eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 12/05/2010 e-Learning Glossaries Think about e-Learning. These two facts make communication and common understanding of e-Learning issues hard to follow.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Multi Generational Learning in the Workplace My notes may be spotty here.eating and twittering. Brandon Hall: Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace webinar with Janet Clarey.

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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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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Learning Spaces - An EDUCAUSE e-Book Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. This e-book represents an ongoing exploration as we bring together space, technology, and pedagogy to ensure learner success. 311 Tips on the MANAGEMENT of an LMS or LCMS - eLearning Guild.is

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. In the world of informal learning, who can be the teacher/the mentor? How can organizations ensure that the right questions are being asked by the informal learner? Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0,

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some of them are your learners and they know how to use Facebook effectively! Using Facebook for e-Learning could inspire many of our students to learn. As a result, my question is how can we use Facebook for e-Learning? You can share information relevant to your course with your learners.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc.

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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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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! Richard Mayer – research on multimedia learning. Taking information and applying it to a real problem How do we keep from overloading learners? Use hyperlinks to answer questions. Use good headings.

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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? Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Ive created my share. I know I do.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

Types of Instructional Objectives There are many types of Instructional Objectives Two audiences we should be aiming for. Instructional objectives designed to guide behavior: for the learner , for the developer. When presented with a learning objective -- it sits in the long term memory. Answer yes or no.

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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.

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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". Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? But keep spreading the word! 5:02 PM MCSE_Karrox said.

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Learning Visions

JULY 20, 2009

It turns out that I have wrong in my belief that elearning tools are no good as a learning management system, as I have been thinking since I heard of the concept. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional.

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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. The warm up before the real e-Learning begins. Free the Learners -- Free the LMS Open Simulations vs. Page Turners?

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Learning Visions

JULY 13, 2009

The learning has got to get to the point, quickly. Learners need to know the benefits, how to recognize customer needs for a product, and how to close the sale. Keeping costs down: Given the pace of change, product knowledge e-learning has got to be cost effective, otherwise the maintenance costs will be prohibitive.

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Learning Visions

JULY 7, 2009

Let the learner explore. Compel the learner to want to find out what comes next. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? . “Which of these widgets would you use to paint a monkey?&# There’s no penalty for a wrong answer. Spice it up with scenarios.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 22, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. 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.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

How do you help your learners get into a state of flow ? Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Interviews on Instructional Design Instructional Objectives -- How Some of them Work When the Content is Really Boring. Go for flow, not fun. (Of Yes, yes, yes!

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

"The reason researchers roll their eyes at learning styles is the utter failure to find that assessing childrens learning and matching to instructional methods has any effect on their learning." Clark & Mayer address this a bit in e-Learning and the Science of Instruction when talking about closed navigation vs. learner control.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Scotts Twitter bio describes him as a "teacher, learner,old hippy." If you spend any time in Second Life, all November visiting avatars will have the opportunity to click on the polling object in the Hut and vote for a blog to be featured throughout the next month in the RSS feed located within the hut. Just the kind I like!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 15, 2007

Tom says, (By instructional design, I mean a design model that typically prescribes elements such as learning objectives, presentation of information, practice with feedback, and evaluation that ties back to the objectives. Theres nothing in ADDIE about learning objects or the presentation of information.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Well, I recently took Will Thalheimers Original Learning Research Quiz which had me rethinking the whole point of prequestions/pretesting. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0, Where Are All the Women?

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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. Posted by Cammy Bean at 9:51 AM Labels: art history , e-learning , mona lisa 1 comments: Lindsey N said. Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0,

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Now granted, the plastic brain of a 4 1/2 year old is pretty different than your average adult learners brain. Nevertheless, us old folks are still primed for learning when we are motivated. Explain exactly why the learner should care about this stuff. What learner really bothers reading that crap? Worst grade ever.

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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!! 7:50 AM Cammy Bean said. Sameer: Youre absolutely right.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

My main takeaway has been to add moments for reflective learning -- pauses in the voice stream to let the learner think about his or her own experience and apply it to the workplace. Even something as simple as having the learner type their ideas on the screen. Michael Allens Guide to e-Learning.

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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

APRIL 9, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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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

MARCH 30, 2007

Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc. Games for Girls.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

And I have learned a lot by looking into each of them. 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?). Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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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. Michael Allen urges designers to provide "meaningful and memorable learning experiences." Sell the course to the learner. Set the expectation.

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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". Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional.

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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. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Weed out the fluff. Games for Girls.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 15, 2007

Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc. Games for Girls.

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Simulations eLearning Guild Moodle Brandon Hall 100

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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