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
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.
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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
JANUARY 10, 2006
Course creators know of Rapid Authoring, and Programmers are aware of Rapid Application Development. The general idea is the same: waste less time and effort, get more bang for the buck. For those people who need to build interactive content, there has been a need for something on those lines. Rapid Interactivity is a new paradigm, which answers this unmet need.
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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The Learning Circuits
NOVEMBER 6, 2006
October's The Big Question was great fun and a great success. We had 38 posts regarding the topic "Should all Learning Professionals be Blogging?" There were over 70 comments made to the posts and we had 60 votes in our mini survey. November's The Big Question is: Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
DECEMBER 20, 2006
Okay so I saw this going around the bloggosphere. Half of me is thinkin', interesting.the other half silently thinking.please, please, not me. Damn you TONY !!! ;-) And yes, Tony is one ultra-tall guy! Okay.Five things.here we go! 1) I'm the grandson of a Lutheran minister. My younger brother kept up the tradition and is now a Lutheran minister in Florida.
Tony Karrer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
Rapid eLearning Tools Satisfaction from the eLearningGuild Research reported Feb 2007 - Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction See also Software Simulation Tools. Page update Mar 2008. When the above graphic was taken, it shows the overall satisfaction reported by eLearningGuild members about various tools. I was reminded of the various Brandon Hall shoot-outs.
Breakthrough eLearning
DECEMBER 19, 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, December 19, 2006 Year-End Reflections The end of a year is traditionally a time for stock taking and reflection.
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
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.
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.
The Learning Circuits
DECEMBER 30, 2006
There is only one training metric that matters: the person responsible for the training program gets promoted. Any other metric, be it smilesheets or increased organizational productivity, or stock price, is only ammunition. Now, clearly we need to tap into pure research. We need to pilot. But there are at least three reasons why this is the critical metric. 1.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
DECEMBER 19, 2006
I had the pleasure of visiting the Masie Center last week which is why the Corporate eLearning Weekly TalkCast was pushed to this past Monday. I forgot to post about the move.oops. So I basically talked to myself. Join in this Friday for this week's review and end of year recap. Elliott asked if I would become a Masie Learning Fellow as part of his organization and of course I jumped at the opportunity.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 24, 2006
Saw an interesting post by Dennis Coxe - Sailing by the Sound: What Informal Learning Means To Me where he points out the conflict today between learning management systems and content access / informal learning: But what really struck me is that from what I have read is that the real rebellion against formal training versus what is called "informal training" is the slavish devotion to learning management systems.
Breakthrough eLearning
DECEMBER 15, 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 Friday, December 15, 2006 Learning Should be "Hard Fun" When surveying the 100 folks we had in our webinar this week on how to integrate gaming and simulations into eLearning, I wasnt that surprised that a great many were computer gamers themselves
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.
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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.
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?
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