Learning Visions
JUNE 28, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, June 28, 2007 Emerging Technologies in e-Learning I sat in on a lunchtime WebEx presentation with Gary Woodill -- Director, Research and Analysis, Brandon Hall Research. The topic: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning. (You can buy each of the three reports in this series for a mere $495.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
JUNE 16, 2007
Bryan Chapman is Chief Learning Strategist at Chapman Alliance. Formerly he was the Director of Research and Strategy for independent research and consulting firm Brandon Hall Research. What we DON'T need in the industry, Bryan argued at a recent webinar, is a faster way to create page-turning courseware! Yet, in many cases, the phrase “rapid development” has become synonymous with cranking out content that resembles an online book format.
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Tony Karrer
JUNE 26, 2007
George Siemens post pointed me to Henry Jenkins New media literacies and indirectly to a white paper that provided the following list of needed skills for new media literacy: Play â€" the capacity to experiment with one's surroundings as a form of problem-solving Performance â€" the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery Simulation â€" the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes Appropriation â€" the ability to mea
Kapp Notes
JUNE 29, 2007
In case you haven't seen or heard, Mark Oehlert is going to be giving a presentation titled Living and Working with Games and Gamers as part of the Adobe Luminary eSeminar Series: eLearning. Mark is a great speaker and expert on the topic, you don't want to miss it. Here is the description: With Gen X'ers and Millennials in the workforce, companies must face the challenges involved in integrating game and simulations into eLearning products and programs.
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Moodle Journal
JUNE 23, 2007
For those of you who have been following this blog, you will recall that last academic year 05/06 I ran a trial with my HND Computer Systems Engineering students where I used the VLE to investigate the delivery of about 20% of the course material based around the Social Constructivist model. The particular framework that I chose for this was the ‘Community of Enquiry’ from Garrison, Anderson and Archer.
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Learning Visions
JUNE 29, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, June 29, 2007 Kineo Interview with Yours Truly Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of talking with Stephen Walsh of Kineo. I met the Kineo guys back at the April e-Learning Guild Event here in Boston and weve stayed in touch since. Stephen and I talked about everything from rapid e-Learning, SecondLife and FaceBook, to the current exploding universe of e-Learning (what Gary Woodill referre
Learning with e's
JUNE 27, 2007
So it's official. Apparently your choice of social networking site indicates what social class you belong to. A recent US research project (by a PhD student mind you) has reported that users of FaceBook are generally toffs from wealthier homes and are more likely to study in further/higher education than that great unwashed working class lot who like using MySpace.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 6, 2007
I just wanted to relate something that I think shows the power of a Wiki in general and Wikipedia particularly. My son, in 4th grade here in California, was assigned a research report on the California Gold Rush and decided to focus his report on the different routes taken by the 49ers. He used a variety of different resources and particularly used the California Gold Rush Historic Maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Kapp Notes
JUNE 29, 2007
I live in central Pennsylvania so I guess this is to be expected but.please. Our school board was approving its budget for the next year and there was a line item of $327,000 for the purchasing of nine mobile laptop labs each having close to 30 computers. The district officials said: the investment is justified as more class materials are becoming available on computer software and more students can access laptops at one time, rather than sending classes to desktop computer labs with limited num
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Moodle Journal
JUNE 20, 2007
If like myself you are deploying much of your full time course delivery over Moodle , then you will no doubt also be realising that while there are many advantages to this for everyone regarding administration, are there any similar enhancement to outcomes? Well I have to say probably not, after all, good teaching, good notes and resources are exactly that whatever the medium you deliver them by.
Learning Visions
JUNE 27, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 The Rise of Rapid e-Learning Mike Alcock, MD of Atlantic Link Ltd has written an article over at Trainingzone.co.uk: The Rise of Rapid e-Learning. Some insightful industry analysis, surrounded by a lot of marketing speak. Im going to quote heavily from the article here, inserting my own thoughts along the way.
Learning with e's
JUNE 29, 2007
Found another interesting blog today - Keith Bryant's blog on e-learning reports all the bits about EDEN that I probably missed. Have a look at it when you get the chance, as it's well worth a read. That's the great thing about the blogosphere - what someone misses, someone else nails down. Keith holds the same opinion as me about Teemu Arina, and makes some interesting points bout what was discussed during the Web 2.0 sessions at the conference.
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.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 4, 2007
I've run across a few different posts talking about Personal Work and Learning Environments which I have tentatively started to call PWLE - pronounced p-whale. Tom Haskins in PLEs are power tools and Cammy Bean in Be the Node tell us: So all the talk about tools and maps has struck me as odd. How do we quantify or control something that is so unique to each of us?
Kapp Notes
JUNE 27, 2007
If you are interested in synchronous learning, here are some interesting statistics from the report: 42% of respondents plan to expand their use of Synchronous Learning Systems Respondents who offer synchronous learning through an LMS report better ROI and a greater level of satisfaction The vast majority of respondents report that synchronous learning systems are essential to their organizations, and that, when set up properly, they rival the best instructor-led training Not to mention an essay
Moodle Journal
JUNE 18, 2007
I received a request recently from a client to produce my Moodle training resources as a set of video files, which does make a lot of sense; I have also been using more video this year on the VLE. If you are finding this emerging trend, then you may like to have a look at a couple of resources for video conversion and storage. At the Yasasoft website you can download a limited free version, it will convert just about all format up to five minutes and its a really nice and easy to use piece of de
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
JUNE 27, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Facebook for the Enterprise Im still mucking around in Facebook, trying to get it. Found this article, via Alec Saunders : Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook. Provides some real examples of how business-folk are using FB; compares Facebook (emotional attachment) to LinkedIn (static resume).
Learning with e's
JUNE 28, 2007
Yesterday I blogged that there was little or no difference between FaceBook and MySpace, principally because I thought there was no difference between the social class profiles of users. Now it seems that there may be a difference between the two social networking services after all. A new report (see BBC News online) reveals that MySpace is fast losing ground to both FaceBook and Bebo , and that in the UK in particular, these two are much more popular.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 29, 2007
The post / poll / discussion around having better conferences continues to grow. There are quite a few really good comments and the trackbacks from the post are really quite good. Discussion of Wifi issues at conferences, George Siemens lamenting about ED-MEDIA 2007, Jay Cross and Karl Kapp calling for an unconference in Monterey - and my suggestion to colocate with the eLearningGuild in Santa Clara/San Jose, a question of whether virtual conferences are better, and more.
Kapp Notes
JUNE 26, 2007
Lately, I've been working with Tony O'Driscoll and the folks at the eLearning Guild on some research and thought leadership around the idea of using 3D environments to teach in a synchronous environment. You'll want to read the 360 Report when it becomes available and listen to a webcast on July 10th about the findings of the report. Simultaneously my oldest son has become interested in Second Life and now is on the Teen Grid, he was using my character but he is fascinated with trying to earn mo
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Clive on Learning
JUNE 28, 2007
A warm welcome and very best wishes to Gordon Brown, the UK's new Prime Minister. Although this blog is not the right place to express my political opinions, I must confess to having warm feelings for Gordon. He might be a bit dour on the surface, but he's actually got a fair sense of humour, as I experienced when I saw him speak at the Brighton Festival in May of this year.
Learning Visions
JUNE 25, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, June 25, 2007 Getting Pysched for FaceBook Im definitely feeling out-of-my element in this whole FaceBook thing. Im trying to get into it and discover its potential professional uses. I now have five friends (in case you were wondering). And Ive joined a group: FaceBook for Business in which Ive posted some questions, gotten some answers, and been asked to participate in a beta test for a Fa
E-Learning Acupuncture
JUNE 27, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar e-Learning Acupuncture Erics ramblings, experiences and random thoughts about e-Learning, distance education and Educational Technology. Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Free Images Databases (sorta!) Its no secret that I work for the Department of National Defence (DND) in Canada. As such, I am part of the Canadian Federal Government.
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Tony Karrer
JUNE 26, 2007
From a post - Professional Cat Herder - In my line of work, corporate training, I have seen this first hand several times. Management scratching their heads because people aren't taking advantage of the resources that are available. We have all heard the saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.†We just haven't done a good job of telling the horse that it is hot and drinking now will prevent thirst in the immediate future.
Kapp Notes
JUNE 25, 2007
Ok, so we all saw the original "Did You Know?" well here is a great revision, look at the graphics and see how they help to tell the story. Compelling in so many ways. Thanks to Miguel at Around the Corner v2 - MGuhlin.net for posting this revision.
Learning with e's
JUNE 26, 2007
Seems our cousins across the other side of the pond are having similar problems to us, at least in their schools. This post from Mike Hasley's Election 2008 blog says it all: Instead of “No Child Left Behind,” our goal should be “Every Child Connected.” The digital divide in our country is worse than it was 10 years ago before our schools were wired.
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