Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Bryan Chapman from the Chapman Alliance informed me this morning about the completion of a study they started last month to collect data about the time and cost of custom elearning development. The report is available for download here. I had participated in the study and find the results align well with our own data. The study categorizes custom elearning into 3 levels as below: Level.
Experiencing eLearning
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
Spaced education improves the retention of clinical knowledge by medical students: a randomised controlled trial – Kerfoot – 2006 – Medical Education – Wiley Online Library Annotated. Research summary on spaced education for medical students. The e-learning included emailed scenarios and questions. The summary and conclusion talk about medical knowledge, but since this is about scenarios it seems like there might be some decision-making skills being reinforced here too. t
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Making Change
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
If you had time to evaluate the research on learning styles, what would you conclude? Here’s what four cognitive psychologists concluded: “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing. If classi?cation of students’ learning styles has practical utility, it remains to be demonstrated.&#.
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
It’s another round of the ID Live Show on EdTechTalk! Join us this week on Friday, September 10 for a chat with Jane Bozarth, author of the newly released Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning. Put it on your calendars and join us at this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008093&password=M.38BC2EDAB739D8E635ACBE1D093746 About Instructional Design Live: A weekly online talk show, Instructional Design Live is based around Instructional Design rel
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
So this is wild for me, first time I am a tour stop on a blog book tour! I've been an author on blog book tours but now I get to be a stop on a tour and I couldn't be happier to be a stop for my friend and prolific author, Jane Bozarth. Social Media for Trainers is a great book for understanding the ways to leverage social media to extend training beyond the traditional four walls.
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Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
Technology around us is evolving at a rapid pace and is in turn affecting a speedy evolution of learning technology. Work is changing and, to keep pace with it, training is changing too. Which of these technology changes will impact training the most? I think mobile applications are the game changer for training. Let me explain why I think that way.
Tony Karrer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
This is fourth post in a series on Text-to-Speech (TTS) for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me (which turns out to be a great way to learn). The other posts are: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech , and Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course. If this topic is of interest, then also check out the Big Question this month: Voice Over in eLearning.
Making Change
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
If you had time to evaluate the research on learning styles, what would you conclude? Here’s what four cognitive psychologists concluded: “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing. If classi?cation of students’ learning styles has practical utility, it remains to be demonstrated.&#.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
Richard Nantel tweeted about Chris Dede talking about Educational Malpractice. Unfortunately, while it does accurately characterize the education space, it is not inappropriate to apply to the workplace as well. I would extend that to Training Malpractice, but I want to take it further. Because organizations are committing crimes at more than just the training level.
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
If you are thinking of creating an educational game but don't want to invest a lot of money, you can try out these free software programs (or free for 30 days in some cases), some are 2D and some are 3D. Also, if you are in a large organization and thinking of implementing a "serious game," you may want to develop a prototype using one of these software programs to see how it plays before sinking a lot of money into the project.
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Today I presented a webinar through MyKineo : Power to the SMEs! Empowering subject matter experts to help create better eLearning. It’s an interesting topic and one I’d like to dive into more with all of you…but what I really wanted to share was my presentation creation process! I’ve been reading Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points. Well, I started it but then didn’t get beyond the first few chapters – realized I really needed a project to try it out with as most of the book is the how-to-do-
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
TED has released this video of Dr. Sugata Mitra in which he talks about his experiments with education for children. He talks about some of the issues with education in developing countries. There are some interesting insights, check it out. Tags: eLearning Education For Children Learning.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
by Kevin Siegel When I teach my RoboHelp class , one of the RoboHelp features that most excites my students is RoboHelp's ability to import eLearning lessons published by Adobe Captivate. In this age of visual communication, incorporating interactive eLearning with your help content just makes sense. You know the old saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words.
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.
Making Change
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
When should elearning be narrated? I think we should rephrase the question as, “When is it a good idea to force all learners to go at the same pace?&#. That’s what narrated material does. The pace of the narration controls the pace of the material. When you’re learning from narrated material, you can’t easily skim stuff you already know, or slow down and concentrate on the challenging parts, because the voice continues relentlessly at a pace that someone else established.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
At the end of a conversation the other day, the topic turned to technologies in schools. I was asked what I thought about the iPad in schools, and as I thought it through, I saw both pluses and minuses. Let me, of course, make this generic to tablets and PDAs. And not smartphones, as there are problems with phones in schools that I don’t want to get into.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
There is research evidence to indicate that informal language in an e-learning module is more effective than formal language. In Ruth Clark's book " e-Learning and the Science of Instruction " she discussed a study by Moreno and Mayer, 2000 that compared a formally worded course with one that was more informally worded. In the study students who learned with text that was more informal and personal (for example, used the word "you" or "I") produced 20% to 46% more solutions to a transfer problem
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
The Social Media train in on the move – and here we are at stop #5 of the Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning, (2010), Pfeiffer blog book tour. What is Social Media for Trainers? Why it’s Jane Bozarth’s latest offering to the corporate training community – a short, sharp look at using social media tools to enhance the instructor led classroom.
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
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Last week I came across a very interesting article – Will the iPhone replace the stethoscope? in Time’s newsfeed. The article refers to an iPhone app called iStethescope – developed by Peter Bentley, a researcher from University College London – that allows you to use the iPhone to measure heartbeat. The article reports that the app has already been downloaded by 3 million doctors.
Web Courseworks
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Five Factors to Enable SME Collaboration. Bacharach's Model adapted to include Aleckson's Five Factors. Many eLearning writers and developers struggle with communicating with experts to acquire the knowledge necessary to develop highly interactive online learning activities. Experts are busy, in demand, and rarely are compensated for their work and advice on your eLearning project.
Making Change
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
When should elearning be narrated? I think we should rephrase the question as, “When is it a good idea to force all learners to go at the same pace?&#. That’s what narrated material does. The pace of the narration controls the pace of the material. When you’re learning from narrated material, you can’t easily skim stuff you already know, or slow down and concentrate on the challenging parts, because the voice continues relentlessly at a pace that someone else established.
ID Reflections
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
I have listed down a few books that have shaped my thinking over the last one year. I believe they are all very essential reads for today’s learning and development folks. They are not predominantly directly related to learning or instructional design or theory (except for one or two); however, they all helped me to see the larger picture, to understand where workplace learning and training fits in, and why and where change is needed.
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Here is a collection of several game design documents and information about game design documents. If you are considering creating a "Serious Game" or an instructional game, one of the first place to start is a great game design document. But how to write one? These samples will give you some ideas. Chris Taylor Game Design Document Sample : As the web site says, "for all of you who have ever wondered what they look like or need one for your own personal game project, check out Dungeon Siege cre
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
I’m on a bit of a Jane Bozarth kick of late. Really. Just scroll down a bit in my blog and you’ll see it’s true. So no surprise when I was doing some reading tonight on developing learning objectives that I stumbled on more Jane wisdom: “So: Before developing the instruction don’t just write objectives. Write the right objectives. What is this person really supposed to do back on the job?
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
I stumbled across an interesting paper linked to in a post by Karl Kapp. The paper describes a Professor of Reading’s teachers experience and learning from playing digital games and describes some of the learning principles good games incorporate. Two that he describes I found particularly interesting, the first about Interaction, where he mentions “ Games do talk back.
The Performance Improvement Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
An Appalachian Mountain Proverb goes: It’s not what you don’t know that’ll hurt you, it’s what you do know that ain’t so. I thought of this proverb when reading Benedict Carey’s New York Times article, Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits. He reports on a survey of learning-styles research that appeared in the journal, Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
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Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
Two recent events converged to spark some new thinking. First, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Dave Gray , who I’d first met in Abu Dhabi where we both were presenting at a conference. Dave’s an interesting guy; he started XPlane as a firm to deliver meaningful graphics (which was recently bought by Dachis Group, and he’s recently been lead author on the book Gamestorming.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. In an ideal world, your Captivate projects would be kept to a respectable number of slides (fewer than approximately 100). Why? Larger projects will take longer to produce, longer to publish, longer for learners to download and, most importantly, longer to complete. I suggest creating lessons that a learner can finish within five minutes, which typically translates to around 80-100 interactive slides.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
Tween's playing a video game. Most of them do on a regular basis. In 2007, when children's marketing research firm KidSay asked boys what virtual worlds or online games they had visited in the past two weeks, 35 percent of boys aged 8 to 11 replied "none." In 2010, when M2 Research asked a similar question, they found 91 percent of boys and 93 percent of girls aged 8-11 are playing games online on a regular basis.
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