Breakthrough eLearning
NOVEMBER 23, 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 Thursday, November 23, 2006 Harvesting Your SMEs Brain One of the great things about working in the eLearning field is the variety it affords.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 8, 2006
Nancy White just posted Second Wave Adoption where she discusses various aspects of helping adoption of Web 2.0 type approaches. This is definitely an interesting question and something I've written about before: eLearning Technology: Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Revisited Enterprise 2.0 - What's the PU? Web 2.0 Adoption in the Enterprise - It's Personal These posts may be worth reading, but the basic gist is that adoption starts from the personal utility - actually its the perceived us
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Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
Click on the link if you'd rather listen to the podcast of this post, Beyond iPoding , you can find it here. (don't need an iPod to listen, just your computer. Moving Beyond Music or Voice As with any new technology, at first there is unbridled enthusiasm or irrational exuberance quickly followed by fear and loathing and then the technology settles down into an every day tool.
Moodle Journal
NOVEMBER 25, 2006
Do you podcast you lectures? I have started this in a small way but from the system logs the results were not encouraging. Anyway I started to give the whole idea some serious thought recently. From my own perspective, if am driving or travelling on public transport, then yes I would listen to a podcast, however if was sat in front of a computer, then I would appreciate something more visual.
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Clive on Learning
NOVEMBER 9, 2006
Today I sat down to write a short column for a magazine on the use of Flash as a delivery medium for e-learning. While searching for some history, I came across this Flash History by Rick Waldron. It seems Flash has its origins in a product called SuperSplash Animator, based largely on the work of graphics enthusiast and programmer, Jonathan Gay. Anyway, Macromedia acquired this product, renamed it Flash 1.0 and launched it in November 1996.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
First let me apologize for talking about Web 3.0 and eLearning 3.0 when we don't really understand much less have digested eLearning 2.0, but there's so much buzz, I can't help myself. Will Thalheimer posted about Web 3.0 and Learning where he is discussing what is being called Web 3.0. In particular he cites a recent NY Times article. But Web 3.0 has been getting lots of attention for a while now.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
Often I am asked to comment on how business is conducted in the e-learning field. How do new companies (or even existing companies) bid on new business? How should I structure the Request for Proposal process? What are the steps in this process? Here is an outline of a process called the E-learning Business Acquisition Process (E-BAP). If you are looking for a vendor to create e-learning or if you are a vendor looking to find business, this is a generally accepted process and works well in struc
Moodle Journal
NOVEMBER 22, 2006
free and open educational resources If like myself you are always on the lookout for some quality e-Learning materials, then you simply have to take a look at the Open Universities Moodle site OpenLearn. The resources here are free to use and are of an excellent quality, well done OU.
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eLearning Evangelist
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
We've started a formal consulting business, Rose & Smith Associates. We (my partner Alese Smith, and I) have been consulting with organizations on e-learning for a number of years. We thought it was time to formalize the pactice and formally take advantage of each others expertise. Alese helped pioneer the first national virtual high school, defining online community-building and national online standards.
The Learning Circuits
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
Even more so than saving my Wikipedia entry, I would like to ask something more of you. What are your strategic goals for 2007? As part of that, what are your learning goals for 2007? And finally, how much time do you plan to spend in either classrooms, online courses, or conferences?
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
Interesting article from EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 6 (November/December 2006): 12-13 - Scholarly Reputations: Who's Got Buzz? that discusses whether: scholars would choose (1) to have their work published in the premier journal in their field or (2) to have that work regularly come up on the first screen in an appropriate Google search Having gone through a PhD process and having been in academia for 11 years where you needed to "publish" - this is a really interesting question to me.
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
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
I talk to many clients who wonder how they can afford to develop and deliver e-learning when budgets are being cut, staffs are being reduced and the cost of e-learning development software keeps rising. One answer is the work done by Jane Bozarth. She has written a book titled E-Learning on a Shoestring which describes how you can implement low cost solutions to cover basic e-learning needs.
Moodle Journal
NOVEMBER 19, 2006
Just recently I decided that the time had come to put my money where my enthusiasm was, so I upgraded my membership in Second Life and bought some land and see how it could be used in conjunction with my work on Moodle. In fact I bought a small island from diddster.com, these are really nice properties and the company extremely helpful. In fact the whole experience was a bit surreal, as I had to leave my wife cruising around Diddsters Daydream island complex, made more stressful for her as she h
eLearning Evangelist
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
Texas has a new law that requires all government web sites to be accessible. We believe that this law also applies to online education provided by state governments. This really isn't new. The laws have been on the US Government books for a long time. But, it sometimes take a while for these things to trickle down. I'm intersted in this because it's been a concern of mine for a long time.
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
NOVEMBER 27, 2006
I wrote a two-page piece for Brown University's Conduit magazine, on page 8 and continued to 15, downloadable for free here: [link] Here's a quote: "The next breakthrough will be when simulation and game design is not taught as a vertical skill, like Russian History, Clinical Psychology, or Biblical Archeology, but a horizontal skill, like researching, analysis, writing, and public speaking.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
I ran into a little utility this morning - Snap - that let's you add previews of any link on your site as a quick little pop-up. It's kinda cool. You'll have to visit my blog to see this in action. While you are there, definitely check out the new translation capability that can be found at the bottom of each post. This is provided by Yahoo's, AltaVista's, BabelFish - aren't acquisitions fun?
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 26, 2006
Here is a whitepaper I wrote about informal learning. It explains some thoughts I have about informal learning as it relates to wikis, blogs, IM and RSS. You can read it here.
Moodle Journal
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
Keen as I always am to make use of our vle for course delivery, I am also very keen to find evidence on its effectiveness with regard to student outcomes. One of the courses that see particularly heavy use of the vle here at Bromley is my BTEC National Software Development. Just the other day I am informed that it has attracted highest Value Added in the country for this course, wow.
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Clive on Learning
NOVEMBER 27, 2006
Caffeine addicts and afficionados of informal learning can obtain two fixes in one with Jerome Martin's free e-book Cappuccino U , recently published by Spotted Cow Press and brought to my attention by Jane's e-learning pick of the day. Martin's book is quite short so I won't steal all his thunder. His main point is that real learning these days is not going on at work, in colleges or even in homes, but in so-called 'third places', i.e. libraries, book shops and, as you've probably guessed, coff
Breakthrough eLearning
NOVEMBER 30, 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 Thursday, November 30, 2006 Be Nice to Your SME! We had a lively webinar session on Thursday on Using Subject Matter Experts Wisely: Keeping Your eLearning Development Projects on Track.
The Learning Circuits
NOVEMBER 24, 2006
Here are two sides of the same coin. 1) The Training Chasm is "how do really change people's behavior in a formal learning program?" 2) The Life Chasm is "how do some people accomplish so much more than other's, even when they don't work harder, and really only make slightly different uses of the same basic tools and options?" I think about both of those when I struggle to discuss the most critical part of a simulation.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
Andrew McAfee has posted about Avenue A Razorfish's (AARF) Intranet that uses Web 2.0 tools as part of information sharing: AARF has built interfaces to the bookmarking site del.icio.us , the photo sharing site Flickr , and Digg , a site where members vote on the importance of news stories. All three use tags, or something close. AARF employees have learned to add the tag 'AARF' when they come across a web page (using del.icio.us), a photo (Flickr), or a news story (Digg) that they think will be
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Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 27, 2006
It is official, Second Life (which I have written about in two previous posts, Get a "Second Life" and More Second Life ) has just created its first virtual millionaire (actually, it has created its first real world millionaire with virutal assets equal to real world assets of a million dollars.) Check out the press release-- Anshe Chung Becomes First Virtual World Millionaire: Parlays $10 investment into million dollar corporation in 30 months.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
You are all invited to participate in EPISODE1 of my Collaborative podcast. Click the talkshoe link above for more details. Monday, Dec. 4th 11am EST The TalkCast is titled Learning2.0: The Revolution Has Begun! I'm looking forward to a lively discussion on the topic of Informal Learning ( buy JAY CROSS' new book ), Games, Simulations, and Learning and the technologies that make it all possible.
Clive on Learning
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
David Freedman took the brave step of challenging some pretty widely held beliefs with his September article in Inc magazine, The Idiocy of Crowds. In case you missed it, this is what he is saying: "In the age of instant messaging, wikis, social networking sites and videoconferencing on cell phones, collaboration and consensus are gaining yet more currency.
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