Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

I got a good question via Ask a Question yesterday and would like to hear some other opinions on this issue: I’m very seriously considering a career change into ID. (I’ve spent 20 years in various business assignments with the last 8 in IT.) I’m involved in teaching extra-curricular activities to kids and adults in my community. I very fulfilled when I’m teaching and I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to follow this as a career path.

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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.

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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.

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Lars is Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Here's an article I wrote a few weeks back for Learning Technologies magazine which has just been published. It's a fairly long post but if you make it to the end I would welcome your comments. == When unpredictable change becomes the only constant, learning on your own terms is an essential survival skill in these turbulent times, says Lars Hyland.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Daniel Pink's book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future contains a description of new age - the Conceptual Age. He describes how our society has gone from agricultural to industrial to the information age. But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I just watched the slides from Laura Kratochvil’s DevLearn08 presentation The Making of a Blockbuster: Using Cinematic Techniques in eLearning ( PDF also available ). I need to spend some more time thinking about how I can incorporate these ideas into what I do, but I really like the idea of focusing on emotional impact for online learning. Laura starts with the idea of storytelling, which is a powerful instructional design technique on its own, but goes further by looking at how visuals,

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If you think Web 2.0 can't be used in your company because of legal or regulatory concerns, think about this. Pfizer, the world's largest research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical company, with its corporate headquarters located in New York, created Pfizerpedia (based loosely on Wikipedia ) in 2006 and has been leveraging the interactive-community-based tool ever since.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Meeting Face to Face Yesterday I had the pleasure of working on-site with a client for the day. This is a group Ive been working very closely with for the past year. Although I talk to many of these people on an almost daily basis, I had never met most of them in person before.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

In “Inside Learning Technologies”, Vaughan Waller writes an interesting article article about the gap between what he regarded as e-learning good practice and how accountants said that they wanted to learn. He cites the example of his firm providing International Financial Reporting Standards e-learning and how he’d like to approach it.

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Personal Learning

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

As we are wrapping up the week for Learn Trends , one of the questions we faced was what to do with the Ning community that sprung up to support the conference. I'm pretty sure we are going to leave it up, but I'm also pretty sure that it will sit fairly dormant until the next learning event. The discussion today suggested that it would be nice if there were a way to transfer the connections being made during the conference out to other networks or learning communities.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It seems universal for e-learning staff - working with IT is a challenge. It certainly has been for me at the organizations I have worked. I do want to note that my current IT department has very talented and supportive staff. However, as with most IT departments, they are in big demand and dedicating the resources that are asked of them is challenging.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Recursive flower. These are my liveblogged notes from this morning’s live session for CCK08. Although I usually aim for a fairly complete transcript of live sessions, I spent more time paying attention to and participating in the backchannel chat today. Therefore, some of the questions and discussion near the end aren’t included in my notes.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

I won't be blogging the rest of this week due to spending quality time with my family and recovering from eating all that turkey. So just, remember to be thankful for all you have, I know I am. Even in these tough times, we all have much to be thankful for. Enjoy the holiday. And if it isn't a holiday you celebrate.take some time to just give thanks.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Yesterday I had the pleasure of working on-site with a client for the day. This is a group I've been working very closely with for the past year. Although I talk to many of these people on an almost daily basis, I had never met most of them in person before. Nevertheless, their voices are deeply etched in my brain, and I could have picked any of them out of a lineup if we were going by voice and not visual.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It came up in the Corporate Learning Trends conference last week that one person was responsible for knowledge workers who were, as she claimed, passive learners. This is a really interesting issue, because it crosses several different areas. In research on education, it’s been found that what learners believe about their role in learning has an impact on the outcomes of learning interventions.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

ASTD TechKnowledge 2009 is coming to Las Vegas in January. I'm doing two sessions including a keynote / general session - descriptions below. If you are planning to go to the conference and read this, please drop me a comment because Get Together at Conferences - F2F Still Matters. Better yet, go take a look at: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions Should We be Asking?

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Adobe has just released Adobe Groups. Adobe Groups is an online community of Adobe User Groups around the world. My Adobe User Group Manager is attending Adobe Max and just sent out the news and link (below). Plus, he already set up our group up in the community, thank you. I just set up my profile (JeffGoldman) and browsed around a little bit. It appears it will be a great resource for collaborating within and between groups.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Social media has many upsides but it also has a few downsides as well. Their is certainly value in many people creating all types of videos and you can find all types of good information on YouTube and other video sites but.you can also find some.not so good material and here is a parody of a contest involving YouTube. I rate the video as "fairly funny, LOL" (Contains some potentially offensive language.

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Lars is Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers is out this month and I was struck by this extract from the Guardian/Observer: Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Read them out loud. Now look away and spend 20 seconds memorising that sequence before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50 per cent chance of remembering that sequence perfectly.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

George Siemens asks in his blog: 1. Does education need to change? 2. Why or why not? 3. If it should change, what should it become? How should education (k-12, higher, or corporate) look like in the future? I can’t resist not answering. 1. ABSOLUTELY! Let me count the ways… K12 Education is broken in so many ways. We’re not engaging our students in why this is important, we’re not giving them problems to solve that resemble the ones that they’ll face outside, we&

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Collaboration

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

I'm happy to announce the launch of eLearning Learning. This is the beginning of a community portal where the community will help to collect and organize the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding eLearning. To be clear eLearning Learning is a jump off point.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, November 17, 2008 Best Online Collaboration Tools with Robin Good Live blogging this session from the Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation Conference with Robin Good. The end of the content God. The teacher now serves as mentor to help us create the best thing together.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

When working with subject matter experts (SME), you must keep them involved and engaged in every step of the e-learning process. Here are some tips to accomplish this goal. Lay the foundation Introducing e-learning to the SME lays the foundation of a successful collaboration. E-learning is still new to many people and many misconceptions exist. Someone not exposed to quality e-learning may think it will be a page turner, which is not good e-learning.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

As a culmination of our Corporate Track, students are required to answer an e-learning request for proposal (RFP), create a prototype of the proposed solution and give a 20 minute sales presentation to a group of representatives from various positons within the field of e-learning. Describing the rules of the exercise to CAC Members. This year we had two teams (seven students total) presenting their solutions to the Corporate Advisory Council during the student portion of the event.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Your rapid elearning software makes it easy to record your narration. Most of the time that works for you. However, there are times when recording your own narration doesn’t make sense. Today we’re going to look at when it makes sense to consider professional narration for some of your elearning courses. A Good Voice Doesn’t Equal Good Results. “Why pay for professional narration?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Sorry for the dearth of postings, but what with last week’s DevLearn conference and this week’s (free, online) Corporate Learning Trends (CLT) conference, and background kitchen remodel, client work, etc, I’ve been wiped out by the end of every day. Today was no different, but… Tonite I went from my son’s soccer end-of-season party to our first of the year YGuides meeting.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I received a good question from a reader: Our school district uses Blackboard. We have recently been exploring putting more coursework online and have experimented with the Articulate line of products. Blackboard has done well for us although I am not pleased with their support of the SCORM standards. I would like to be able to export SCORM test results by user/by question but all Blackboard seems to support is general pass/fail records.

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