Big Dog, Little Dog
DECEMBER 10, 2004
In Search of a Better Definition discusses the meaning of e-learning; while The Growth of eLearning discusses the four fuels of elearning: Technology (means). Learning Methodology (means). Acquire new skills and knowledge (consequence). Access information (consequence). The first means and main delivery mechanism of elearning, technology , was also discussed in the last post.
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 28, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. Taking baby steps to achieve giant success in elearning 2. Featured slideshow: "Readiness to Study" 3. The Blended e-Learning Workshop: Your first step to elearning success 1. Taking baby steps to achieve giant success in elearning The most difficult part of starting a project is making that crucial "first step.†Especially in elearning where the market is flooded with too many choices for authoring tools, software, and learning management systems, it is so easy for any p
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Take an e-Learning Break
AUGUST 4, 2004
A fresh approach to e-learning E-learning is a great way to train employees, inform customers about new products and services, or demonstrate new software or other types of technology. If done properly, e-learning can be an exciting and engaging way to provide an interactive experience to customers, students, or users. We bring fresh thinking and innovation to deliver effective solutions whether it is a small rapid e-learning project or large custom e-learning development.
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 4, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. How to stay in touch with online learners while traveling 2. Featured presentation: "Directing e-Learning" 3. Long-distance management of your learners 1. How to stay in touch with online learners even when traveling Doctors aren't the only ones who need to be "on-call". There are many instances when online learners need to have their questions answered by a mentor while in the middle of their "learning".
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Vignettes Learning
SEPTEMBER 20, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. If the "Blind Swordsman" were to successfully sell e-learning programs to top management 2. Featured Simulation: "Millionaire Game" 3. How do you successfully sell e-learning to top management? 1. If the "Blind Swordsman" were to successfully sell e-learning programs to top management Gaining management approval for an e-learning program takes the skills of the Blind Swordsman-the Japanese movie hero who, though sightless, proves that he can handle his weapon.
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Vignettes Learning
AUGUST 30, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. In e-Learning, Is Content King? 2. Featured vignette: "Let 'Em Digest More Than They Want or Need" 3. Costing e-Learning Projects 1. In e-Learning, Is Content King? Just as some elementary school teachers considered Albert Einstein a mathematical dunce, others gave up early on the language skills of Winston S. Churchill - recognized today as a genius of English prose.
Vignettes Learning
AUGUST 23, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. The iPod and what we can adapt in e-Learning 2. Featured slideshow: "Interactivity" 3. Using the best media mix for your e-learning project 1. The iPod and e-Learning: What can we adapt? Apple's CEO Steve Jobs preaches that the iPod is revolutionalizing the way people listen to music and audio books (Newsweek, July 26, 2004). The iPod had become an icon, a status symbol, an important part of one's life.
Vignettes Learning
AUGUST 16, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. Googlelize e-Learning Programs for Repeat Value 2. Illustration: "e-Learning Search Function†3. The Search Function as a Coaching Tool 1. Googlelize e-Learning Programs for Repeat Value We love Google for the way it helps us search tons of information to retrieve just the bytes we need, and for the way it helps us do this in a flash.
Vignettes Learning
AUGUST 9, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. Designing Effective Graphics For e-Learning Programs 2. Featured Slideshow: "Multimedia†3. Converting Content is Tough: It is tougher than software development 1. Designing Effective Graphics For e-Learning Programs Many trainers and designers copy free canned graphics, and slap them into e-learning programs. It's the easy wayâ€"but it rarely works.
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Vignettes Learning
AUGUST 2, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. Which is more compelling to the learners: facts or stories? 2. Featured Vignette: "Control Freakszzzzz†3. Over 10 examples of simulation, case studies and story-telling e-learning 3. lessons are presented 1. Which is more compelling to the learners: facts or stories? In every learning experience there are two parts: the mechanical or factual information; and the organics The mechanics are objectives, descriptions, procedures, methods, references and others.
Vignettes Learning
JULY 27, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. Valuable tips in chunking content for e-learning delivery 2. Featured Vignette: "Baking the Right e-Learning Program†3. Learning the methodology of converting content for e-learning delivery 1. Valuable tips in chunking content for e-learning delivery Next time someone tells you to simply make "chunks†of your content to present them in e-learning format, ask this question: "What do you chunk and how do you chunk?
Vignettes Learning
JULY 19, 2004
Topics this issue: 1. Simple and effective ways to make e-learning engaging 2. Featured Slideshow: "Boring e-Learning Programs: Something is Lost†3. Over 50 engaging interactive exercises, games, simulation, etc. 1. Second wave of e-learning - basic and simple ways to engage learners in e-learnings The second wave of e-learning programs is now starting to surface in businesses.
Big Dog, Little Dog
NOVEMBER 16, 2004
In a recent blog, I wrote how elearning has the two aspects of means & consequence that uses innovative technologies and learning models (the means) to transform the way individuals and organizations acquire new skills and knowledge and access information (the consequence). Note that I slightly change the last part of this definition from the original post.
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.
Big Dog, Little Dog
NOVEMBER 8, 2004
One of the first definitions for e-learning is ASTD's , who define it as covering a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the delivery of content via Internet, intranet/extranet (LAN/WAN), audio- and videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive TV, and CD-ROM.
Big Dog, Little Dog
NOVEMBER 4, 2004
Developing high-value content that advances your business strategy and tactics presents two key challenges. The first challenge is to determine what existing content provides the greatest value and, just as important, what does not provide value. The second challenge is to determine what content doesn't exist, but should. To identify and better manage content, use a methodology that shows a "system†view of a process.
Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 30, 2004
During Objective Peach , Lt. Col. Ernest "Rock" Marcone, a battalion commander with the 69th Armor of the Third Infantry Division, was starved for information about Iraqi troop movements and as he said in the Technology Review article, "I would argue that I was the intelligence-gathering device for my higher headquarters.".
Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 28, 2004
Students, keep this in mind before that next major exam: Pre-test jitters make it easier to recall memorized facts, but that stress also makes it tough to solve more complex problems. Researchers at Ohio State University gave a battery of simple cognitive tests to 19 first-year medical students one to two days before a regular classroom exam -- a period when they would be highly stressed.
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.
Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 28, 2004
John Anderton: "I need your help. You contain information. I need to know how to get at it.". In the recent science-fiction thriller "Minority Report," Tom Cruise plays Detective John Anderton who solves future crimes by being immersed in a "data cave," where he rapidly accesses all the relevant information about the identity, location and associates of the potential victim.
Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 25, 2004
Researchers at the University of Florida have created a neural network made up of 25,000 disembodied rat neurons and hooked it up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. The neurons, which are growing on top of a multi-electrode array (MEA), are fed information about the simulated F-22's horizontal and vertical movements by stimulating the electrodes, causing them to fire in patterns that are then used to control the aircraft.
Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 25, 2004
CLO Dashboard, a strategic reporting and decision-making system for chief learning officers, learning managers and executives, has is now in Beta production by Zeroed-In Technologies announces its flagship product. CLO Dashboard is built on a corporate performance management framework and is tailored to the learning industry with predefined Key Performance Indicators (KPI) including learning efficiency, learning effectiveness, compliance and readiness.
Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 24, 2004
In 2000, the Acquisition Workforce 2005 Task Force of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) called for the development and implementation of needs-based human resource performance plans for Department of Defense (DoD) civilian acquisition workforces. The greater need for workforce planning is expected to arise from an unusually heavy workforce turnover, itself due to a large number of expected retirements among older employees in a workforce that has not hired younger new workers in recen
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Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 24, 2004
Investors who bought the bubble-era hype about "anywhere, anytime" learning that it would quickly put an end to education as we know it lost tens of millions in the dot-com crash. A key reason -- they wildly underestimated the cost and difficulty of delivering quality E-courses. Yet now that so many hard lessons have been learned, a more subtle but perhaps just as significant shift is well underway.
Big Dog, Little Dog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2004
Denham Grey on knowledge and information. Much of what purports to be knowledge management is in reality information management. Just the other day I heard a rep selling scanners as a core KM technology, "essential for knowledge sharing," without which the organization was doomed to be bypassed by every other firm going down the knowledge track.
Big Dog, Little Dog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2004
Taran Rampersad didn't complain when he failed to find anything on his hometown in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Instead, he simply wrote his own entry for San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Wikipedia is unique for an encyclopedia because anybody can add, edit and even erase. And the Wikipedia is just one - albeit the best known - of a growing breed of Internet knowledge-sharing communities called Wikis.
Big Dog, Little Dog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2004
An ecosystem is an ecological community that, together with its environment, functions as a unit. Extending the definition to the e-learning environment, we can define an e-learning ecosystem as the learning community, together with the enterprise, united by a learning management system (LMS). If e-learning is truly to provide greater access to education and support educational programs that reflect broader strategic business goals, many believe that the e-learning industry must take the time no
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Big Dog, Little Dog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2004
If You Build It, Will They Come? At Microsoft's CEO Summit in May, the software giant's own CEO, Steve Ballmer, spoke passionately about the importance of having "digital dashboards": real-time desktop displays of key performance indicators (KPIs) that show critical business ratios such as profit per sales employee per week, customer satisfaction in dispute resolution and the status of outstanding issues with major suppliers.
Big Dog, Little Dog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2004
Failure is the rule rather than the exception, and every failure contains information. One of the most misleading lessons imparted by those who have reached their goal is that the ones who win are the ones who persevere. Not always. If you keep trying without learning why you failed, you'll probably fail again and again. Perseverance must be accompanied by the embrace of failure.
Big Dog, Little Dog
AUGUST 22, 2004
CNN has a Special Report on America's Changing Classrooms. The main focus in on online education and charter schools. The presentation is quite good with such options as an educational time line and art gallery. Be sure to check it out!
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