Kapp Notes
JANUARY 31, 2007
Ok, so the first month of the year is over. How are you doing with your resolutions? Here is a great tip for helping to achieve your resolutions or to achieve any goal you are seeking. One of the most effective ways to reach a goal is to write it down. This forces you to slow down, think through the issues and then put them down on paper or computer screen.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 31, 2007
I'm at the opening session at ASTD TechKnowledge ( [link] ). I'll soon be doing a session on Blogging and Social Bookmarking for Personal and Group Learning. Tony Bingham, President of ASTD, is doing his introduction, and his content is: Web 2.0, personal learning, easy distribution of software (software as a service), video is here now, push to pull, teaching Gen Y (what he calls the netGeneration).
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Moodle Journal
JANUARY 30, 2007
Just lately a lot of my time has been taken up with Second Life, if you have yet to try virtual worlds then let me recommend the experience. My principle reason for the whole venture is to see how this new semi-immersed virtual reality can be utilised for teaching and learning, even as an extension to our continuing work with Moodle. On Saturday 17th of Feb at 5pm I will begin hosting some presentation trials that will be looking at the Linden Script, that’s the language in SL, and comparing it
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Clive on Learning
JANUARY 26, 2007
Now I've spent more of my valuable time than I would like over the past ten years explaining to those in the corporate learning and development community what e-learning is, more specifically what else it is over and above packaged self-study courses. Those with an educational perspective on the subject are completely familiar with the opportunities that online learning provides for making connections, collaborating with peers, engaging with tutors and subject experts, and contributing to the cr
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Kapp Notes
JANUARY 31, 2007
Here is an instructional design methodology that is worth investigating. It is called "Informed Design." Informed Design, is a design pedagogy developed and validated through several National Science Foundation (NSF) projects conducted by the Hofstra Center for Technological Literacy. Informed design prompts research, inquiry, and analysis; fosters student and teacher discourse; and cultivates language proficiency.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 26, 2007
While the article is high-level, it's a really interesting set of perspectives on things that will be happening in the next few years. Likely you are seeing several of these already. The HBR List - Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 FYI - I read somewhere that the article would only be available for a limited time for free.
Moodle Journal
JANUARY 11, 2007
At the start of this term decided to try using my PDA to record parts of my lectures, and these recording are in range of 3 to 4 minutes. The particular course that I selected for this is my High Level Programming for level 4 students, and to date I have made about 40 recordings. But I thought I would tryout something of an experiment by making these recording available in two forms, one being a straightforward mp3, while the other would feature a speaking CrazyTalk avatar.
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Vignettes Learning
JANUARY 23, 2007
Back to square one - my true love: people and groups. I am now in a learning technology-based business, though I am a frustrated "Organization Development†consultant (my PhD). However, I am back to where I started 25 years ago, studying the psychology of people and groups in organizations. I am referring to recent developments where psychology of groups is now merging and coalescing with technology in "social networking.†I thought you might be interested to see this white paper by Akamai,
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 19, 2007
I just got results back from two pilots with the goal of evaluating the same, 15 hour training program. In one pilot, the program sponsor cajoled a bunch of colleagues into doing the program. He oversold the fun aspects of it, and undersold the real work and time requirement required. Literally less than 20% into the program, the coach had to (appropriately) push on the participants for not doing any of the self-paced work, the participants revolted, the pilot failed, and the program sponsor los
Kapp Notes
JANUARY 29, 2007
As part of Managing Multimedia Projects (better known as the RFP class), this semester each student is creating a blog. Each team is to enter a comment to this posting and place each team member's URL for the blog into this posting in the comments section.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 26, 2007
I generally agree with what Donald has to say, but on this post, I think he's right about collaboration vs. independent work, but draws a bad conclusion: Donald Clark Plan B: Dumbness of Crowds. First - I tend to agree with Donald that most Web 2.0 activities are more independent actions of individuals than true collaborative work (team work) on a work product.
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.
Clive on Learning
JANUARY 12, 2007
I'm in the middle of designing and developing a new blended learning course on the whole subject of embedded learning/performance support. The course will consist of some synchronous and asynchronous online activities and a two-day workshop. My general philosophy is, as far as possible, to have the participants co-create the content in a wiki as an output from their work on the course.
Vignettes Learning
JANUARY 23, 2007
I am new to blogs - another learning. Sometimes I hear my own voice more often than those people whose opinions I respect and want to hear; and those I must listen to. So this blog is to reach out, share and learn from you. Hopefully, I can also share my observations and learnings. Yes, I am an e-Learning observer and student, and will be for a long while.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 12, 2007
I love doing a good training audit as much as anyone. But you can do a lot yourself. When I review training budgets for clients, one tool I use is to break spending into three categories: 1. The money spent to to fulfill obligations. These are the funds that are spent doing what the training group had committed to doing in the past. These might include ethics and sexual harassment training, new employee training, HIPPA compliance, and so on. 2.
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.
Kapp Notes
JANUARY 29, 2007
Massively Multi-learner Online Learning Environment: MMOLE is a genre of computer generated learning environments in which large numbers of learners interact with each other in a virtual three-dimensional (3D) world with the goal of learning. Learners assume a certain appearance through the creation of an avatar. These avatars are controlled through a computer keyboard and/or mouse.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 23, 2007
I saw a post by Bill Ives - Conference Blogs on the Rise : Individuals have blogged about conferences for some time. It seems now that more conference events are sponsoring these blogs and trying to aggregate those blogging the conference. It is a way to start the event on a virtual basis prior to the start and then continue the conversations afterwards and provide an archive for what happen and what people thought about it.
Clive on Learning
JANUARY 10, 2007
The Learning Circuits big question for January asks "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" Well, there's an assumption underlying this and I'm questioning it. Who says e-learning materials that take a long time to produce are necessarily high quality, let alone relevant or effective? There isn't a member of the e-learning community who hasn't worked on projects that were over-engineered, over budget and appeared way past their dead
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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JANUARY 31, 2007
I stumbled across Owen's Thesis (actually its a request to contribute to his thesis) and blog via a Technorati search on eLearning. His Thesis is titled Mimi: A Key Tool for ePedagogy. He has some great thoughts, ideas, and structure around creating a tool that is a combination of a wiki and blog. Before you roll your eyes and say, "hey, there's a ton of people already working on that.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 11, 2007
According to Training in America by Garnevale, Gainer, and Villet (1990), two out of three workers say that everything they need to know was learned on the job, rather than through the classrooms. Thus the workplace is the most frequently traveled avenue to education and training for most employed persons. The authors further go on to state that estimates of employer investments in workplace training hover around $210 billion annually.
Kapp Notes
JANUARY 26, 2007
Instead of thinking about placing content into a course, we should think about placing content outside of a course. Digital assets should be allowed to roam free. See my post: Shatter Your Courses at the TrainingDay Blog.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 22, 2007
I just saw an article/post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time. In it, he talks about various tools that are coming forward as a means to be able to pull applications together using mash-ups. I saw IBM's tool when I was moderating a Web 2.0 event in Los Angeles. It reminded me of Visual Basic in the early days. In fact, I strongly believe that Visual Basic is a really good parallel for what is coming - except the widgets that you put into your application will be di
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Clive on Learning
JANUARY 2, 2007
Still basking in the official recognition of my exceptional happiness (see It's official - e-learning makes you happy ), I was particularly interested in the Happiness and Economics feature in the Economist of December 23rd 2006. The following extract caught my eye: "To clamber up the pecking order, some people slave away nights and weekends at the office.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JANUARY 28, 2007
Freak-Freakonomics - Ariel Rubinstein. A review of Freakonomics. 5 Principles of Innovation - The Practice of Leadership. Five principles that give life to the process of innovation: Innovation starts when people convert problems to ideas. Innovation needs a system. Passion is the fuel, and pain is the hidden ingredient. Co-locating drives effective exchange.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JANUARY 31, 2007
Elgg and Drupal are working together. And the best part is MOODLE is next in line. Woohoo!!! Now that's a hat-trick made in open source heaven. But wait. Add SLOODLE into the mix and now your really onto something HUGE!
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