From the Editor's Desk - April 2006

Welcome to the April 2006 issue of Wavelength.

April is the month of new hopes and new relationships. April changes the way we look at life. For many of us April synchronizes with the birth of our new year, Samvat 2063. Most organizations end their financial years on March 31 – Thus, to us April sounds closer to New Year than January does. But then we love to celebrate. If we don’t find a reason to celebrate, trust us to create one. Let us create one today. Let us celebrate our ability to make the transfer of knowledge effective. Let us celebrate it by strengthening this ability through acquisition of relevant information and its reasoned use.

The ability to put two and two together, or the ability to reason, is probably the most important factor that ensured the continuance and evolution of human race. When Homo erectus discovered fire almost 1.8 Million years ago, they realized that they couldn’t create fire and so they kept it burning. Even they reasoned! They could put two and two together! Somehow, somewhere in our journey of life, many of us are forced to abandon intellectual reasoning in favor of recall learning. We then, unknowingly, propagate the same level of learning, using the same age-old tools, to our children. The point is; we need to de-mechanize our minds and review the learning process in light of our audience and the new technologies of today.

Thus while creating eLearning content, we need to review the audience, the technology, the tools, and the content, all of these together. If we do this, I am confident that the learner’s learning time as well as effort will reduce substantially, while retention of knowledge will increase tremendously. To this end, Wavelength presents to you the Mystery of the Month article for April. This article “What Makes eLearning Interactions Effective?” attempts to swerve the limelight from the “what” of eLearning content creation to its “why” and “how”. It focuses on the considerations that one should reflect upon while creating eLearning interactions, exercises, and activities.

March was probably the busiest month in Wavelength’s existence, and April promises to surpass the performance of March. The reason for this will shortly make itself known through the May issue of Wavelength.

If you are interested in pursuing IDCWC course from Wavelength, you will be glad to know that the next course group is beginning classes on April 16, 2006. The next ASDC course group will begin classes on April 23, 2006.

I would like to sign off with a special note to all our subscribers. In March the subscriptions far exceeded the subscriptions in any of the previous months. I think it must’ve been the beautiful spring that inspired you to connect with Wavelength. Please stay connected…always!

Warm Regards,

Shafali R. Anand.
(Editor & Publisher - Wavelength)

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