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Our group assignment was finally finished at 5am Monday morning! our topic was to see whether generation gaps affected the way companies design their e-learning programs. we all had a different generation each and we were all able to find approriate case studies to support our assignment. my case study was called SeniorNet, before reading [...]

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i find collabroating within wiki is a little strange as we don’t get immediate feedback and the fact that anyone can change your post makes it ‘unreliable’. But because we are able to see other group memebers contribution in one place, it makes our assignment process a lot more efficient!

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We have slightly changed our direction for this group assignment. we initially decided for one person to find a case study on the generation literature and summarise that and the other four people split into two groups and find one company case study between the two and from there discuss the different e-learning programs they [...]

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How do you select appropriate information sources – where do you start? 

i usually start with google first
then to the UTS database
company website
journals

What key words may help narrow your search?

 Generation gap
technology veterans
e-learning program design
generation gap e-learning

How do you distinguish points of view from facts?
FACTS:

had references
had statistics
well defined

 POINTS OF VIEWS

were usually in first person
are opinoins

Are your resources: [...]

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The current status of e-learning is…
that it has increased 17% in
Australia of vocational and technical traning (VTE) over a period of time and it continues to increase.
E-learning and the industry…
it was shown in the report that 31% of RTOs surveyed delivered vocational training in the traditional trades (Building and Construction, Metal, Electrical and Automotive, or Engineering and [...]

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Topic:  e-learning design.
the best ways to design e-learning programs for everyone to use. eg. for younger children, older adults etc.
This topic interested us because on the list of what we could do, it was the longest.

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today during class we accepted an invitiation to join the “elexp” wiki at Wikispaces. And we played on the graffitti wall!
what is a wiki? a collaborative editing site.
Wikispace is slightly different from Wikipedia, only members of the wiki can edit pages although it is publicily viewable.

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in class right now!! where shall we go for dinner?? we were planning to go to ‘pancakes on the rocks’ but that got cancelled coz of APEC and the ‘dangers’. soooo now where should we go? HELP!

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1.5 An aggregator is a software application that allows you to subscribe to other websites and gathers them for you to read at your convenience.
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ which refers to the coding that enables you to subscribe to webpages .
It can be used in this subject becuase it saves time finding the webpage to see if [...]

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1.1E-learning is the process of learning electronically. for example, learning through courses on the internet.
learning through/ assissted by electronic medium. eg interactive games
lifelong learning- not nessessarily classroom based.
endless bourdaries- age, gender, location, proior education etc.
self-paced, can be learner driven.
what is the difference between e-learning and online-learning?
e-learning can be done through software packages, CR roms. whilst [...]

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