"So what do I believe are the essential components of my everyday online learning toolkit?
Videos can be easily delivered to any device and can be highly-engaging as long as they are kept short and sweet. Even when professionally produced, they cost little and can be ready in as little as a few hours. Whether you need interviews, demos, how-to's or animated explanations of difficult concepts - video works perfectly.
Web articles and PDFs are not a glamorous or high-tech solution, but they are the resources we normally turn to for a more in-depth examination of an issue. Web articles are the more flexible of the two options, but PDFs are better when you know the document is going to get printed.
Scenarios are the one ingredient of contemporary e-learning which I would keep in my everyday toolkit. They do not have to be technically difficult to develop (they can be as simple as a piece of text followed by a multiple choice question) but they do have to be challenging, authentic and relevant to the learner's real-world problems. Scenarios are a form of guided discovery; they encourage insights; they help to get across the big ideas.
A forum is another simple, inexpensive tool which sits nicely alongside the packaged self-directed materials. Forums allow for Q&A, for debate and for the externalisation of learning. Obviously there are other ways to achieve the same result, not least a face-to-face discussion, but the forum does the job.
Links might seem too trivial to be considered a self-directed core learning tool, but they act as a gateway to all sorts of other resources beyond the packaged materials that you have put together. You can act as a content curator and suggest links, but then so, of course, can learners. Come to think of it, they can come up with some pretty good videos and web articles too."
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"So what do I believe are the essential components of my everyday online learning toolkit?