Moodle Journal

APRIL 20, 2006

Our ECDL course team, who in recent times have been making very productive use of Smart Groups for their communication with remote working students, have as a result of growing problems incurred through increasingly long delays in message delivery, have requested a Moodle account as a replacement system. This will prove a good move I am certain, however with Moodle accounts only available via Bromley College Windows Active Directory authentication, and many ECDL students not actually Bromley Col

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Learning Visions

APRIL 6, 2006

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 06, 2006 Tardy to the Party I am extremely late to this party, but I am fascinated by the sociological implications of blogging: extreme community; loss of anonymity; anonymity; rampant voyeurism and exhibitionism; collaboration.There are a lot of much cooler people than me out there who have been blogging for a long time.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2006

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 30, 2006

Unlike, say, in branching stories , more dynamic simulations, from interactive spreadsheets to practiceware, need live coaches. Coaches are critical members of any simulation community , and of any sim deployment, and both technology and process must be built to support them. Coaches can be co-located or remote, synchronous or asynchronous. At least three factors drive the need for coaches The divergence of the learning (increase need for coaching) The importance that the learning actually occur

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 26, 2006

Have you noticed that, whether we observe and admit it or not, e-Learning is not free from the politics of project implementation in organizations? Sometimes, I get so frustrated with internal politics that I wish Tony Soprano were working for me. Don't get lulled into feeling that e-Learning will be accepted just because it is "cool" or a novel way of learning.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 2, 2006

This week has seen my first training date for the Moodle quiz course, which is set to run later in April. The new lesson plan template, which you may have seen mention of in an earlier posting has now been made available to all staff, I have copy here if you would like to view it. Basically once completed, the highlighted cells are copy and pasted directly into the appropriate weekly block.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

APRIL 11, 2006

I've written before on Open Courseware Resources and I've recently found a tool that is complimentary: The World Lecture Hall hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. "World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 10, 2006

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 27, 2006

Shopping can be used in many ways as game elements, something to motivate the user beyond the intrinsic learning. A shopping environment can be a fun and familiar environment in which any activity can be placed, from learning math skills (the lower tension of the environment softens the higher tension of having to learn an unfamiliar skill) to an ironic zombie frag fest (a la George Romero's satire Dawn of the Dead.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 26, 2006

Have you noticed that, whether we observe and admit it or not, e-Learning is not free from the politics of project implementation in organizations? Sometimes, I get so frustrated with internal politics that I wish Tony Soprano were working for me. Don't get lulled into feeling that e-Learning will be accepted just because it is "cool" or a novel way of learning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 4, 2006

A plea to IT user trainers in five thrilling instalments Looks like another case of death by PowerPoint Welcome to the fifth and final part of this mini-series on the new IT training. The tension must be unbearable for you as you wait to see how the story will resolve itself. To re-cap (as if I need to), we've been looking at how IT user training has evolved over three phases.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

APRIL 2, 2006

Welcome to Bersin & Associates enterprise learning and talent management blog. Our research analysts and strategic consultants use this system to discuss trends, best-practices, statistics, and lessons learned in corporate training, performance management, and talent management. You can reach us at [link] or (510) 654-8500. Read more» The post Welcome appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

APRIL 29, 2006

The world is changed. - Galadriel (J.R.R. Tolkien). April 29, 2006. The Value of Social Tagging in a Corporate Setting - Taxocop. These tags are a fantastic resource - user warrant - for keeping the controlled vocabularies up-to-date. They provide us feedback we could get no other way. Given the ease with which people can tag things - and yes, we could argue about whether there should be some cognitive burden for quality's sake - we gain a unique insight via this process.".

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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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Breakthrough eLearning

APRIL 17, 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 Monday, April 17, 2006 How to Grow Your eLearning Business I have come across many organizations who are having real difficulties in growing their eLearning programs as quickly as they would like.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 27, 2006

"Mother Nature/Experience is the worst teacher because it gives you the test before the lesson." - attributed to multiple sources Learning anything in real life, especially big skills like ethics and relationship management, but also learning how to speak a foreign language, is filled with frustration (and resolution). It is uneven, with moments where you want to give up and moments of exaltation.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 26, 2006

Frames per Second (FPS), also called "frame rate,” is the number of still, distinct images displayed per second to trick our eyes into believing objects are moving. It is a metric of fluidity. A normal television show in the States (NTSC TV) is broadcast at 30 FPS (frames per second). PAL TV is 25 FPS. Movies are shown at 24 FPS. 20 FPS are considered by many to be the minimum to trick the eye, and is the minimum to enable the simualtion genre known as practiceware.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 26, 2006

Seven years from now, when we look back at educational simulations , we will see quite a few themes that are used and adapted across multiple examples and even genres, just as much as weapons and vehicles have proliferated in computer games. One such theme that will be used, and ultimately standardized in its depiction, will be ownership. There are so many flavors of ownership across enterprises.

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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

APRIL 25, 2006

In interactive media, such as a computer game or DVD, an Easter egg is a piece of bonus content that is in someway "hidden,” and yet still accessible by a user. The content can be a message, a hidden level, even designer art. The Easter egg is initially found by accident by a causal user or deliberately by a determined user through entering certain key codes or going to obscure places on a map, and then made public on a chat room or forum.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 22, 2006

Perhaps the most important " Big Skill " is leadership. It certainly is the Big Skill to which I have put the most personal research, captured in the below diagram from page 9 0f this Learning Circuits article ( email me if you want a copy of the chart as a nice powerpoint slide, quite small filesize-wise, and where everything is actually readable).

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 21, 2006

The pairing of frustration and resolution is at the heart of, well, probably everything to do with life and growth. But if you look at two example, frustration/resolution in passive stories and frustration/resolution in simulations, you can see why, as I mulled earlier, that stories might be the new white bread , making us feel smarter by tricking us, rather than actually increasing our capacity, leaving us just bloated instead.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 20, 2006

I have given my share of speeches on simulation in the last six months. And I have come to a casual observation. It is the people who have been in the training profession for less than three years that actually make simulations happen in their organization. This is not an age thing. There are plenty of people representing all different ages that are moving ahead.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 18, 2006

A virtual coach gives customized help to the player. Unlike a Dictionary, Glossary, Wiki, or Instruction Booklet, coaches tend to have personality. They pop up at the right time, either proactively or in response to a question, and give some help. Like all pedagogical elements, the virtual coach has to balance giving neither too little help nor too much.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 17, 2006

A nice endorsement of LCB from Niall Rigby on NetDimensions Insights in which Niall ranks LCB as one of the top 10 resources for programs looking at purchasing an LMS. Thanks for the thumbs up, Niall. We'll keep working to deserve it in the future.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 16, 2006

Accumulator : A repository where "stock” can increase or decrease. The capacity to accumulate is often part of a unit , including the player him or herself. The stock can be conceptual , abstracted , or real , such as good will , health , or monkeys respectively. Stock may have to be transported by units in a sim, or transported automatically. The amount of stock may be limited by the capacity of any single accumulator (i.e. one can't have more monkeys than cages; to get more space, one has to

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 15, 2006

One genre of computer game is the First Person Shooter (FPS). I wrote in Learning By Doing , "If you are male, first-person shooters are the Manolo Blahniks of the computer game world." The player seeing the world through the eyes of his or her onscreen counterpart, usually down the barrel of a weapon. The player is a hero (such as in this example from Dark Forces).

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 14, 2006

Game Engine -- the application/code that is used as the basis for building a game. In games there is generally one primary engine (The graphics engine, for movement, 3D rendering, and resolution) and a few smaller engines that power other aspects of the game (AI, Sound, Input). Game engines represent a trade-off between ease of use and diversity of possible experiences.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 13, 2006

Welcome to another month of Simwords of the Day! Today's word is Virtual Experience Space. I have argued that there are four types of "common" simulations out there today, branching stories, interactive spreadsheets, game-based models, and virtual labs. One emerging type of simulation genre is Virtual Experience Space. Students in traditional role plays often explore some created experience space as input to their work.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

APRIL 2, 2006

Welcome to Bersin & Associates enterprise learning and talent management blog. Our research analysts and strategic consultants use this system to discuss trends, best-practices, statistics, and lessons learned in corporate training, performance management, and talent management. You can reach us at [link] or (510) 654-8500. Read more» The post Welcome appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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