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

Learning Visions

I try not to use the term Instructional Designer as my opening line anymore :-) because, like you, I get the whats that stare. If there is a follow up question, it opens the door for a bit more depth. So what I tell people is my job is similar to that of a film director who directs a movie or an ad maker who visualizes commercial ads.

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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Weber also points out how effectively additional techniques demonstrated in the movie – like music, movement, and humor – open the mind to learning. I’ll be seeing it again!

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #18

Upside Learning

New Firefox Add-ons for Learning – Links to a competition, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, sought to tap into the spirit of Mozilla’s open-source community to spark innovations in learning-oriented add-ons for the Firefox internet browser. The winning add-ons are available for free download.

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Curiosity as a Business Practice

Learning Rebels

Depending on your perspective, mindset, and motivations – curiosity could mean being open to more information or inclined to risk-taking actions and decisions, falling down the rabbit hole of the internet, or being engrossed in research papers. . Trying to define curiosity is like trying to define the color blue.

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Devlearn conference day one: an exhilarating day

Challenge to Learn

The interesting here is that in this phase he will ask open questions, that not only require retrieval but also processing of the information. Brent opened the first session. John is the producer of many movies, the most famous ones are Titanic and Avatar. Brent Schenkler. Keynote: John Landau. Great presentation.

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Opening Keynote with David Pogue #DevLearn

Learning Visions

These are my live blogged notes from the opening session at this year's DevLearn, hosted by the eLearning Guild and happening in Las Vegas. The year the big trend: The Internet of Things. And so now every company out there is creating their own version of Internet of Things with apps galore. Books, music, learning, movies.

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The Advent of Mobile Learning Technology

Upside Learning

From a time when networks that only did voice, to one where they now support a whole range of data and internet access services, has enabled the phone to go from a simple communication device to one with far more potential. Fueling the rapid increase in adoption of mobile/cell phones is the advent of more powerful telecommunication networks.