Links to External Resources
about (E-)Learning

Interesting reading for (potential) e-learners:

How Online Learning Works:
Do you wonder if e-learning is suitable for you? Have a look at this webpage, where you will be able to get some idea of how an online course led by an instructor functions.

What Makes a Successful Online Student?
If you want to know how to become or be a successful e-learner look at this set of qualities.

Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire and Memletics learning styles inventory
Want to know your personal learning style? Try one of the above free resources. Some of them are also used to establish the learning style preferences of LearnHousing participants - a crucial step before getting involved in a course.

Interesting reading for HR Professionals, Training Managers and Line-Managers:

CIPD E-learning survey results report
A brief analysis of the online poll about e-learning, hosted on the CIPD website in September 2004.

Time to start elearning
Excellent website tool offering an introduction to eLearning in the format of a presentation - covering business benefits, how it fits in and what companies need for implementation in their workplace. Developed as a result of a number of pilot projects supported by Scottish Enterprise.

Can Interest in Distance Training be Sustained in Corporate Organizations?
"The implementation of distance training is an effective tool for reducing training cost, saving time, and creating a more knowledgeable and productive workforce. Even so, implementation of distance training in corporate organizations is moving at a relatively slow pace...The purpose of this article is to analyse various obstacles that stifle interest in sustaining distance training in corporate organizations."

Interesting reading for trainers and subject experts:

Effective Practice with e-Learning
This JISC publication illustrates some of the key implications in designing for learning for practitioners in the UK post-16 sector, and offers an insight into how e-learning can be integrated into established practice to benefit both learners and practitioners. The guide ‘Effective Practice with e-Learning’ is built around a sequence of ten case studies illustrating practitioners’ solutions to day-to-day challenges.

E-Learning Queen Blog
Thoughts & experiences about all aspects of e-learning by online learning expert Susan Smith Nash

Development Principles for Online Courses: A Baker's Dozen
Rory McGreal, associate vice president of research at Canada's Athabasca University, serves up a batch of basic guidelines for developing courses for the Web. These principles incorporate hard-won knowledge from both the traditional and digital realms in education, suggesting that a variety of methods and techniques may be adapted to take advantage of the online environment's unique attributes.

e-learning Web resources:

elearnspace
An excellent resource for all matters related to e-learning. Down-to-earth and practical. With many links to further web-based information.

e-Learning Centre
Large collection of selected and reviewed links to e-learning resources focusing on e-learning in the workplace, for professional development and in Further and Higher Education.

eLearn Magazine
First-rate information resource about all aspects of e-learning, particularly for those with a professional interest in the subject.

e-learning Guru
Articles, white papers and tools related to e-learning.

Skills for Housing & Sustainable Communities:

Egan review: skills for sustainable communities
This report presents the findings of Sir John Egan's review of skills needed by built environment professionals to deliver the Sustainable Communities Plan. It aims to clarify the term 'sustainable community', to identify who is responsible for leading the delivery of sustainable communities and to recognise the skills necessary to achieve sustainable communities. Published in 2004.

Information about other training providers and courses:

The New Curiosity Shop
The aim of the New Curiosity Shop is to provide high quality online courses in a wide range of topics. The New Curiosity Shop encourages learning for the pleasure of learning, and the short courses are designed to stimulate thinking, provoke questions and provide opportunities for students to explore ideas.

Underoak UK Training Index
An independent database of courses and training providers that advises on trainers and consultants for all areas of management development and IT skills training.

Global Training Course Catalog - ASKEDU
A comprehensive open index of training courses and schools worldwide. Classes can be searched by topics and locations.