July 23, 2003

The Whole Picture

I have redesigned the elearnspace website - according to the model presented in this short article: The Whole Picture of Elearning. Too often, elearning projects fail (or at minimum, suffer) due to a failure to understand how the pieces all fit together. By focusing on the wrong things (and ignoring others), projects are less effective than desired.

I've added about 20 additional resource pages (and will add more over the next several days) based on interest of readers (and hype in the industry). Inlcuding wikis, RSS, elearning adoption/promotion, semantic web, search, classification, LMS, etc. Look at the site map for more information.

I will be switching the site over to a new server in the next day or two. Unfortunately, some articles and links will be broken (especially from the elearnspace blog - but also to various resource pages).

As always, thoughts/opinions/feedback are welcomed. Please direct them to this post in the new blog.

Posted by gsiemens at July 23, 2003 01:14 PM
Comments

George,
I like the new site.
I tried to email this to you but got bounced.
There is a typo in the main navigation strucutre - "evalaution" instead of "evaluation".
Sorry to use this comment route to mention it.
Seb

Posted by: Seb at July 24, 2003 03:06 PM

Thanks Seb...of course, it has to be something really obvious...:).

I'll make the change later today.

george

Posted by: gsiemens at July 24, 2003 04:45 PM

Hi George,

The new site really gives the 'whole picture' of eLearning...

Great job !!

Thks & rgds

Adarsh

Posted by: Adarsh at July 25, 2003 03:32 AM

Great article, George. Pretty ambitious to attempt to create a "whole picture" of anything these days, but it ties in well with a program-design course I'm taking right now. The prof couldn't find a textbook for program design (as a bigger-picture view of instructional design), so he's tried to cobble together other resources. But I wish he had found this diagram at the beginning of the course.

Jeremy

Posted by: Jeremy at July 25, 2003 10:22 PM