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Check Out My Blog: Where I share what I've learned at conferences, reflect on material I've read, announce upcoming events, and provide the occasional shopping tip. To check it out, click here (opens in a new window).

The E-Learning Handbook: Past Promises, Present Challenges Now Available , co-edited with Patti Shank is now available. Published by Pfeiffer (an imprint of John Wiley and Sons), the book provides a critical reflection on the current state of e-learning with contributions from the world's foremost e-learning experts and best-selling authors from academe and industry, including Margaret Driscoll; Brent Wilson Lee Christopher; William Horton, L. Wayne Precht, Harvey Singh, Jim Everidge, and Jane Bozarth; Pat Brogan; Patrick Parrish; Marc J. Rosenberg and Steve Forman; Pat McGee; Philip C. Abrami, Gretchen Lowerison, Roger Cote, and Marie-Claude Lavoie; Thomas C. Reeves, Jan Herrington, and Ron Oliver; and Patrick Lambe. The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the technological, design, economic, evaluation, research, economic, and philosophical issues underlying e-learning. Each chapter includes a chart that summarizes the key take-away points, contains questions that are useful for guiding discussions, and offers suggestions of related links, books, papers, reports, and articles. To order a copy, view sample sections, and learn more, visit the book at Amazon.com (opens in a new window).

Slides from My Presentation at the STC Conference: Click here (opens in a new window).

Academic Courses I Am Teaching during the 2008-2009 Academic Year: During the current academic year, I will be teaching the following courses:

  • Human Performance Technology (ETEC 512/712) (Fall and Winter, Tuesdays, 11h00 - 15h15) (includes lab) (note that the website is from the 2007-2008 academic year; I plan to make substantial changes in the coming year)
  • Administration of Educational Technology Units (ETEC 591/7011) (Winter, Tuesdays, 18h05 - 20h15) (note that the website is from the 2006-2007 academic year; I plan to make substantial changes in the coming year)
  • Informal PhD seminar on advanced theory in instructional design and performance technology (by invitation only, though December 2008)

Upcoming and Recent Presentations:

  • Carliner, S. (2008.) Testosterone or technology improvement? An honest assessment of current issues in technical communication. Society for Technical Communication, Orange County chapter. Costa Mesa, CA. August 19, 2008.
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) Keynote presentation. IEEE Professional Communications Society. International Professional Communications Conference. Montreal,Quebec: July 14, 2008.
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) What museums can teach us about usable design: An interactive experience. 2008 Usability Professionals Association Conference. Baltimore, MD. June 17, 2008.
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) Business models for technical communication departments. 55th Society for Technical Communication Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. June 1, 2008.
  • Johnston, L., Carliner, S., Millar, R., Siemens, G., & Wihak, C. (2008.) Plenary: Informal learning in the workplace. Third annual symposium of the Work and Learning Knowledge Centre. Work and Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning. Ottawa, ON: May 15, 2008.
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) Keynote presentation: Recent research in information and document design. Red River College. Fifth Annual Technical Communication Conference. Winnipeg, Manitoba: April 14, 2008.
  • The Information Design Workshop. Alberta chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Calgary, AB: April 11, 2008.
  • Where You've Been and Where You're Going--Evaluation for the Smaller Nonprofit. Brookline Community Foundation. Brookline, MA: March 31, 2008.
  • Carliner, S., Driscoll, M., Eugenio, V. and others (TBA). (2008.) Town Hall Meeting: Technology and Human Resource Development. Academy of Human Resource Development Annual Research Conference. Panama City, FL: February 21, 2008.

Recent Books:

  • Carliner, S. & Shank, P. (eds.) (2008.) The e-Learning Handbook. San Francisco: Pfeiffer.
  • Carliner, S., Verkens, J. P., and de Waele, C.A.E. (2006.) Information and Document Design: Variety on the Research. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.
  • Driscoll, M. and Carliner, S. (2005.) Advanced web-based training: Adapting real world strategies in your online learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer.

Recent and Upcoming Publications:

  • Carliner, S., and Driscoll, M. (2009.) Who’s creating the e-learning? Paradigms for content creation that exclude the instructional designer. Michael Allen’s e-Learning Annual. San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer.
  • Carliner, S. (In press for fall 2008.) The other adult learner. Canadian Learning Journal. Fall 2008.
  • Araki, M. & Carliner, S. Carliner, S. (2008.) What the literature says about using game worlds and social worlds in cyberspace for communicating technical and educational content. Technical Communication. 55(4).
  • Carliner, S., (2008.) An interview with an information designer: Louis Rosenfeld. Information design journal. 16(2).
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) How to organize educational meetings for community and professional organizations. IDeaL: Design for Learning. 4(3).3-11.
  • Carliner, S. and Ribeiro, O. (2008.) Building best practices among practicing professionals: Research-based guidelines for integrating e-learning, building competencies, and addressing diversity. Canadian Learning Journal. Spring 2008. 6-13.
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) A three-tiered approach to the design and development of e-learning projects. E-learn magazine. March 2008.
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) Keep your course on target: Meet learners’ expectations through a pre-class questionnaire. Intercom. 55(2). 11-13.
  • Carliner, S. (2008.) Ten tips for getting learners to take e-courses. Learning Circuits. 9(1).
  • Carliner, S., (2008.) An interview with an information architect: Bogo Vatovec. Information design journal. 15(3). 236-241.
  • Carliner, S., (2008.) An interview with Ginny Redish. Information design journal. 16(1). 25-34.
  • Carliner, S., Ribeiro, O., & Boyd, G. (2008.) Entry on Educational Technology. In Salkind, N. J. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Carliner, S.. (2008.) E-Learning: Today’s challenge, tomorrow’s reality. In Carliner, S. & Shank, P. (eds.) The e-Learning Handbook. San Francisco: Pfeiffer.
  • Carliner, S.. (2008.) A holistic framework of instructional design for e-learning. In Carliner, S. & Shank, P. (eds.) The e-Learning Handbook. San Francisco: Pfeiffer.
  • Carliner, S., (Under contract.) Bridging the chasm between industry and academe: Digital literacy in the 21st century. In Spilka, R. and Clark, D. (eds.) Digital literacy for technical communication:  21st century theory and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Recent Press Mentions:

  • Montgomery, S. (2008.) Girl bloggers rise in numbers. Could help narrow tech gender divide. Canadian Press. (Published in Prince George Citizen, March 19, 2008. Viewed at http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12 Retrieved March 21, 2008.
  • van Vlardigan, C. (2008.) In-depth report on e-learning. CTV Montreal News. February 20, 2008.

Last updated October 2007.
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