Learning Visions

APRIL 3, 2009

People ask for the research but then they dont like the data when its provided. I cite Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer (and their book together, the great "E-Learning and the Science of Instruction"), and Sweller, and Nguyen. But keep spreading the word!

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2006

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 e-Learning Success in Manufacturing This article is kind of old (from 2002), but provides insight into the successes achieved by one manufacturing organization. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2006

Provides interesting statistics about authoring tools and use within corporate training depts. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, May 31, 2006 E-Learning Guild Content Authoring Research Report Research report by the e-Learning Guild. Results of a survey from 2005.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 16, 2007

This site provides free resources to the eLearning development community, including news, discussion forums, job postings, and more. Thursday, August 16, 2007 Keeping Your Fingers on the eLearningPulse Thanks to Google Alerts, I stumbled across another everything-eLearning feed aggregator: eLearningPulse.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

eLearning Art provides royalty free stock photos, images, and other assets to help you create some cool stuff in your own authoring tools. You might find the right guy to play the role of the client in your story, but there’s only three shots of him and he looks like a goofball in one of them. So then do you go do a custom photo shoot?

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Instructional Design Central (IDC) is an online portal dedicated towards providing professionals, researchers, and students with instructional design (or instructional technology) resources and community collaboration.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

This site provides free resources to the eLearning development community, including news, discussion forums, job postings, and more. I jumped the gun a few weeks ago and unveiled the new one-stop shop for all things e-Learning (with or without the hyphen or the capital L -- you decide). But now its official: there is an eLearning Pulse.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2007

They provide some fabulous (free) resources to the e-Learning community and have just been nominated the "Best New Kids on the Block" by the Brighton and Hove Business Awards. This months newsletter is no exception.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007 The Learning Show Thanks to Will Thalheimer for continuing to provide great learning resources. Instead, focus on the most important stuff -- provide repetition, spacing, extra time. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

1) Donald Taylor provides a little summary of some of the recent talk in Second Life Backlash: After all the hype Second Life has had, there is bound to be some push back. Donald does a great job recapping various articles and provides some useful links, including the following: 2) Second Thoughts on Second Life by Sylvia Martinez.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 22, 2007

I suppose these types of games may actually add to the learning experience by providing repetition of learning points, but to call these games immersive or addictive? Learning designers will have to get a lot more creative in order to take these kinds of games to the next level.perhaps Patrick Dunn can provide us with some pointers on that.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Provide support and control mechanisms to help learners "stick with it." Harold Stolovichs take on the subject of learning styles, is that, yes, we all have different styles and approaches, but that these arent the main thing we should be focusing on as designers of learning. Best to apply universally sound methods to enhance learning.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 8, 2007

Tom provides "practical real-world tips for rapid e-Learning success" with enticing blog entry titles such as How Can Baking Cookies Improve Your E-learning Course? Tom is the author of 5 Myths About Rapid e-Learning which made the rounds a while back. Sounds good enough to eat.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 7, 2007

See the intense comment thread on The Real World, Second Life and Facebook/MySpace where Cathy provides some interesting commentary on women in Second Life. Shes the author of that fabulous presentation Dump the Drone , which we all got so excited about a few months ago. And shes been a great contributer here at Learning Visions.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Use multiple representations to provide the learner with multiple ways of accessing the information: visual or auditory. From the CFT vantage, multiple representations is not about providing the same information in a different format (the learning styles approach), but rather presenting different perspectives on that information.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

This is just a starting point and doesnt provide links. 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. Please add your own essentials. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Learning Visions

JULY 2, 2007

The Gin System provides you with (among other things): Secure login Calendar of events Phone & Email lists Email group s ("public" f0r all members; or private for designated members only) Questions: Allows for easy posting of questions. Membership driven; password protected. She gave me a tour of the application. Have you heard of it?

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Learning Visions

JUNE 21, 2007

We’re providing the writer with a work environment, and we want it to be a compelling, enjoyable place to be. It matters that the look and feel of an application support the work. It matters that the person at the keyboard enjoys the experience, that they have fun using the tool. This looks much nicer than Google Docs.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The best self-paced eLearning does this well, providing scenario-based learning and demos with plenty of opportunity for reflection and practice. 9) Stephen Downes ( What Connectivism Is ) talks about the role of the teacher = model and demo; the role of the learner = practice and reflection. More on this later?

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Learning Visions

MAY 23, 2009

It opens things up in some very cool ways, providing flexibility and accessibility, which is great. I now respond to work emails BEFORE Ive even had coffee. Dangerous ground. I now work with a whole group of people across the pond in bonnie ole england-- a five hour time difference -- and its really easy to be connected.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 18, 2007

This comes back to some of the basic "instructional design" I learned early in the game: that its important to present information in a variety of ways because each of us learns differently and has a different learning style (in addition to providing that critical repetition and reinforcement -- what Clark Quinn called "multiple representations" in (..)

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

It solves that issue of allowing users the ability to go through the content at their own pace, but then provides access to an expert who can really focus a training session on their specific needs. I particularly liked this approach he describes for a software training course. Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0,

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Janet Clarey was reporting back from the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference, including experiments with un-workshops when things dont go as you planned. Boy have I seen some good content messed up in this way by the content provider! Ive got small kids and my house is pretty messy. 4:45 PM Sue Waters said.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

10 years ago I cut my elearning teeth in the K12 market, working on projects for two big US providers. All the projects provided standalone, asynchronous lessons. It ends up being more of a hybrid there; most of the classes are face to face, but a few online courses are taken to allow specialization. 9:52 PM Cathy Moore said.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 16, 2008

Your post also provides a good segue into a draft post I have been holding on to on how the art of blended learning and the art of quilting are similar. Now I just hoard fabric and place half-finished quilts under my bed. Your post inspires me to either (1) quilt or (2)find some Amish quilter looking to make a few bucks.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

All I could discern is that it looks at whatever appears on the link you provide. I think it provides more insight into how this tool works. Quickly dug around their links and didnt find anything that explained how they performed the measurement. My recent writing is ISTP - The mechanic. November 2008 is ISTJ (like yours).

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

Learning Intervention --> Performance Situation --> Learning Outcomes My notes from other Webinoshes in this series: Instructional Objectives -- How Some of Them Work Smile Sheets And dont forget: Will Thalheimer: The Learning Show: Dont Forget Forgetting Update: Here are Will Thalheimers notes on the session.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

The Chico State rubric provides a way to assess the quality of the program; essentially a checklist to evaluate your program. Hadnt thought about applying rubrics to e-Learning programs (mostly because my entire body bristles at the thought of such structure!) -- but I do see the value. Does anyone have any experience with rubrics?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 5, 2007

And the truth is that so many of these so-called great e-Learning authoring tools out there these days just provide a developer with basic PowerPoint functionality plus a SCORM wrapper. Ive always pooh-poohed PowerPoint as an e-Learning tool.but its all in how you look at, I suppose.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 19, 2007

I know FaceBook does provide a fair amount of control as to who you can let view your profile. Im interested in how we could leverage that existing community for better communication, learning opportunities, networking, etc. Thats all set at the individual level. Im interested in how one would mix communities.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 11, 2007

He reveals the thinking about PLEs inside the financial services industry: (A PLE/Education Portfolio owned by the learner) also requires a means for the learner to accept updates to their PLE, made by people providing training, so the student has a verified training record, verified qualifications and ce points/hours or other measurement."

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

To makes sure that clients get the most out of Rapid Create, or from any other authoring tool they may select, Epic also provides training and capability building to ensure internal teams are skilled-up in creating effective e-learning. Posted by Cammy Bean at 8:42 AM Labels: epic , rapid e-learning 4comments: Dan said. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Learning Visions

JUNE 5, 2007

And -- maybe -- also providing them with tools. So institutional providers can give their students something - a place to go - when they arrive on day one that will provide them with access to tools and information services that they are likely to find useful over the course of their studies. And why would I want to do that?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Microsoft in India, just hires content development managers, whose core skill sets is ID, but their role turns out to be that of a vendor manager and content reviewer, as Microsoft (in India) outsources elearning work to 3rd parties.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

Correct answer (to question above): #3 If provide learning objective to learner, they will focus more on that material. Todays focus: Focusing Objectives A statement presented before learner encounters material to help guide learner attention to the most important aspects of the learning material.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

Well need to provide our clients with some guidelines for updating content and version control. Of course these vendors will want to provide updated content in order to ensure their clients dont have out of date material. I suppose most LMS/LCMS keep track of versions on some levels. (Is Is that true?)

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Are "instructional designers" of the experienced/trained in ID sort, providing more consulting expertise to the lower-tier of instructional designers (a.k.a. Tom Kuhlman is certainly providing this expertise to the Articulate user community and beyond with his Rapid E-Learning Blog. SMEs using rapid eLearning tools)?

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