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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Objection to Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Learning objectives clarify exactly what it is youre trying to teach. Vicki states as the first benefit of learning objectives: "Learners can focus more easily on what is important to their actual workplace performance."

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Looking Back at 2007

Tony Karrer

In December 2006, I posted my challenges and predictions for 2007. Shortly, I'll be responding to this month's Big Question with my Predictions for Learning in 2008. Biggest challenges for 2007? I found several very high quality developers at several levels in 2007. This is probably my biggest failure for 2007.

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Why multiple-choice questions are (too often) problematic

Patti Shank

If it doesn't measure what it claims to measure, the test answers provide little (or inaccurate) information about what people know or can do. To make assessments more valid, there must be a very clear match between learning objectives and assessment items. Validity is the most important criteria for a good test. We aren't sure.

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Show The Learner Visible Signs of Their Learning

Kapp Notes

One of the strengths of gamification is that it provides visible milestones of the student’s mastery of content in real time (when it is well designed). Too often in an instructional setting, the learner doesn’t know whether or not he or she really understands or can apply the knowledge they are learning.

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Play to Learn! (Book Tour Stop)

Learning Visions

Karl Kapp and Sharon Boller have been banging the drum about learning games for years. In fact, one of my favorite ID-books back in 2007 was Karl Kapp's "Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning." You can’t simply create a game and expect the players to learn from it without providing any context or guidance.

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Flipped learning for talent development: Lessons from the college classroom

CLO Magazine

In that time, I also learned valuable lessons from Josh Bersin’s “Blended Learning” and. By the end of 2007, I presented a new class design at an American Society for Political Science teaching conference. The Successful Intelligence model aids in creating the learning objectives for the college course or training session.

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Training Evaluations 101: Benefits, How To, Plus Examples You’ll Want To Use

Spark Your Interest

We answer these questions and more by providing examples of training evaluations you can apply in your specific situation. And such a broad definition doesn’t provide a lot of guidance to create an evaluation of a training course. That’s where training evaluations come in. But are all training evaluations the same?

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