Adobe Captivate
AUGUST 21, 2010
This week’s eSeminar was chock full of solutions as we discussed ‘how to’ start developing eLearning based on the kind of face to face classroom content educators already have prepared for the courses they teach. The session examines the growing phenomena of online courses and online supplemental eLearning modules for courses that remain face to face or are becoming blended online and offline instruction.
Making Change
AUGUST 25, 2010
What happens if you don’t set any boundaries in your relationships? You wear yourself out doing everything for everybody and the next thing you know, you’ve cursed everyone out, grabbed a couple of beers, and slid down the escape chute. The same thing can happen to your course. If you don’t set any boundaries and try to cover everything for everybody, you end up with a stressed-out course that can’t do anything for anybody.
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Upside Learning
AUGUST 25, 2010
Some months back I wrote a couple of posts about elearning outsourcing focusing on why to outsource elearning and how to select a vendor. This post focuses on how to make outsourcing work for you. I list the elements that I feel require key focus to ensure outsourcing is delivering the goods for you now and in future. 1. Define Clear Objectives. If you don’t know where you want to go any road could take you there.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 5, 2010
I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. This conference has been run for a few years now and is tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year. This is my attempt to collect some of what we’ve learned over the years doing those conferences.
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Learning Visions
AUGUST 4, 2010
Amit Garg has posted a nice list of 22 essential books for beginning instructional designers. Which reminded me of an old post of mine from 2008: Essential Reading for Instructional Design. Lots of books to read, so get to work, you! Photo credit: bookworm by Oo_Dee_oO. Tags: books instructional design.
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The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 24, 2010
The social contract between employer and employee has changed dramatically in recent years. Loyalty has been the loser. In commenting about a post I wrote last year, Milan Moravec presents the case that long- term loyalty is no longer part of the implied understanding between management and worker. He writes: Employee loyalty and retention: It's not what you think!
Making Change
AUGUST 30, 2010
I’ve been tweeting a daily idea to spark your instructional design creativity. To get your daily ID idea, follow me on Twitter. (I don’t say much!). Some recent tweets in the series: Ask your SME, “What are the 3 most common mistakes people make?&# Turn them into branching scenarios. Using a story? What challenge is your character facing?
Upside Learning
AUGUST 31, 2010
John Hegel lll and John Seely Brown have written an article titled ‘ Six Fundamental Shifts in the Way We Work ’ on HBR blog. The article summarizes the ideas from their new book – The Power of Pull. The six shifts they talk about: The Red Queen was optimistic – The red queen in Through the Looking-Glass said – “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.&# However as it turns out we are running ever faster but still losing ground.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 10, 2010
I wanted to follow-up 19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences with some additional resources that relate to this topic. I primarily used the eLearning Learning and Communities and Networks sites and used Conference , Online Facilitation of Conferences , Online Interaction in Conferences , Moderating Online Interaction , and others. 28 Web Conference Training Tips - eLearning Weekly , July 10, 2009 Learning to use web conferencing technology is pretty easy, but there is a lot more to training vi
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Learning Visions
AUGUST 30, 2010
A lot of people write to me asking for advice on how to break into the ID field or where to go get themselves a fancy graduate ID degree. As a non-formally schooled ID, I can’t really help with this last question other than some vague direction. (For part one of the question – well…I’ll come back to that another day). So – to those of you who do have a degree or a certificate would you be willing to tell us your story?
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 30, 2010
As schools adapt to new technologies and hardware and software, curriculum changes need to reflect more than just the inclusion of technology; changes needs to impact methodology, approach and instructional activities. Yet, even today, instructional methodologies are heavily influenced by the instructional models and cultural influences of teachers and administrators, not the students.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 8, 2010
Jane Hart posted a tongue-in-cheek video by Ron Desi of 10 reasons why you should not have social media in the organization, and is collecting rebuttals. I figured I should weigh in, so as not to be left out ;), but I’ll go on and list 10 reasons why you should want social media in your organization that aren’t aligned with the reasons not to!
Making Change
AUGUST 30, 2010
I’ve been tweeting a daily idea to spark your instructional design creativity. To get your daily ID idea, follow me on Twitter. (I don’t say much!). Some recent tweets in the series: Ask your SME, “What are the 3 most common mistakes people make?&# Turn them into branching scenarios. Using a story? What challenge is your character facing?
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.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 17, 2010
Over the last few weeks, I have been learning about the fundamental concepts and basic principles of designing electronic instructional media. These concepts are essential knowledge which constitutes a firm foundation, before one can be effective in an Instructional Designer’s role that involves media design. Media design needs to be consistent and aesthetically pleasing, to orient the learners and gain their attention.
Integrated Learnings
AUGUST 31, 2010
By Shelley A. Gable. In listing the benefits of eLearning, training folks often cite its flexibility – it’s available on-demand, allows learners to progress at their own pace, is easily deployed to a geographically dispersed audience, etc. eLearning’s flexibility can be especially handy when it’s included as part of a blended learning approach. Below are a few ways I’ve seen eLearning used to complement other delivery methods in projects I’ve worked on. -1- Pre-work for instructor-led training.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 11, 2010
Another book for the to-read list: Open Source Instructional Design by Nathaniel Eckel (with a nice forward by our old friend, Professor Karl Kapp ). I’ve just started in on this one, so can’t give you too many details on this self-published book by Eckel, a Philly-based ID type. Eckel’s premise: that traditional methods of ISD have created an adversarial relationship between the ID and the SME.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 23, 2010
So rather than teach teachers or students how to intelligently use social media tools to communicate(like people do in corporations or in everyday social interactions), a school in Florida decided to advise against such silly and dangerous Web 2.0 behavior without supervision. According to the article Teachers asked to 'unfriend' students on Facebook "Everyone knows that there are teachers nationwide that may have inappropriately communicated with students through email, text message or Facebook
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.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 19, 2010
In a conversation with my ITA colleagues (we keep a Skype channel open and conversations emerge daily), we revisited the idea that there’s a higher perspective that needs to be highlighted: social media is a business engine, both internally and externally ! Jane Hart’ s been helping clients with social media marketing, and this has been an entree to talk about social media for working and learning.
The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 4, 2010
Is KM dead? John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison , all with Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, argue that passive repositories of organizational information (i.e., Knowledge Management) have failed to advance learning. They write: The best KM systems succeeded at capturing and institutionalizing the knowledge of the firm. But for the most part the repositories and directories remained fragmentary and the resources didn't get used.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 12, 2010
As we move more and more into the mobile space, we’ve found that there are several things very different from conventional courseware. One of the things that come to my mind right away is that in mobile, we are doing away with storyboards. Content is viewed differently, it’s data that has to be managed and rendered within the limitations placed by a variety of mobile devices.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 25, 2010
I was asked about approaches for eLearning for Sales People. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with this and actually one of my very first projects was creating a pretty incredible eLearning solutions for Lexus sales people. Of course, it’s such a big topic that I decided to cheat and quickly point the person to eLearning Learning and particular to eLearning Sales , eLearning Sales Metrics , Sales eLearning Case Studies , and Sales Performance Support.
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Learning Visions
AUGUST 27, 2010
I’ve been slowly making my way through Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire. While it’s geared toward the live, stand-up presentation (e.g., the sales presentation, the keynote, a lawyer’s opening arguments at a trial), there’s a lot to apply towards self-paced, asynchronous eLearning programs.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 25, 2010
Check out www.guitarbuilding.org If you think math, science and engineering are boring subjects, you need to re-think the topic and pronto. Check out this cool curriculum designed by The National Center for Manufacturing Education. In the curriculum, students build an actual guitar learning all about CAD, electronics, acoustics, general guitar terminology, scale lengths, wave lengths, wiring, grounding, jacks and other valuable information.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 30, 2010
In all the excitement about empowering learners by providing rich information and social environments, it’s too easy to think that “if you build it, they will learn&#. Yet the evidence is to the contrary. While there are numerous components, including a culture that tolerates diversity and doesn’t punish honest mistakes, one that is easy to neglect the actual learning skills of employees.
Integrated Learnings
AUGUST 11, 2010
By Shelley A. Gable. Though eLearning isn’t new to the training field anymore, it’s still relatively new to many organizations. And once those organizations buy into the benefits of eLearning, many are tempted to run and dive into the deep end of the pool as quickly as possible. Sometimes even before taking a swimming lesson…or changing into a proper bathing suit.
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Upside Learning
AUGUST 30, 2010
Some days ago, I wrote about some basic design principles pertinent to the presentation of information. Taking that forward, this post specifically addresses the issue of ‘ Usability ’. In eLearning, usability is simply about designing interfaces to the content that learners find convenient and practical to use. The courseware we design need to be logical, intuitive, and clear to the learners who take the course.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 31, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. In the past, if you created an eLearning quiz and needed to track the results, your only option was to use a Learning Management System (LMS). Adobe Captivate 5 offers an alternate reporting option to using an LMS: you can create a free account on Acrobat.com, and set the reporting preferences in a Captivate project so that the quiz results are uploaded to Acrobat.com.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 31, 2010
I’ve recently been working with Sameer Bhatia the CEO of ProProfs as I was going through an evaluation of various online tools that support easy, fast, low-cost testing and quiz tools. He helped me pull together the following evaluation of a few different solutions: ClassMarker Quia ProProfs Google Docs Forms Creator, and Quibblo. Evaluation Criteria For the specific need I was looking at, I was looking for the following out of a solution: Cost : Is the tool free or very-low cost to use?
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