Learning Visions

MARCH 3, 2011

Why it's a custom distribution of Moodle, specifically geared the corporate sector with learning plans, detailed reporting and classroom management, among other useful features. Totara is now available for your hands-on demoing pleasure. What is Totara? And did I mention that it's open source?

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Learning Visions

MAY 17, 2016

There’s a lot of great content on management skills both for the classroom and online, so what’s the problem? In fact, KnowledgeAdvisors (2015) reports that “41% of training on Frontline Leader Development is not applied back on the job.” In talking with organizations, we’ve heard a consistent tale of woe.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2010

Instructional-design theory is relatively easy to apply in the classroom because it spells out methods of instruction. Learning theory is usually difficult to apply in the classroom because it does not spell out methods of instruction; at best it spells out ‘conditions of learning’” (p.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 28, 2010

(didn’t ask about quality, efficiency, satisfaction) Step 2: Defined the options They constructed 26 snapshots (options derived from literature, conferences, blogs, etc.) – e.g., “Our programs are delivered in a virtual classroom. Bottom ranking practices: Mobile devices Virtual classrooms.

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Blended Learning Virtual Classroom ASTD Social Networks 145

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

It includes a wide range of features designed to meet the specific needs of corporates, including competency management, staff development plans, team management, individual and corporate dashboard reporting, and the management of classroom events. Totara officially launches in January 2011.

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Totara Moodle DevLearn Open Source 165

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

3 days in a classroom setting followed by the on the job practicum…over 6-18 months. Bring the voice of the customer into the classroom – big impact. Need strong leaders to drive engagement of employees. 3 phase leadership curriculum: first time managers, for managers of managers, for executives.

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Corporate eLearning Culture Blended Learning ASTD 140

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Why it’s Jane Bozarth’s latest offering to the corporate training community – a short, sharp look at using social media tools to enhance the instructor led classroom. What is Social Media for Trainers? The book is full of hand-on practical advice – and overview of some of the key tools – and lots and lots of examples.

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Social Media Media Social Elluminate 174

Learning Visions

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Some surprises: Virtual classroom – SLOW adoption Online collaborative learning? The research on online collaboration Evidence mostly around collaboration IN THE CLASSROOM vs. in an elearning setting. Technology has changed! Smart phone…search functions…facebook/web 2.0…gaming…the gaming…the cloud. new family?

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Cognitive Instructional Instruction Virtual Classroom 222

Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2012

Reducing cognitive load – don’t want the learner thinking about how to get through the program, want them expending their cognitive load on the content… Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett – the layers that go into user design ( [link] ) When something doesn’t work in classroom training, you know immediately. Context matters.

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Cognitive Learner Design WebEx 172

Learning Visions

MAY 7, 2014

They realized they needed to go beyond the classroom and get in to the workplace. Moving beyond comfort zones out of the classroom and getting closer to the business. The training team took a hard look at where and how they were adding value. They realized they needed to do something completely different.

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Evalution Effectiveness Case Study Kirkpatrick 157

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Think outside of the walls of your classroom. shares a video of a classroom teacher who has a ppt on screen that “comes alive”). Touch the screen. Get your hand licked by a cat. Passive isn’t as good as active. Your Space as a Playground. In a presentation world, your confined to a box. Your PPT box.

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Brainshark Open PPT Social Networks 165

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

3 types of people in a classroom: prisoners (sentenced to training), vacationers (there for a break), true learners The Momentum Learning Model is a simple plan that the learner works on with their supervisor. There’s an expectation that they’re going to do something with it.

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Standards Director Classroom Culture 140

Learning Visions

JANUARY 26, 2012

She’s been doing virtual classroom since 2001. Lots of people forget what they know to do in the classroom -- when they get to virtual and instead they do death by powerpoint. And always ask – what version of the virtual classroom software will be used? My live notes from Cindy Huggett’s @cindyhugg session at ASTD TK12.

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Virtual Classroom Classroom Poll VOIP 186

Learning Visions

MARCH 6, 2007

So last week, we had the chance to take a tour of the school, peek in on some classrooms, and ask a lot of questions. The basis of Montessori practice in the classroom is respected individual choice of research and work, and uninterrupted concentration rather than group lessons led by an adult. Classrooms are made up of mixed ages.

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Informal Moodle Instructional Design ASTD 157

Learning Visions

APRIL 23, 2012

We can’t keep a classroom mentality. The nature of the leader in the new normal….from from leader as expert to leader. as learner….personal personal credibility based on personal learning agility…it’s a. different set of leadership skills. If you want to live in LearnNow…you have to live in the world of SUSTAIN. It’s not training anymore.

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Change Business ASTD Embed 189

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Trust in online environment is hard without the ambient atmosphere of the classroom. In classroom, many students don’t have a voice. folks in the classroom. Instructors can show why this important – spark intrinsic motivation and then get out of way. Need to create a safe environment. Need to build one-to-one relationship.

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Case Study Wiki Diversity Training Instructional Design 133

Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Frustration with eLearning: Becomes dumping ground for slides, text, content All the fun stuff kept for the classroom. Most of Jane’s examples – from people with lower budgets – not the glitzy example (we need to make learning engaging, not pretty). Creating asynchronous instruction. Info dumps are not instruction! How BAD can e-learning be?

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PPT Cognitive Slides PowerPoint 198

Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2012

16 classrooms – can train 450 people a day. A learning environment and not a workplace. It’s full of color and curved surfaces. The board room has no square walls to inspire innovation and creativity and risk taking (properly managed). With interactive whiteboards, etc.

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Case Study ASTD CLO Leadership 166

Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2011

Please share your thoughts in the comments!

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ASTD Virtual Classroom Social Media SCORM 160

Learning Visions

JULY 26, 2012

Data to suggest that someone can learn something without sitting in a classroom. But often it's a more -- we have existing models to work on -- the interventions can be different. Get data to understand WHO your workforce really is. An embedded performance support system demo.Bob shows off the Ontuitive EPSS product.

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ASTD Off-shore Social Media Performance Support 157

Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2012

Cindy Huggett on the Virtual Classroom. I know my brain was full but invigorated! I live blogged most of the sessions I went to: Jane McGonigal. Stuart Crabb of Facebook. Connie Malamed on Cognitive Load. Julie Dirksen on Learner Experience Design. Lisa Doyle of the VA.

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TechKnowledge Picture ASTD Virtual Classroom 162

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

19 classrooms, offices, webinar rooms, assessment center, media studios, learning labs – cars to get under and look at damage, houses to explore) Seven years ago he had a department of seven. Then repurposing these videos in the LMS, for mobile, etc. Have two brick and mortar university facilities. (19

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Technology iPad Business Portal 166

Learning Visions

MARCH 19, 2010

You can track me down in many places: Tuesday 10:45-11:45 "How e-Learning Instructional Design Differs from Classroom ID" I'm presenting this session with Ellen Wagner as part of the pre-conference eLearning Foundations Intensive.

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Case Study eLearning Guild Solution Learning Theory 154

Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2009

Frustration with eLearning: Becomes dumping ground for slides, text, content All the fun stuff kept for the classroom. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. Most of Jane’s examples – from people with lower budgets – not the glitzy example (we need to make learning engaging, not pretty). 73 slides of text.

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PPT Compliance Training Authoring Tools Case Study 191

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

These activities need to happen throughout the course – have ongoig bio activities (in a f2f classroom you get to connect in class) – Joni introduces an orienting activity every 3 weeks or so. Include an explanation of how your powers are useful to you personally and/or professionally.”

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Photo Instructional Design Learning Objects Exercise 162

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Need to think about New Learning Principles: Rapid Mobile Collaborative Immersive (we don’t want to be lectured at) Formal vs. Informal – a spectrum Examples of a formal learning activity: webinar, classroom, lecture, etc. Warnings: No models No roadmap Layers of complexity (a classroom is actually pretty simple. What made it formal?

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Informal Learning Informal Metrics Wiki 100

Learning Visions

JUNE 7, 2009

people to big LMS companies to leadership/management classroom trainers up the wazoo. Interested in your opening comments about the preponderance of classroom trainers who seem overwhelmed by the e-horizon. Will we soon see a never-the-twain shall meet distinction between "classroom people" and "e-people"?

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ASTD Moodle Instructional Design Articulate 100

Learning Visions

JUNE 11, 2014

Voice and natural gestures (touch tablets, Xbox 360/Kinect type interfaces) – we’ll start seeing these in business The Horizon Report 2014: 1 year or less = flipped classroom, learner analytics 2-3 years = 3D printing, games and gamification 4-5 years = the quantified self, virtual assistants Future Learning Topology (Learning 3.0)

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Social Networks Personal Personalization Open 150

Learning Visions

JULY 25, 2012

Not just in the classroom and through formal learning initiatives. I’m co-facilitating this event with Bob Mosher (Ontuitive), Conrad Gottfredson (Ontuitive) and Chad Udell (Float Learning). LearnNow – re-emerging discipline…of supporting our employees in all the many ways that they learn.

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Wiki Performance Support Blended Learning Agile 151

Learning Visions

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Guild research: We continue to see a trend to replace more scheduled training (classroom, webinars, etc.) There''s formal training -- and then there''s all of the ways that we learn within the flow of work (performance support, collaboration, access to experts, knowledge management. ALL of these are included in an ecosystem.

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Performance Support Social Networks Metrics Support 202

Learning Visions

MAY 24, 2011

ID Basics: begin with the end in mind, data drives decisions, classroom is good but often not sufficient ID is how we make good decisions ADDIE – the problem with this… ID Greatness: They can see it is all about them their tasks, their priorities. This is a gnarly problem.

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Instructional Design Social Networks Theory Learning Theory 184

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Challenges of design for elearning: instruction must stand on its own can’t be adjusted or fixed on the fly (when we teach classroom…”let’s skip these pages.” Regardless of what you do – you need analysis/backgrounding.

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Analysis DevLearn Compliance Training Instructional Design 188

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The car becomes a classroom. The future of TV – 3D without glasses using Lenticular Lenses. In the future, cars will drive by themselves. So, instead of driving, you can sit back and read and learn. Doctors will change -- “robo docs” animated TV images that can answer 99% of your questions!

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DevLearn Open Augmented Reality Internet 169

Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2010

And they often just know one way of teaching – in front of a classroom. Faculty members (academia) are vested in the teaching. Faculty members don’t often have education in how to teach. Big paradigm shift for them. For example -- MIT has put all of content online – which is great. But still don’t have the added touch of the faculty member.

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Instructional Design Corporate eLearning Instructional Instruction 213

Learning Visions

JUNE 26, 2009

Kineo has recently worked on creating a classroom management add-on for a corporate client and has a fabulous Moodle reporting tool. According to an eLearning Guild survey conducted in 2007 , 18% of corporations are using Moodle now. Out of the box, Moodle may not have all the features an enterprise needs, but simple add-ons can be created.

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Moodle Corporate eLearning Open Source Brandon Hall 113

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Need to think about New Learning Principles: Rapid Mobile Collaborative Immersive (we don’t want to be lectured at) Formal vs. Informal – a spectrum Examples of a formal learning activity: webinar, classroom, lecture, etc. Warnings: No models No roadmap Layers of complexity (a classroom is actually pretty simple.

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Informal Learning Informal Metrics Wiki 100

Learning Visions

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had the opportunity to work on a huge range of projects this year, from virtual classrooms to leadership academies. Of course, none of that growth is possible without our growing and amazing client list. And what could have been a boring course on information security won a Brandon Hall Gold Award for Compliance Trainin g.

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Compliance Training Design ASTD eLearning Guild 178