Writing

Just published!

The E-Learning Handbook

NEW: Listing of easier-to-use authoring tools developed for Patti's Training Tech Solutions 2007 authoring workshop

NEW: The eLearning Guild's Handbook of e-Learning Strategy (chapter 3 is written by Patti Shank)

Patti's Books

Online Learning Idea Book

Making Sense of Online Learning

The first chapter is available on the Macromedia web site: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/elearning/pshank_chap1.pdf [The TMR Editor's review]

eLearning Guild

• NEW: Make Sure Your Media Makes Sense and Cents
• Avoiding Assessment Mistakes that Compromise Competence and Quality
• An End-of-Year Conversation with eLearning Leaders, Dec 2004
• Can They Do it in the Real World? Designing for Transfer of Learning, September 2004
• Complex Interventions for Complex Problems: Expanded Context for
  e-Learning, January 2004

Adobe

• The Value of Multimedia in Learning

Academic papers

• Learning Anew: An Exploratory Study about New Online Learners' Perceptions of People Interaction and Learning to Learn in an Online Course (given at EDMEDIA, June 2002) This paper won an Outstanding Paper Award

Others

• Competencies for Online Instructors: An empirically based summary of five categories of instructor actions (administrative, design, facilitation, evaluation, technical) that improve the success of online instruction.
• Horizon Report: I helped ghostwrite this summary of emerging technologies released by the New Media Consortium.

Presentations

Best Practices for Online Presentations

This is a 15 minute online presentation on when and how to build effective online presentations (online narrated Power Point presentations).

5 Strategies for Better Online Learning

Recording of Patti's VNU Authors Forum synchronous online presentation on strategies for making design and development decisions that improve outcomes and use resources wisely, July 2005. (You will be prompted to download the Elluminate player if you do not have it.) Handouts (464K PDF).

Coloring Outside the Lines: Rethinking Blended Learning (PDF, 209 KB)

Slides from my keynote presentation at eLearn 2004 and the tables (PDF, 65 KB) built by keynote participants to analyze 10 potential blending dimensions.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
~A.A. Milne