Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2007

What i Assessing the ROI of training If people really are your greatest asset, isn't it time to look at your training programmes as investments in your organisation's human capital and not just as an expense? Questions you may have include: * What is the reason for the training? · ROI and Analytics · Internet Time Blog: ROI is toast.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Learnosity Learnosity provide a set of tools to help in the assessment, teaching and learning of spoken language skills. This combination, backed by flexible expert location, rating and ranking mechanisms, makes our offering stand apart in providing cutting edge performance support and learning management to large audiences.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Discussions deal with a wide variety of topics.

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Community Ning Instructional Design eLearning Guild 105

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2009

The Institute didn't include any courses from suppliers such as Learning Tree, but was rich with resources from Books24x7, TechChek (a web-based technical skills assessment tool), internal company communities and knowledge sharing wikis. Charles discusses the Reuters Institute of Technology which won a CLO Magazine Award for innovation.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 30, 2008

The question was: What is your assessment of the relative benefits of pure blogging vs LinkedIn Answers and other social networking platform-based discussion venues? I consider LinkedIn Answers to be quite a different animal.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

As one begins to act, they are also assessing, in real time, the potential impact of their actions. And this suggests that there is big value in providing knowledge workers with ways to assess a situation, to find the cues which link to possible approaches and actions. As problem solvers do this, they adjust their actions on-the-fly.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

But, I could quickly link to the sites to find out more and finally recommended that they should look at: Articulate Quizmaker allows you to easily create Flash-based quizzes, surveys, and assessments.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 27, 2009

(D) Other “effective interactive training” and education includes the use of audio, video or computer technology in conjunction with classroom, webinar and/or e-learning training. (E)

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 26, 2011

Corny 1986 line. :) Content Needs This is a very crude self-assessment, but I believe it makes an important point. This month's #LCBQ is: How do you address the "I want it now!" demand from stakeholders ? There are some great responses that can be found by visiting the link above. If you are reading this, you are a knowledge worker.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 10, 2009

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 4, 2007

On the other hand, you should know that when a corporation uses Moodle they often are using it for some very simple course delivery, creating assessments, etc. We tried to handle it by drawing distinctions where possible, but the fact remains that lots of companies are using Moodle.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 20, 2009

A student who has a high level of metalearning awareness is able to assess the effectiveness of her/his learning approach and regulate it according to the demands of the learning task. Jay's article is really using metalearning in a different way – take responsibility for learning across the organization.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 13, 2006

I tend to agree with most of his assessment, but disagree with his statement: If we are good/lucky we meet in the middle and the compromise is the mediocrity of elearning click2death courses that we have today.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 2, 2009

shtml March 18-19, 2009 The e-Assessment Question 2007, 7 th annual, Shaw Theatre and Novotel Euston, London, United Kingdom. 2009 Technology for Engagement, Assessment and Communication in Higher Education (TEACH!) link] statsevents/sqacademy/index. No conference will be held in 2009. link] conference/ April ?, link] acde2008 July ?,

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Conference eLearning Conferences Blended Learning Diversity Training 121

Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

The New Learning Landscape - Using Wiki in Education - How do students learn in a world where traditional assessments of intelligence are radically changing, abundant knowledge is more readily available, and learning community is more important than ever? Assessing Learning Management Systems By Stewart Mader 31.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Participants The workshop is designed to work well for learning professionals and delivered through: Learning Departments ASTD Chapters If you are an individual or small learning department interested in participating, then please contact us, and we will see if we can have you participate in a public workshop or via an ASTD Chapter.

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Social Networks Wiki Skills ASTD 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2007

Normally topics like "Adding Interactivity to your eLearning" are sure to pack the room. I wonder if the steady increase in rapid and the decrease of effective has anything to do with that?

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Blended Learning Wiki Virtual Classroom Authoring Tools 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

His basic point is that Gagne's: Gaining attention Stating the objective Stimulating recall of prior learning Presenting the stimulus Providing learning guidance Eliciting performance Providing feedback Assessing performance Enhancing retention and transfer to other contexts is in his words. The course ends here, you're on your own mate.

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Sexual Harassment Training Courseware Harassment Training Compliance Training 103

Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

Looking Back So when I go back to Hot Topics in Training , the topics that were hot then and by looking at the associated years I can get a sense that: assessment – not discussed as much now (e.g., I often will use this technique when I run into a new company to see if anyone is blogging about it and generally what is associated with it.

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Blended Learning Association Learning Management System Folksonomy eLearning Strategy 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 25, 2006

There are many overlapping product sets (virtual classroom, LMS, LCMS, Authoring, Assessment, Search, Collaboration, HRIS, Talent Management, etc.), When I looked through the discussion around the next generation of standards, it made my head spin. standards and new technologies allowing them to interoperate (SOA, Web Services, REST).

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I really like how Dave provided a "When" column that showed that the questions included things to be asked during needs assessment or are macro questions. You can see a list of questions gathered by Dave Lee a few days ago at: [link] m/bigquestions.

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Scanning Simulations Software Simulation Big Question 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 2, 2007

George Siemens agrees with my assessment about the need for platforms or aggregation, but tells us in Scaling the Social Web that as for the large social networking sites, he's: tried them all (facebook, myspace, bebo, orkut, linkedin, twitter, etc.) Thus, the platforms are going to be the big winners. The rest of us will build off of it.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100

Tony Karrer

MAY 23, 2006

I completely agree with Bill's assessment, del.icio.us If you do a similar search on del.icio.us, you first realize (as Bill found) that tags cannot have spaces, so you actually need to look for "web2.0" - you can see what you get at: [link] I definitely don't think the results are nearly as good as what you get in Google.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

I would ask you to assess yourself right now. If you read what is coming out in discussions of Informal Learning , Personal Learning Environments , eLearning 2.0 , all of them point that personal learning (or self-directed learning or learning how to learn) is where we should focus our attention to get the greatest effect.

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

link] December 6-8, 2010 Assessing Quality in Higher Education , 3 rd international conference, Lahore, Pakistan. link] January 21, 2011 Outcomes-Based Academic Assessment Reporting , organized by Academic Impressions, offered online. [link] December 6, 2010 International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health , 3 rd , Miami, Florida.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Cyber Security Training 217

Tony Karrer

JULY 18, 2006

Of course, even if we tend to agree with Harold's positioning of Informal Learning and his assessment of some of the kinds of tools used in Informal Learning, it still leaves us with an awfully blurry picture. A comment on my last post by Guy L.

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Informal Learning Wiki KM Informal 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How do we go about calculating the possible return of delivering this as eLearning instead of ILT?

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ILT Convert Compliance Training Brandon Hall 104

Tony Karrer

JUNE 29, 2009

I'm not going to mention the specific tool because they didn't provide any of the information I would need to assess whether it's an interesting offering or a me too. An Example – New Survey Tool What sparked this post was an email I received that was a new survey tool.

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Solution Social Networks Yammer Facebook 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 20, 2009

Teamwork Tips 7 Keys to Building Great Workteams Groups that Work Five Habits of Effective Teams Building Better Virtual Teams Conference Call Tips Building Social Relationships in Virtual Teams Assessing the Quality of Collaboration in Virtual Teams Online Community Toolkit Seven Habits of Successful Virtual Teams Leading Virtual Teams If you want (..)

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Collaboration Wiki Ning Social Networks 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Assess your adoption as you go. There will be a lot coming at you through this series and it will be easy for you to become overwhelmed. So a couple of quick recommendations. Slow and steady - adopt practices and tools in a slow, steady, measured way. And you should definitely engage other people to discuss this with in an ongoing basis.

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PWLE PLE Tools PKM 122

Tony Karrer

MARCH 31, 2011

Before completing the course she indicates that she wants to obtain both the nursing credits and the HCS-D credits available on the Assessing and Coding Wounds course. Requirement #3: The LMS needs the a bility to create customized, course specific evaluation/survey assessments that are required to obtain a completed status for the course.

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LMS Learning Management System Education System 180

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

link] January 21, 2010 Prior Learning Assessment : Balancing Academic Quality and Enrollment Goals, online webcast. link] February 18-20, 2010 General Education and Assessment : Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Conference eLearning Conferences Blended Learning Diversity Training 115

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 5, 2009

We heard about use of assessments. Unless you do something to differentiate yourself in a real way, you will be more and more of a commodity. Many Ways to Differentiate. We heard several people talking about focus on performance. There was discussion about a lot of the things that need to happen outside the training event.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 4, 2007

But I think we need to add to this discussion more around the specific kinds of actions that we take as individuals on different types of tasks and how this relates to our PWLE (p-Whale).

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PWLE Learning Environment Discussion PKM 100

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

HR, ERP, Legacy system integration Mind set to move learning online Problems with vendor Support from management Flexibility for future requirements Support from stakeholders Clear business goals Security Support from learners Tool/vendor selection Administration Problems with third-party consultant Compliance LMS Features: Tracking, reporting, and (..)

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LMS Cornerstone OnDemand Oracle Saba 157

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The quote does seem high but does anyone really have enough information to make an accurate assessment? This is a creative industry just like any industry with a design elemen involved so you get different prices and peoples view of what to provide will always be different. Was the tender document clear? Did they get other quotes?

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Blended Learning Cost Technology Corporate eLearning 123

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

link] or www.trainingmagevents.com February 13-15, 2012 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2012: Taking the Pulse – Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating, Austin, Texas, USA. link] February 15-17, 2012 National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Assessment Institute , 12 th , San Diego, California, USA. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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eLearning Conferences Conference Blended Learning Diversity Training 261