Upside Learning
JULY 2, 2009
A couple of weeks back we posted about Silverlight posing some (at this time, actually little) competition to Flash. Now we have HTML 5 coming up – this makes the race hotter. Or does it? Those of you have heard of HTML 5 will know it’s a new version of HTML and XHTML being promoted by Google and Apple in a bid to move the web away from proprietary technologies like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX.
Vignettes Learning
JULY 27, 2009
Last July 23, 2009, I had an opportunity to be a panel member of the online event “The Future of the Business of Learning” sponsored by Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation. It was an insightful event featuring thought leaders Tony Karrer , Josh Bersin , Jay Cross , and Harold Jarche. The event was about challenges and opportunities in the learning industry.
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Experiencing eLearning
JULY 16, 2009
10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media. Social media approaches for universities. Nothing earth-shattering here, but includes real examples for each of the ideas listed. tags : twitter , facebook , socialnetworking , highered , marketing , socialmedia. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Posted in Bookmarks.
Making Change
JULY 13, 2009
Do we still care about instructional design? This graph from Google Trends compares searches for “elearning&# with searches for “instructional design.&#. At first, “elearning&# followed “instructional design&# in a sad slope downward. But in the last couple of years, “elearning&# has perked up again, while its friend “instructional design&# continues its descent into obscurity.
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Learning Visions
JULY 13, 2009
Kineo will be holding a free webinar on creating effective product knowledge e-learning on July 16th, 2009. Product knowledge training creates major challenge for organizations, including: Keeping content up to date: products change rapidly. For example there have been over 60 new versions of the Blackberry since its launch in 2002, that’s one every 5 weeks.
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Upside Learning
JULY 2, 2009
A couple of weeks back we posted about Silverlight posing some (at this time, actually little) competition to Flash. Now we have HTML 5 coming up – this makes the race hotter. Or does it? Those of you have heard of HTML 5 will know it’s a new version of HTML and XHTML being promoted by Google and Apple in a bid to move the web away from proprietary technologies like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX.
Tony Karrer
JULY 15, 2009
One of the more interesting aspects of the discussions I've had over the past few weeks as I prepare for the free online conference on the future of learning is the perspective on the focus and scope of responsibility of internal learning organizations and external learning/training companies. Caveat: This is definitely not a new issue. I'm not really claiming any great new insights.
Experiencing eLearning
JULY 28, 2009
“Living and Learning with Social Media&#. danah boyd on implications of social media for education, focusing on teens. tags : socialmedia , socialnetworking , education. Youth engage with others to work out boundaries, to understand norms. This is how they learn power and authority, how they learn the networked architecture of everyday life. It’s easy to eschew this, to argue that this is irrelevant, but most people spend a decent amount of their time working through social issues as
Kapp Notes
JULY 29, 2009
Class visits the Holocaust Museum in Second Life. This class consisted of three different parts. The first part we visited the exhibit at the US Holocaust Museum. The interactive nature of the exhibit and the interactions of the avatars with the exhibit made it a great educational place to visit. Holocaust Museum has some really well done effectives like fire and falling glass.
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Lars is Learning
JULY 18, 2009
Clive Shepherd tweeted a link to this research report: The Evidence on Online EducationThe study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction. Further, those who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to.
Integrated Learnings
JULY 18, 2009
I'm a big fan of Google and I use Google's online applications on a daily basis. I've found the Google Calendar to be easy to use and easy to access at home, at work, and on the go. When I was recently asked to teach a class on how to use Google Calendar I started thinking about how to integrate it with Lectora. Having a calendar in your training can be useful for a variety of reasons.
Upside Learning
JULY 25, 2009
Six in ten people (more than 4 billion individuals) around the world are carrying a powerful computing device in their pockets and purses. They don’t realize it, but today’s mobile phones have the computing power of a personal computer from the mid-nineties, while consuming a fraction of the energy and are made at significantly lower cost. In India, the mobile phone has revolutionized communication and India is now one of the fastest growing markets for mobile phone services, with growing usage
Tony Karrer
JULY 6, 2009
I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? - Generally 50-70%. How many of you actively use LinkedIn? – Generally down to 10%. How many of you get really high value from LinkedIn? - Now down to 2-5% I am continually surprised by this result ( Getting Value from LinkedIn ).
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.
Experiencing eLearning
JULY 27, 2009
Our team uses a wiki to document our design and development processes, something I wrote about in a short column for the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine. This weekend I was imagining a conversation between two people about the benefits of a wiki. This overlaps quite a bit with the reasons in my article, but it’s a more fun presentation with Xtranormal.
Kapp Notes
JULY 16, 2009
If you have an interest in becoming an engineer or know someone who does. Or if you just like designing vehicles, bridges, buildings, consumer electronics, then there are a lot of really great games for you to check out. Here are a few. Coconut Run The Coconut Run Challenge is Issued. In this game, your job is to design a cart to transport coconuts over a rough and tumble terrain to a coconut shredder.
Lars is Learning
JULY 3, 2009
This article originally appeared in Training Journal in June 2009 (PDF). In it I coin the term Ubiquitous Performance Support (UPS) as a better description of how workplace place learning will develop in the future. Comments welcome. - Lars Hyland investigates how Continuous Professional Development is being transformed by digital connectivity and. Tags: social networking e-learning blended learning work place performance UPS performance support elearning CPD.
ID Reflections
JULY 18, 2009
I was reading a post by Clive Shepherd called Sometimes Smaller is Better, where he disucsses an interesting article from the Economist.com called The fewer the competitors, the harder they try. The articles discusses the "n"-effect where "n" represents any numerical value in mathematics and the outcome of several experiments conducted to understand the relationship between the number of participants in a competition and the motivational level of the competitors.
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
JULY 21, 2009
Training companies the world over are changing the way they operate and the services they offer customers. An important one is the inclusion of eLearning (or online training) as part of their core offerings for existing and new customers. Such an offering is not purely driven by a cost-saving strategy on the customer’s part, but is also due to the growing acceptance of eLearning as an effective way of delivering training.
Tony Karrer
JULY 16, 2009
I personally believe that one of the areas where learning professionals need the most help is how communities and networks impact learning and building individual and facilitation skills around these: Knowing how to individually leverage Network Skills and Communities to help with work and learning tasks Community and Network Facilitation Skills to help others learn and work using networks and communities In my post Networks and Learning Communities , I looked a bit at this topic.
Experiencing eLearning
JULY 26, 2009
YouTube – How to add Closed Captions and Subtitles to your video. Quick tutorial screencast by a kid on how to create and add captions to a YouTube video. tags : accessibility , video , tutorials. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Posted in Bookmarks. Tags: Bookmarks.
Learning Visions
JULY 31, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, July 31, 2009 Will the Real eLearning Industry Please Stand Up? When we talk about the “industry&# , we (and by “we&# , I of course mean those of us in the industry) often refer to it as if it’s this monolithic thing that you can touch.
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Living in Learning
JULY 31, 2009
Now that title should generate a ripple or two on the pond, especially when I have been so vocal about the need for just such a shift. So…is this post a confession that I have changed my mind? Not quite. Not even. If anything, I am more passionate than ever, but over the years, I have gotten smarter about moving around obstacles that stifle momentum rather than fight through immovable walls of opposition or resistance.
Clark Quinn
JULY 31, 2009
In last night’s #lrnchat , the topic was virtual worlds (VWs). This was largely because several of the organizers had recently attended one or another of the SRI/ADL meetings on the topic, but also because one of the organizers ( @KoreenOlbrish ) is majorly active in the business of virtual worlds for learning through her company Tandem Learning.
Upside Learning
JULY 28, 2009
Last month Tony Karrer posted this interesting piece on the Business of Learning on his blog – eLearning Technology. It provoked a discussion on the topic with many different perspectives brought to bear. To follow-up on that discussion, Tony organized a free webinar on the Future of Learning as a Business last week. The panelists included some well known personalities from the Learning industry like Josh Bersin, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, Ray Jimenez, and David Wilkins amongst others.
Tony Karrer
JULY 27, 2009
I'm doing a free webinar in a few weeks where I will be discussing some of the major trends that are affecting models of learning. I think this will be an interesting discussion and I welcome your participation. Models for Learning in a New World This is a very interesting time to be a learning professional. Fragmentation of jobs, increasing concept work, and constant change all put a premium on learning.
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Experiencing eLearning
JULY 25, 2009
Free Music Archive. Over 10,000 free mp3s for download, all CC licensed. tags : music , audio , free , creativecommons. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Posted in Bookmarks. Tags: Bookmarks.
Learning Visions
JULY 31, 2009
When we talk about the “industry”, we (and by “we”, I of course mean those of us in the industry) often refer to it as if it’s this monolithic thing that you can touch. The Industry. Ummm. Yeah. So. What is the eLearning Industry? Is it the vendors? -- The LMS companies, the custom content developers, the off-the-shelf content creators. Is it the tools we use to create eLearning?
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
JULY 31, 2009
Helicopter Parents: Image courtesy The Telegraph, UK Helicopter parents, as we know, hover over kids, micromanaging every aspect of their lives. Unfortunately, like many other well-meaning actions, helicoptering can deliver more harm than good. It has been argued that too much hovering sometimes backfires, because kids learn their values backwards: they feel entitled to things that they must earn, they lack empathy where it is needed.
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