Rapid eLearning
AUGUST 1, 2008
The Rapid Elearning Blog. 5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development. December 11th, 2007. 15 comments. Almost daily I get emails asking how to get started with developing elearning. There’s no substitution for experience. Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of.
Experiencing eLearning
JULY 30, 2008
I received another question from a reader today that I’m hoping someone out in the blogosphere can help answer. Usually I think of freelance e-learning developers developing content for a specific client with a specific audience in mind. However, this reader is looking for something else: Which sites, if any, accept e-learning courses from freelance courseware developers?
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Mark Oehlert
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
So my friend Mark Friedman, down at JKDDC , posed the following question to his LinkedIn network: "What do you think the SCORM E-Learning Reference Model will evolve into during the next 10 years? SCORM is literally 10 years old now - so guessing what it can evolve into (or not) in the next 10 years seems to be good question to ponder these days.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, February 15, 2008 Essential Reading for Instructional Design? As an instructional designer/eLearning professional, what books are the essential tools in your reference library ? Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety.
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Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
During my presentation last Thursday that was an introduction to eLearning 2.0 as part of an online event for the eLearningGuild, I mentioned a few common ways that I've seen eLearning 2.0 approaches used in corporate learning settings: Alongside Formal Learning Blog as writing tool Wiki as a collaborative learning tool Editable reference materials (Wiki) Internal / External Product information Process information Sales scenarios Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / support information Online refe
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E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 28, 2008
Recently, I read a blog article about connectivism by Debora Gallo. Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism. This got me thinking… I don’t know anything about connectivism! So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 23, 2008
Image from Kathy Sierra's old "creating passionate users" blog via Jane Bozarth Lately there has been a lot of discussion over at Cammy Bean's blog Learning Visions about whether or not someone has the "right" to be called an instructional designer or whether or not you even need to know instructional theories to be called an instructional designer.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
We showed this graphic for the first time at DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo at the Fairmont San Jose. The conference theme was, in keeping with its Silicon Valley venue, learning in a Web 2.0 world. The topic of the talk was “Fostering Interactivity in the Classroom, Self-paced eLearning and Informal Learning.” Although the graphic shows interactivity driving three learning modalities, there are important differences in the way interactivity drives these.
Clive on Learning
AUGUST 28, 2008
The debate was already red hot before this video by Professor Daniel T Willingham from the University of Virginia (brought to my attention by Stephen Downes ) added fuel to the fire. On the one side are the learning and development romantics, all voodoo and crystals, holding firm to their pseudo-psychological beliefs. On the other, the cold, clinical and calculating rationalists, trying to make sense of the multitude of interacting variables that impact on teaching and learning by resorting to t
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Learning with e's
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Several people asked me while I was at Online Educa Berlin why I use the name Timbuckteeth on Twitter , Flickr , Plurk and Slideshare. Others wondered about my use of the blue astronaut picture as my buddy pic. I haven't really answered in full until now, so here it is - my response about my own digital identity. In the light of this, and the excellent Wordle map which Marga Perez created from her analysis of all the tweets at this year's Online Educa Berlin conference, here is my considered res
Rapid eLearning
DECEMBER 15, 2008
Going to a stock image site and looking for just the right pictures can be very time-consuming and a drain on your limited resources. Why not create your own stock images? If rapid elearning software makes everyone an instructional designer, then surely a digital camera makes us all photographers. Obviously, this approach doesn’t work for everyone and taking good photos is an art in itself.
Experiencing eLearning
MAY 18, 2008
About six weeks ago, I added a new feature to my sidebar: an Ask A Question button. This idea was mentioned on Problogger as a way to promote your blog, find out what content is actually relevant to your readers, and improve interaction and community. Since I was already getting a number of questions in comments, I thought I’d try this out to see what kind of questions I received.
Mark Oehlert
JUNE 14, 2008
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Godspeed Tim Russert. | Main | "So" - A Whole Article on So.Awesome. » June 14, 2008 OMG.There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!! OK at least now we have an explanation for what has been going on in all of organizations. We have thoroughly been infiltrated by spies who have read and are following this manual.
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.
Learning Visions
JANUARY 7, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, January 07, 2008 The Value of Instructional Designers Ive been having on ongoing conversation with other instructional designers as to whether or not we need to have the technical skill sets to actually build the courses we design. Many instructional designers ( Christy Tucker , Wendy Wickham ) build their own courses using tools like Captivate.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I'm debating the value of forum / group / threaded discussion software vs. social network software for a particular situation. It aims at a very broad audience that includes everyone from early adopters to technology laggards. We generally expect users to break into: 5% - Heavy Users - spend quite a bit of time and heavily participate 15% - Light Users - spend a little time, participate a little 80% - Fly-Bys - spend very little time, read bits and pieces It is likely that some of the Heavy User
Tony Karrer
JUNE 16, 2008
Just wanted to announce that I'll be doing a full-day workshop in Cincinnati (actually in nearby Kentucky) for the Greater Cincinnati ASTD on July 15. I think this is going to be an interesting and fun workshop. I'm hoping that a few folks who read this blog will go. You can go to their site: [link] to find out more about specific place, time, cost, etc.
E-Learning Acupuncture
MARCH 7, 2008
If you want to be a nurse then you need to go to school. Many schools are using technological tools to delivery nursing education; especially in the area of nursing simulations. I came across one particularly interesting example of this just today. John Miller, a Nursing Professor, at Tacoma Community College in Washington is spearheading a nursing simulation hosted within Second Life.
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.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 3, 2008
The other day at a presentation, a participant asked me how many companies have adopted mobile learning.was it widespread and if they where behind because they didn't have a full blown mobile learning roll out yet? The answer is that mobile learning is just now starting to get a foothold but it is not widespread by any means. In fact, two separate surveys indicate that m-learning is just now starting to become of interest to organizations.
Marcia Conner
DECEMBER 20, 2008
I'm old enough to be a grandparent and I spend a lot of time with a special 1-year old so it shouldn't surprise me so much that I'm enjoying the website for a new magazine, GRAND.
Clive on Learning
JANUARY 29, 2008
I've enjoyed reading Karl Kapp's Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning (Pfeiffer, 2007). It's been out a few months now, but I just got round to it. Karl's basic premise is that there's a wide cultural gulf between the boomers (that's me) and the gamers (those brought up with technology), and that this gets in the way of the transfer of knowledge and expertise from one to the other.
Learning with e's
OCTOBER 1, 2008
Marc Prensky's much quoted work on digital immigrants and digital natives is under attack (again), and his distinction between preferences, behaviours, and. yes. even cognitive structures. has been challenged in some recent research. Tom Hanson, Editor of OpenEducation.net shared some links with me this morning and writes: "In recent months, research has been emerging that calls into question several of the assumptions surrounding the current generation of learners dubbed 'digital natives'.
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Rapid eLearning
AUGUST 1, 2008
The Rapid Elearning Blog. Little Known Ways to Create Your Own Graphics Using PowerPoint. September 3rd, 2007. 74 comments. If you follow Sweller’s cognitive load theory , then you understand that the graphics in your elearning course are very important and play a large role in its effectiveness. However, not having the right graphics is a challenge.
Experiencing eLearning
SEPTEMBER 1, 2008
Too many people have been talking about learning styles research lately for me to try to cite them all here. Many have commented on the Learning Styles Don’t Exist video, for example. Via Karyn Romeis and Stephen Downes , I found two lengthy reviews of learning styles research: Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning. Should we be using learning styles?
Janet Clarey
OCTOBER 9, 2008
ASTD ’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.&# This month it’s: I’m interested in [the field of] eLearning. What should I do first? I’m responding to this question from the perspective of a person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. a person who knows little about the term. I think one place to start is to look at the competencies and skills needed for various “e-learning&# jobs.
Learning Visions
JANUARY 25, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, January 25, 2008 Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives My recent post on alternatives to listing out learning objectives generated a lot of interest and a good conversation. ( See My Objection to Learning Objectives.) I attempt to summarize here, but feel free to go back to the original post and read all the comments: Clive Shepherd hates when learning objectives are the first thing
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 12, 2008
After my post on Improving Organizational Learning Infrastructure, Daan Assen suggested that it was too limited in reference to the broader Learning Organization picture. That’s valuable feedback, because I really mean it to be the learning organization culture and the technology infrastructure, the latter of which isn’t included traditionally in the learning organization work.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 2, 2008
I'm at the ASTD Conference in San Diego at the general session. It looks like there are about 5,000 people in the room. A complete guess at the number, but pretty good size. Tony Bingham, ASTD CEO, is talking about and showing videos around talent management. It's interesting to see the message be around talent management when often that's fairly separate from the learning function.
Vignettes Learning
JANUARY 14, 2008
One of the toughest challenges in running an e-learning project is finding the right talent and ensuring they fit into the roles and expectations of the team. The list below is a good starting point to identify roles, responsibilities and qualifications. List of Roles and Job Functions in e-Learning Development _ Project Champion and Leader Principal areas of responsibility Strategy for e-Learning Managing the total process of group contributions Oversees Readiness Study, Viability Study, Learni
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