Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
FEBRUARY 8, 2007
I'm knocking around this idea in my head and just wanted to see what people thought. Wouldn't it be great if there was a clearing house of eLearning Development Projects? I mean, let's say I'm at a high tech company and someone says, "we need all of our engineers to know the basics of thermal dynamics". So you're the developer that gets this rock dropped in your lap.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 28, 2007
There's a few different fun tools at: [link] Error Message Generator Word Puzzle Generator Street Party Sign Generator Highway Sign Generator Gas Station Sign Generator Road Construction Sign Generator Pack Place Sign Generator Office Building Sign Generator Bar-B-Q Sign Generator Chinese Restaurant Sign Generator Graffiti Generator Las Vegas Strip Generator A fun/smart idea.
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 14, 2007
Gushers are clearly aimed at kids, adults don't eat these things. Yet, here is an ad for the kids to get 4 cell phones. The marketers certainly understand that kids love gadgets.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 28, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Confessions of an Instructional Designer I failed Will Thalheimers Learning Research Quiz. I was mortified. Ive been doing this for over ten years and I did terrible. How can I even call myself an instructional designer? It turns out that Im not alone.
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The Learning Circuits
FEBRUARY 19, 2007
I'd like to follow up on my last post and also weigh in on the question of investment in formal training and informal learning. I tend to see the world through my own professional lens, which is that of culture. Although usually taken to be about the behavioral differences between people of different national, geographical, ethnic, religious origins, culture is everywhere and constitutes a property of all groups.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
I was recently asked for a list of the top ten blogs that relate to corporate eLearning by someone who wanted to get a sense of content quality and value of reading blogs. I debated for a while, because I have quite a few blogs that I subscribe to and my personal style is to quickly scan a lot of blogs, selectively reading posts that I think are going to be interesting, comment on some, and post my thoughts about others.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 28, 2007
Tonight's supplement to my daily newspaper is a paper within a paper called All the Rage, For Teens! By Teens! About Teens! Typical teen stuff, what to wear to the prom, choosing a college and so forth. However, one article caught my eye "MySpace, IM--why so addictive?" We spend a lot of time in the blogosphere talking about the future of learning, making predictions and lamenting formal instructional design but rarely is the voice of the "gamer generation" heard.the voice of the learners who wi
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, February 27, 2007 DIY vs. Formal Learning DIY Learning (Do-it-Yourself) is the term of the week, it seems. Elliot Masies most recent Learning Trends newsletter leads with the headline "DIY: Do It Yourself Trends". He quotes an article by Dion Hinchcliffe in ZD Net in which Dion states, The idea of DIY (Do It Yourself) is to get developers and IT departments out of the demand loop and lettin
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Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 5, 2007
By and large, the figures coming out of industry surveys in recent times have been kind to e-learning. There's more of it about and a generally positive disposition, at least in the case of employers, to use more of it in future. Naively, I rather supposed that this was a sign that the quality of e-learning was improving and that e-learners were more likely than not to be having positive experiences.
The Learning Circuits
FEBRUARY 18, 2007
I recently posted an article on this blog, Investing in Informal Learning. Seeing more in it that what I originally posted, I used it as part of a larger posting on trdev, State of the Learning Industry. Tony Karrer urged me to post it to Learning Circuits as trdev is semi-public in that you have to join the group to view any of the postings (it is free however).
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 26, 2007
Harold Jarche tells us - The future of learning is DIY (Do It Yourself) and points to: With Google you can find most information that you need. YouTube is a quick and easy way to get "learning objects†to the world. Apple gives the essential tools for knowlege workers, and in a nice package. Wikipedia has shown that the wisdom of crowds is just as good as the wisdom of elites.
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.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 28, 2007
Learning to spell in elementary school can be a drag, it is all rote memorization. Writing the words over and over again so you can learn them for the test. A web-site named Spelling Time has developed a fun an interactive method to teach kids in grades 1-5 spelling in an engaging manner. The process involves multiple steps, first an animated character speaks a word and then you type the word.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 26, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, February 26, 2007 Where Are All the Women Part II I wrote about this a few days ago in my post Where Are All the Women? where I was pointing out the general lack of women in the e-Learning blogosphere. But perhaps this is just a general business-blog issue.
Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
As of this month, it's now ten years since I left Epic and became a freelance consultant. What a great opportunity to take a moment and reflect on the changes that I have witnessed in the field of corporate learning and development - my main focus over these ten years - from a largely UK perspective. Some changes in the field of learning and development generally: The term 'learning and development' has replaced 'training'.
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.
The Learning Circuits
FEBRUARY 18, 2007
UPDATE 2/19/07: After an error then a typo, the link below goes to the correct page. Just to be sure, it's [link] m/bigquestions and the list is now 112 questions long. Since I'm not tracking comments this month for The Big Question, I thought I'd do something that I hope will be valuable. I've aggregated all of the questions that have been proposed in the participating blogs.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 28, 2007
I got tagged by Luis Suarez around a new meme going around that focuses on "Media I Consume". I'm sure you all remember the Five Things Meme that struck the blogosphere a few months ago. My initial reaction was - "Not another one." Then I took a look at the information contained in his post and saw that Nancy White had done one as well. I'm personally not that interested in music, movies, magazines, but I was very interested how people were using the web.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
One of the goals of Web 2.0 and other technologies is to foster collaboration. But, there seems to be an issue with how many people actually collaborate. According to many sources, less than 1% of the people who visit blogs or wikis actually contribute or collaborate with the author of the wiki or blog. This is called the 1% rule. One of the major issues with collaboration in an academic or even a corporate setting is determining how to evaluate each individual's contribution to the overall coll
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 26, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, February 26, 2007 The Learning Show Thanks to Will Thalheimer for continuing to provide great learning resources. I just watched/listened to The Learning Show: Dont Forget Forgetting. A 26-minute presentation with just the right mix of theory, practical information and humor.
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Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
In case you haven't seen it, Stephen Downes has written a really excellent rejoinder to my summary of what I took away from Dr Itiel Drior's workshop, The Science of Learning. I am really grateful to Stephen for this opportunity to reflect further on, and continue to explore, Itiel's ideas (or, more accurately, what I understood them to be).
Vignettes Learning
FEBRUARY 13, 2007
Guide-on-the-Side Meetings: Provocative Questions for our Discussions Provocative Questions on the Future of LMS and Learning Platforms and how they impact you and your organizations. _ The materials below are lifted quotes from Josh Bersin , Elliott Masie , Tony Karrer , Jay Cross, Clark Quinn, Rick Borovoy and eLearning Guild. _ Just to kick-off our conversations and provide us some perspective, review this information and ask the provocative questions.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 26, 2007
Just saw a report of findings from a new Federal Reserve study. It reminds us of how our the flood of information has real impact on day-to-day decision-making, even in a high impact area like trading.: Our results suggest that market participants might be focusing irrationally on the headline number, as opposed to the most precise available data in a data release. reading the text of the data release seems to be something that should be extraordinarily easy for the markets.
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 26, 2007
One important thing we need to remember as designers of instruction or people who create "learner experiences" is to consider how to create an engaging user interface. Most interfaces are un-intuitive, unimaginative and confusing (thus the reason for so much software training.press the submit button to.) Designers often end up creating page-turning e-learning and not focusing on the experience for the learner.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 23, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, February 23, 2007 The Science of Learning This is the kind of science I like. Information framed in practical terms, rather than theory. Stuff I can actually apply to my work. I started off reading Clive Shepherds recap of a workshop he attended with Dr.
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