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The blog titled IDEAS:  Instructional Design for Elearning ApproacheS:  currently has eight postings on it.  The postings are cover Technology Skills Competition - Constructivist Approach that explains how student working in teams competed in a Technology skills competition.  They had several different categories to work from.  They created designs using the Constructivist approach to learning which engaged the students in authentic problem solving and critical thinking.  The next post was learning Ontario.  This post is describing how elearning is beginning to used in Ontario's Schools.  The next post explains how the potential of virtual learning Environments are enhancing learning. The next post shares the reviewing synchronous Learning Objectives.  Another post deals with other Learning objective Articles to include:  Interactive and learning Objectives, Interactive QuidkTime AND OTHER learning Objectives.  The next post is Project Open Source Open access which Describes how Knowledge Media design Institute is part of  the graduate studies program that conducts research in all areas of knowledge media design.  The next one is instructional Technology Applications in which a couple of teaching models are combined with examples of instructional technology applications.  The next post is Elearning Planning and management and the last one is Benefits of Learning Online. 

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This Blog is about instructional design.  That each person is sharing on Instructional design.  This post has  several posts have a wide range of subjects on ISD.

http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm

This blog concentrates on the defining of learning.  It first describes learning as a product and a process.  It then explains the different theories to learning to include:  Behaviourism, Cognitivism and then the Humanist.  The post then list further reading on the subjects.

These sites mentioned about provide a good resource for the Instructional design field.  They provide valuable examples first of all about how learning can be used in learning.  as an Instructional Designer we need to keep up with the new technology and better ways to learn.  We must design courses for the future and not get caught in the past, but be progressive in nature. 

 The second blog is a great source of information different ideas and uses for ISD.  This can be a valuable asset in designing all types of courses.  This helps us to keep an open mind about all areas and keeps us from getting tunnel vision, which in turn is very boring.  Course and learning must be alive.  The third blog provides us with learning info needed to design courses that are on target with learning .  the ending goal is to design course with the ending result is the transfer of learning.