Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

CBT Systems told the world it was being reincarnated as SmartForce, the eLearning Company. Yet at the ASTD Conference six months later, dozens of vendors claimed to have eLearning. I fear that charlatans and dummies are taking informal learning down the same road. An Informal Learning Sequel? No, no, no.

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Informal Learning Informal Metrics vendor 81

Learning Visions

JANUARY 2, 2013

While I still work out of my home office in the Boston area, our office in downtown Chicago now boasts a full host of project managers, instructional designers, ace graphic artists, top notch developers, our Totara LMS support team, as well as marketing and support personnel. So what did I learn from all that?

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Compliance Training Design ASTD eLearning Guild 178

Learning Visions

MARCH 12, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, March 12, 2007 Free the Learners -- Free the LMS Jay Cross in Free the learners talks about his afternoon omelette and anarchy and then goes on: People ask how to track informal learning in their LMS; my response is don’t.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

- Blogger in Middle-earth , May 26, 2009 Tips for Working with SMEs - Bozarthzone , May 21, 2009 Social Networking in Times of Stress and Personal Emergencies - Electronic Papyrus , May 11, 2009 Aligning Learning Theory with Instructional Design - The E-Learning Curve , May 21, 2009 Developing a PLE Using Web 2.0

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Social Networks Wiki Corporate eLearning Case Study 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2006

Of course, you'll get a better sense of this as you read through various post. Interaction I write this blog because it helps me think through and learn about the topics I write about. Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD OC eLearning 2.0 Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 20, 2009

e-Learning Tools Crash Course: Deciding What Authoring Tools to Use and When So youve heard about PowerPoint, Articulate, Captivate and Flash. In this crash course, well introduce you to a wide catalog of e-learning tools. In this crash course, well introduce you to a wide catalog of e-learning tools.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2009

I want to be able to ask people a series of questions and correlate their answers with topic areas to indicate what courses they should take. So if you say, yes I have signoff authority for travel vouchers, I could tell this tool to mark four courses. To me, this sounds like competence management as handled by an LMS.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2009

former EVP Human Resources of First Group America on August 27 th for a case study on the development of a 15-minute course on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. All who attend will receive a FREE copy of the course. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Schottmiller J.D,

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Litmos

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The large increase in college students during the 50’s, had institutions scrambling to provide course supply for the increased demand. Mailing CD-ROM courses to offices around the world was significantly cheaper than regularly sending instructors to the same sites. SCORM, and the SaaS based LMS.

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CD-ROM Corporate eLearning Authoring Tools Wikipedia 40

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Beachward Bound Crowdsourcing: Authoring Tools & LMS Questions My Summer ID Reading List ► June (3) eLearning Authoring Tools Mindmap The Two Faces of ePortfolios The Unofficial eLearning Salary Calculator ► May (9) Book Review: Ruth Clark’s Evidence-Based Training. e-Learning Authoring Tools Crash Course -- Follow.

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Learning Visions

JULY 7, 2009

Although I’ve been r eading Tom Kuhlman’s Rapid E-Learning Blog now for a couple of years, I’ve never actually designed (or for that matter, built) an Articulate course. That is, if a client uses Articulate in-house, they may ask us to build a few courses for them in Articulate. I’m such a n00b.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Posted by Cammy Bean at 8:00 AM Labels: devlearn09 , e-learning guild , kineo 4comments: Ethan said. And schmoozing, of course!) Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! Awesome, Ethan!

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IM IMS Moodle eLearning Guild 100

Learning Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2009

A nice follow-on to the webinar, we talked a bit more about learning campaigns, emerging technologies and, of course, the upcoming DevLearn 09. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle!

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In my early days, I wrote a lot of software training courses. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design?

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Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning Moodle Instructional Design 100

Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Better than Bullet Points Develop a treatment Apply Richard Mayer’s SOI model Choose graphics with soul, interactions with meaning, and animations that teach Taking an existing classroom course – think about TRANSFORMING it, not converting it. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design?

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Of course good is very subjective. In the past, Ive cut it down significantly, and sent it back to the writer/author hoping theyll learn a leaner writing style. Not usually, of course, but I tried. Perfect is unobtainable.

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IM IMS Moodle Instructional Design 100

Learning Visions

MARCH 1, 2007

What strikes me about this whole DIY/informal learning/death of ISD conversation is that what were really talking about are those so-called motivated knowledge workers. These are guys who will take informal learning by the horns and run with it. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Its ok Dan.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 11, 2008

I put myself as academic, since the courses I develop are graduate courses. I figured youre really more interested in what type of courses I design rather than where the money comes from. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? 1:21 PM Dave Ferguson said.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

So then its really easy to think that the best way to make a course more engaging is to make it fun. Clark Quinn in Learning Predictions for 2009 : I continue to see interest in games, and naturally I’m excited. Of course, sometimes they coincide.) (Now ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Games Corporate eLearning eLearning Guild Moodle 100

Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

Say, if youre purchasing a course library from SkillSoft or some other vendor: If a client has their own LMS, do they purchase the courses outright and host them on their own servers? If so, is the vendor able to track usage or do they just sell the content for a flat fee based on LMS seat size? By actual usage?

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. 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). Blooms Taxonmy, of course.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

What have you done lately to create a course that will intrigue and inspire your learners? Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! I know I do.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

When we talk about the “industry&# , we (and by “we&# , I of course mean those of us in the industry) often refer to it as if it’s this monolithic thing that you can touch. Is it the associations? -- the eLearning Guild and ASTD. Of course it's not the perfect analogy. The Industry.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. 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. The 30-Minute Masters by Clive Shepherd. 5:52 PM Karl Kapp said.

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Instructional Design Custom eLearning Development Instructional Instruction 125

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

this clearly effects how we should all be designing and building courses now. I particularly liked this approach he describes for a software training course. At any time during the course, the learner could click “Ask a Question&# and it would allow them to type in a question that would be saved in their question list.

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eLearning 2.0 Corporate eLearning Technology eLearning 100

Learning Visions

JANUARY 29, 2008

Be sure to check out Wills post from June of 2006: New Taxonomy for Learning Objectives : Instructional professionals use learning objectives for different purposes—even for different audiences. Learning objectives are used to guide the attention of the learner toward critical learning messages.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. 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. Someone defined LMS as "learning means sitting."

IM 100

IM IMS Moodle Instructional Design 100

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I've not seen John's link to tuition free ID course so far - thanks for pointing to that. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! This is a great list Cammy.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 14, 2009

Today we build courses which have specific learning objectives, tomorrow this same course could sit additional learning resources all of which together forms a learnin environment for an individual. Hope to continue blogging and learning from you!! Some of us will still be creating the course with the objectives.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 InVision Learning: Seeking eLearning.NET Developer Were seeking a full-time.NET Developer to join our growing company here in Westborough, Massachusetts. Invision Learning is seeking a.Net Developer to create leading-edge interactive multimedia and web-based eLearning applications.

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Moodle Develop Brandon Hall Case Study 100

Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

Question of the Week -- Economy How has the economy affected your learning unit? 9% Hit us Hard 47% Hurt a little 41% Not much effect 3% Helped us MYTHS the Business Side Has about Learning Client asked him to develop a course for business side. To help improve on-the-job learning. Its a training issue. ("We

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Invision Learning is seeking an Instructional Designer to design leading-edge interactive multimedia and web-based eLearning applications. Our company specializes in Custom Courses, Flash Templates, and Learning Portals. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design?

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Over at The Learning Circuits Blog , Clark Quinn is wondering about pre-tests. Ive always wondered about them myself and have only reluctantly included them in courses. Well, I recently took Will Thalheimers Original Learning Research Quiz which had me rethinking the whole point of prequestions/pretesting.

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Moodle Learning Objects Instructional Design Brandon Hall 100

Learning Visions

MAY 20, 2009

Funny thing is - none of the LMS players in the list. Well, first of all I apologize for being self-serving, but I cant not promote my own company, Phasient Learning Technologies, which does provide custom course development and eLearning consulting services as well as tools. 8:53 AM Anol said. 9:30 AM Denise Link said.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2008

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. As the course designer, youre not encouraged or even allowed access to actual learners to get an understanding yourself. The sponsor says "we want this eLearning course."

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Learning Visions

MARCH 16, 2007

Another important reason to understand your audience when developing e-Learning, even along gender lines. Im wondering if any e-Learning designers out there consider these differences when creating courses. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Games for Girls.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

From the perspective of the adult learner, I think its appropriate to think of skill level in these terms: a novice might have a different "learning style" from an expert. Clark & Mayer address this a bit in e-Learning and the Science of Instruction when talking about closed navigation vs. learner control. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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