Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 6, 2006
The post: eLearning Technology: Online Programs that Offer Training in eLearning? has provided some interesting results around online programs - and a really interesting question: How do employers view online degree programs? If you are going to spend the money and time upgrading your skills, you want to make sure the employer will recognize them. I am very curious what other people think about this.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 28, 2006
In the 1980s, several theories of learning that concentrated on studying learning as an internal function of the brain and as a social process.as opposed to overt actions and stimulas-response began to gain popularity and momentum. These theories and the study of how computers processed information all converged and led to the creation of a learning philosophy known as Cognitivism.
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Moodle Journal
DECEMBER 4, 2006
I am hopeful that Moodle here at bromley College will begin to fulfil a commercial role following an enquiry the other day from company who required a course in Website Design for one of their employees. I have been running a very successful self financing course “HTML and JavaScript for Website Designers” for some time now, however it does require a minimum of 12 students to be viable, with the next one likely to start in January.
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Learning with e's
DECEMBER 18, 2006
Photo by Pin Add from Flickr I gave a paper at the EDEN conference in Vienna in June this year, and afterwards I was approached by a Swedish delegate. We talked briefly (as you do) about my research and I casually remarked that Sweden was the only Nordic country I had never visited. Pleasant chap. Nice conversation. I thought no more of it. When I got back to my office, he had send me an invitation to visit his university in Umea, to speak at their learning technology conference.
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Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 5, 2006
I received an email today from someone who is looking for online programs (certificate, masters, etc) that offer training in elearning. From the email - University of Calgary has a certificate, the University of Hull in the UK has a masters program, are there any others? Which ones are the best? I have no clue, but I'm hoping that someone can point to suggestions via comments, and/or point to places you would look.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 28, 2006
I wish you Happy Holidays and a great New Year. Hope you and yours have a great holiday season no matter where in the world you are located or how you celebrate. Also wishing you a happy holiday is the US television station, NBC. NBC set up and conducted a "get together" in Second Life on December 20th. The event is now over, however, you can visit the virtual New York skating rink and Christmas tree in Second Life.
Clive on Learning
DECEMBER 22, 2006
Tony Karrer has tagged me to continue the chain and inform you of five things you may not know about me. so here goes: I am a twin, although non-identical. My twin lives near Paris and is a sort of new age personal development guru - see Tools for Transformation. A bit wierd for me. When I was 19, I recorded a rock album with a band called Five Day Rain.
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Learning with e's
DECEMBER 21, 2006
A well-known scene from the film 'The Podfather' (Part 1).Dedicated to a friend who was recently 'hit'. No names, no packdrill. DON PODLEONE: Nanosera, we know each other for years, but this is the first time you come to me for help. I don't remember the last time you invited me to your blogspot. even though our wives text each other. NANOSERA: What do you want of me?
The Learning Circuits
DECEMBER 29, 2006
(MMORPG = Massively multi-player online role-playing game) Clark Aldrich got quite a reaction a while back when he posted Second Life is not a Teaching Tool to LCB. While I generally agreed with those who rose in opposition to his declaration, something still just didn't fit for me. Even when his call for evidence of learning in SL with his post Second Life Redux got a lot of responses, something still gnawed at me like a young child who's newest linguistic trick is "but why?
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 1, 2006
The November LCB Big Question was "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?" I was planning to try to write up a summary at some point (similar to last month's eLearning Technology: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog ), but I must say this month it was a lot harder.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 21, 2006
A great deal of research is being undertaken in the area of avatars.you know, the lifelike animated people that inhabit Second Life and other online worlds. One person doing work in this area is Amy L. Baylor at Floridia State University. She is the founder of The Center for Research of Innovative Technologies for Learning (RITL) which is creating these virtual trainers has found that learners tend to choose virtual trainer types that were similar in ethnicity to the learner.
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.
Clive on Learning
DECEMBER 21, 2006
Phil Green, Chairman of the eLearning Network has twisted my arm (once again) and persuaded me to take a trip in a balloon with seven of my e-learning colleagues. The trip up is likely to be smooth enough - it's the accelerated descent I'm more concerned about. Phil has organised an 'eLearning Balloon Debate' as an invitation-only event at Learning Technologies 2007 in London.
Big Dog, Little Dog
DECEMBER 30, 2006
Jerome Murat - Daily Motion. This has nothing to do with news, but sometimes you just gotta share. Al Gore's Convenient Presentation - Business Week. In An Inconvenient Truth , Gore makes a persuasive case that the world must take dramatic steps to curtail carbon dioxide emissions in order to reduce global warming. The point is not to convince you the issue is as urgent as Gore argues.
The Learning Circuits
DECEMBER 19, 2006
Relax, relax. It's definitely open blog and you can look onto your neighbor's screen anytime you want. This month you get two chances to voice your opinion. What I've done is summarized all the answers provided to date by our participating bloggers to the "challenges" question and the "prediction" question. I grouped similar or related answers together to help narrow down the number of possible answers for you to choose from.
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.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 21, 2006
I've had a brief blog conversation with Quintus Joubert - eLearning Blog: Blogs: Engaging the reader. It started when he questioned the blogs cited on Gabe's list of top 19 eLearning blogs as ( eLearning Blog: Top 19 eLearning blogs ). His post are good to look at as an example of some of the common questions that people new to the world of blogs have.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 21, 2006
Here is an interview I did with my colleague Marc Rosenberg author of two influential books in the field of learning and e-learning for the web site e-learningguru.com. I worked with Marc at the 2005 EduNeering Knowledge Summit a private event for EduNeering clients. I really enjoyed working with him and jumped at the chance to interview him for e-learningguru.
Clive on Learning
DECEMBER 21, 2006
The Work-Based Learning Unit of e-Skills UK has published preliminary results from their research with employers and learners in the UK "to help understand why employers are currently investing in e-learning and the difference it is making to their business and staff." Some 209 organisations were surveyed (173 producing usable data) and 650 learners.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
DECEMBER 26, 2006
A tale of two experts on m-Learning - The People's Guide to mLearning. I want to raise a flag here in regards to self-directed learning. We can't yet guarantee that we have such learners (to the contrary). So just providing access is not sufficient, we need to push support. I think we can do one more thing, and we should: help individuals learn to learn.
The Learning Circuits
DECEMBER 14, 2006
You may have noticed some changes here at Learning Circuits Blog. I just wanted to take few moments to point out the enhancements, in case you missed one or two. Wider is Better Based on the fact that 96% of our readership is using screen resolutions of 1000 pixels wide or greater, we took the opportunity to widen LCB from the standard 680 pixels to 1000 pixels.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 20, 2006
Wendy started her Five Things Meme post with a comment that resonated with me: I'll admit I am not a huge fan of chain letters or tagging games. Then at the end she tags me. That doesn't seem right does it? Of course, it's kinda like hazing, because I'm going to do the same thing. Okay, so five things you may or may not know about me: 1. I'm 6'6" tall and play beach volleyball at least twice a week (Manhattan Beach, California) and still have a AA (triple is highest)), but am trying to lose it s
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 22, 2006
Here is a great article from the eLearning Guild on avatars. If you are not familiar with the potential of avatars for e-learning check out this article by Raj Sheth titled Avatar Technology: Giving a Face to the e-Learning Interface. The article does a great job of defining avatars and describing the different types of avatars and provides examples of how they are used in a variety of settings.
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Clive on Learning
DECEMBER 13, 2006
I've been buried for a while now in George Siemens' new book, Knowing Knowledge. This is proving to be an interesting experience at a number of levels, because the book breaks with convention in a number of ways: Tha author hopes "the book will not be seen as a product, but rather an invitation to dialogue and debate." The electronic edition of the book is available for free download under a Creative Commons license (by 1st December 40,000 people had accepted the invitation, as reported by the a
Big Dog, Little Dog
DECEMBER 23, 2006
The Youngest Grocer In America YouTube. After the only grocery store in Truman, Minn., closed earlier this year, 17-year-old Nick Graham bought and re-opened it to help save the struggling community. Note: CBS News video. The interaction between genes and environment - ADC. Many have alluded to the importance of the environment on the developing brain.
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