Tony Karrer

JUNE 13, 2006

Based on my recent posts about the Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids , I was asked if this isn't just "Rapid eLearning" - a term that simultaneously is good and bad. First the good. Rapid eLearning is on the mark in terms of the demands on learning professionals - Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0 - the heart of which are the following needs: Very fast transfer Occurred in short bursts w/o leaving the workplace Fast to develop (and low cost) Had rea

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 29, 2006

I was at the conference recently and my ears picked up during the introduction when the presenter talked about his involvement in a JISC project that used the power of story for sharing of expertise. Now I didn’t get the chance to ask, but this sounds like it came straight out of Daniel Pinks book ‘ A whole New Mind’. If like me, you have grown up and now reside in a post war, post industrial, post information age, is that last one a shock, Western country, then you are likely having some unease

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Learning Visions

JUNE 15, 2006

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, June 15, 2006 Flash: Embedding Video in the Experience I really like how they did this. The acting is lame, but the interface is tres cool. Talk about "embedding video in the experience". [link] Posted by Cammy Bean at 10:14 PM 1 comments: Dean Biele said. on2.com creates the codec used in the Flash Player 8.

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The Learning Circuits

JUNE 29, 2006

Resolving an adversarial situation with the minimum expenditure of force necessary to achieve a satisfactory outcome. Conflict is often, but not necessarily, a failure of conflict management. When conflict does occur in the context of a successful conflict management approach, it is more contained and productive than either no conflict or a larger conflict, or the conflict supports other agendas including political.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 28, 2006

There's nothing quite so discomfiting as a challenge to your view of the world, particularly when it comes armed with a multitude of solid references and what seems like 'conclusive evidence'. So this paper, WHY MINIMALLY GUIDED INSTRUCTION DOES NOT WORK , by Paul Kirschner, John Sweller and Richard Clark, must have put quite a few liberal educational noses out of joint when it was published in Educational Psychologist in January of this year.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2006

Found via: Big Dog, Little Dog - a very interesting article: Why Minimal Guidance during Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching - Educational Psychologist It points out that open learning environments may not be good ways for people to learn. Doesn't this suggest that informal learning, collaborative learning and other approaches to learning that do not provide much guidance are - well - misguide

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 25, 2006

If you read my post regarding the crossword generator the other day from Eclipse, then you will know that I was intending using it on my Moodle courses, well I did and it went down very well. The problem I faced though is tracking something that essentially is just a web page. Of course the answer is: make a Scorm package, o yeh. I remember my first attempt at Scorm with Moodle 1.3, some content pages followed by a multiple choice quiz that processed user entry using the cmi data model plus some

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2006

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Cool E-Learning Info From Kineo These guys have some interesting things to say. And Kevin Kruse (the e-Learning guru) loves them. Check out the reports in the right sidebar [link]. Titles include: Learning Strategy Alignment and 50 Ideas for Free e-Learning.

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The Learning Circuits

JUNE 28, 2006

[Training Person is riding elevator, when door opens and CEO walks in.] CEO: You're the training person, right? TP: Yes I am. CEO: So what have you done this quarter? TP: I and my whole department have been doing a lot of research. We are talking to a lot of industry gurus. We have been passionately following all of the hot trends in training. CEO: Sounds great.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2006

Contrary to popular sentiment, over the years I've been very loyal to Microsoft when it comes to office tools. I've had just about every edition of the Office suite within a few months of its release, regardless of whether it's yet been properly tested and debugged. Although an upgrade of this sort is never as trivial as it's intended to be, I have never experienced any really major problems.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

JUNE 28, 2006

The cat's finally out of the bag. The dirty little secret of the training department is out! From CLO magazine we get this article. Many executives dissatisfied with training efforts. Well, wouldn't you be if you discovered that all that budget went to activities supporting <10% of employee behavior change? Clark Aldrich nailed it with this tongue-in-cheek fantasy story about a conversation between the CEO and a knowledgable training pro.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2006

Found via: e-Learning Acupuncture : Great paper that looks at different kinds of test questions commonly used in eLearning courseware and a framework for considering these. Don't let the title throw you - there's good stuff that's readily accessible. You can get the article at: Computer-Based Assessment in E-Learning: A Framework for Constructing "Intermediate Constraint" Questions and Tasks for Technology Platforms.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 22, 2006

I went along to a JISC event today in London in order to discover the details regarding the funding opportunity and guidelines for the latest bid call. The presentations and help were extremely useful and I had a chance meet with delegates from other colleges who will likely be joining us in our Collaborative e-Learning project proposal. Our group got together for an hour in the afternoon and drew up contact lists and some initial requirements to go forward with, all is feeling good, and I will

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Learning Visions

JUNE 1, 2006

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, June 01, 2006 Web Usability A recent study by usability expert Jakob Nielsen about how people read (or rather scan) websites: [link] Posted by Cammy Bean at 1:49 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an

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The Learning Circuits

JUNE 27, 2006

In all of the formal learning industries, including training and education, we have to teach the basic stuff, and we have to put out fires. We have to teach people how to use a portal, or create adequate footnotes. We have to get them their new password. A new compliance law pops up and we have to develop content to deal with it. But what amazes me is how many people think that is enough.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2006

Conventional online learning design focuses on self-study and self-pacing, with all the advantages and disadvantages with which these are associated. Yes, students have much greater control over what and when they learn and at what speed, but on the other hand, they have to rely on their own time structuring and self-discipline, and remain isolated from their colleagues.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

JUNE 28, 2006

An Intel Colleague from the Digital Home Group blogged this little gem. Set up your own server that can deliver your personal content in multiple formats for FREE! TVersity is the product and it conjurs up all sorts of ideas for distributing learning content behind a firewall to the many digital devices available to our employees. What is it? "The TVersity Media Server lets you manage your Internet and home media and create your personalized lineup of channels, or as we call it your Personal Ent

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 27, 2006

I saw another post from Dave Boggs, Has The Blogging Trend Begun To Fade, Even Before It Ever Got Started In Corporate Training / e-Learning Environments? In this post, Dave unfortunately lumps together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together). However, I think the answer about adoption rates is going to be quite different for these things with Wikis and Mashups being adopted at a very high rate.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 21, 2006

I presented at the Greenwich University Diverse Practices, Common Futures e-learning conference today and it seemed to be really well received. This is encouraging as I shall be using the case study as the foundation for our JISC bid, more on that to come. The whole day was in fact very enjoyable, going to presentations, plus lots of opportunities to chat with others who like myself are working in HE using VLE’s and trying out all kinds of e and m-Learning technologies and practices, priceless r

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Breakthrough eLearning

JUNE 27, 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, June 27, 2006 Learning is a Process, Not a Thing The eLearning field is prone to hype, and one of the most hyped things I have come across in the last five years is the promise of learning objects.

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The Learning Circuits

JUNE 24, 2006

Let me try to rephrase this conversation a bit. (And please, please read this post, not just the headline, before commenting.) If you haven't practiced, you haven't learned. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, who said "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe," I would say, "Give me six hours to learn something and I will spend the last four practicing.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

JUNE 24, 2006

June 24, 2006. The Three Worlds of Knowledge - Learning Circuits. One of the most popular epistemology models (except in the behavioral sciences) is Sir Karl Popper's writtings on the Three Worlds of Knowledge. The knowledge/learning/management professions seem to prefer and stay within the realm of Michael Polanyi's concept of personal and tacit knowledge.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

JUNE 27, 2006

Intel Corp., facing rough competition and slowing demand for personal computers, is selling its division that makes processors for handheld devices in a $600 million deal announced Tuesday with Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2006

I ran across a recent article by Stowe Boyd - Matthew Glotzbach on Consumer Collaboration that is an interesting look at how the workforce is changing and it has some implications for learning professionals. But, he also linked to a great post: The Individual is the New Group - where he points out that the classic notion of groupware has been falling out of favor and instead the concept of soloware with extension for collaboration (think blog vs. discussion group) is gaining adoption.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 19, 2006

I came across a terrific crossword generator the other day from eclipse. Their blurb states: It's never been simpler—just give EclipseCrossword a list of words and clues, and it does the rest. In seconds, you'll have a crossword puzzle with just the words you want. The application installed fine and I had a crossword running easilly, to have a look follow this link.

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Breakthrough eLearning

JUNE 22, 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, June 22, 2006 Determining Competency Requirements My colleague Mike Grant led a webinar today on How to Develop Competencies for Effective eLearning.

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The Learning Circuits

JUNE 22, 2006

This post is chained to Peter Isackson's, Saving "knowing" from imminent execution , which is chained to Clark Aldrich's Dead Reckoning. To get beyond what Peter and Clark have described as a "static" and "freeze-dried world of knowledge and Jay and Clark's comments on "knowledge" and "meaning," we need to look at other models. While this is not meant as a complete answer, I believe it moves it in the right direction.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

JUNE 20, 2006

Eye movement, visual memory, and peanut butter sandwiches - Cognitive Daily. Experiments on change blindness have revealed striking limitations in visual memory. Yet new research shows that perhaps visual memory isn't as limited as once was thought. The Weblog Project. The first open-source movie documentary about blogs and bloggers. Colleges fail to tap training dollars - Columbus Dispatch.

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