From the Coleface

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Many development tools claim that they produce learning content which will publish automatically to different models of mobile phone. Can you really trust all the assurances by the provider that the mobile content will be compatible? Hence it’s wise for L&D to pilot and test mobile roll-outs.

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From the Coleface

MAY 9, 2013

L&D can’t answer any of the ID’s questions about the content. It’s not L&D’s fault that this is impossible, it’s just that the content has no real link with the business priorities so there’s no way to prioritise what’s important or not.

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From the Coleface

MAY 21, 2012

It’s easy to overlook that mobile as a channel is very intimate and the distinction between work and non-work usage/ content is very blurred. Only time (and exam results) will tell if despite the reaction, the texts genuinely improved results.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 27, 2014

How do you reduce lots of detailed content to the key messages that will improve performance? How can you work most effectively with graphic designers, technology specialists and others on the project team? How do you design realistic scenarios? How do I design effective questions? When should I use audio/ video/ other media?

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From the Coleface

APRIL 1, 2014

also includes responsive html so that your content can syndicated faster to different devices. Bugs from earlier versions have been ironed out such as morose dialogue being automatically modulated into the key of D minor.

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Pedagogy Music HTML Press 113

From the Coleface

JUNE 23, 2009

Even now, there seems a widely held tacit assumption that an hour of e-learning content is homogenous and therefore can always be measured at the same value to its users and therefore the same cost. Why is this?

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From the Coleface

MARCH 13, 2012

Initially users will only be able to rate content, but over time people and culture are hoped to evolve to the point where people are being more active contributors.

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Social Learning Social Social Media Yammer 100

From the Coleface

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Adaptive/ responsive publishing (the same code responding to the device that is showing the screen content to ensure that the format is optimised for the device). . • Consumer-grade user interfaces (look at any old LMS to see how badly the e-learning industry got this wrong).

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From the Coleface

JULY 17, 2007

If a training identifies that learners need some learning content, it typically goes through the following process. Is the content really interesting? Of course none of the enlightened L&D professionals reading this would think so simply. Yes: Face to face course.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

On Friday 26 September I’ll be chairing the e-learning Network event “Thinking synch: live elearning” Whilst at Academy Internet we’re better known for bespoke asynschronous e-learning content, we believe that live e-learning can be a useful part of the learning blend e.g. for Coca Cola.

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Blended Learning Synchronous Blended Internet 100

From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Various e-learning companies use for marketing purposes the metric “days to build e-learning content” This looks good compared to the 8-12 week development cycle that is often quoted. What people don’t often measure is how long the client took to get its content to an e-learning production ready state.

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Metrics Reputation e-learning company Cost 100

From the Coleface

DECEMBER 24, 2008

It combines great content with an attention grabbing yet harmonious media treatment. My list is of new media treatments that could be used for learning. It’s unusual in that it only has one item. Have a look at Darth Vader canteen on Youtube.

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Cognitive Load Theory gives us some insights, but it’s not really answering the questions at the level of granularity that is really useful to an instructional designer e.g. if I add W type of audio to X type of screen with Y type of audience learning Z type of content, what should I expect the impact on recall/ behaviour change to be?

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Audio Cognitive Statistics Instructional Design 100

From the Coleface

OCTOBER 3, 2008

For the record, no one know who the owner of the 4th sexiest knee was- but my right knee was never in contention, owing to a birth mark and some scarring. Yes, this is the same knee that was once reputed to be the 3rd sexiest knee in the universe (well it was 20 years ago in the Watford area…).

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 28, 2007

It seems completely obvious to me that above a pretty low threshold, the quality of e-learning produced is down to the skills of the instructional designer and the quality of content that they can elicit from the subject matter experts. Extensive library of very interactivequestion types (beyond multiple choice and true false). pool, etc.).

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From the Coleface

MAY 31, 2017

and the rest of the background content can be accessed via the internet. People are already carrying a smartphone around with them. An app or apps can fulfil the functions that the Personal Learning Record did and more (and remind you!)

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From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Content is king…but I’ve already ranted about that enough on other occasions… For instance iGoogle has speeded up my websurfing, because it brings me the sites that I use the most onto one page using RSS, however it has not fundamentally changed the way that I go about learning.

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From the Coleface

APRIL 28, 2008

Are there any improvements that you can design into the content and the process surrounding it? Although it’s far too early to tell whether Wii Fit will have an impact on the nation’s wellbeing, it’s worth pausing to think how many of the above ingredients you have incorporated into your compliance e-learning.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Essentially he laments the trend of the diminishing status of the expert as user-generated content becomes more prevalent under the general trend that is Web 2.0. But in the world of learning, is this all about loss of powerbases or is it a genuine worry about quality?

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 28, 2008

is the next generation of websites where users generate the content so that many publish to many e.g. blogs, wikis, on-line communities. The common thread between these two programmes is ‘Web 2.0′

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Wiki Rapid eLearning Predictions Website 100

From the Coleface

JANUARY 22, 2014

Brands are increasingly acting like publishers to ensure that they have lots of relevant searchable content that you’ll find when you want to search, rather than bombarding you with messages when you’re busy doing something else.

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Search Enterprise Problem Portal 140

From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

This is just another example of Generation Y (or “Millennials” as my friends at talent smoothie call them) find something shiny, lets push some learning content to them. Remembering back to being a spotty teenager and the people who played Dungeons & Dragons, I can’t help but be sceptical.

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Second Life Virtual Classroom WebEx Analysis 100

From the Coleface

JULY 16, 2009

Refreshingly, nobody was talking about the technology – we’ve already got to the stage in the innovation curve where the techology is easy and cheap to access – the focus is (as it should be) on the people using the technology and the content they are interacting with.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 20, 2007

That’s because there are few topics as wide ranging as diversity and a key first step in e-learning is define what content you’re aiming to convey. Herbert Smith seem to have come up with a way to address the thorny problem of defining what diversity means in the context of your own corporate culture (The Lawyer 17/12/7).

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 3, 2009

The flipside is that client facing staff have been more willing to act as subject matter experts and author their own e-learning content. There is still scope for improvement as using e-learning can be seen as an admission that you’re not as chargeable as you should be (and hence are dispensable if the redundancy axe comes).

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Virtual Classroom Compliance Training Services Survey 100

From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

As the L&D world tends away from large chunks of face to face training and hours of e-learning towards a more bite-sized approach, it will be even more vital that line managers are engaged…after all they’re probably going to be creating the bulk of the learning content one day.

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Management ROI Policies Problem 100

From the Coleface

JULY 21, 2008

But since Epic was bought out in June, TJ has no commercial imperative to publish positive copy about bespoke e-learning content development…and so it proved in July’s edition. Whilst its parent company Huveaux also owned Epic, there were efforts to wring some synergy out of the two companies being stablemates.

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Blended Learning Rapid eLearning Journal Blended 100

From the Coleface

MARCH 24, 2008

Meanwhile some of the more innovative L&D functions are seeing themselves more as provides of methodology and skills rather than publishers of content. The widespread adoption of Google, RSS and wikipedia also seem like steps in the right direction (as does the increased uptake of coaching).

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization Wikipedia 100

From the Coleface

MARCH 19, 2019

As all chess moves are recorded you can re-play and analyse your own and others’ games to your heart’s content. I can think of 3 games that I have won as a result of this hack in the last 5 years. Be honest about your game. Make your own plan.

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