Monthly Archives: June 2004

Supporting Student Autonomy Online

By Michael Feldstein | June 21, 2004

This (which comes by way of Stephen Downes’ excellent blog), is a nice little outline that argues in favor of promoting collaborative online learning (as opposed to self-paced with learning objects that have no social interaction associated with them) and promoting student autonomy within that model. All of this is worth saying over and over [...]

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Annoying Hype

By Michael Feldstein | June 18, 2004

In general, I like Jay Cross’ writings. While I have never personally met the guy, I find that his articles usually have something interesting and sensible to say. Which is why I’m so disappointed with his overly exhuberant fluff piece in e-Learn:
“For some, the work of the future will resemble an elaborate, personalized video [...]

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New Tool: ActiveGuide

By Michael Feldstein |

At the suggestion of Gary Dickelman and Hal Christensen, I’ve decided to give ActiveGuide a whirl. It looks like a great tool for building performance support, including wizards and interactive guides as well as more traditional help, right into web sites and web apps. The authoring tool can read DOM code and recognize the [...]

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A bit about the plumbing

By Michael Feldstein |

I decided to use Expression Engine (EE) from pMachine. EE is probably overkill for a simple weblog, but since I have long-term ambitions to do more, I wanted a content management system. And since one of my goals was to force myself to learn some basic web programming, I needed one that wasn’t too complicated [...]

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Welcome!

By Michael Feldstein |

Welcome to e-Literate, the continuing story of what Michael Feldstein is learning about online learning…online.

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