2008

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

The Rapid Elearning Blog. 5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development. December 11th, 2007. 15 comments. Almost daily I get emails asking how to get started with developing elearning. There’s no substitution for experience. Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of.

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Selling E-Learning as a Freelancer

Experiencing eLearning

I received another question from a reader today that I’m hoping someone out in the blogosphere can help answer. Usually I think of freelance e-learning developers developing content for a specific client with a specific audience in mind. However, this reader is looking for something else: Which sites, if any, accept e-learning courses from freelance courseware developers?

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What's the opposite of evolution? An interesting question about SCORM

Mark Oehlert

So my friend Mark Friedman, down at JKDDC , posed the following question to his LinkedIn network: "What do you think the SCORM E-Learning Reference Model will evolve into during the next 10 years? SCORM is literally 10 years old now - so guessing what it can evolve into (or not) in the next 10 years seems to be good question to ponder these days.

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Connectivism and the modern learner

E-Learning Provocateur

Recently, I read a blog article about connectivism by Debora Gallo. Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism. This got me thinking… I don’t know anything about connectivism! So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Essential Reading for Instructional Design?

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, February 15, 2008 Essential Reading for Instructional Design? As an instructional designer/eLearning professional, what books are the essential tools in your reference library ? Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety.

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Tony Karrer

On this month's Big Question - Lead the Charge - we are already seeing some interesting responses. The Learning Revolution: Where have all the leaders gone? It's difficult to not agree with everything that's in Tony's post an my short answer would be: yes they should, and the good ones already are. So, of course, I say, great post. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much.

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How Widespread is Mobile Learning?

Kapp Notes

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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Interactivity-Centric Blended Learning

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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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Learning styles don't exist

Clive on Learning

The debate was already red hot before this video by Professor Daniel T Willingham from the University of Virginia (brought to my attention by Stephen Downes ) added fuel to the fire. On the one side are the learning and development romantics, all voodoo and crystals, holding firm to their pseudo-psychological beliefs. On the other, the cold, clinical and calculating rationalists, trying to make sense of the multitude of interacting variables that impact on teaching and learning by resorting to t

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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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It's only me

Learning with e's

Several people asked me while I was at Online Educa Berlin why I use the name Timbuckteeth on Twitter , Flickr , Plurk and Slideshare. Others wondered about my use of the blue astronaut picture as my buddy pic. I haven't really answered in full until now, so here it is - my response about my own digital identity. In the light of this, and the excellent Wordle map which Marga Perez created from her analysis of all the tweets at this year's Online Educa Berlin conference, here is my considered res

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10 Sure-Fire Tips for Creating Your Own Stock Photos

Rapid eLearning

Going to a stock image site and looking for just the right pictures can be very time-consuming and a drain on your limited resources. Why not create your own stock images? If rapid elearning software makes everyone an instructional designer, then surely a digital camera makes us all photographers. Obviously, this approach doesn’t work for everyone and taking good photos is an art in itself.

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Telecommute Instructional Design Jobs

Experiencing eLearning

About six weeks ago, I added a new feature to my sidebar: an Ask A Question button. This idea was mentioned on Problogger as a way to promote your blog, find out what content is actually relevant to your readers, and improve interaction and community. Since I was already getting a number of questions in comments, I thought I’d try this out to see what kind of questions I received.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): OMG.There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!!

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Godspeed Tim Russert. | Main | "So" - A Whole Article on So.Awesome. » June 14, 2008 OMG.There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!! OK at least now we have an explanation for what has been going on in all of organizations. We have thoroughly been infiltrated by spies who have read and are following this manual.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Network Theory

E-Learning Provocateur

Last night I watched a fascinating documentary on the ABC called How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer. The title of the show alludes to the humourous yet intriguing trivia game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon , which itself is based on the urban myth Six Degrees of Separation. In the game, players try to connect random movie stars to Kevin Bacon in as few steps as possible.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, January 25, 2008 Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives My recent post on alternatives to listing out learning objectives generated a lot of interest and a good conversation. ( See My Objection to Learning Objectives.) I attempt to summarize here, but feel free to go back to the original post and read all the comments: Clive Shepherd hates when learning objectives are the first thing

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Forums vs. Social Networks?

Clark Quinn

I'm debating the value of forum / group / threaded discussion software vs. social network software for a particular situation. It aims at a very broad audience that includes everyone from early adopters to technology laggards. We generally expect users to break into: 5% - Heavy Users - spend quite a bit of time and heavily participate 15% - Light Users - spend a little time, participate a little 80% - Fly-Bys - spend very little time, read bits and pieces It is likely that some of the Heavy User

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Revolution in Workplace Learning

Tony Karrer

Just wanted to announce that I'll be doing a full-day workshop in Cincinnati (actually in nearby Kentucky) for the Greater Cincinnati ASTD on July 15. I think this is going to be an interesting and fun workshop. I'm hoping that a few folks who read this blog will go. You can go to their site: [link] to find out more about specific place, time, cost, etc.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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A Pharmaceutical Leveraging Web 2.0 --In a Big Way

Kapp Notes

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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Nursing Simulation in Second Life

E-Learning Acupuncture

If you want to be a nurse then you need to go to school. Many schools are using technological tools to delivery nursing education; especially in the area of nursing simulations. I came across one particularly interesting example of this just today. John Miller, a Nursing Professor, at Tacoma Community College in Washington is spearheading a nursing simulation hosted within Second Life.

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A Grand New Magazine

Marcia Conner

I'm old enough to be a grandparent and I spend a lot of time with a special 1-year old so it shouldn't surprise me so much that I'm enjoying the website for a new magazine, GRAND.

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In your face, Prensky

Learning with e's

Marc Prensky's much quoted work on digital immigrants and digital natives is under attack (again), and his distinction between preferences, behaviours, and. yes. even cognitive structures. has been challenged in some recent research. Tom Hanson, Editor of OpenEducation.net shared some links with me this morning and writes: "In recent months, research has been emerging that calls into question several of the assumptions surrounding the current generation of learners dubbed 'digital natives'.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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How Do You Communicate with Your E-Learners? - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

The Rapid Elearning Blog. How Do You Communicate with Your E-Learners? September 16th, 2007. 20 comments. Years ago, I was enrolled in a course on video production. Each week we were given assignments to do. At the end of the week, the whole class would sit down and we’d review our projects. One of the objectives was to have the other students share what they got out of the video before they knew what I intended to communicate.

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Understanding Learning Styles Research

Experiencing eLearning

Too many people have been talking about learning styles research lately for me to try to cite them all here. Many have commented on the Learning Styles Don’t Exist video, for example. Via Karyn Romeis and Stephen Downes , I found two lengthy reviews of learning styles research: Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning. Should we be using learning styles?

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E-Learning for Newbies

Janet Clarey

ASTD ’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.&# This month it’s: I’m interested in [the field of] eLearning. What should I do first? I’m responding to this question from the perspective of a person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. a person who knows little about the term. I think one place to start is to look at the competencies and skills needed for various “e-learning&# jobs.

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The art of changing the brain

Clive on Learning

I've been dipping into The art of changing the brain by James E Zull (Stylus, 2002) for some time now. The subtitle of the book, 'Enriching the practice of teaching by exploring the biology of learning,' pretty well sums it up - this is neuroscience for teachers, written by a Professor of Biology and Director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve University.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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Best Practices for Software Training?

Learning Visions

This has been the year of software training. I've been involved in I don't know how many training modules, ranging from the overly long to the shorter chunked variety. (Remember, all I do is online, self-paced eLearning). We've taken scenario-based approaches, so the learner can sit with an expert and watch how he does his job using the software. We've inserted pictures of these characters to give a course more life and interest.

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Clark Quinn

On this month's Big Question - Lead the Charge - we are already seeing some interesting responses. The Learning Revolution: Where have all the leaders gone? It's difficult to not agree with everything that's in Tony's post an my short answer would be: yes they should, and the good ones already are. So, of course, I say, great post. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much.

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ASTD Keynote - Talent Managment

Tony Karrer

I'm at the ASTD Conference in San Diego at the general session. It looks like there are about 5,000 people in the room. A complete guess at the number, but pretty good size. Tony Bingham, ASTD CEO, is talking about and showing videos around talent management. It's interesting to see the message be around talent management when often that's fairly separate from the learning function.

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