Association eLearning

JULY 2, 2015

To take this a step further, it’s no longer acceptable to take the same content and simply give it a fresh coat of paint with technology. Let’s look at Melanie’s learning experience to see how a well-designed blended learning program can help improve the learner experience. Try online virtual classrooms or worlds, such as Second Life.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 3, 2007

Friday, August 03, 2007 My First Second Life Experience Not so good, I must say. They were coming at me in the chat, then IM, and when they started coming into my email I quit the program. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Its sort of me-ish.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

Most of that time, Ive worked for eLearning vendors: companies that design and develop eLearning programs for a wide variety of corporate clients. Ive served as instructional designer and project manager on programs for banks, airlines, department stores, consulting firms, construction companies, training companies, and more.

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Second Life Instructional Design Moodle eLearning Guild 100

The Learning Circuits

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Every week or so I hear about a company looking to Second Life as a teaching environment. First, I have to say that Second Life is a great Web 2.0/massively I respect the ability of people to make money in Second Life. I respect the ability of people to "hang" in Second Life.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2010

The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) will feature more than 150 presentations and a keynote address by Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab® creators of Second Life® (SL). The Virtual World Best Practices in Education Conference originated from the 2007 Second Life® Best Practices in Education Conference.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 21, 2010

According to the article West Virginia looks to Second Life As part of the program, they have developed a unique and groundbreaking virtual world on the internet’s largest 3D virtual community, Second Life.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 6, 2009

Recently I did a recording for InSync and my friend Jennifer Hofmann titled Postcards from the 3D Edge: Learning in Second Life. It was the most popular complimentary program they've ever had - so popular they had over 250 registrants in the first 4 hours! If you want to know about Second Life and how it works.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 25, 2010

Air Force’s Global Learning Forum (GLF) group in Second Life at Huffman Prairie Chi. The group now have over 300 educators, from across several universities, engaged in various collaborative efforts within the 3D world of Second Life. Second Life is used as our primary open access platform for collaboration.

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Ed App

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Online virtual platforms, such as Second Life, can bring a human element into the e-learning environment. Enhancing content: Content that was once offered as PDFs are no longer considered as effective as interactive elements. Summative feedback to monitor the outcome for external accountability.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 e-Learning Content & Version Control Earlier this week, Janet Clarey wrote about the " Preservation of e-Learning Content." She raised the question about e-Learning content and how well companies keep track of content updates. Can you prove when and how your e-Learning content has changed?

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Kapp Notes

JULY 18, 2008

Preston providing instruction and answering questions in Second Life. So the second week of the summer Learning in 3D class was exciting. He does a great job of explaining Second Life and he knows the ins and outs of the program extremely well. A number of the freshman have not contacted my students.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Truth be told, now is the best time to get into the direct sales of elearning programs. Sleeker technology and the growing use of mobile devices has given second life to elearning. What’s unique about Skillshare is the ability for students to upload projects based on the course content.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

AUGUST 11, 2011

But apparently it didn't get enough love and the company mothballed the software and tried moving toward interactive mobile content. I posted a quick shout out on my social networks to see if anyone was still using or testing Second Life and.<cue But check out Second LIfe Education again and maybe you will be re-inspired.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 10, 2010

First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). Most or all of the team that engineered the Second Life Enterprise product was let go not long after it went into production.At Interesting development.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 5, 2008

There is a Second Life factory called the Double Happiness Jeans factory. In fact, the entire plant exists only in Second Life and has no physical assets or inventory. The only place the factory exists is in a virtual, three-dimensional world known as Second Life. In the future this. May morph into this.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Bart Pursel of Virtual Learning Worlds and an alumni of our program presented on Virtual Worlds. Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet Service Provider and Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.) For example an island is analogous to a server.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

For those of you who don’t know, Anders Gronstedt (anders@gronstedtgroup.com) is president of the Gronstedt Group , which custom develops immersive learning programs for Fortune 500 clients, and host of “Train for Success,” a weekly Second Life speaking series that has been ongoing for several years.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 26, 2009

Grades in a program at Loyalist College to prepare students for service as a Canadian Border Patrol Officers increased 37% over a two year period after the introduction of a virtual role play within a virtual learning world. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 29, 2009

The second software element of a metaverse is the ability to easily create content within the virtual world. capabilities of wikis or blogs where changes, updates and additions are easily made to web sites without the contributor needing to know HTML or any programming language. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds.

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Association eLearning

APRIL 22, 2013

Here at Digitec, we have a recycling program for all those lunch time soup cans and plastic bottles. Tom Raftery reported that the international bank Crédit Agricole is saving $200,000 – $300,000 just in travel-related expenses by hosting their training in Second Life. But what else can we do to make a difference?

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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. or “Our programs are delivered on mobile devices.” Our programs use visuals with an audio track.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 4, 2007

A number of alumni and friends of Bloomsburg University's Instructional Technology program have sent me some great links and they are all about wildly different things but all are related to the gamer generation. Sometimes, things just all seem to come together at once. Check them out. Are you ready?

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 27, 2008

Public health officials from the California Department of Health Services have created a massive online virtual training program. Researchers from the University of California-Davis Health System re-created a 3-D model of the California Exposition and State Fair in Second Life and conducted the training within that environment.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 11, 2009

Tags: Second Life 3D worlds.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Advanced software, technology tools, and innovative methods are being used to enhance training program’s quality, participation and engagement as well as to enable corporate training to be a more personalized experience. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2009

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 When the Content is Really Boring. So youve got some great ideas on how to make your content more engaging , how to get the learner into the flow. But what do you do when the content itself is just plain boring? Admit to the learner upfront that the content may be dry. Set the expectation.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 16, 2007

Just completed the Learning in 3D Class in which students were able to experience Second Life , ProtonMedia's ProtoSphere and several Web 2.0 The reason I wanted students to put content into Web 2.0 alumni of the program who commented on the student's work. Videos will be rated, postings viewed, value obtained.or

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I like ASTD; they offer a valuable service to the industry in education, including reports, webinars, very good conferences (despite occasional hiccups, *cough* learning styles *cough*) that I happily speak at and even have served on a program committee for. producer-generated content and 2.0 user-generated content ).

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 13, 2007

To quote the beginning of the article "Flipping through the real estate section is so yesterday -- touring an exact replica of a home for sale in Second Life is what's in store tomorrow." See some examples of how to use Second Life for education in this video created by some of the students in my Learning in 3D Class.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 11, 2010

There have already been s tories of terrorist armies attacking residents in Second Life and of terrorists using these spaces for practice of physical world attacks. Contrast that need for out-of-the-box thinking about programs and computers with two stories. Tags: Out and About programming.

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Time to Know

MARCH 27, 2018

Companies are using online virtual platforms such as Second Life for delivering their training and are creating virtual environments to bring the human aspect into their eLearning environment. Mobile learning is learning across multiple contexts, through social and content interactions, using personal electronic devices.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 Off-the-Shelf Content: Help! Ive always been about custom content. So -- how does off-the-shelf content work? If so, is the vendor able to track usage or do they just sell the content for a flat fee based on LMS seat size? I have some questions that I am hoping someone can answer for me.or

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 21, 2007

First, Mike Qaissaunee, an Associate Professor of Engineering and Technology at Brookdale Community College who blogs at Frequently Asked Q who I get to see in person only twice a year has an interesting blog entry titled Don't Know Much About History where he talks about a timeline program called Xtimeline. It was a lot of virtual fun.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The great thing about the presentation was that I got to see a number of alumni of our program and meet a few readers of Kapp Notes and some really interesting people doing some really interesting distance learning work. It is always great to see alumni being successful and hearing what they are doing.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Also, if you choose to think deeper about the content and how it applies to designing instruction and delivering instruction in our modern, fast-paced world.some are actually quite profound.enjoy. Because it reminds me of the hype of "oh-so-many" training programs dreamed up by management. Why in the Semi-Training Related series?

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2007

The solution was: A New Day proposes to develop a two-phased training program with the third-phased in mind. Phase 2 will incorporate an open source gaming engine (licensed to A New Day) for the 3-D online learning experience, as opposed to commonly used 3-D online environments such as Second Life.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

For me, instructional design is about designing "engaging and effective" asynchronous learning experiences (web-based training programs). Ive also had a few gigs as a classroom teacher, which has mostly been about implementing content and curriculum that was designed by others. Im a writer and a schmoozer.

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