Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

Using it already, but need to migrate your course content for virtual world delivery? In every course, 30 mins on course content, 20 mins SL skills, 10 mins project. 11-week courses with 1 weekly meeting. When middle school students role play Of Mice and Men , their opinions change over the course of the trial.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Friday, February 15, 2008 Essential Reading for Instructional Design? Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. Im already feeling a bit overwhelmed. Im about halfway through Michael Allens new book, Designing Successful E-Learning. I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety. These are my current faves. What would you add?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 25, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Jott This Blog I havent had so much time lately to blog, as this project Im working on has been quite grueling. I find my best time for thinking up excellent blog entries is late at night when Im lying in bed. That is, of course, if Im even awake after the kids have finally fallen asleep.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 8, 2008

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 Instructional Design and Market Sector Differences The field of instructional design is vast and varied. Im guessing youre designing online distance learning courses. Im in the weird place of for-profit education, which really has characteristics of both market sectors. What do you do?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Updating 19 courses (which I wrote last year). Built six courses. Courses way too big, but some cool features that I really like. Im a convert. Yes, Im an English major who writes mostly text bullets instead of novels. So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? Cammy, Im glad to hear you so revved up.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Monday, November 05, 2007 Instructional Design Inspiration As I mentioned last week , Im in the midst of designing my first custom eLearning course in quite awhile. Now that Ive been actually doing some writing, Im having to put it all to work. Ideally, Im trying to figure out how to make this a bit interactive.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Beginning Instructional Designers Toolkit I want to incorporate a reading list for the next level of the 30-minute masters (taking a crash course in Instructional Design). Im not a big theory person. Im much more into practical application. Blooms Taxonmy, of course. Im not a big theory person.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Blogging the Personal Janet Clareys recent post On Growing Facial Hair is right up my alley of interest. In fact, Ive had very little of interest to add to any conversation of late, mostly because Im much more focused on my personal life and the many transitions Im handling there. Which is fine.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

Monday, January 21, 2008 Putting the Demand Back in On-Demand Learning I didnt come up with that headline. Im co-opting it and encourage all of you to do the same. What have you done lately to create a course that will intrigue and inspire your learners? My Predictions for 2008 Instructional Design and Market Sector Differences.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Of course, we dont get any detail into how Typealyzer works, so its even more suspect! November 2008 is ISTJ (like yours). June 2008 is INTJ. Okay, Im stunned there are so many INTJs here since as a general rule, INTJs are only about 5% of population (Im guessing here). Im an INTJ and it says my blog is an ESTP.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

Me: Im an instructional designer. Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). I follow of course with “I design training for businesses…&# 9:34 AM Michelle said. Of course my brother-in-law once responded with "yeah, we have that stuff at my work, but I never take em." Oh, I see."

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Friday, September 12, 2008 Connectivism: Week 1 With little time these days, Ill be auditing the auditors version of the 12 week Connectivism course happening now. Cammy, Im glad youre doing the auditing. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. As opposed to building it?)

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Making Six Sigma Training Fun OK. This manufacturing process training course was originally delivered as a four hour plus death-by-PowerPoint classroom session (if you could see the original PPT source content, youd begin glazing over within a few slides). Im glad youre on board with my ducks! Storyline.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009 Market Differences in eLearning Im a fan of the number 42. Here IDs sometimes work as technical writers and TW sometimes write courses to optimize the cost. According to the reports there has been a substantial growth in hiring of IT professionals in India related to Oracle, Web-Designing, and other courses.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 14, 2009

Im curious, have you had a chance to listen to yours or any of the others? Im happy with how they turned out. Currently Im playing the role of a learning consultant, taking care of solutions and operations for learning services. Some of us will still be creating the course with the objectives. Curry said. Thanks again!

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

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. ( Karl Kapp suggests starting off a course with a series of questions related to the objectives, or to start off with a scenario. [In

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 11, 2007

And this is definitely not one of those things that Im learning for the first time, but here goes: Motivation is everything! Forget the page of bulleted learning objectives at the beginning of the course. "At At the end of this course, you will know how to." So what we I learn about learning in 2008? Im primed and ready.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Friday, February 01, 2008 Online Schooling for the K-12 Set Its not homeschooling, its online schooling. This hasnt gotten onto my radar before -- Im not sure if there are any state-funded online programs in Massachusetts. Within higher ed, Im sure well continue to see growth in online, but it is starting to plateau a bit.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Monday, February 04, 2008 The Big Question: Instructional Design as a Spectrum The Learning Circuits Big Question this month: Instructional Design - If, When and How Much? Of course, there may be and there are many variations in the quality of instruction that result. Of course, this is all semantics, and maybe it doesnt matter.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Friday, March 14, 2008 Instructional Strategies? Im not just thinking about the gadgets and the gizmos that you use or the instructional design "method" behind the process (e.g., Do you ever develop a mnemonic for a custom course? But Ive got a mind to try it out one of these courses. I dont know if Ive ever done that.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2008

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 Instructional Design: Wheres Your Center? Content Centric Solutions These are those courses that have the entire book of knowledge in em. That course that meets the needs of the learner. eLearning vendors (those that design custom courseware) are often handed the course to be built. So far, none!

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008 Best Project Ever A baby girl. Im not disconcerted, though probably youre wreaking havoc with administrative systems. Im grateful to Baby Girl that she came a couple days early. As you know, Im a big fan of baby girls! Born on Sunday. Yes, ahead of schedule by a few days! No name yet. Curry said.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2009

Friday, May 01, 2009 Name That Tool I just got a FaceBook query from someone and I thought you all could help: Im looking for a tool you might have come across, but I dont even know what product/programming group it belongs to. So if you say, yes I have signoff authority for travel vouchers, I could tell this tool to mark four courses.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 22, 2007

But I havent "done" a course in ages. And now Ive got a two-hour custom course on my plate. Im excited. Im nervous. Ive thought about instructional design as weve been building eLearning Templates and certainly made a lot of recommendations. With a whole bunch of other custom projects cued up right behind it.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2007

The focus here the last few months has been less on creating custom courses for clients and more on building Templates and Learning Portals (think LMS-lite). Havent written a course script in a long time here. So, what do I do if Im not doing that? Im not such an anal person, so this isnt my favorite thing in the world.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 22, 2007

Im no Facebook super-user and I havent experienced a huge time suck from it, but I suppose its possible. Cammy, Im just a "lite" Facebook user, but I have seen profile pages that list their workplaces with commentary about how horrible their company is, or how much they hate their job. And Im in complete agreement.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 11, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008 Instructional Designers Poll: Market Sector and Advanced Degrees My original survey on Instructional Designers and Advanced Degrees had some holes in it. I put myself as academic, since the courses I develop are graduate courses. For awhile now Ive been wondering about Market Sector differences in ID.

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Learning Visions

JULY 26, 2007

Im not a techie -- far from it. Im an instructional designer with an emphasis on writing and schmoozing. Google Alerts A nice adjunct to Google Reader; Im always discovering something new via my "instructional design" alert. Im #34 on the list. Google Reader All the news I need to know about e-Learning in one place.

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Learning Developments

JANUARY 14, 2009

Jan 13, 2009 Im not yet Captivated by Lectora Im putting together a self-paced web-based training course for how to order textbooks using a PeopleSoft application. Im using Lectora to develop a SCORM package that will eventually be imported and used in the LMS. For now, Im focusing on the Captivate integration.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Mass Chapter ISPI November Meeting Im speaking at the next Mass Chapter ISPI Meeting, thanks to the always energetic Jean Marrapodi. e-Learning Tools Crash Course: Deciding What Authoring Tools to Use and When So youve heard about PowerPoint, Articulate, Captivate and Flash.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 15, 2009

Tweetdeck Im officially hooked to Twitter and use Tweetdeck to organize and group those I follow. My best column: eLearning, of course! But Gcal helps me keep myself organized, and now that Ive discovered CalenGoo for the iPod Im all synched up. Im ready for the iPhone. Now I stop first at Twitter. Have a question?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Theory vs. Application in Instructional Design: One Academics View A long time ago, I decided I was much better at the practical side of things than the theoretical. Im still a really hands-on person. Or maybe Im just too lazy and poor. Im with you, Maria! I did great in Calculus AB(?)

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 5, 2007

Im just about to kickoff a new project with a manufacturing organization to produce some custom courses. Im gonna call them an "immature e-Learning organization." Are you seen merely as the course developer? So thats a vision of the future of e-Learning. Thats mature e-Learning. Games are scary. No collaboration.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 3, 2008

Of course, you need the right tools -- accurate measuring spoons and cups, and the right ingredients. Now Im not saying that SMEs are rats, or instructional designers are rats. Im thinking of Chestertons remark that theres a big difference between a man who wants to read a book and a man who wants a book to read. Even a rat.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

I have never taken a course in adult learning theory. My current business card says Im a "Manager of Instructional Design". And now Im here -- "Manager of Instructional Design." But at this point, Im here to stay. If youd like to learn more about what Im doing these days, check out my current job description.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Nevertheless, Im trying to keep up. Then again, Im not trying to stay on top of hundreds of comments a day. Im not going to bother with a full-blown survey. But I will ask my dear readers (informally, of course) if you have any thoughts as to how I can make this blog better? Its at least half the fun.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Im curious what other folks experiences has been. Im so happy to see you post this up. Im struggling with this right now. My problem however is that they keep dropping courses. Im not on to trying to source another college or university to try out. If you dont, have you ever been denied a job for the lack of one?

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