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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

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Me: Im an instructional designer. Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). Now, I say that I write training manuals for companies, and then I quickly mention the different delivery methods for training (as examples). billbrandon had this comment on Twitter: I usually just tell em Im a writer.

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Analyzing the ROI of Social Media in Training | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Analyzing the ROI of Social Media in Training by Jim on May 3, 2011 in social learning A continuing theme among my blog posts has been the difficulty of demonstrating the ROI of social learning initiatives.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Essential Reading for Instructional Design?

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Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. Im already feeling a bit overwhelmed. Im about halfway through Michael Allens new book, Designing Successful E-Learning. Between you and John Im going to need to ask for a visit to Ikea for a new bookshelf too! I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety. These are my current faves.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Im a (K)nitwit!

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Im a (K)nitwit! Dan Roddy recently shared a link to a great article on tips for writing in a more conversational tone. Photo credit: Learn to Knit by abbynormy Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:50 PM Labels: instructional design , knitting , writing 3comments: Janet Clarey said. Good for you! Very cool.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Value of Instructional Designers

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I primarily focus on the content, the writing, and the schmoozing with the client. (My Some of these discussions about tools is similar to the arguments that the main stream media has made about blogs and wikis. But Im not sure I can get people to hold their answers back. 1:32 AM Tom Kuhlmann said. Good post and comments.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Instructional Design Inspiration

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Monday, November 05, 2007 Instructional Design Inspiration As I mentioned last week , Im in the midst of designing my first custom eLearning course in quite awhile. Now that Ive been actually doing some writing, Im having to put it all to work. Ideally, Im trying to figure out how to make this a bit interactive.