Experiencing eLearning
MAY 18, 2008
About six weeks ago, I added a new feature to my sidebar: an Ask A Question button. This idea was mentioned on Problogger as a way to promote your blog, find out what content is actually relevant to your readers, and improve interaction and community. Since I was already getting a number of questions in comments, I thought I’d try this out to see what kind of questions I received.
Tony Karrer
MAY 29, 2008
This is fairly off topic for this blog, but this is something that's come up several times recently for me, and I've struggled with it each time. This morning I received a note from a colleague to tell me that their mother died last night and that they couldn't do our scheduled call. I'm always at a loss as to what to say. I honestly sat in front of the email this morning trying to figure out what I should be saying.
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Kapp Notes
MAY 5, 2008
Ok, so one of my favorite quotes in Die Hard is when Hans and Theo are trying to get into the vault and Theo is not sure how they are going to get past a certain lock and then, the FBI agents (Johnson and Johnson)cut the power circuits thus opening the vault and Hans says "The circuits which cannnot be cut locally are cut automatically in response to a terrorist attack.
Learning Visions
MAY 6, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Making Six Sigma Training Fun OK. Maybe its not possible to make Six Sigma eLearning fun. But Ive tried. And to be honest, it wasnt quite Six Sigma, but close. This manufacturing process training course was originally delivered as a four hour plus death-by-PowerPoint classroom session (if you could see the original PPT source content, youd begin glazing over within a few slides
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Clark Quinn
MAY 28, 2008
I gave my eLearning Strategy presentation to the eLearning Division of ASTD’s LA Chapter. Despite some technical hiccups (GoToWebinar doesn’t seem to have a chat feature, nor does it allow Mac users to be presenters, ahem), the presentation went off reasonably well. And now, it’s available online. It takes quite a while to load (guess it’s *huge*), but you can hear the whole hour+.
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Experiencing eLearning
MAY 19, 2008
G. Sunanda commented on my Is Instructional Design the Right Career? post last week: I would like to know about training programmes in ID given by Indian institutes. Unfortunately, I have no idea about training for instructional designers outside the US. On Tony Karrer’s blog, there’s a nice collection online degrees, certificates, and training programs in the comments.
Tony Karrer
MAY 21, 2008
One of the barriers commonly cited during my presentations around eLearning 2.0 (use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools. Unfortunately, companies sticking their head in the sand doesn't do any good. Employees are using these things in some way.
Kapp Notes
MAY 20, 2008
Second Life and movies have had a history. In my post Second Life at the Movies , I discuss the possibility of a full-feature length movie being created in Second Life. Well it has finally happened as a documentary. Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton has created a documentary-style film about an avatar's search for "the creator." In the documentary, the avatar known as Molotov Alva searchers for meaning by searching for the creator and along the way meets some really interesting avatars.
Learning Visions
MAY 22, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, May 22, 2008 Best Project Ever A baby girl. Born on Sunday. Yes, ahead of schedule by a few days! No name yet. People find this very disconcerting -- an unlabled person -- but were waiting for the right name to appear stamped on her forehead. Posted by Cammy Bean at 6:45 PM Labels: me 20comments: Dave Ferguson said.
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Clark Quinn
MAY 23, 2008
I’ve long been a proponent of comics for learning, recognizing some great cognitive and emotional properties they possess, so I was thrilled when, in a sales presentation the potential client suggested using manga as a communication vehicle. It’s usually a hard sell, and here he was asking for it! More is happening these days, thankfully.
Moodle Journal
MAY 15, 2008
I was invited to present at an ‘e-Book and Content’ event the other day, which unlike so many of the venues I had been invited to before, was attended predominantly by non-academic staff. In the main the audience was made up from by library / information professionals, administrators and publishers. Much of the theme for the event naturally centred on the subject of e-Books, which many appeared to agree, was the next natural stage in publication and distribution for learning materials.
Experiencing eLearning
MAY 31, 2008
SCORM in 5 minutes or less, with pictures! Brief intro to SCORM, explaining how the LMS and learning object talk to each other. tags: scorm , e-learning. Free SCORM Technical Resources - Ostyn Consulting. Technical information, tools, and white papers for SCORM. Less technical information is available on another page. tags: scorm , e-learning , lms.
Tony Karrer
MAY 14, 2008
Anyone going to the ASTD Conference in San Diego in June? It's nice to get together at conferences. If you are going - please drop a comment below. Even better if you might be interested in blogging about sessions, thoughts, notes, etc. from your experience at the conference. I won't even say it's Mandatory Blogging. :) Likely this is a better way to have success with networking ahead of the conference ( Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results ).
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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.
Kapp Notes
MAY 30, 2008
Here is an interesting article titled Proof of Learning: Assessment in Serious Games. The article outlines some good ideas for integrating assessments into games and why simply sticking a multiple choice question into an otherwise "cool" game doesn't make it an educational game or even fun. Because computers can quickly and accurately grade [Multiple Choice Questions] MCQs, those types of questions have become the foundation of almost all modern testing.
Learning Visions
MAY 17, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Saturday, May 17, 2008 No News That is to say, I have not yet had this baby. My official "due date" is not until May 21, but Ive been hoping (as all expectant mothers do), that this is one project that would be delivered a bit early. Cant project manage these things.
Clark Quinn
MAY 17, 2008
A few recent blog posts have listed elements of better learning, and I’m pleased to see that the elements they talk about are ones I’ve previously touted in my white paper “ The Seven Step Program &# (PDF) for better elearning design. These are the same principles that I talk about in my conference presentations on designing for the way people really learn.
Lars is Learning
MAY 15, 2008
It's SATs time in the UK for primary school kids and I'm sitting writing this post while Question Time is discussing the value of testing kids at the age of 11 in this way (my own daughter being one of them). The emphasis on testing in artificial environments that are abstracted from a real world context seems to create a lot of heated debate. The issue of stress and pressure placed on kids to.
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.
Experiencing eLearning
MAY 30, 2008
The folks at Common Craft have another great video, this time about social media. What I especially like about this one is that it doesn’t talk about technology until near the end. The video focuses on the metaphor of ice cream: it can be mass-produced in a factory that focuses only on flavors with mass appeal, or individuals can create their own flavors at home.
Tony Karrer
MAY 14, 2008
Any suggestions on the best tools and techniques to use for attendees at upcoming sessions to take notes collaboratively? Has anyone done this successfully? I'm wondering about this both for 75-90 minute presentations and day long courses.
Kapp Notes
MAY 29, 2008
A new music distribution model has arrived (about time for the music industry) and it's called Rock Band. In fact according to an entry on Joystiq, the new Mötley Crüe single was downloaded on Rock Band five times more than on iTunes Here are some interesting statistics courtesy of Reuters Canada's article Rock acts ringing up sales via video games According to data provided by the band's management, Tenth Street Entertainment, the Mötley Crüe track was downloaded more than 47,000 times via
Clive on Learning
MAY 13, 2008
I've been dipping into The art of changing the brain by James E Zull (Stylus, 2002) for some time now. The subtitle of the book, 'Enriching the practice of teaching by exploring the biology of learning,' pretty well sums it up - this is neuroscience for teachers, written by a Professor of Biology and Director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve University.
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Experiencing eLearning
MAY 30, 2008
IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive. Audio primary source collection with international and regional dialects of English. Intended primarily for actors learning to imitate an accent, but could have other educational uses too. tags: primarysources , audio. AU Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition). Terry Anderson has edited the second ed. of this book, available online under a CC-NC license.
Tony Karrer
MAY 29, 2008
I just listened to Clark Quinn's presentation at ASTD LA ( eLearning Strategy Presentation) which is available online. Clark and I have discussed before the challenges with naming in our world and I was happy to see that he adopted the terminology of eLearning -> ePerformance. I've talked about ePerformance before in EPSS and ePerformance as well as in a series of articles in Learning Circuits: ePerformance Essentials ePerformance at Work: Self-Service Action and Development Planning ePerformanc
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Kapp Notes
MAY 28, 2008
This morning I received an email message from, Fiona, who provided me with a really interesting link to 50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life. Actually, it is really a listing of great SL resources and ideas broken down by different categories such as: Training Purposes --Employers and educators who want to train new hires or test their students can use Second Life in a number of ways.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 31, 2008
This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training? More specifically: In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider essential for teaching?
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