Dr Michael Baron completed MA from The University of Melbourne in 1995 & PhD from Curtin University in 2009. He is the founder and CEO of Baron Consulting - one of Australia's leading Digital Transformation & Technology Management Agencies. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at SBS (Swiss Business School).
Ensuring secure and comfortable virtual learning and teaching environments is one of the most critical aspects of online delivery. This article discusses issues in establishing eLearning security protocols with regard to the 3 main stakeholder groups.
The purpose of this article is to provide a step-by-step, F2F-to-online-transition path for training providers to undertake and to make their training programs available via virtual classrooms!
It is quite common for eLearning providers to start re-engineering their Learning Management Systems (LMS) shortly after the implementation is completed. Have you ever wondered, why the providers fail to ''get things right'' straight away? And even more importantly, how to get things right?
Sharing eLearning platforms across many training providers raises a number of legitimate concerns both for the platform owners and the providers to consider. I believe there are 5 "Golden Rules" the training providers and the platforms’ administrations need to follow religiously.
LMS is the heart of every online course, and links all of the business and educational processes together. In order to tailor it best to the users’ needs, training providers need to be able to identify business and IT processes, as well as content elements that have scope for further improvement.
User-Centered Design (UCD) is based on the concept of approaching the development process from the customer's perspective and focusing on the customer requirements by examining usability goals, user characteristics, user-desired environment, and creation of a workflow for achieving those.
While it's important to stay abreast of the latest technological developments to enhance the user experience, we should not rush towards adopting these developments. Here is why.
Some of the eLearning technologies used by chess servers could be utilized equally effectively within academic settings. The article considers 2 examples of how the chess eLearning technologies can be tailored to meet the needs of university and industry training programs.