Learning Visions

JULY 30, 2007

Im looking for some input: good examples of software product training. Im working on a pitch to a software company -- technical audience (think database guys). Ive done about 8 gazillion software training programs in my time. Posted by Cammy Bean at 3:15 PM Labels: software training 2comments: Martin M-B said.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Im not talking about the quantity of my friends, but rather the breadth and depth. Im not sure if there was a specific tipping point for me, but I was certainly amused when one of my friends informed me that Im personally responsible for making her waste more time on Facebook than she ever thought possible. Think Uggs.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Right now, Im feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement. Right now, Im proofing a storyboard thats full of endless text bullets and boring software demos with no interactivity -- and theres really nothing I can do about it.

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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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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

It helps that the company has lots of scale and a large base of customers that continue to buy software. Though smaller in scale, the deal still ranks as the second-largest going-private transaction since the beginning of 2009, ranking behind the $4 billion takeover of IMS Health Inc. While revenues declined 3% to $80.4

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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. 9) Bugtracker by FogBugz Weve been using this bug tracking software in-house for the last few months.

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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! Im primed and ready. I agree--totally cool and Im not even the proud mama! Id go so far as to say that Ive reinvented myself as a learning professional. Connecting with other people creates motivation.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 2, 2007

Im not blogging for the money or the fame, but I am in it for the community, networking and learning opportunities. Im already behind. So Im thinking Ill finally join Jay Crosss Internet Time Community. Dont worry--Im sure Ill be falling behind soon, as I have a grant due at the end of the month. Ill take the leap.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

Im co-opting it and encourage all of you to do the same. Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! Monday, January 21, 2008 Putting the Demand Back in On-Demand Learning I didnt come up with that headline. So much on-demand training consists of boring page turners.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

3) I went to the same high school as presidential candidate Oback Barama (although Im 7 years younger and have never laid eyes on him in person). I used to speak it fluently; these days Im pretty rusty. Wendy Wickham Ray Sims Apologies if youve been tagged previously or have done something similar, Im just playing the game!

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Friday, February 06, 2009 Building Measurement into Our Training-Development Process Another lunchtime webinosh with Dr. Will Thalheimer. Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?) The topic today: Building Measurement into Our Training-Development Process.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

My current business card says Im a "Manager of Instructional Design". After a few years, I got involved in an IT initiative (then it was called MIS) -- designing a new software application to support our call center business. I did stand-up classroom sessions on the software. They liked my software training experience.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 8, 2009

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 Ellen Wagner: eLearning Roadtrip Are you an instructional designer or interested in instructional design? If I were in charge (but sadly, Im not), Id put her in the Whos Who of eLearning. But the goal was about selling software for elearning and education, not necessarily focusing on the needs of IDs.

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Learning Visions

MAY 12, 2009

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences? As Im ramping up in my new job, Im talking with my new Kineo colleagues about everything under the sun. Is there some historical background here that Im missing, like computers in the UK didnt have speakers until 2002 so they never bothered? For or against?

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 23, 2008

if i ever start a blog, im stealing that title. New Product Announcement Best Practices for Software Training? Ill be back next week. Photocredit: Target, Checkout Line by The Consumerist Posted by Cammy Bean at 4:49 PM Labels: fun 1 comments: oxala75said. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

MAY 16, 2007

Take learning a piece of software. If youve ever taught a software class, you know you will have explorers in your class who will wander off the track being presented in class following the "I wonder what happens if you do x" train of thought then get lost from where you are going. Im coming at it more from the e-Learning perspective.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Its the best software around and completely portable. Then I realized Im a constant notetaker, in the pen-and-paper sense. Thats one way for me to process the information Im seeing/hearing, and the same may be true for at least some live bloggers. Mark writes, "You wanna know what a PLE is? Its called your head."

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eFront

JANUARY 10, 2011

Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Kogan Page; 1 edition (May 28, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0749453974 by Christopher Pappas M.B.A., Paperback: 640 pages Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (July 28, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0787984256 Delivering E-Learning : A Complete Strategy for Design, Application and Assessment by Kenneth Fee.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2008

Every software interaction and menu is explained in detail. Im interested to see what responses you might get. Im interested to see what responses Ill get as well. Are you being content centric or learner centric ? Or are you forced to be sponsor centric ? Its all there. Youve covered the content to death. So far, none!

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Now, maybe Im just jaded and want to get to an approved storyboard. Maybe its the fact that Im recovering from pneumonia and just dont have the energy to fight the fight. I love using audio to narrate software demos and complicated graphics or animation. Im just now starting to feel slightly less horrible. But I caved.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 11, 2008

link] Im Bliss Yue (get it?) New Product Announcement Best Practices for Software Training? Floyd Take some time to visit Scott at his various blogs and learn what hes been up to in Second Life: [link] [link] blogspot.com And be sure to check out the Bloggers Hut in Second Life , which has its own cat AND a skating rink! How about you?

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Monday, January 19, 2009 Instructional Design: Whats in a name? And by asking this, Im not suggesting that design isnt important, for it is - its seen by some as part of the pedagogy. Karl, Of course Im trying to bait you! A major learning experience that Im sure to never forget. I am now an ID student (half way done).

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. Software such as Second Life allows executives — in avatar form — to give presentations to one another in virtual boardrooms. For example, bloggers may not communicate well with IM users.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 15, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007 ADDIE: Its a Process This is probably an argument made in any Instructional Design 101 class; I dont think Im saying anything new here. You could apply the ADDIE model to software development, right? Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Incremental: Some forms of online training support current ways of doing things Virtual classrooms, presentation software, authoring tools, assessment tools, LMS. Collaboration Software Learner generated content (instead of teacher preparing things, learners put things online and edit together. Incremental vs. Disruptive Innovation.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Things go wrong (software fails, power goes out). (A But Im learning. Im just back from two this week, and presented yesterday at USQs Pedagogies and Learning Conference in Brisbane. The instructor doesnt really know the topic and is just completely winging it. A whole bunch of other things, right?)

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Michael Allen says in Michael Allens Guide to e-Learning : "Learners think, Im supposed to do my best to learn whatever is here, so I might as well spend all my time learning it rather than reading about learning it." (p. And yet one could argue that most learners dont even bother reading them. 11:21 PM Cammy Bean said.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 9, 2009

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 Audio in eLearning: When Rough Around the Edges is Better At our seminar today on using Articulate and Moodle and "Doing More for Less" , the conversation turned (as it always does) to using audio in eLearning. Im not sure if the SME was reading a script, reading the notes, or just speaking from the heart.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Im cammybean on deli.ci.ous -- try adding me to your network and make a for: cammybean list. Technical Infrastructure -- servers, software, etc. I tagged some of the resources I found on deli.ci.ous, which youre free to grab yourself. If you have any suggestions, please offer them up! (Im Ill do the same for you!)

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008 Best Practices for Software Training? This has been the year of software training. Weve taken scenario-based approaches, so the learner can sit with an expert and watch how he does his job using the software. Short demos (some with practice) linked right from the software itself.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The latest version of the course manual includes several minor corrections and is dedicated to the memory of our co-author Jeanne Smuts who died on 28th July 2009. 162 Tips and Tricks for Working with e-Learning Tools - eLearning Guild The eLearning Guild asked members for their favorite tips for using software for the creation of e-Learning.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 10, 2008

Im not even about to begin linking to all the stories on the new iPhone ( this is a fairly thick link farm for you). " ;-) Mark Posted by: mark oehlert | June 10, 2008 at 05:51 PM elearning software creator dominknow Inc., Main | Ive had some reports of this blog hanging up.anybody else having issues?

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Mark Oehlert

JANUARY 14, 2008

Instead of a man with no country, Im a man with three computers and three operating systems. This is the worst piece of software engineering excrement ever to wander up onto the shore since I dont know what. Im serious. Posted by: refurbished computers | June 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM I like both PC's and Mac.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 21, 2008

Mostly software training, with bits of process and product information thrown in for good measure. Lots of software interactivity. Schedules dont always work out, so more often this is a one-on-one tour of the software and the content notes with the trainer. Oh, except Im the developer and audio engineer too.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

December 2009 December 1-4, 2009 New Zealand Association for Research in Education , Distinction Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. link] December 2-4, 2009 Online Educa Berlin International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, 15 th , Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, Germany. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 16, 2008

I have a lot of issues with the whole "seat time" model (and Im thinking about sit and click style eLearning here of the self-paced variety): My seat time may be different than yours Is there supplemental material, like reading, that is optional -- or that might vary per user? What would you add to this list? How do you estimate seat time?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. link] Technology, Reading and Learning Difficulties Conference, 26 th , was held January 22-24, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California, USA. link] April 28-29, 2011 eLearning and Software for Education Conference, 7 th , Bucharest, Romania.

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