Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Update, Nov. 2007 - I've created a series of posts around Learning Management System (LMS) Selection: LMS Selection Presentation LMS Team Size and Time Learning Management System RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process I thought I had previously wrote about this, but I realized when I was posting Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas that I'd not previously talked about the results from participating in the eLearningGuild's Learni

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Join me live, on the air at WKOK's morning talk show called “On the Mark.” During the live radio show I will be talking about the book and taking calls from interested listeners. I will be on at 9:00 am Eastern Time on Wednesday, October 3rd. (this Wednesday) Listen live via the Internet. And, if you'd like, give the show a call.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, September 27, 2007 Messy Learning OK. Messy Training Not OK. Ive been thinking about messes a lot the past few days. Ive got small kids and my house is pretty messy. It turns out that life in general is pretty messy. And now it turns out that learning is messy, too.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

It is slightly tragic that I have spent much of my adult life on committees, from student societies to residents’ associations to industry bodies. As Athletic Union Chairman at the University of Bristol, I remember the extreme joy that was chairing/ sitting on 14 different committees. This experience has led to my new contribution to social science: “The committee member life cycle.” I hope one day this will be seen as the naughty little brother of the Forming, Storming, Normin

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Yesterday, at my presentation Introduction to eLearning 2.0 - ASTD OC , I mentioned that Yahoo MyWeb had a few features that del.icio.us was sorely missing. And that had made me previously conclude: Yahoo MyWeb better than del.icio.us, rollyo, et.al. for Personal / Group Learning However, I told everyone that del.icio.us had been acquired by Yahoo and it was likely that slowly these features would get integrated.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Here is the line up for Week 3 of the Blog Book Tour for Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. If the first two weeks are any indication, this week will prove to be great with interesting and thought provoking posts, ideas and maybe even some controversy. Check out the line up (And as an extra bonus, Tom Haskin has joined the tour with a review of the book.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Bloggers New Polling Tool As you may know, Ive been playing around with Polls on this blog. Last week, I asked " So What Kind of Gamer Are You? and "Are You a Gamer?" (58% of the 24 respondants to date consider themselves "Gamers.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Second Life is becoming ever more popular and parts of real life ranging from currency to concerts are happening there. Hence it was only a matter of time before the e-learning industry took note. Following its use in some universities as reported by the Guardian, research has been funded to see how learning can work in Second Life. Does the opportunity to be free of the normal bounds of their own personalities allow new opportunities for learning and personal growth in corporate environments?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

They saved the best 'til last. The papers on the final day really cut the mustard for me. I chaired a session entitled 'pedagogical and psychological issues' (on my own request to the conference organisers) and I wasn't disappointed. An all female crew of 4 presenters took us through a fast-paced spectrum of ideas and research around e-learning. Maja Snyder (University of Maribor, Slovenia) evaluated several e-learning courses from a student perspective.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I regularly read Tracy Hamilton's blog. She's been writing about getting a new LMS. I hate to say it, but this is likely not going to go well. It will be fun to keep reading about it, probably much better than having to be Tracy during the process. In her latest post: What's Happening With My New LMS?!?! she tells us: Oh and my little meeting about my job role and what path this LMS will lead me down.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Today, you can check out the second interview I've had with Brent over at Corporate ELearning Strategies and Development. The posting is GGG 4 Lrng - Gamers lower the Boom! it includes both an audio broadcast of the interview featuring a discussion with Brent, myself and Cammy Bean from Learning Visions.it was a great discussion. And, as an additional bonus.Brent also features a little "rant" about the boomers.apparently he is not very happy with this particular demographic group, in fact, I thi

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, September 19, 2007 My Online Visual Identity When Michele Martin changed her profile picture the other day, I realized I was a bit disoriented. Suddenly, she didnt look like the Michele I "knew." And I saw how one dimensional our images of our online contacts (and digital friends) can be -- typically based on the same profile picture thats used in countless places.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

In marketing and change management courses, I have found the tipping point concept (Gladwell) really useful to illustrate how small changes can cause a big effect. Gladwell’s book is unashamedly US focused. but now we have just lived through a great UK example – Northern Rock. On Friday as the NR shares plummeted it was still perfectly rational for me and other savers to leave our savings with them.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

Writing an RFP - What a Conundrum! All the articles say that a crucial part of the LMS selection process is writing a quality RFP, but nobody goes on to tell you how. In my own interest, I am going to attempt to answer the question of how to write a quality RFP. Oh yeah, it took me a while to figure it out and you may be wondering the same thing; RFP means "request for proposal.

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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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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

BJ Schone has published a nice little eBook and has an associated blog that provides some interactions that can be used in eLearning that will make the learning more fun and engaging. Some of the interactions he talks about are: Scatter steps Order of importance Find the mismatch Story-based questions Scavenger hunt Branching stories I was planning to also point folks to other lists of these kinds of interactions (which I believe are out there), but for some reason I couldn't easily find them.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

If you haven't seen the postings on the blog book tour for this week, you need to check them out. Day Six: 09/17/07 - Enspire Learning's Corporate Blog This entry was great because it provided an opportunity to play a simulation. I hope you took advantage of that offer. Day Seven: 09/18/07 -Mark Oehlert's e-clippings(Learning as Art). Mark's stop was week 2, stop 2 a high pressure stop.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, September 17, 2007 31 Days: Days 26, 27, 28 Im cleaning house and trying to to finish up with the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Challenge. Although the challenge officially ended in August, the community is alive and well and coming up with new challenges and ideas.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

I have recently completed the e-learning census of e-learning usage amongst the top 15 UK law firms. To find out more about the results, see the e-learning census. Back when I was a training manager at a big four accountancy firm, I was wary of becoming too focused on internal clients; I wanted to know what other similar organizations were doing to harness technology to improve their learning offering.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Well, it´s the final day of the ICL conference here in Villach, Austria. It´s clouding over again, and there is a rumour of rain. It pelted down last night, and I was glad that all the events, including the splendid conference dinner (sponsored by the Mayor of Villach, who failed to appear) were located in the same silubrious venue of the Congress Centre and Holiday Inn Complex.

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Well here goes nothing. This is my first post on my first blog. Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with Tony Karrer, and through this conversation I learned a couple of things in addition to some great information about LMS's. Outside of LMS's I learned how ignorant I am when it comes to Web 2.o and E-Learning 2.0, and I learned that there is a lot of advantages to poking around the internet as opposed to spending most of your time reading trade magazines.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

I'm not sure if other people are seeing this, but based on a bunch of conversations and calls, it appears that there is a wave of new startups being created right now and the trend is accelerating. Because of my background working with leading startups, e.g., eHarmony, MyShape, LoanToolbox, etc., my background in eLearning, and the fact that I'm a CTO-type person, I may get more of these kinds of calls, so I'm curious if other folks are seeing this as well.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

We are kicking off week two of the Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning book tour. The first week was a lot of fun sparking all types of discussions. Check out these additional posts relating to discussions about the book: Men and Women- Games and Learning On Games, Learning and Gender So What Kind of Gamer are You? Using Trial and Error as a Learning Style for the Gamer Generation Here is the Week Two Schedule: Day Six: 09/17/07 - Enspire Learning's Corporate Blog Day Seven: 09/18/07 -Mark Oe

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, September 14, 2007 So What Kind of a Gamer Are You? In yesterdays poll , I asked readers if they think of themselves as gamers. As of this post, 55% of respondents proudly say "yes, I AM a gamer." Maybe not so proudly. There is some hemming and hawing amongst folks.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

This year I had the privilege of being a judge for the e-learning awards. I found the whole process fascinating, giving me a whole new take on how the e-learning industry is operating and who is doing what…not that I’m allowed to tell you much more… The good news is that there were loads of entries (the bad news is that I had to read well over 100,000 words in the process).

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Vignettes Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

I just came in from Midhurst , West Sussex (old country), London. The place reminded me that humans have not changed through generations. People want to control things and their environment. While in flight, I finished reading Daniel Gilbert's book, "Stumbling on Happiness.” Gilbert is a Psychologist and Harvard professor. He says, to paraphrase, we want to control because it makes us feel safe and the process satisfies us.

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