MIT Open Courseware

MIT has some excellent open courseware available, you can find it here. I mention it because I believe in Web 3.0 (the semantic web), we will use the best of breed and just interate, interate and interate as a community of learners.

I am a BIG believer in not reinventing the wheel, there are always people out there who can do it smarter, faster and better, so I am a beleiver in finding those people. My role is just to connect all the dots and keep up with the best and brightest minds to use that knowledge.

Online Degrees Get No Respect

Interestingly enough I have emailed the author to see if his feelings have changes, as this study is now three years old. To date, I haven't heard anything back, but am optomistic.

-Dave
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Online Degrees Get No Respect: "Saturday Night Live certainly doesn't think much of online degrees a subject that I was thinking was going away since I posted about it back in 2006 - Lower Value of Online Degree Programs?

eLearning Certifications

eLearning Certifications

• OU (Open University in the UK) does - It's worth a look: http://www.open.ac.uk/. Any of their courses be offered as distance and/or online learning, so the location shouldn't be an issue.
• Bloomsburg University has an online eLearning Certificate. The program uses synchronous technology with a real instructor at the other end so there are time commitments -it is a really good program.
  Check it out at Bloomsburg University's Instructional Technology page.
• The University of Southern Queensland offer a Postgrad Certificate in a variety of options:
  - educational technology
  - online learning
  http://www.usq.edu.au/
• Friesen, Kay & Associates - http://www.fka.com/index.asp
• The Allen Academy - (need new link - help?) http://www.allenacademy.com/students/certification.htm
• ASTD eLearning Certification - http://www.astd.org/content/education/certificatePrograms/ELearning
  
• Clark Training - http://www.clarktraining.com/certification.php
• Professional eLearning Designers' Association - http://www.peldaglobal.com/
• University of Illinois Global Campus, they have a certificate program. http://global.uillinois.edu/search?keyword=&subject=all&degree_type=all&campus=Global+Campus
• Fairmont State University offers a graduate certificate in Online Learning. Information can be found online at:
  http://www.fairmontstate.edu/graduatestudies/grad_programs.asp
• University of Texas at Brownsville http://www.utb.edu/vpaa/de/Pages/E-LearningCertificate.aspx as part of an online graduate degree in Instructional Technology. The four courses required for the e-learning certificate are Instructional Design, Educational Telecommunications, Multimedia/Hypermedia, and a capstone project course.
• University of MD, Baltimore County (UMBC) - ISD graduate program. This program also offers certifications in Instructional Technology and Distance Ed, if you are not ready for the time involved in getting the MA. http://www.umbc.edu/isd/
• San Diego State University - http://edtec.sdsu.edu/ Full Masters and certificates, online and on campus, for decades. You can't be engaged in elearning or workplace learning and performance that leverages technology without bumping into many SDSU EDTEC grads.
  

Also, check out Certification Magazine for many options. http://www.certmag.com/

New Years Resolutions – Questions to Ask Yourself NOW

I thought his would be important this year....ran across it on another blog.

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Completing and Remembering 2009

• What was your biggest triumph in 2009?


• What was the smartest decision you made in 2009?


• What one word best sums up and describes your 2009 experience?


• What was the greatest lesson you learned in 2009?


• What was the most loving service you performed in 2009?


• What is your biggest piece of unfinished business in 2009?


• What are you most happy about completing in 2009?


• Who were the three people that had the greatest impact on your life in 2009?


• What was the biggest risk you took in 2009?


• What was the biggest surprise in 2009?


• What important relationship improved the most in 2009?


• What compliment would you liked to have received in 2009?


• What compliment would you liked to have given in 2009?


• What else do you need to do or say to be complete with 2009?

Making 2010 Your Best Year Yet

• What would you like to be your biggest triumph in 2010?


• What advice would you like to give yourself in 2010?


• What is the major effort you are planning to improve your financial results in 2010?


• What would you be most happy about completing in 2010?


• What major indulgence are you willing to experience in 2010?


• What would you most like to change about yourself in 2010?


• What are you looking forward to learning in 2010?


• What do you think your biggest risk will be in 2010?


• What about your work, are you most committed to changing and improving in 2010?


• What is one as yet undeveloped talent you are willing to explore in 2010?


• What brings you the most joy and how are you going to do or have more of that in 2010?


• Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving in 2010?


• What one word would you like to have as your theme in 2010?