Well, I must say that I was expecting a large number of responses from the ITForum listserv group, but instead I received one email from one of the forum controllers that called my question "nebulous", Yea...that's right, meaning vague. To me a lot of the other questions that I've seen from ITForum users were vague and lacking definite form, however, there seemed to always be at least 5-10 responses. It appears to me that this Professional Learning Community is one where new comers have to gain acceptance into the group before the knowledge sharing begins.
The ITForum Control person did suggest that I search the ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) database for content related to my question. I would have expected to see at least 2-5 of the forum members to have suggestions on how they have determined the duration of web based training modules, since this is suppose to be a group of novice to experienced instructional designers.
Now I plan to ask the same question within another professional learning community and see what response(s) I receive.
Stay Tuned....
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FWIW, I thought your question was good. It was open-ended to a degree, but it didn't seem to lack specificity to me. (I knew what you were asking.) I'm no expert in IT, just now learning the field, but I did pick up some stuff in a language course on CD from Pimsleur (which is my favorite so far of the introductory CD's I've listened to). He did a lot of good research on retention rates in learning languages, but I would imagine his work is applicable to learning in other areas. Like I said his CD's have been the most helpful so far. I would type some stuff to let you know how much I've learned / retained just in a few short lessons, but it's all audio at this point. I haven't learned to write yet.
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