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What is Multimedia?
How do you define multimedia in today’s e-Learning context?
It can be defined as tools engaging learners interactively.

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What is learning?
 
“The best definition is to conceive of learning as a relatively permanent change in behaviour with behaviour including both observable activity and internal processes such as thinking, attitudes and emotions.”
Burns, R. 1995, The Adult Learner at Work.
 
What is your definition of learning?
I think learning is the building up of knowledge or learning something [...]

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1. context of elearning course
- background info about the subject/topic
- learner profile
- organisational context
- purpose/rationale of the course, purpose statement – why is it important
important learning design corresponds to target market, what are you desinging for
(100-150 words)
2. Learning theory/ies underpinning the design (250 words)
- summarise the key features of the theory/ies
- justify your choice of [...]

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we completed our 10% elearning evaluation in class last week!!
before touching upon this topic, i never really considered the questions below,
•    Describe the screen laout:
•    Visual hieirarchy:
(evaluate the use of contrast to draw attention to the key elements)
•    Placement of graphics:
(evaluate in terms of multi-media principles, and Alignment and Proximity principles)
•    Style of graphics:
(Describe in [...]

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mmm…i don’t know what to blog about, since class notes are going onto another document, so i guess i’ll just post that up later.
in today’s class we are viewing different websites, such as the differences between news journal sites and the macdonalds site.

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what we’re doing in class:
Behaviourism: we should be observing observable and measurable human behaviours. explaining human behaviou…the cause and effect.
Classic conditioning can also be demonstrated by our ability to generalise our reponsess to stimuli – the ability to generalise
Operant conditioning -
Active learning – the learner responds actively.
Cognition is information processing
Cognitivism is like a computer processor, [...]

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it has been a looooooong while sincce i’ve lasted bloged!! and that’s really because i’m unable to login to edublogs, wiki at home, so i’m unable to contribute! and the fact that i keep forgetting during class! and i’m not always at uni…so i can’t use a comp! but..i’ll keep trying to blog etc!! and [...]

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Learner Management Systems
e-Learning Management systems can be loosely divided into 2 categories: 1) Learner Management Systems = LMS 
2) Learning Content Management Systems = LCMS
What is a Learner Management System (LMS)?
LMS is a high-level, strategic solution for planning, delivering, and managing all learning events within an organization, including online, virtual classroom, and instructor-led courses. The primary solution [...]

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I haven’t been blogging because i’m not able to login to edublogs from home. But i’m able to blog now becuase i am at uts using the computers!

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wow…it’s week 3 already!
and i must emphasise…i do not like using mac computers! Maybe because its sooooo different from what i normally use, so i’m not use to the change, maybe over time i’ll get use it and i might like it. but at the moment, i truly dislike using Mac.

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