He encourages instructional designers to relinquish control and cease reliance on “a process of extracting and interpreting information from the SME… ”  Katzman continues, “The expertise is out in the field …   In some cases the learner is the teacher, and teacher a learner.” Why does the group in Belgium do it, when the group in Boston doesn’t? Tweet A few years ago, Jim Marshall and I surveyed workplace learning professionals about elearning. We pursued this question: when doing elearning, what are you doing? ” Appealing? MORE >>

Use the preloader to download audio/video that is at the beginning of your project so that it is ready when the learner starts using the content. Add "ponder" time after audio plays to allow the information to be absorbed by the learner. Frances Keefe of the University of Massachusetts Boston gave a fun and entertaining presentation on using code snippets in Flash to quickly create objects to import into Captivate. I'm back in my hotel room after a long day at the Adobe Learning Summit. I've decided to summarize some of my notes I took at the conference today. Flash 10.2 MORE >>

It’s very easy to load content on slides – but it takes more creativity to move learner to actual understanding! Use scenarios – apply what you know to make a decision.Ask the learner to take info that’s not clearcut and apply it using a question (in PPT – picture of a farmer and 3 images of “experts&# to ask for advice. “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. Not PPT 101. MORE >>

Article to reveal the secrets of the super-learners? Boston College (Front Row). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, April 2. Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem? 101 Free Learning Tools OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources Free EduGames Printer-Friendly Version Lets explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning problem, need or issue! want a FREE : Easy-to-use and secure Internet browser? Firefox e-Mail system? Gmail Social bookmarking tool? del.icio.us Diigo Tool to translate text or a webpage? MORE >>

Vicki states as the first benefit of learning objectives: "Learners can focus more easily on what is important to their actual workplace performance." Her statement is in keeping with traditional instructional design theory that says that learning objectives help learners organize their learning efforts. And yet one could argue that most learners dont even bother reading them. photo by bb_matt Alternatives to Listing Objectives Here are some of Michael Allens alternatives to listing out boring learning objectives in text bullet form: Put the Learner to Work (p. MORE >>