Upside Learning
MARCH 24, 2010
Earlier this month, Tom Kuhlmann talked about 10 things to do before your eLearning course goes live. His post makes great sense but what really caught my attention was the statement he began with. “It’s amazing how fresh eyes can find things you might have overlooked during production. So, before launching your elearning course, it’s a good idea to have others review it.
Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 12, 2010
I received a question from a current classroom teacher who is hoping to make the career move to instructional design. Specifically, she wanted to know how to prepare for an interview for an instructional design position. Any sage wisdom? I’m brushing up on ID jargon, but want to be as prepared as possible. What questions might they ask? Anything I should avoid discussing?
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 24, 2010
In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources.
Making Change
MARCH 30, 2010
You want to create an action-packed online experience that revolutionizes learners’ behavior. Your subject matter expert wants you to faithfully reproduce every lovingly polished bullet of their 217-slide PowerPoint presentation. Is there any hope for your relationship? Everyone knows that in any relationship, it’s the other person who needs to change.
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Kapp Notes
MARCH 15, 2010
Terrence Linden discussing the new Second Life browser at VWBPE conference. If you missed the Virtual Worlds' Best Practices in Education Conference , you missed not only a great conference with really good content and presentations, you missed a glimpse into the future of conferences. The conference took place entirely in the virtual immersive environment of Second Life with a venue of presenters from around the world.
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Upside Learning
MARCH 16, 2010
Ambient Insight has last month released a report on how the global market for self-paced eLearning products and services will grow through till 2014. It estimates the market had reached US $ 27.1 billion in 2009. The demand is growing at a 5 year compound annual growth rate of 12.8% and will take the world market to US $ 49.6 billion by 2014. Key highlights (as shared in the executive summary are): - North America will continue to be the biggest market. - By 2014 Asia (which includes Australia
Learning Visions
MARCH 5, 2010
Episode #8 of Instructional Design Live on EdTechTalk. A conversation with Professor Karl Kapp on instructional design – with a focus on the differences in ID as a practice in the academic and corporate worlds. (Apparently, it’s Karl Kapp month here on Learning Visions! See my interview with him last week on his new book.) These are my live blogged notes – apologize if they’re a bit all over the map.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 27, 2010
At the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference this week, Jean Marripodi convinced Steve Acheson and myself to host a debate on the viability of ADDIE in her ID Zone. While both of us can see both sides of ADDIE, Steve uses it, so I was left to take the contrary (aligning well to my ‘genial malcontent’ nature). This was not a serious debate, in the model of the Oxford Debating Society or anything, but instead we’d agreed that we were going to go for controversy a
Making Change
MARCH 22, 2010
When employees of the US Internal Revenue Service need to find out what taxpayers are doing, they look online. How would you train them to dig deep into the web without violating privacy laws? David Anderson has linked to the script of an online course that the IRS uses to train its employees. It was released during a Freedom of Information Act case and posted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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Kapp Notes
MARCH 11, 2010
In the future, experts predict that wars will be fought both in physical places, like Afghanistan and Iraq and in cyberspace such as the recent attacks that have allegedly originated in China on NATO and the European Union computers searching for secret intelligence material. In fact, Edward Castronova, in his book, Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games predicts in the future battles may occur between virtual armies for virtual territory and that countries must begin to trai
The Performance Improvement Blog
MARCH 1, 2010
The tendency of some managers in a recessionary economy is to revert to a command-and-control style of leadership. This is risky business. Those managers risk creating a suboptimum work environment and driving out their top talent. Study after study provides evidence that employees perform best and stay longest when their bosses are respectful, listen to employees, and support high levels of engagement.
Upside Learning
MARCH 15, 2010
Adobe recently announced AIR for Mobile devices. This is an outcome of the Adobe initiated Open Screen Project , which was started a couple of years back. The Open Screen Project was started to help create a singular experience on multiple devices (using Flash) be it Computers, Mobiles, TV or Game consoles. There are several futuristic videos about how it will work available at [link].
Learning Visions
MARCH 23, 2010
My live blogged notes from eLearning Foundations Intensive with Bob Mosher. Here’s a picture! J.I.T. = “just in time” – the acronym was born in 1992. What does this mean to the learner? they expect it, informal, interruption, necessary eLearning invented J.I.T. We equated availability with relevance. “Anytime, anywhere”. But J.I.T. doesn’t equate with relevance, because it’s often not targeted.
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.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 22, 2010
Owing to sins in my past, I not only am speaking on mobile learning at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference e-Learning Foundations Intensive session, but also introduced the tools section. The tools will be covered by smart folks like Patti Shank, Harry Mellon, Steve Foreman, and Karen Hyder, but I was supposed to set the context.
Making Change
MARCH 8, 2010
Are you dreaming of an immersive simulation while your team members plan yet another Jeopardy game? If you want stakeholders to expand their horizons, a working prototype is your best friend. A working prototype has simple placeholder graphics, but the clicking and dragging work as they will in the final activity. Build a quick-and-dirty version of the activity of your dreams, and use it to convert everyone on your team.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 18, 2010
I'm looking for some help on this. I have a couple of ideas, about measuring virtual world learning but would love to have input from others to learn how they are assessing the learning taking place in virtual worlds, please comment on your blog and then link in the comments of this blog any ideas or examples of how you are assessing learning in 3D Virtual Immersive Environments.
The Performance Improvement Blog
MARCH 17, 2010
Employee survey data is often collected but not used, at least not in any significant way. It has been my experience with employee surveys that once I have reported my findings to senior management, rarely is anything more done with the data. They might disseminate a high level summary of the results, but there is little attempt to help employees understand and learn from the data.
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.
Upside Learning
MARCH 3, 2010
It’s been a year since we started blogging (March 03, 2009) and we are raring to go another notch high. With 142 posts, over 75,500+ page views, and more 600+ subscriber base, it’s been an enjoyable journey so far. A big thanks once again to all our loyal readers for taking the time to read and for leaving your valuable comments. We sincerely appreciate your continued patronage.
Learning Visions
MARCH 25, 2010
My live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at Learning Solutions in Orlando. Heidi’s intro: When our learners are taking courses, they are making decisions about what they are learning… _ Jonah Lehrer author of How We Decide and blogger at The Frontal Cortex. “Paralysis Analysis” – we get paralyzed by everyday decisions like buying a box of cereal or a tube of toothpaste.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 18, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. Many new Captivate developers underestimate development time needed to produce eLearning lesson in Adobe Captivate. The following table should help. Small Projects (1-25 slides): 1-4 hours of production. Medium Projects (26-75 slides): 4-7 hours of production. Large Projects (80-150 slides): 8-10 hours of production. Bloated Projects (more than 150 slides): Consider splitting projects this large into smaller projects.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 31, 2010
Well, it turns out I was wrong. I like to believe it doesn’t happen very often, but I do have to acknowledge it when I am. Let me start from the worst, and then qualify it all over the place ;). In the latest Scientific American Mind, there is an article on The Pluses of Getting It Wrong (first couple paragraphs available here ). In short, people remember better if they first try to access knowledge that they don’t have, before they are presented with the to-be-learned knowledge.
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Kapp Notes
MARCH 10, 2010
Here are three "lessons learned" in from an actual 3D virtual world implementation. And for tips on piloting a virtual world implementation see blog entries Diffusions of Innovations and Implementing New Learning Technology? Choose the Right Pilot Group. Lessons Lesson 1 :Understand the client’s learning needs, participant volume requirements, technology access and security requirements, and participant appetite for working with new technologies.
The Performance Improvement Blog
MARCH 25, 2010
I fear that diversity training is losing favor among senior executives and HR departments. What I’m observing might simply be the natural evolution of a workforce intervention, similar to “quality improvement” which has moved from the province of a few experts to the responsibility of everyone in the organization. According to Billy E. Vaughn writing in DiversityOfficerMagazine.com, diversity training started in the 1960s, during the civil rights era, and was about racism and changing the
Upside Learning
MARCH 14, 2010
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Learning Visions
MARCH 31, 2010
Last week was Spring Break in Orlando, Florida for a whole bunch of eLearning geeks. I got to spend a total of about 2 hours in the sun, which included a lovely poolside conversation with Tom Kuhlman of Articulate who stood there in a flannel shirt and blank pants talking to me about -- what else? -- Articulate, while I lounged in my lounge chair. I then proceeded to have a wonderful conversation in the pool about Kineo with someone who had come to the conference to learn more about eLearning.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 12, 2010
by David R. Mankin A while back I wrote about Acrobat's watermark feature. At that time, I created the watermark by typing the word DRAFT in the watermark creation dialog box. There's another type of watermark possible in Acrobat 9--an image-based watermark that will allow you to have your company logo display on each page. The image watermark can be bold or subtle, and can appear on whatever pages you choose.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 5, 2010
I have had my head down cranking out the manuscript for my mobile learning book. The deadline for the first draft is breathing down my neck, and I’ve been quite busy with some client work as well. The proverbial one-armed paper hanger comes to mind. However, that does not mean my mind has been idle. Far from, actually. It’s just not been possible to find the time to do the thoughts justice.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 1, 2010
Sitting at my virtual desk gathering statistics. Here are some interesting Virtual World Statistics gathered from a number of different sources. In the fourth quarter of 2009, total registered accounts in the virtual worlds sector reached 803 million. This is a 19.7% (132m) quarter on quarter increase, from 671m registered accounts in the third quarter of 2009.
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