eLearning Blender
DECEMBER 25, 2008
I am working on developing eLearning technical training courses for an ERP software application being implemented within a division of the company I work for using Adobe Captivate 3. If you are familiar with Adobe Captivate then you are familiar with "Assesment Simulations." I love assessment simulations because they require the learner to do the clicking rather than just viewing a screen recording of the process.
eLearning Weekly
DECEMBER 23, 2008
My career in learning and technology happened by total chance. I started in the world of computer science and web programming, but quickly transitioned to educational technology and then eLearning. Building eLearning courses came naturally to me because I was used to building web sites and web applications. I built custom interactions in Flash, tamed SCORM, and wrote a ton of HTML and JavaScript.
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Experiencing eLearning
DECEMBER 31, 2008
I’m going to squeak in at the last minute and answer the Learning Circuits Big Question for December 2008. I can pretend that I’m just being nice and keeping Clive Shepherd company with his procrastinating, but it’s really that I had forgotten about this myself until just a few days ago. This month’s Big Question asks us to reflect on our learning about learning in the last year.
E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 28, 2008
Recently, I read a blog article about connectivism by Debora Gallo. Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism. This got me thinking… I don’t know anything about connectivism! So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 12, 2008
After my post on Improving Organizational Learning Infrastructure, Daan Assen suggested that it was too limited in reference to the broader Learning Organization picture. That’s valuable feedback, because I really mean it to be the learning organization culture and the technology infrastructure, the latter of which isn’t included traditionally in the learning organization work.
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Learning Visions
DECEMBER 19, 2008
This has been the year of software training. I've been involved in I don't know how many training modules, ranging from the overly long to the shorter chunked variety. (Remember, all I do is online, self-paced eLearning). We've taken scenario-based approaches, so the learner can sit with an expert and watch how he does his job using the software. We've inserted pictures of these characters to give a course more life and interest.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 31, 2008
For over six years, the great folks over at the Edublog awards have done a great job of collating the best of the edublogosphere and handing out awards to some of the outstanding folks writing and posting in this space. If you are interested in participating, here are the categories and some awards that you can vote on in the near future. The nominations end on December 8th so hurry and get your nominations in.
Experiencing eLearning
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project - Topics. Collection of resources for project-based learning with multimedia, including planning, implementation, and assessment. tags : education , pbl , multimedia , MEGA , assessment , projectmanagement. Project Based Learning. Principles for designing project-based learning. tags : pbl , education. e-Portfolios or Assessment Management?
E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 15, 2008
Today my team undertook an interesting evaluation activity: We tested whether we could process a particular task after completing the online training that we had developed for it. I’m glad to report that we could! While we don’t process the task day-to-day, we were still able to acquire the basic skills from the online training and apply them effectively in the “real world&#.
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 31, 2008
I’ve pointed out the problems with learning styles in the past, but I want to rethink them with you, as we took quite a positive out of them in a unique way. This was back in 99-2000, when I led a project developing an intelligently adaptive learning system (Intellectricity ™; inspired by Joe Miller ’s vision of a system that respected who you were as a learner).
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 4, 2008
Stephen Downes has once again come out with complaints about how the Edublog Awards are being handled this year. It makes me wonder, do "You Like Awards?" OK, so the edublog awards nominations are out. I honestly don't know what they were thinking this time around - there's something like twenty or so nominees in some categories (and I'm not sure what to make of the result that this website is not among the twenty or so considered for best individual weblog - it's not sour grapes, I'm just bemus
Learning Visions
DECEMBER 31, 2008
As eLearning designers, your goal is (hopefully) to make the learning experience engaging. (Realistically, sometimes all you can do is build the sucker in order to meet some crazy deadline.) It's easy to equate engaging with fun. (Fun is a funny word.) So then it's really easy to think that the best way to make a course more engaging is to make it fun.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 31, 2008
Once again, the Meme has arrived. This time the request is to share seven facts about myself. Thanks to Rachel and Jane and Rupa who tagged me for this meme. I've been a little slow in blog entries so I got tagged multiple times and thanks to Janet and Cammy for passing the meme around (as per Jane's email.) Not sure just where or when this meme started.
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
DECEMBER 28, 2008
Our team has spent over a year preparing for the conversion from Blackboard to Sakai (something I haven’t talked about here too much because we hadn’t told Blackboard we were leaving until recently). We’ve seen a significant amount of resistance to the conversion from several of our long-time facilitators, and it’s been a struggle to figure out how to ease them through this transition.
eLearning Cyclops
DECEMBER 30, 2008
[caption id="attachment_279" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Free e-Learning Courses"] [/caption] I have started collecting links to free e-learning courses. Please feel free to access these via the link in the blog's menu bar. As I come across courses I will add their links to the page. FYI: I will only add courses that are free and have open access.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 15, 2008
HR speaking: We got into elearning when there were scattered experiments going on around the organization. Of course we stopped those, as we need a coordinated approach. We want to grow in a controlled way. Our first move was, of course, to purchase an LMS. A good LMS is like a fine automobile, with lots of capabilities to handle all conditions. We selected the top of the line, to last a long time.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 16, 2008
I've been having fabulous conversations about using SharePoint. SharePoint is so flexible and the documentation for it is so big and diverse, that a big part of my goals have been to understand the different ways that training organizations are using SharePoint. In my post SharePoint Examples there are some great examples in the comments. I've had conversations with several of these folks in more detail and with a few others.
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.
Learning Visions
DECEMBER 29, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, December 29, 2008 7 More Things You Dont Need to Know About Me. I did the 8 Random Facts About Me Meme a ways back. Check it out. Its all still true. Does this cover me for the 7 Things You Dont Need to Know About Me Meme that Sue Hickton just tagged me to do?
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 26, 2008
The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2008? I learn so much all the time from students, clients and colleagues, it is hard to narrow it down to just two or three things, but I'll try. Here are a few of the lessons I have learned. Mostly about finding a good "model" for mobile learning course design, how others tend to view immersive learning environments and how Social Media is taking off in the least likely places.
Experiencing eLearning
DECEMBER 22, 2008
How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week :: Elite By Design. Three-part series of tutorials on Photoshop–basically a crash course to learn the software. tags : photoshop , tutorials. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Posted in Bookmarks. Tags: Bookmarks.
From the Coleface
DECEMBER 24, 2008
It seems like this is the time of year when newspapers are putting together lots of lists of the highlights of the year, so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon. My list is of new media treatments that could be used for learning. It’s unusual in that it only has one item. Have a look at Darth Vader canteen on Youtube. It combines great content with an attention grabbing yet harmonious media treatment.
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 22, 2008
The season is well and truly kicking in. The kids are out of school this week, and while I’ve got a little bit of work on an interesting client project, we’re also taking time to address the holiday perogatives, and to respond to the affordances of the new kitchen. That latter is an interesting situation. We’ve had a very good set of cookware, but it isn’t dishwasher safe.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 19, 2008
Brett Miller has taken me up on my 100 Conversation Topics which you can see what's happening at eLearning Learning - 100 Conversations. His post were some book recommendations for learning professionals. I must say that his list of books was quite interesting and come from a bit outside where I normally think. I went and ordered: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day just based on Brett's comment: Gelb looks at what made the greatest learner of all time the, um, g
Learning Visions
DECEMBER 29, 2008
I did the 8 Random Facts About Me Meme a ways back. Check it out. It's all still true. Does this cover me for the 7 Things You Don't Need to Know About Me Meme that Sue Hickton just tagged me to do? If not, here's 7 more tidbits: 1. I think I'm an inherently lazy person. To put a positive spin on this, I call it being extremely efficient. I try to get the best work done with the least amount of effort.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 24, 2008
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, here is a little visual post card from Second Life wishing you and Your's a Great Holiday Season and a Happy New Year.plus some virtual world best practices thrown in as a gift>): Three virtual world learning best practices to consider when implementing 3D worlds in 2009. Introduce Virtual Learing Worlds in a face to face environment.
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eLearning Cyclops
DECEMBER 23, 2008
If you have not been following prior posts, I am building a small video studio. It will be used for creating videos that will be incorporated into e-learning (WBT) courses and for online, stand-alone, instructional videos. The equipment has been ordered, and here's what we will be using: 2 Kino Flo Diva fluorescent lights (each has 2 tubes a nd include a dimmer).
Rapid eLearning
DECEMBER 15, 2008
Going to a stock image site and looking for just the right pictures can be very time-consuming and a drain on your limited resources. Why not create your own stock images? If rapid elearning software makes everyone an instructional designer, then surely a digital camera makes us all photographers. Obviously, this approach doesn’t work for everyone and taking good photos is an art in itself.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 19, 2008
Today I stumbled across two interesting articles. Both talk about some relevant research on learning, and coincidentally, both are by folks I know. An alumni bulletin mentioned research done by Hal Pashler (who was a new professor while I was a grad student; I was a teaching assistant for him, and he let me give my first lecture in his class), and talks about the intervals necessary for successful learning.
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