Text-message English course

Once again, language classes seem to be one of the best uses for mLearning solutions. Language training could be a good avenue for mLearning technology....... Click Here to know more.

Website Redesign Strategy

A wounderful stuff from Maish Nichani. He has suggestd the framework for website redesign.

The framework embodies 4 actions:

• Eliminate what is redundant, outdated or trivial and providing no value
• Reduce what isn’t providing enough value
• Raise what has the potential to add more value
• Create what isn’t available yet but can bring more value

These 4 actions represent a reservoir of questions that can be asked about our content. But these questions need a direction. This is provided by the goals of the redesign. The stage is now set for using our background knowledge and research findings to provide answers to these questions. Here’s the setup.

As in any strategy building exercise, the magic is in asking the right questions. And the closer we are to the ground, the better the questions get.
Let’s move forward with a scenario.

Redesigning websites

In 2006, many university has updated their websites which gives better user experience. When I come across all these website, I found that, sites are "simple and uncluttered" specially in home page.

A comprehensive article from Maish Nichani of PebbleRoad, lists key areas of focus on the subject of web standards, it may be of interest that the site you try to manage...

Here are some that are doing a good job with web standards.
Cornell University, Princeton University, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Dartmouth College, Bucknell University, University of Melbourne, University of Wisconsin, La Trobe University, Seattle University, University of Michigan, University of Sheffield, Ohio State University.

e-learning Theories

What to know about e-learning theories?
Just click this link to explore 12 different theories of learning.

The 4A’s of learning design

A whitepaper by Neil Lasher. The 4A’s of learning design namely is an instructional design model for task-based and workflow e-learning. Applying this model will ensure the design of a module of learning that fits into today’s current context, delivering the correct content to fit the current need in an environment often where the development falls to the technologist rather than the trainer.

Video on web 2.0

Video: Simply the best way to know about web 2.0

The Holy Grail of Information Architecture

Christopher Fahey's says that, the Holy Grail of Information Architecture is a versatile, powerful, and entirely mythical document format that almost every IA has fantasized about. Depending on who you talk to, embodies most or all of the following qualities:

• It combines site mapping, process flow logic, and wireframming into a single entity
• It allows atomic-level interface modules to be modified or replaced globally
• It is accessible via a web browser
• It can be printed
• It simulates the user experience via click-throughs from page to page or feature to feature
• It permits extensive feature annotation for programmers, bordering on functional specifications
• It is fast and fluid for the document creator