Finding Good Sources for Better Learning

I learned a little bit today about authoring tools that could substitute a cost effective training solution which are used by companies. There are actually good tools that are free on the net.

Besides Google Docs and other Google collaborative tools which I always depend on, there are actually a lot of other applications to around the net to improve my study through electronic learning. As a student, I really didn’t like studying alone before so I thought maybe I should find some people on the net that can help me or perhaps be my online co-learners. This is when I stumbled upon a lot of applications that I could use as back up in the lessons that the cost effective training solutions have been giving us, the employees.

Applications like Audacity and Talk Shoe are quite convenient to use. The fact is elearning authoring tools like these are hard to come by nowadays especially with a lot of learners thinking that they should just solely rely on their system. Many reviews and reports on electronic sites claim that using applications like Audacity, which its main feature is using podcasts for learning, and Talk Shoe, which uses an older approach to learning through a radio-inspired program, actually works good for general learners and also enhances learning for specific types of learners like the audio learner.

Another application which only a few people make use of is Dimdim. Youtube of course is the largest video site out there but Dimdim keeps everything on the learning side. This application is good for video conferences and actually outplays some of the big names in the internet like Yahoo, Google and Skype when it comes to hosting videos conferences. For learners who live far away from each other or from their online lecturer’s not only is Dimdim a good substitute for places like Skype but also a good and convenient way of learning through video and at least a lot easier to search in as compared to the video jungles of YouTube. I can say that I won’t even need to take those cost effective training solutions the company is force feeding the employees.

Generally when I get lost in lessons, there are sites like Wikispaces that I go to for a mini research on the lesson but then visiting forums and other online communities proved to be more useful in terms of gathered data. There are many other elearning authoring tools out there that may be useful to the type of course you have especially those which goes beyond words in order to study. Have you tried searching for it?

Elearning and the LMS

Stepping back nine or ten years ago, most companies in any field looked up to a learning management system to resolve any particular business problems they had. And it was, at that time, a right business decision. LMS was the type of system which the trainers, trainees and technicians can rely on as it could be said that it was a can do it all machine when it came to work training. Internal organizations would flow nicely after the way the LMS changed the training programs of the company.


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The strategies used by most LMS are logical and reasonable ones however there was a rather huge amount of costs at hand whenever the strategy was called for. The plan always entailed a solid corporate commitment of resources, energy, costs and time which only a handful of organizations can successfully hold on to the strategy. The problem could be solved but the weight of it would take its toll later on the company asset which was used.

Most of the companies who couldn’t uphold the system anymore would resolve to manual training or any other form except the one which would use the learning management system. This turned out to be an ace card for those companies who can afford it. However, it was only a matter of time for some since upgrades were rather demanding.

So, when did companies started using elearning more than the conventional learning system? The truth was that no one arrangement can solve it so a series of lectures, lessons and trainings both individually and by group were done online. Interactivity also became a trend so as to employ fewer trainers. Business organizations started to change and evolve internally eventually developing its talents more and more until the changes reach its core operations. When there were enough workers with specific talents, it was time to expand.

When this trend became almost conventional, small businesses also thought that the LMS was just part of a solution and not the solution itself. Thus, the employment of various techniques in training became more diverse and creative than ever before.