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CCeD at Global Education Conference
I’ll be sharing our experience of trying out CCeD in distributed mode at the Global Education Conference 14-18th November. My slot is on Friday at 11am CET which is GMT+1. Join me for this free session if you want to find out more about how we implemented ConCurrent eDesign across borders and what results we…
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Holistic e-learning
I am not being New Age in the title of this post. Holistic refers here to e-learning courses which have been planned not just from a pedagogical point of view but also from a business point of view. The UnderstandIT EU-supported project, which has just officially finished, sought to test whether the intensive planning process…
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Preparing e-learning online
Today is the last day of the UnderstandIT project. So what have we achieved? The main objective of the project was to find out whether it was possible to transfer the very intensive concurrent design approach to the online medium. ConCurrent Design involves gathering all relevant players, in this case for e-learning development, in one…
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UnderstandIT
Fra rumfartsdesign til kundeplejetræning – kan det lade sig gøre? Hvad gør man når budgettet virkeligt skal strammes op og nye produkter samtidigt skal udvikles? Løsning hos NASA, den amerikanske rum organisation, var at samle alle relevante eksperter i et lokale hvor alle kunne arbejde videre på deres ideer samtidig. Selvfølgelig krævede det lidt organisation…
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Effective Project Management
Regular online meetings between infrequent face to face meetings help motivation and cohesion but the CCeD approach seems to be adding even stronger impact to project products. In my role as internal evaluator for the UnderstandIT project it has been interesting to see the result of applying Concurrent Design to the quality of the project…
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Tower of EU Babel
Stop Press!!! Google are to abandon and pull Google Translate by the end of the year. Multi-lingualism is at once the bane and the aim of EU projects. How can you reach out to a collection of 27 countries with as many languages? The issue of translation is a key one in the UnderstandIT project,…
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Situation Analysis with the help of Google Docs & Adobe Connect
It is quite a step to move the concurrent design (CCD) process from a technical product to the design of a course (CCeD) and it is even more of a step to move the CCD process online. But this is the aim of the UnderstandIT project and we took our first steps last Friday with…
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UnderstandIT: Concurrent e-Learning Design
Is it possible to transfer an industrial design process to the development of e-learning material? This is what I and a group of other European partners are going to try out using the VITAE course as a trial product. Earlier this week I made a very quick trip to Trondheim in Norway to attend the…