Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog: Deconstructing the Work Literacy Learning Event. Michele Martin debriefs the experience of teaching the Work Literacy online course via Ning. Several things they did were very successful. Ning was a good platform, even though it’s intended as a social networking tool rather than a CMS. Explicitly saying that different levels of participation were acceptable meant that lurkers felt comfortable dipping in and out as legitimate perispheral participants.

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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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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

John Medina gave the closing keynote at DevLearn, based upon his book Brain Rules. He covered two of his 12 rules, on memory, and on exercise. He spoke fast, was enthusiastic, funny, and knowledgeable. He talked about myths of learning, and said that he didn’t think there was a lot neuroscience had to say to learning design (thankfully, cf Willingham ).

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

As with distance learning and e-learning, m-learning encapsulates many modes of learning. A definition general enough to capture it all could be: A distance learning event delivered, synchronously or asynchronously, via an electronic mobile device. Granted, this definition is similar to others out there, but generic enough to include current applications that are commonly accepted as m-learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean | CSS | Smashing Magazine. Tips for good, clean html. I have several bad habits I could work on from this list. tags : webdesign. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Tim O’Reilly, Web 2.0 guru , talked to us about what web 2.0 is and led us to his implications for what we do. He started off talking about tracking the ‘alpha geek’ These are the folks who manage to thrive and innovate despite us, rather than because of us. He’s essentially built O’Reilly on watching what these folks do, analyzing the underlying patterns, and figuring out what’s key.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and expertise if you have a question or a concern for which you need input and/or advice. The basic question is " If you need input from people, where's the best place to ask?" But, then the question breaks into sub-questions. -How to reach out and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then the questions are even broken do

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Creating Custom Buttons in Captivate 3. Directions to create custom buttons in Captivate, with the required file names and location to put the finished files. tags : captivate , e-learning , howto. The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education — Publications — Center for Social Media at American University. 5 principles for media literacy education and what constitutes fair use in a number of common situations. tags : literacy , copyright , media , education.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I'm at the Dan Roam - The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures - keynote at DevLearn. You can find something similar here. What problems can we solve with pictures? All of them. We all know how to do this. Three quarters of our brain is dedicated to visual processing. After you hit age six or seven, in education we stop emphasizing visual thinking.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

I am currently working on adding short videos into a web based training course. These are approximately 2 minute videos of the subject matter experts (SMEs) who are extrapolating on the content at hand. The SMEs did a wonderful job, but.a little extra "pizzazz" would increase attention. So here's what I did. I imported each video into Flash and added layers above the video.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Last night, Scott came to my class to talk about "Polished Presentations" usually he drives up to Bloomsburg for the presentation but last night, due to a mix up on my part, he was unable to make the 120 mile trip. Scott has a theatre background and a great deal of experience presenting in front of groups and he provides great advice and ideas to students as they prepare for their major presentation to our Corporate Advisory Council.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Possibilities Abound–: Exploring, Considering and Proposing— CCK08. Collection of metaphors for new roles for teachers and instructional designers from a number of sources. Includes sharer, pattern builder, curator, organic gardener, wizard, and environmental engineer. Interesting place to start if you’re looking for different ways to think about our roles and who has the power. tags : cck08 , instructionaldesign , teaching , connectivism.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

At a panel at DevLearn. We have: Will Thalheimer, Work Learning Research Kevin Oakes, I4CP Claire Schooley, Forrester Chris Howard, Bersin Kevin Martin, Aberdeen Biggest trend is Learning 2.0 trend. Allow people to work faster, better through informal learning. eLearning 2.0 addresses informal, on-the-job. It's relatively new. Bersin is publishing report on learning 2.0.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I once worked on a project for new machine operators who were not able to meet their quotas within 90 days of being hired. I assumed that I would build a standard course that took them through the tasks. Before starting, I wanted to get to know more about the learner’s environment, so I spent a few days with the machine operators. Do you know what I discovered?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

We all know that President-elect Barack Obama used text messages and his web site to a distinct advantage in the election. Well, we now know his is going to be using those tools in his presidency as well. He just launched Change.Gov The web site will be used to revolutionize the way the commander in chief communicates with the American people through online videos and interactivity via the web.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Systems thinking and innovation | effectivedesign.org. Live blogged notes from AECT about systems thinking, innovation, and games for learning. Lots of side comments too, including some good connections to instructional design and getting too bogged down in multiple theories. tags : instructionaldesign , theory , change , games , scaffolding , education , e-learning.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

At the Tim O'Reilly keynote at the DevLearn conference. His outline is very interesting in that he's promising to talk about the "new literacies." I'm hoping this is going to be similar to Work Literacy. He uses the same quote I often use from William Gibson - The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Pattern recognition is key. What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Earlier this week at the Open EdTech Summit in Barcelona, I spent some time with Professor Paul Kirschner of the Open University of the Netherlands. During one of our creative thinking sessions (see yesterday's post) Paul came up with an idea for the support of online learners which I promptly gave a name to. In this post I am briefly going to outline the concept of Digital scaffolding.

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Steve Howard

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Tired of lugging round your giant ‘developers’ laptop? Or do you need a secure but lightweight way to access your email and files that is more accessible than your phone? Over the last few weeks I have been testing out a new gadget, or as my wife says, a new “toy” This great new gadget has the interesting name of REDFLY (yes, all caps … sorry!

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E-Learning Acupuncture

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Note: Please welcome this guest post by Marc Tremblay - teaching on the front lines in Toronto, Ontario. The challenges of creating effective instructional designs are an ongoing and healthy preoccupation in the minds of most teachers. Though they are often exposed to new instructional practices through professional development, teachers must consider a well-thought integration of a variety of approaches.

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I went to see the Sacramento Kings play the Pistons on Tuesday night and ended up getting a whole lot more than I bargained for. I was picked out of the crowd to come down to the court and compete in a "name that song" contest sponsored by Verizon wireless. I was so caught off guard to be picked out that I didn't even hear her mention what the prize was.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You can’t pick up a newspaper these days without reading about more business downturns, layoffs, and lowered expectations for retail sales, automobiles, consumer products, housing, and financial services. Lots of business leaders are making tough decisions right now, and I also know a lot of our HR and L&D readers are worried about their jobs.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

In his posting All of the Above - how to cheat Multiple Choice Questions , Donald Clark provides the following quote from a talk given by Professor Dylan Wiliam, Deputy Director of the Institute of Education, gave at the ALT conference in 2007: “The variability at teacher level is about four times the variability at school level. If you get one of the best teachers, you will learn in six months what an average teacher will take a year to teach you.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Are you seeking an experienced online instructor to teach at the post secondary level in the following fields: chemistry, physics, biology, biotechnology, molecular biology, mathematics, pharmacology, statistics, educational technology, education, or ethics? If so, please contact ME - I am for sale. Seriously. Here is my brief CV and a detailed teaching dossier can be made available to interested parties.

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This week I was able to overcome what I thought would be one of the most difficult hurdles in a Moodle implementation. I was having nightmares about setting up and maintaining over 1000 user accounts. I knew that Moodle had some options to make this easier but didn't realize just how easy it would be. Moodle provides a couple of different options for managing users in bulk (at least I am only aware of 2).

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You can’t pick up a newspaper these days without reading about more business downturns, layoffs, and lowered expectations for retail sales, automobiles, consumer products, housing, and financial services. Lots of business leaders are making tough decisions right now, and I also know a lot of our HR and L&D readers are worried about their jobs.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I had planned to comment on this tonight but my buddy Karl Kapp beat me to it. Regardless of your feelings about the outcome of last week's Presidential election, you gotta admit that Mr. Obama's team understood and embraced the possibilities of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking strategies. Here's what Karl said: ". ask yourself, if it's good enough for a president-elect to deliver messages and information via social media and Web 2.0 tools.isn't it good enough for your learning and dev

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Seeing this pic on the Thinking Worlds Blog of the team at Caspian Learning celebrating their award for best game or simulation at last Thursday's E-Learning Awards in London (and yes that's Donald Clark there on the left, joining in) reinforced for me just how much fun these events can be, particularly when you're a winner. Because it's easy to get cynical about these things, I thought I'd revisit an article I wrote on the subject back in 2004, but which seems as relevant today.

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