Breakthrough eLearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Sunday, February 26, 2006 Compliance Training: Going Through the Motions The Masie Center recently noted that approximately 60% of new learning initiatives in large companies are driven by legal compliance regulations.

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Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2006

I came across a really useful site the other day from the Technical Advisory Service for Images, it includes sections on creating and finding images, vector and animated graphics, images and copyright plus some comprehensive guides for using images in different VLE’s including Moodle. Just Click here to take a look, I think you will its worth a bookmark.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

If you find yourself with a few hours to spend doing exactly what you fancy, then you may consider looking at this list of fascinating free websites and applications at listible.com : [link]. I know there are lots of other things you may fancy doing more than this, but let's just imagine these aren't available, alright?

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 19, 2006

As everyone on this blog knows, I'm eternally searching for a flipchart killer and have never failed to express my disappointment with the trends most of us (including myself) think will: do the job, convince people that it's sufficiently worthwhile (in terms of functionality) for them to adapt to, provide the comfort zone for them to adopt it as their standard landscape.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

Americans work more, seem to accomplish less - Yahoo Newa. Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly released research. Mind mapping a book review - ZDnet. Steve Richards has posted a very nicely done book review of Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. What makes Steve's review so interesting is that he's done it in a mind map.

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Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

With the use of Moodle expanding across the college, the question of standardising the appearance and content of the various courses calls for a solution. In a meeting last week I picked up some actions points to 1: make recommendations for a standard template and 2: re-design lesson plans to make them compatible with Moodle. At the moment lesson plans are written in Word, with content spread around a complex landscape table structure.

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Breakthrough eLearning

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Tuesday, February 07, 2006 Whats the Purpose of an LMS? I recently attended a CLO Magazine-sponsored webinar titled “Benefits and Best Practices for Moving to an Enterprise-Wide LMS.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2006

A plea to IT user trainers in five thrilling instalments Welcome back again. For the benefit of those with limited random-access memory, let me just re-cap where we are so far in this series. I started by explaining how I thought that IT user training had evolved and was continuing to evolve over a number of phases. In phase 1 the priority was to help users to overcome their technophobia and to feel comfortable with their PC.

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

My son Slater was included in this week's BusinessWeek piece on home-schooling. Some nice phrases:, vowed he'd never put his kid through the eye-glazing lectures he endured in school done by a growing number of creative-class parents No longer the bailiwick of religious fundamentalists or neo-hippies looking to go off the cultural grid, homeschooling is a growing trend among the educated elite The No. 1 motivation, research shows, is concern about school environments, including negative peer pre

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2006

For some reason it's taken me ages to catch on to the potential for finding and sharing photos on the web. It's probably because my graphic designer colleague David Kori has been indisposed for a couple of months while he prepares a new suite of learning materials for schools. In the meantime, I've been making up for the lack of his illustration skills by begging, stealing (don't tell anyone) and borrowing photos from a host of online sites.

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 11, 2006

Data can help personalization, but data is a means, not an end. I stumbled into a nice reminder of that. Tim Sanders, Leadership Coach at Yahoo delivered an interesting keynote at DigitalNow last year. Follow the link below to learn how the CEO of Pizza Hut and a single customer shared a great experience when he called her. Tim Sanders - Betty the Pizza Lady (Windows Media, 7 very worthwhile minutes) How can we data mine the impersonal performance results to create this sort of memorable, high-i

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

The Oprah/James Frey conversation, the Enron trials, even a recent post here got me thinking. The Formal Learning Industries absolutely requires honesty, for Big Skills and technical ones. Honesty in the end-learner. Honesty in the subject matter expert. Honesty in the creation and delivery of Formal Learning material. Honesty in the conversation between program manager and sponsor.

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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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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Well not about me. Let's talk about Learning Circuits Blog. In the Learning Circuits Blog Wiki, our current topic of discussion is LCB and its future. We've just finished a year of activity on LCB that saw increased publication by the author team, increased participation by our readers through comments, and a five-fold increase in the number of visitors.

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

Steve Mariotti left his import/export business to become a New York City teacher. He has taught at some the city's worst schools. At first he says he was a horrible teacher who often lost control of his classes. One day he asked the kids what was wrong with his teaching style. One kid said, "Well, we did it because we can't stand you. You are boring.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

I was looking through some course materials from a few years back and found these ten rules of thumb for adult learning. They predate the debate on formal/informal learning, so relate mainly to the design of formal training interventions. Anyway, the issues that interest me are: (1) can they be validated by research? (2) do they still apply in practice?

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

This morning, hundreds of us packed the ballroom of the new Hyatt Regency Colorado Convention Center for the opening of TechKnowledge 06. Incoming ASTD president Kevin Oakes thanked the Rocky Mountain Chapter, advisory boards, hard-working staff, platinum sponsors, silver sponsors, planning committees, and others. Kevin and I go back quite a ways; Oakes Interactive was hawking multimedia training before the Web was invented.

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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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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

The degree to which we can predictably facilitate in the transfer of Big Skills depends quite a bit on the ability to accurately capture them. If we don't do a better job of capturing them, we will be forever stuck on the training justification infinite-loop. One reason for some lack of success in transferring big skills is that most of us in the knowledge-capture biz think too much in terms of linear content, and therefore have crippling blind spots.

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 3, 2006

Just when you thought it was over, it's BACK! Well kind of. We received a email from Jim Belshaw, CEO of the Ndarala Group , a consultancy in Rosebery, Australia. Seems the Australian Higher Education system and training are being assailed much in the same manner as Sam Adkins and David Grebow have done here in the States via LCB. Ndarala has published a very nice staff paper Special Feature: Is Training Snake Oil?

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Scramble: Using a mixture of reflex and practiced tactics in an attempt to get to a better, more strategic, situation. I love watching people play real-time simulations. You can tell by watching their eyes when they go from being in control to suddenly loosing it. Things go wrong. They panic. They flail. Then, something happens to the eyes. They gain resolve.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Patrick Dunn has created a an engaging and accessible site for learning designers called Networked Learning Design. As it says, it is: ".is about design thinking and creativity, applied to the practice of learning design. It's based on research into a wide range of design disciplines including architecture, product design, interior design, graphics and web design.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

February 24, 2006. Apple's iTunesU puts college lectures on your iPod - News 10. Almost a dozen universities, including some from the Ivy League, have agreed to take part in a pilot project run by Apple called iTunesU. Tag: Podcasting. Mapping informal relationships at a company is revealing -- and useful - Business Week. The use of social network analysis as a management tool is accelerating.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

Information Overload: Blogs As Content Navigators, Information Filters, Trusted Niche Guides - Robin Good. In the book by P. Evans and T.S. Wursters, Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy, authors speak about richness and reach: how companies could offer either rich information that is highly specialized and geared towards a niche market or they could have reach, more generalized information that is not as rich, but has a broader appeal.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

A Convergence: Complex Systems Theory, Open Space Technology, Frames, Freakonomics, and the Wisdom of Crowds - Dave pollard. In some recent work I have been doing, it occurred to me that Open Space Technology might provide a framework for capturing the Wisdom of Crowds to resolve complex problems. Money Motive Can Revitalize Classrooms - Donald Clark.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

February 4, 2006. ASTD Releases New Data in Its 2005 State of the Industry Report - Learning Circuits. As organizations face stronger global competition, business leaders recognize that employee learning and skills development is more important than ever to grow and sustain a competitive advantage. According to its 2005 State of the Industry Report, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) reports that U.S. organizations are investing more in employee learning, and technology conti

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Big Dog, Little Dog

FEBRUARY 3, 2006

Back to the Future of eLearning - Campus Technology. In and around the classroom, on- and off-campus, the technologies and the icons of the much heralded, at times over-hyped technology revolution in education (micro/desktop/notebook computers, the Web, wireless, and Google, et al) have changed and enhanced many aspects of the educational experience, across all levels/sectors of education.

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Breakthrough eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Wednesday, February 01, 2006 Just Do It! - Experiment Strategically With eLearning Having been in the eLearning field for over a decade, I cant tell you how many times I have heard people say that they were "thinking about eLearning," "exploring th

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