topic hubs, they rely on News from bloggers and web content from other sources as indicated by bloggers. The commentary layer is very light in that it only occurs as part of coming up with hot lists (Hot List) Curation is aggregation, group filter (social signals) and lightweight editing (selection).

There's definitely an open question of what makes sense in what case as described in Aggregation Types.

In these we consider some of the differentiation among the various forms of aggregation:

• Centralized content or distributed content. Do they pull all the content into the central site or leave it distributed on the original source?
• Organization and Access - how do they organize the content. Human tagging? Automated? How do you access it?
• Editorial Distribution - Single person, small group or widely distributed control of what comes in and what is best?

In this case, it considers different forms of distribution separate from the forms of curation. I'm going to need to think through how to best categorize this, but I like the picture.

While I'm on it, great post - Feed Standardization Will Commoditize Feed Aggregation, So Let’s Create The Semantic Web! by Nick O'Neill. While he's talking primarily about feeds of updates, e.g., facebook, twitter, friendfeed, etc., I think this applies pretty well to aggregation more generally:

As we move toward a standardized way of presenting feed stories to aggregators, the value provided by the aggregators is essentially commoditized.

At the end of the day, value is maximized through more efficient custom filtering services that the users can participate in creating.

Participate is somewhat a loaded term. Really participation can be automatic or manual. But the point that part of filtering can be based on user activity is a good thing to consider. What's missing from the picture above is the consumption side of things. Part of consumption is likely personal filtering as well.