Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 2, 2011
Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Lauren Hirsh. Lauren needed to do an informational interview for her masters program, and I needed some new profile pictures. (The pictures turned out terrific; I’m sure I got the better end of the bargain.). During the interview, Lauren asked some very thoughtful questions about the relationship between theory and practice.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 24, 2011
This has bubbled up in my feeds not once, but several times now. It’s an interesting graphic that actually places example iPad applications into Bloom’s levels of performance in the cognitive domain. Focussed around students, and not really workplace learning, but interesting nonetheless. Check it out.
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Making Change
AUGUST 23, 2011
If your client said, “Please create a course about our impossibly complex process,” what would you say? A. “Hmmm. That process looks really complicated. Is there any way to make it simpler?” or. B. “No problem. Would you like fries with that?” Often we know nothing about our client’s processes, and it’s tempting to think we should never question what they do.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 15, 2011
So where do you send new practitioners for ideas and inspiration? Here’s a list I recently compiled for some new members on my team. Allen Partridge Adobe Captivate Blog For those of you who work with Captivate, you can’t miss Allen Partridge’s blog -- practical know-how with a spark. [link] Articulate’s Online Community Lots of sharing of templates and ideas in the user community.
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Kapp Notes
AUGUST 22, 2011
My friend and colleague, Connie Malamed (aka The eLearning Coach ) has developed a handy iPhone application that will help you become a better instructional designer making tips, definitions and ideas available right at your finger tips. GET THE APPLICATION HERE. Need to know ID.there's an app for that! I have heard buzz about the application from a number of sources including Cammy Bean’s Learning Visions where she does a great job of explaining the application.
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Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 21, 2011
The Human Factor: How Gender Differences Matter in Software Training by Mary Arnold : Learning Solutions Magazine. If your software training includes time to explore or “tinker,&# men and women will have different rates of success. A strategic approach may be better than going through individual features. This research focused on adding new features with an audience who was already familiar with the software; I’m not sure the same training technique would work with beginners with an
Upside Learning
AUGUST 10, 2011
Every now and again I wonder about the multi-user 3D environments, or virtual worlds that were all the rage just a couple of years ago, the finest example being Second Life. Second Life itself was a promising collaborative 3D learning platform. Yet, as I trawl the web looking for successful implementations of such 3Dverses for learning, I find very little substantive information about companies implementing such systems with any reasonable success.
Integrated Learnings
AUGUST 21, 2011
By Dean Hawkinson. I recently listened in on a webinar presented by David Mallon, with Bersin & Associates, called 10 Best Practices in the Next Generation of eLearning. He began by challenging us to think about what makes our learning organizations relevant in today’s environment, and he stated five types of learning that organizations typically use.
Performance Learning Productivity
AUGUST 4, 2011
There have been millions of words written and spoken about ‘informal’ and social learning over the past few years. In fact, if a Martian had just arrived on Earth and strayed into a meeting of Learning and Development professionals or into a learning conference, or even picked up a professional journal, he would logically assume that these were the only ways humans learned.
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Jane Hart
AUGUST 10, 2011
This is the 6th post in a series of postings on how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning – to one that supports the wider needs of Smart Workers in the organisation. This post looks at L&D’s approach to the wider concepts of informal and social learning in the organisation.
Making Change
AUGUST 1, 2011
Here’s a common question: All employees have to know how to use our software. Why isn’t that a good enough goal for instructional design? Why should I go through action mapping ? My answer: If you don’t identify what people actually do with the software and design your training around that, you could create an information dump that helps no one and can’t justify its own existence.
Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 7, 2011
Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Thinking Frameworks. Review of Bloom’s Taxonomy, including problems and the revised version, with information about the differences between factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge. tags: bloom learning education. Those teachers who keep a list of question prompts relating to the various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy undoubtedly do a better job of encouraging higher-order thinking in their students than those who have no such
Upside Learning
AUGUST 25, 2011
Stumbled on this cool article from IGN earlier today that lists ten trends in gaming ten years from now. It attempts to describe briefly what games we’ll be playing in ten years time. Sony Entertainment (a big publisher of games) invited several leading game-makers to discuss what video game development will look like in a decade. The list in the article was based on their discussion.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.
mLearning Revolution
AUGUST 12, 2011
'Today I’m happy to report that our much anticipated update of Adobe Presenter with full support for ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) is here, and this is a free update to anyone who owns Adobe Presenter 7, or any version of our Adobe eLearning Suite. In case you are not familiar with Adobe Presenter, it is a Plug-and-Play Rapid eLearning development tool for Microsoft PowerPoint.
Performance Learning Productivity
AUGUST 30, 2011
This post was prompted by a webinar I gave on behalf of Citrix/GoToWebinar on 6th July 2011 and originally posted as a guest post on the Learning Pool blog. I’ve made a few changes to it here. Looking Back eLearning has been with us in one form or another for at least the past 50 years, maybe longer.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 2, 2011
Tweet. This is the 4th in a series of posts about how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning. The three previous posts in this series were: The Smart Worker : learns continuously with social media. The Smart Worker : needs immediate access to solutions to performance problems.
Making Change
AUGUST 1, 2011
Here’s a common question: All employees have to know how to use our software. Why isn’t that a good enough goal for instructional design? Why should I go through action mapping ? My answer: If you don’t identify what people actually do with the software and design your training around that, you could create an information dump that helps no one and can’t justify its own existence.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
AUGUST 25, 2011
Does mobile learning need interactivity? Even more so, says Janhavi Padture, one of the invited speakers at Washington Interactive Technologies Conference, hosted by SALT (Society of Applied Learning Technologies). I talked to her to get her take on the subject. Mobile content is short-duration, small-screen. Why bother making it interactive? JP: There is inherently a greater chance of distraction since the learner is on the move.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 17, 2011
Today, I’m going to adopt a contrarian view. We all know social networks promote learning; while the mechanisms aren’t documented or well-understood, that it works isn’t in doubt anymore. But we must ask, are the ‘social media/networking systems’ out there promoting this learning? Or does it happen in spite of these systems? Sure, lots of companies want to replicate ‘Facebook’ behind the firewall; safe from prying eyes, but open enough for employees to freely express themselves.
The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 31, 2011
What is intended to pass for performance management in too many organizations today is the annual compulsory performance review. To label this a “performance management system” is to give the process much more credit than it deserves. A perfunctory meeting between a manager and employee once a year to review a standard rating sheet that lists competencies and goals that are probably no longer relevant is not a performance management system.
Dashe & Thomson
AUGUST 16, 2011
After college, I jumped on an airplane and flew to Switzerland to look for work in the international organizations and “keep the party going” with several other friends that had also moved overseas. Many of us were idealistic with big ideas of “changing the world.”. Starting out, most of us stumbled into temporary administrative positions. As we compared notes, we began to observe a maddening trend.
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Jane Hart
AUGUST 4, 2011
Tweet. This is the 5th in a series of postings about how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning – to one that supports the wider needs of Smart Workers in the organisation. In recent postings I focused on how L&D can support the content needs of the Smart Worker, but in fact it is clear, that most people first try and solve their problems by calling upon the people they know to help them, so this is the to
Integrated Learnings
AUGUST 3, 2011
By Shelley A. Gable. I have a friend who plans to volunteer as an assistant coach for his son’s soccer team in the fall. He told me about some of the advice he found on the web about coaching, and I realized that much of what he learned can be applied to coaching in eLearning as well. Most eLearning lessons contain knowledge checks of some sort, such as scenarios followed by a multiple choice question, hotspot questions that prompt learners to recognize something in an image , and simulations in
ID Reflections
AUGUST 13, 2011
This is a long overdue post, the draft of which had been languishing in my dropbox for some time--half forgotten. But finally I felt this needs to see the light of day. I have reached something of a cross-roads in my career, and I wanted to document the process of this arrival. It has been a long and exciting journey so far, dotted with exciting projects, some wonderful clients, and a tremendous amount of learning.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 8, 2011
This article by Sarah “Intellagirl&# Smith-Robbins is quite interesting. She does a great simple description of gamification, something I’ve written about before. “Education has been a system of status and points since the dawn of the Industrial Age.&#. She also espouses three fundamental small steps to take in higher education – make goals clear, make progress transparent, think about your game-play.
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Kapp Notes
AUGUST 15, 2011
Hey, I am doing a Web Chat on Wed in anticipation of my presentation at Training Magazine’s Learning 3.0 Conference. If you can join us for the conference, if you can’t join us for the webinar, if you can’t join either don’t worry and audio recording will be available shortly after the webcast. Reminder: Your WebChat is on Wednesday, August 17 at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern.
Dashe & Thomson
AUGUST 21, 2011
For more than a decade in the late part of the last century (I get a kick out of saying that) my life was theatre. During that period, I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing for the stage. I acted in and/or directed over 75 plays, in both academic and professional theatres in the Midwest and on the west coast, won awards in both disciplines, taught classes, and was moderately successful at supporting myself in a very tough industry.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 16, 2011
This is the the 7th post in a series of blog postings about how L&D departments need to change to meet the needs of today’s Smart Worker. In my last post I looked at how individuals really learn how to do their jobs – by doing their jobs – and how that happens mainly through social interactions with others in the workflow. In this post I want to take a look at how human contact and interactions are also important in more structured learning approaches.
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