Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Thursday, June 28, 2007 Emerging Technologies in e-Learning I sat in on a lunchtime WebEx presentation with Gary Woodill -- Director, Research and Analysis, Brandon Hall Research. Started with Brandon Hall in November. Doesnt change the basic model of an expert/teacher delivering to a group of learners.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 12, 2007

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. Free the Learners -- Free the LMS Open Simulations vs. Page Turners? Take the Survey!

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Training Orchestra

MARCH 2, 2018

According to a 2015 Brandon Hall Group study, 56% of Instructor-Led Training modules are deemed highly effective against 21% of eLearning modules [2]. Indeed, these skills can be effectively delivered only through dynamic interactions between a learner and the instructor, and between learner and fellow colleagues.

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Learning Pool

MARCH 6, 2020

2019 was a landmark year for Learning Pool, with highlights including increasing its client base by 30%, now serving more than 800 organizations and over 2 million learners worldwide. Our acquisition of HT2 Labs saw staff numbers rise to over 200 colleagues across our Derry, Nottingham, Oxford, Belfast, Glasgow, and Boston offices.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Thursday, February 22, 2007 Informal Learning -- Getting Learners to Ask the Right Questions In a post on informal learning by Ray Sims (thanks to Tony ), he lists out a whole bunch o good things "to do on behalf of increasing informal learning aligned with company strategy and goals." Where Are All the Women? Pretesting: Why bother?

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Learning Visions

MAY 18, 2009

E-learning solutions have several advantages to the learner: Things such as, increased retention, reduced learning time, On-demand availability, self-pacing, interactivity and confidence that refresher or quick reference materials are available reduces burden of responsibility of mastery. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

It’s very easy to load content on slides – but it takes more creativity to move learner to actual understanding! “Select, organize and integrate&# Select important information Organize it into meaningul wholes Integrate it with real world problems Select: Help the learner understand what they’re going to do.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 21, 2009

8:48 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer? Kineo resources rocks! Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

I like this from the articles intro: Graphic descriptions you may be familiar with: · ‘Two people shaking hands’ · ‘Business person on the phone in generic office’ · ‘Image of learners, asleep in front of their computers’ Come on -- admit it. Youve used those same images, havent you?

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Limestone Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With more than 150 free L&D seminars, over 200 exhibitors, two exhibition halls packed with the latest learning technologies, innovation and best practice and the industry's leading L&D conference, it provided a unique and exciting environment for all those involved in workplace learning.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 3, 2009

Problems include the desire to narrate every word (when there are already too many words) and the belief that adding any visual will "appeal" to "visual learners". But keep spreading the word! 5:02 PM MCSE_Karrox said. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 22, 2007

Friday, June 22, 2007 Profiles of a Twentysomething and a Fiftysomething Learner In the fact-gathering phase for an e-Learning strategy project I am working on, I have the fun task of interviewing a whole bunch of potential end-users. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Learning Visions

JULY 20, 2009

3:06 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer? Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

JULY 13, 2009

Learners need to know the benefits, how to recognize customer needs for a product, and how to close the sale. Keeping it short and focused: sales people who need product knowledge information work in challenging, fast paced and often noisy retail environments. The learning has got to get to the point, quickly. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 29, 2008

Learning objectives are used to guide the attention of the learner toward critical learning messages. Learning objectives are used to tell the learner whats in the course. They are used by instructional designers to guide the design of the learning. They are used by evaluation designers to develop metrics and assessments.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

The learner cringes. What have you done lately to create a course that will intrigue and inspire your learners? Perhaps you need to think about motivating the learner? So much on-demand training consists of boring page turners. Ive created my share. That will motivate them to come back for more? I know I do. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

JULY 7, 2009

Let the learner explore. Compel the learner to want to find out what comes next. . “Which of these widgets would you use to paint a monkey?&# There’s no penalty for a wrong answer. Spice it up with scenarios. This is true for any tool. Keep it interesting with a story. Use interesting images. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Rather than segregating learners by different styles where they will receive "one-dimensional instruction", we should instead create "multidimensional instruction" using a variety of activities and presentation modes. Program control gave better results during initial learning, while learner control was more effective at alter stages." (p.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

How do you help your learners get into a state of flow ? 11:41 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer? Go for flow, not fun. (Of

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Learning Visions

MARCH 7, 2007

Wednesday, March 07, 2007 Games for the Brain These brain games are from Phillip Lenssen, via Dean at my company who was thinking about how we could use brain teasers or games to get a learner prepped to learn. Use your brain game as a pre-question to focus the learner on the programs learning objectives. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

For some backstory , see the Boston Globe article, " Women tap the power of the blog " July 17 2006. where I was pointing out the general lack of women in the e-Learning blogosphere. But perhaps this is just a general business-blog issue. It seems this is old news. Take the Survey! Where Are All the Women? Pretesting: Why bother?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I laugh, remembering Art History 101 in college -- a darkened lecture hall, slides projected on the wall, me falling asleep in spite of myself, sometimes even snoring. The interface is nothing exciting and somewhat counter-intuitive, but its balanced out by the beauty of the artworks themselves. Check out the Mona Lisa for an in-depth study.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Scotts Twitter bio describes him as a "teacher, learner,old hippy." Z) [link] 11:04 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2008

Are you being content centric or learner centric ? And probably killed a learner or two in the process, if they even bothered to stick with it. And probably killed a learner or two in the process, if they even bothered to stick with it. Learner Centric Solutions This is what were all striving for, right? Its all there.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2006

The idea is that as learners, all of us have elements of these styles when we learn, although some will be stronger than others. This learner needs to be told what to do and how. For this type of learner, its all about personal connections. Personal learners relate first, and then act. What are the instructions?"

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2009

So youve got some great ideas on how to make your content more engaging , how to get the learner into the flow. Admit to the learner upfront that the content may be dry. In Michael Allens Guide to e-Learning he reminds us to motivate the learner by giving them the WIIFM (whats in it for me). Sell the course to the learner.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

Perhaps we just include this in the wiki and the informal learners can go off and do their own research (because we learn best by doing, right?). 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.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

These learners would go through online courseware for about 6 hours that would teach them about the software and test them using simulations. 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. Where Are All the Women?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2007

I thought Patrick Dunn did a nice job presenting the difference between e-learning designers of the "last century" who follow the addie method to create courses (click me, read me) and thus bored learners, vs. todays e-learning designers who "create experiences". Free the Learners -- Free the LMS Open Simulations vs. Page Turners?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2007

It goes to show, weve got to make sure that were putting the right content into our courses -- so that the learner knows that he or she is actually going to be using this information later. Free the Learners -- Free the LMS Open Simulations vs. Page Turners? Weed out the fluff. The brain does indeed pay attention. Games for Girls.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

Instructional objectives designed to guide behavior: for the learner , for the developer. Instructional Objectives for Learner: Table of contents objectives (these are the things were going to teach you) Performance Objectives (this is what youll do.) Especially in prequestions that learner answers rather than reads.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2007

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Learning Visions

MARCH 15, 2007

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2007

Dr. Dror is a cognitive scientist, who urges instructional designers to keep the focus on the learner rather than the learning materials and to design the learning experience to the human brain. Get into the learners shoes. Theyve also got an audio interview with Dr. Itiel Dror who discusses the brain and e-Learning. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

MARCH 7, 2007

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Learning Visions

MARCH 7, 2007

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

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