Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

I got a good question via Ask a Question yesterday and would like to hear some other opinions on this issue: I’m very seriously considering a career change into ID. (I’ve spent 20 years in various business assignments with the last 8 in IT.) I’m involved in teaching extra-curricular activities to kids and adults in my community. I very fulfilled when I’m teaching and I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to follow this as a career path.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The other day at a presentation, a participant asked me how many companies have adopted mobile learning.was it widespread and if they where behind because they didn't have a full blown mobile learning roll out yet? The answer is that mobile learning is just now starting to get a foothold but it is not widespread by any means. In fact, two separate surveys indicate that m-learning is just now starting to become of interest to organizations.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We showed this graphic for the first time at DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo at the Fairmont San Jose. The conference theme was, in keeping with its Silicon Valley venue, learning in a Web 2.0 world. The topic of the talk was “Fostering Interactivity in the Classroom, Self-paced eLearning and Informal Learning.” Although the graphic shows interactivity driving three learning modalities, there are important differences in the way interactivity drives these.

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Lars is Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Here's an article I wrote a few weeks back for Learning Technologies magazine which has just been published. It's a fairly long post but if you make it to the end I would welcome your comments. == When unpredictable change becomes the only constant, learning on your own terms is an essential survival skill in these turbulent times, says Lars Hyland.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Daniel Pink's book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future contains a description of new age - the Conceptual Age. He describes how our society has gone from agricultural to industrial to the information age. But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Blogging as Reflective Practice | Adventures in Corporate Education. Thoughts on blogging as reflective practice for learning, with benefits in both the activity of writing and the social connections. tags : blog , learning , writing , education. So basically when you blog, you have to think about what you have read, how that compares to what you already know or what you have experienced, and that comparison helps you to construct new mental models that you articulate in written form (your blog)

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If you think Web 2.0 can't be used in your company because of legal or regulatory concerns, think about this. Pfizer, the world's largest research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical company, with its corporate headquarters located in New York, created Pfizerpedia (based loosely on Wikipedia ) in 2006 and has been leveraging the interactive-community-based tool ever since.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Meeting Face to Face Yesterday I had the pleasure of working on-site with a client for the day. This is a group Ive been working very closely with for the past year. Although I talk to many of these people on an almost daily basis, I had never met most of them in person before.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

In “Inside Learning Technologies”, Vaughan Waller writes an interesting article article about the gap between what he regarded as e-learning good practice and how accountants said that they wanted to learn. He cites the example of his firm providing International Financial Reporting Standards e-learning and how he’d like to approach it.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

As we are wrapping up the week for Learn Trends , one of the questions we faced was what to do with the Ning community that sprung up to support the conference. I'm pretty sure we are going to leave it up, but I'm also pretty sure that it will sit fairly dormant until the next learning event. The discussion today suggested that it would be nice if there were a way to transfer the connections being made during the conference out to other networks or learning communities.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It seems universal for e-learning staff - working with IT is a challenge. It certainly has been for me at the organizations I have worked. I do want to note that my current IT department has very talented and supportive staff. However, as with most IT departments, they are in big demand and dedicating the resources that are asked of them is challenging.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I just watched the slides from Laura Kratochvil’s DevLearn08 presentation The Making of a Blockbuster: Using Cinematic Techniques in eLearning ( PDF also available ). I need to spend some more time thinking about how I can incorporate these ideas into what I do, but I really like the idea of focusing on emotional impact for online learning. Laura starts with the idea of storytelling, which is a powerful instructional design technique on its own, but goes further by looking at how visuals,

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

I won't be blogging the rest of this week due to spending quality time with my family and recovering from eating all that turkey. So just, remember to be thankful for all you have, I know I am. Even in these tough times, we all have much to be thankful for. Enjoy the holiday. And if it isn't a holiday you celebrate.take some time to just give thanks.

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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.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Yesterday I had the pleasure of working on-site with a client for the day. This is a group I've been working very closely with for the past year. Although I talk to many of these people on an almost daily basis, I had never met most of them in person before. Nevertheless, their voices are deeply etched in my brain, and I could have picked any of them out of a lineup if we were going by voice and not visual.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It came up in the Corporate Learning Trends conference last week that one person was responsible for knowledge workers who were, as she claimed, passive learners. This is a really interesting issue, because it crosses several different areas. In research on education, it’s been found that what learners believe about their role in learning has an impact on the outcomes of learning interventions.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

ASTD TechKnowledge 2009 is coming to Las Vegas in January. I'm doing two sessions including a keynote / general session - descriptions below. If you are planning to go to the conference and read this, please drop me a comment because Get Together at Conferences - F2F Still Matters. Better yet, go take a look at: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions Should We be Asking?

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

On Friday 5th December you can take a breather from the general negativity that is surrounding us as the economic outlook continues to deteriorate. Whilst on a macro level the picture is gloomy, there’s no reason on the micro level why you and your organisation can’t thrive if managed effectively. Find out how at the Trainers & Developers Network.

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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.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Weblogg-ed » New MacArthur Study: Must Read for Educators. Selected points from a MacArthur study, “Living and Learning with New Media,&# with points about how technology can help students become more self directed and allow them more control over their own learning. tags : education , change , technology , learnercontrol , expertise. Posted from Diigo.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Social media has many upsides but it also has a few downsides as well. Their is certainly value in many people creating all types of videos and you can find all types of good information on YouTube and other video sites but.you can also find some.not so good material and here is a parody of a contest involving YouTube. I rate the video as "fairly funny, LOL" (Contains some potentially offensive language.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Adobe has just released Adobe Groups. Adobe Groups is an online community of Adobe User Groups around the world. My Adobe User Group Manager is attending Adobe Max and just sent out the news and link (below). Plus, he already set up our group up in the community, thank you. I just set up my profile (JeffGoldman) and browsed around a little bit. It appears it will be a great resource for collaborating within and between groups.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

George Siemens asks in his blog: 1. Does education need to change? 2. Why or why not? 3. If it should change, what should it become? How should education (k-12, higher, or corporate) look like in the future? I can’t resist not answering. 1. ABSOLUTELY! Let me count the ways… K12 Education is broken in so many ways. We’re not engaging our students in why this is important, we’re not giving them problems to solve that resemble the ones that they’ll face outside, we&

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

I'm happy to announce the launch of eLearning Learning. This is the beginning of a community portal where the community will help to collect and organize the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding eLearning. To be clear eLearning Learning is a jump off point.

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Lars is Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers is out this month and I was struck by this extract from the Guardian/Observer: Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Read them out loud. Now look away and spend 20 seconds memorising that sequence before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50 per cent chance of remembering that sequence perfectly.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

NSSE 2008 Results. Results from the National Survey of Student Engagement. The full report has limited information about online learning, but does include results showing that students in online courses report more deep learning, intellectual challenge, and reflection than those in face-to-face courses. tags : education , e-learning , research. Top News - Report challenges online-learning assumptions.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

As a culmination of our Corporate Track, students are required to answer an e-learning request for proposal (RFP), create a prototype of the proposed solution and give a 20 minute sales presentation to a group of representatives from various positons within the field of e-learning. Describing the rules of the exercise to CAC Members. This year we had two teams (seven students total) presenting their solutions to the Corporate Advisory Council during the student portion of the event.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, November 17, 2008 Best Online Collaboration Tools with Robin Good Live blogging this session from the Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation Conference with Robin Good. The end of the content God. The teacher now serves as mentor to help us create the best thing together.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Sorry for the dearth of postings, but what with last week’s DevLearn conference and this week’s (free, online) Corporate Learning Trends (CLT) conference, and background kitchen remodel, client work, etc, I’ve been wiped out by the end of every day. Today was no different, but… Tonite I went from my son’s soccer end-of-season party to our first of the year YGuides meeting.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

I've recently been talking to people about evaluating performance of Concept Workers. I want to thank Dave who has provided thoughts in several posts such as Getting to Exemplary. Evaluating concept worker performance is an interesting challenge: No right answer - Most often there is no single right answer. Which authoring tool, LMS, etc. we should use in a particular situation - you can't possibly get it exactly right.

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