Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Note: you can generally tell if info was provided by a real user or by an authoring tool company ;) Bryan Chapman, Brandon Hall Research Report, Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase 2009 (A Buyer's Guide to 120+ of the Best E-learning Content Development Applications). Still a work in progress as I see it's being updated all the time.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 8, 2010

Friday Jan 8, 2009. Robert: Providing innovative – opportunities for ways to learn – in good practice…design something that is rewarding, empowering fun – and that the instructor enjoys. 12:00-12:30 pm eastern Instructional Design Live: Episode 0 This show is a chance to find out about what other people in the ID field are doing.

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Learning Visions

JULY 20, 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009 Last Weeks Kineo Product Knowledge E-Learning Webinar: On Thursday Kineos Stephen Walsh and I presented a webinar on Product Knowledge e-Learning. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

Friday, January 23, 2009 Learning Myths with Dr. Will Thalheimer Another lunchtime webinosh with Dr. Will Thalheimer. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. The topic today: Myths the business side has about learning. But first, the news. Learning News Inaugural oath flub.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? eLearning Art provides royalty free stock photos, images, and other assets to help you create some cool stuff in your own authoring tools. Maybe you have the time or the budget.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

Friday, January 09, 2009 Instructional Objectives -- How Some of them Work Lunchtime webinosh with Will Thalheimer, PhD (president of Work-Learning Research, Inc. Correct answer (to question above): #3 If provide learning objective to learner, they will focus more on that material.

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Learning Visions

MAY 20, 2009

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 eLearning Brand Name Recognition? Clearly says something about the state of the fragmented eLearning market -- mostly small shops providing services or companies doing it in-house using all of the aforementioned tools. Cammy, For a learning solutions provider like us, this is both surprising and scary.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2009

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 When the Content is Really Boring. Michael Allen urges designers to provide "meaningful and memorable learning experiences." Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. But what do you do when the content itself is just plain boring? Set the expectation.

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Learning Visions

MAY 23, 2009

Saturday, May 23, 2009 iPhone and the End of All Boundaries I just got my very own iPhone on Friday. It opens things up in some very cool ways, providing flexibility and accessibility, which is great. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Well, my companys, to be more precise.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Monday, January 19, 2009 Instructional Design: Whats in a name? Blog link not provided to protect the innocent]. As a teacher I knew all about Pedagogy and could create a great lesson and provide a excellent learning enviroment, I had great reviews and my students/trainees achieved great results.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009 Do Instructional Design Degrees Get "Wasted"? They manage people who design instruction, people who manage LMS, and they are the in-between people between upper management + clients, and the people who provide the design and training. In my recent post Instructional Design - Whats in a Name?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009 My Blogs Personality Type Well, it isnt very glamorous or creative sounding. All I could discern is that it looks at whatever appears on the link you provide. I think it provides more insight into how this tool works. But I suppose this is an appropriate description of my blogs personality?

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Learning Visions

JUNE 27, 2007

Provides some real examples of how business-folk are using FB; compares Facebook (emotional attachment) to LinkedIn (static resume). Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Facebook for the Enterprise Im still mucking around in Facebook, trying to get it. Found this article, via Alec Saunders : Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009 Market Differences in eLearning Im a fan of the number 42. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. So it seems significant that my post The Value of Instructional Designers just got its 42nd comment. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 16, 2007

This site provides free resources to the eLearning development community, including news, discussion forums, job postings, and more. Thursday, August 16, 2007 Keeping Your Fingers on the eLearningPulse Thanks to Google Alerts, I stumbled across another everything-eLearning feed aggregator: eLearningPulse.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2006

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 e-Learning Success in Manufacturing This article is kind of old (from 2002), but provides insight into the successes achieved by one manufacturing organization. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2006

Provides interesting statistics about authoring tools and use within corporate training depts. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, May 31, 2006 E-Learning Guild Content Authoring Research Report Research report by the e-Learning Guild. Results of a survey from 2005.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007 The Learning Show Thanks to Will Thalheimer for continuing to provide great learning resources. Instead, focus on the most important stuff -- provide repetition, spacing, extra time. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2007

They provide some fabulous (free) resources to the e-Learning community and have just been nominated the "Best New Kids on the Block" by the Brighton and Hove Business Awards. This months newsletter is no exception. Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

1) Donald Taylor provides a little summary of some of the recent talk in Second Life Backlash: After all the hype Second Life has had, there is bound to be some push back. Donald does a great job recapping various articles and provides some useful links, including the following: 2) Second Thoughts on Second Life by Sylvia Martinez.

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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. Because I’m working in Russian company called “eLearning Center&# providing e-learning to the companies, government organizations and universities.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Instructional Design Central (IDC) is an online portal dedicated towards providing professionals, researchers, and students with instructional design (or instructional technology) resources and community collaboration. Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Use multiple representations to provide the learner with multiple ways of accessing the information: visual or auditory. From the CFT vantage, multiple representations is not about providing the same information in a different format (the learning styles approach), but rather presenting different perspectives on that information.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

This site provides free resources to the eLearning development community, including news, discussion forums, job postings, and more. I jumped the gun a few weeks ago and unveiled the new one-stop shop for all things e-Learning (with or without the hyphen or the capital L -- you decide). But now its official: there is an eLearning Pulse.

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Learning Visions

JULY 2, 2007

The Gin System provides you with (among other things): Secure login Calendar of events Phone & Email lists Email group s ("public" f0r all members; or private for designated members only) Questions: Allows for easy posting of questions. Membership driven; password protected. She gave me a tour of the application. Have you heard of it?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 22, 2007

I suppose these types of games may actually add to the learning experience by providing repetition of learning points, but to call these games immersive or addictive? Learning designers will have to get a lot more creative in order to take these kinds of games to the next level.perhaps Patrick Dunn can provide us with some pointers on that.

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Learning Visions

MAY 12, 2009

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences? Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Whats your take on using audio in eLearning? For or against? Do you use audio on every slide because the client says people will think its broken if you dont?

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Provide support and control mechanisms to help learners "stick with it." Harold Stolovichs take on the subject of learning styles, is that, yes, we all have different styles and approaches, but that these arent the main thing we should be focusing on as designers of learning. Best to apply universally sound methods to enhance learning.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 8, 2007

Tom provides "practical real-world tips for rapid e-Learning success" with enticing blog entry titles such as How Can Baking Cookies Improve Your E-learning Course? Tom is the author of 5 Myths About Rapid e-Learning which made the rounds a while back. Sounds good enough to eat. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 7, 2007

See the intense comment thread on The Real World, Second Life and Facebook/MySpace where Cathy provides some interesting commentary on women in Second Life. Shes the author of that fabulous presentation Dump the Drone , which we all got so excited about a few months ago. And shes been a great contributer here at Learning Visions.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

This is just a starting point and doesnt provide links. Im not saying that these theories are right or wrong -- but they get tossed about and referred to with great relish by some in the industry. And I have learned a lot by looking into each of them. Please add your own essentials. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 21, 2007

We’re providing the writer with a work environment, and we want it to be a compelling, enjoyable place to be. It matters that the look and feel of an application support the work. It matters that the person at the keyboard enjoys the experience, that they have fun using the tool. This looks much nicer than Google Docs.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The best self-paced eLearning does this well, providing scenario-based learning and demos with plenty of opportunity for reflection and practice. 9) Stephen Downes ( What Connectivism Is ) talks about the role of the teacher = model and demo; the role of the learner = practice and reflection. More on this later?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

10 years ago I cut my elearning teeth in the K12 market, working on projects for two big US providers. All the projects provided standalone, asynchronous lessons. It ends up being more of a hybrid there; most of the classes are face to face, but a few online courses are taken to allow specialization. 9:52 PM Cathy Moore said.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

It solves that issue of allowing users the ability to go through the content at their own pace, but then provides access to an expert who can really focus a training session on their specific needs. I particularly liked this approach he describes for a software training course. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 18, 2007

Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Describing What You Do: Instructional Design Youre at a playground and you start talking to the mom sitting on the bench next to you. I will use the term e-Learning Designer, but include that I provide interactive training accessed via my companys Intranet. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work.

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