e-Learning Technologies

Initially I started this blog as part of my subject requirement, back in March 2008. To begin with, the excitement of trying out something new helped me to overcome my usual fear of technology.  However, over time my blog fell by the wayside as put off making my regular entries.  Once I stopped utilising my blog, I found that over time I gradually forgot how to operate my blog (it took me hours to get the hang of it in the first place).  

For my current subject eLearning Technologies, I chose to utilise my blog once again, even though the idea of going back to it seemed very daunting. After all I have to re-learn it all over again!  I believe my example is not an isolated one, in that a piece of technology is adapted and then falls by the wayside.  I am having another go at it, and hopefully my experience will shed some light as to why adaptation of technology for learning either fails or succeeds.

Welcome to my blog!

I am a Learning and Development professional, specialising in instructional design. Currently I am in the process of undertaking masters in e-Learning. This is the part where I am supposed to put to practice my learning. This is my journey. So why is it so nervewrecking? After aren’t I am supposed to be a hands-on learner, then why is this so scary? This is my journey.

One challenge is that here I am getting back into study mode, after completing Bachelor of Arts in Social Science (Organisational Communications) back in 2000. Clearly I’ve gotten a bit rusty over the years. Sure I did complete an odd course here and then. However nothing that required so much time and dedication. The pressure is on.

Over the years I did contemplate resuming some kind of study that would relate to my chosen field. Having said this, I didn’t really miss my uni days, which by the way I completed via part time and was totally relieved when my degreee was finally completed.

And so here I am back for more – How much has changed! For starters here I am on-line, as opposed to being in a classroom. For someone such as myself who tends to be mostly disorganised the option of doing most of work on-line is truly a struggle. Not sure why but for me there was definetely lot of comfort in a face-to-face learning situation. How do I prepare myself for this completely new style of learning? I supose there is only one way to find out. I will just have to dive in, in hope that I can actually swim.

Regardless of my apprehensions, I am determined to make the most of it. I’ve decided to adopt a ‘trial and error’ approach. Stay tuned.