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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
What is the point of choices if they do not work for you? This is the new tagline for the latest commercial of Monster India , a online job search site. The ads are funny and the message is really strong. Whenever I view this ad, I am reminded of how true this is in our the learning arena also. Do we add unnecessary features for the learners to use?
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Monday, June 28, 2010
I had this great opportunity of at the right place, at the right time. What am I referring to? got an opportunity to attend Geetha Krishnan 's session at Kern during my one week long visit to Hyderabad. Geetha conducted a dynamite session where he introduced teasers that made us to think about several aspects of learning and technology. We sure do.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
I was reading Donald Clark's latest post on Funny Exam Answers. found the Neils Bohr's incident particularly interesting. Read the post to understand what I am referring to. This had me thinking. Do we always assume that there is only one way to do something or one right answer? remember an incident from my college days. reality?
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Scenario Based Learning View more presentations from Kern Learning Solution.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
I read this interesting post on Have you thought of Character Driven Stories for Your eLearning? by Rupa (@ruparajgo). was tempted to blog about it myself (thanks for the inspiration, Rupa). What role can a character(s) play in your eLearning porgram? Expert: This is probably the most common use of a character in eLearning. It is a little freaky.)
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
I was reading an interesting blog post on Instructional Design versus Experiential Design: do you have what it takes? by Koreen Olbrish. have picked out a particularly interesting bit. Experiential learning is a process of learning by doing. According to David Kolb , an individual learns from personal experiences and from the environment.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
What are the 5 unlearnable elements that all IDs should steer clear off? Definitions Definitions (especially poorly written ones) are not important. Look at a few examples. Negotiable instrument is a written document by which a right is created in favour of some person and this is transferable by delivery. Meaning? Sounds confusing! Think about it.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
I know I have already blogged about how most people outside the industry frown on eLearning. am ready to crib about something else now. :) Why do people think instructional design is easy? Case 1: Acquaintance (who happens to be a software engineer): So, what do you do? Me: I am an instructional design. design learning programs for corporates.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Tween's playing a video game. Most of them do on a regular basis. In 2007, when children's marketing research firm KidSay asked boys what virtual worlds or online games they had visited in the past two weeks, 35 percent of boys aged 8 to 11 replied "none." That's a big increase. Here are some other statistics from the M2 Research Report.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Tweet Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. QUOTES: @EskoKilpi “Control means being able to predict (if A then B); if we can’t predict, we can’t control.&#. via @4KM Complexity is necessary … confusion & unnecessary complication should be eliminated. Don Norman ). **. And the debate goes on.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
David Grady’s highly amusing observations on the problems inherent in conference calls definitely grabbed my attention, not only because I can relate them to my experiences of running regular meetings on the phone, but also because of the similar issues that can be faced in online meetings. Ideas?
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Most would agree that Twitter was one of the social networking phenomena of 2008, and has enjoyed exponential growth in popularity. The microblogging tool has obvious potential to be used in formal learning, both in traditional online classroom settings and - through mobile technologies - for mobile learners. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar).
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 Web 2.0: Web 2.0
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Comments are very much welcome. Topics eLearning 2.0
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Second Life truly is a phenomenon. It is exactly what the name and vision imply: an example of a parallel "multiverse". People will learn much in it, as they might alternatively learn via participating on a real -world sports team, running a real-world lemonade stand, or walking around a great real-world city. Supporting mentor/supervisor/guides.
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