April, 2007

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New Blog - and a Great Post Conference Practice

Tony Karrer

I just saw a post - Welcome to My First Post! that was good to see: It was Tony Karrer's session [at eLearningGuild], An Introduction to New e-Learning Technologies that inspired me to start this blog. That's always good to see and makes you hopeful that there actually is some good coming from presenting. But it was also great to see the other comments made by this blogger about what they feel they learned from the conference, a few things they are planning to do, etc.

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Hire that Kid!

Kapp Notes

Warning sarcasm ahead You may have read that there is a scandal brewing in schools across the United States and even the world. Kids are using iPods and MP3 players to cheat on tests. A horrible use of technology…those darn electronic gizmos…they are corrupting the youth of the world. An article by Associated Press called “ Schools banning iPods to beat cheaters ” outlines how “schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device.” A teacher a

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Rubric for Online Instruction Chico State

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 26, 2007 Rubric for Online Instruction Chico State This morning, I stumbled across this Rubric for Online Instruction from Chico State University. For those of us not from academic backgrounds, rubric might be a new term. I first heard of them when my husband was applying for k-12 teaching positions.

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Learnlets » eLearning Tools?

Clark Quinn

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Larry Snotter and the Virtual World

Learning with e's

Tragically, trainee chat room Wizard Larry Snotter has become addicted to Second Life. His avatar, a disturbingly thin blonde woman with a twisted smile, has begun to dominate his life. His irritating little friend Nobby (himself a reformed Internet addict), takes it upon himself to help Larry to quit… LARRY: You don’t understand Nobby. I've got to keep going back.

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eLearning Design - Posts about Designing eLearning

Tony Karrer

I received a question about a particular eLearning Design challenge that someone was facing and I realized that the title of my blog and the way I post doesn't really do justice to talking about design and patterns in designing eLearning in this blog. I'll try to work on that, but here's a list of posts that are relevant to eLearning design and eLearning patterns: What Clients Really Want The basis for many of the eLearning design decisions.

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Out and About: Talk'n About Games

Kapp Notes

Pictured from Left to Right are Karl Kapp, Greg Walsh and Steve Sugar. Three guys talking about games (apparently arranged by height). Recently I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of games with two interesting and exciting gentleman. One was Steve Sugar who has written a half-a-dozen books on what he calls "19th century games." Steve has developed board games, games where you toss koosh balls, bingo games and just about any other type of fun, educational game you can think of.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer"

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 26, 2007 Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer" I dont have a masters degree in instructional design or education. In fact, I dont have any kind of masters degree at all. I have never taken a class in pedagogy. I have never taken a course in adult learning theory.

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Learnlets » See you in the funny papers

Clark Quinn

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Mast hysteria?

Learning with e's

Two interesting articles about wireless technologies grabbed my attention this week. The first warns about the dangers of children using wi-fi laptops. Professor Lawrie Challis (University of Nottingham) suggests that teachers should discourage children from sitting with wireless laptops on their laps in much the same way that they should be discouraged from holding mobile phones to their heads for prolonged periods.

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Non-conscious learning - a play with statistics

Clive on Learning

Recently I've been reading Eric Jensen's book Brain-Based Learning , and this took me to some work done by Dr Emile Donchin at the University of Illinois in 1986. Apparently, Donchin and his associates conducted some research which appeared to show that more than 99% of our learning is nonconscious. Jensen was interested in the implication for teachers: "Most of what's learned in your class is not in your lesson plan; in other words, there's a documented, enormous and profound differential betwe

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eLearning Authoring Tools

Tony Karrer

Authoring Tools Several questions came up recently around Authoring Tools and I wanted to point people to some past posts on authoring tools that I think serve as good foundation. eLearning Course Authoring Tools Satisfaction - More Articulate, Captivate, and Lectora Tops in Authoring Tool Satisfaction Course Authoring Tools and Rapid Authoring Tools Satisfaction Use of Wikis as Compared to Authoring Tools Rapid Authoring Tools Shift in Authoring Tool Use from Pure Courseware towards Reference H

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Get the Glass

Kapp Notes

Did your mom always try to get you to drink your milk? She probably told you that drinking milk will help you grow up to be big and strong. If she was like my mom, she tried really hard but it was never any fun to drink my milk. I always wanted chocolate or even Pink Quick to make my milk taste better. (actually I only wanted the Pink Quick once.until I actually tasted it.not good.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineo & The Future of Rapid e-Learning Tools

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Kineo & The Future of Rapid e-Learning Tools If you dont already subscribe to Kineos occasional newsletter , please do. Not only are they really smart guys, but theyre also funny -- AND they like to share what they know with the rest us -- for the greater good of the e-Learning community.

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Learnlets » See you in the funny papers

Clark Quinn

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Happy Anniversary!

The Learning Circuits

I've been having some connection challenges the past few days, so I'm almost belated with this post but not quite - I've still got an hour until midnight here on the US Pacific Coast. Five years ago, today - April 29, 2002, Jay Cross made the first official post to Learning Circuits Blog. Welcome to the Learning Circuits Blog! A blog (short for web-log) lets you post a few sentences -- you don't have to puff up an observation into an article to post it.

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Everyone's an SME

Clive on Learning

I've just seen Patrick Dunn's great animation A bright and glowing future for instructional designers. This suggests that, under pressures for greater and greater creativity in their e-learning for less and less cost, organisations may turn to (1) SMEs, who are cheaper, (2) games designers, who are more creative or (3), heaven forbid, all those employees out there, who are very cheap, very creative and know exactly what they want.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Correlation Between IQ and Net Worth (Wealth)

Tony Karrer

the non-relationship between financial worth and iq Originally uploaded by pkedrosky. Just saw a post If You're So Dumb, Why Aren't You Rich? that cited an article in the journal Intelligence. It shows the correlation between IQ and Net Worth. Surprisingly there isn't one. Can that be right?

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Email is Sooo 1990s

Kapp Notes

This week on the TrainingDay blog , I have written about how email is now "snail mail" since the gamers want to have information via text messages as opposed to email which takes too long. You can read the posted called Email is Antiquated.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Thank You Stephen Downes

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 19, 2007 Thank You Stephen Downes Stephen Downes helps keep it real, man. Sometimes I read something and it clinks around in my brain for awhile and wont let go. This was one of those things -- in keeping with the latest conversations on PLEs -- in keeping with my own struggles with working in the corporate realm.

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Learnlets » eLearning Tools?

Clark Quinn

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Welcome to the collective

Learning with e's

It's morning here in the Czech Republic, we are in Ceske Budejovice and the weather has broken. Yesterday we had blazing sunshine and today it has been raining and the temperature has dropped. With the students we walked around for hours in Prague and trammed, bussed and metro'd our way in and out of all the interesting sites. On our way down the funicular railway a few days ago (the slippery slope on the left) I had a conversation with our guides Brian and Dale (another slippery slope.) that me

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The 30-minute masters

Clive on Learning

In Boston, Cammy Bean and I were discussing what SMEs (subject matter experts) would need to know if they were to try and produce effective rapid e-learning materials. Cammy suggested that we (the interested members of the blogging community) should co-operate in coming up with a curriculum, perhaps using a wiki. Well, I thought that was a great idea, and took away the action step of setting up the wiki and populating it with initial content.

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Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments

Tony Karrer

There's been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony O'Driscoll , Brent Schelenker , and Steven Downes at the eLearningGuild. And then over beers. Getting back, I've seen quite a few blog posts on the topic: Stephen Downes - Personal Learning I can talk about webs and networks and personal learnings and PLEs but there's a disconnect unless people see themselves as l

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CAC Teams: Think e-Design

Kapp Notes

This student team consisted of Mary Beyer, Spring Taylor, Hong Sun, and Heather Gee. There solution was: Think e-Design proposes to redesign the delivery platform within the current learning management system (LMS). Since PDFRS currently has an LMS, Think e-Design recommends utilizing this existing technology. We propose to design SWAT (Secure Pennsylvania With Awareness Training) University.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Another take on Cognitive Load Theory

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Another take on Cognitive Load Theory The authors of the Eide Neurolearning Blog weigh in on recent research and articles on cognitive load (including the death of Powerpoint that have been talked about here ). While they recognize that some of this info is useful for understanding ways to effectively present information, ".the researchers still underestimate the diversity

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Learnlets » iQuiz, not quite

Clark Quinn

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Get to know Lucinda Roy

The Learning Circuits

How many of you knew Lucinda Roy? (I didn't). How many of you know her now? Probably a lot more. Our educational institutions were already in a deep crisis and didn't need a mass killing to help sort things out. But in the midst of a senseless, heart-breaking and deeply troubling tragedy, Lucinda Roy, black, British and a successful writer is the "professor” who out of concern volunteered to handle Cho Seung-Hui face to face in an attempt to penetrate his shell.