Don McIntosh

Thanks for your interest Paul and my apologies for the incorrect link. It should be http://www.trimeritus.com/Video. I hope this helps.

Don.

Hi Paul,

I agree with you that video has been over-hyped. I just finished a short paper on the subject which you can find at http://www.trimeritus.com/video.

To summarize briefly, the best use of video is for feedback to learners (something I have rarely seen done on the internet). The next best use is for demonstration of psychomotor skills with a strong visual component but that requires careful planning and expert camera work which is difficult in a live video conference session. Talking head video may provide some identification with the subject and some non-verbal cues but is often a waste of learners' time and/or bandwidth.

Don.

Hello Lynn,

I have been lurking in this conference so forgive me for jumping in at this point.

Thank you for these links. For the past 10 years and more, I have been monitoring the eLearning industry and have created a document that lists Learning Management Systems, authoring tools, web conferencing (which I call virtual classrooms) and others.

Watching the exchange during this conference enabled me to add some more.

The document is available free from my website at www.trimeritus.com/vendors.pdf.

Thanks and regards,

Don.

For discussions on motivation, I always defer to John Keller who was my Ph.D. dissertation adviser more than 30 years ago and is one of the leading authorities on motivation. He has a website with resources on his ARCS model (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) at http://www.arcsmodel.com/.

Hello Nancy,

Thanks for sharing this rubric with us. This is appropriate for my class beginning next week.

Do you use a scale for the ratings?
What kind of "evidence" are you looking for?

Don.