Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

many authoring systems don’t support design – they provide formatting options. SMES view analysis as a content dump and not a dialog. documentation of content does not equal design. Create a table: on the left list content “requirements”. You’ll find outcomes that are desired that have no content to go with them.

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Analysis DevLearn Compliance Training Instructional Design 188

Learning Visions

JANUARY 24, 2014

Unlike SCORM which was about content in a browser. link] ) Two parties in xAPI/Tin Can: Activity Provider and the Learning Record Store How might you use Tin Can today? They had a piece of content from a rapid learning tool. Gave one part of the company the high fidelity content and the other part the text. Start small.

Code of Conduct 157

Code of Conduct Simulations Server Doc 157

Learning Visions

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In the old days, we used to make big courses (a loaf of bread); today we think about chunk sized content (slices of bread). When creating content, think about making it more flexible – tagging and organizing it so you can easily shuffle it together. Make sure your content is easily accessible/easily discoverable. Video sharing.

Tools 100

Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Google HTML 100

Learning Visions

JUNE 11, 2014

Learners will need new literacies: Social networking Privacy maintenance Identity management Creating and organizing content Reusing and repurposing Filtering and selecting Self presentation Transliteracy (Working and communicating across many platforms, twitter/fb/email/etc.) The “learning” we provide is often too sterile.

Social Networks 150

Social Networks Open Personal Personalization 150

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Information is ever-changing When you apply social tools to information, it makes it more useful Quora as an example of information with social Everybody becomes a producer of content (people make Facebook useful by posting pictures, text, links, etc. people want to be able to move content around, shift it, recommend it.

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ASTD Open Jive Privacy 212

Learning Visions

MARCH 16, 2017

You can’t simply create a game and expect the players to learn from it without providing any context or guidance. 24) Check out the Table of Contents to see why this book is a must-read for learning designers. Table of Contents: Preface. For learning games to work, they need to be an integral part of a larger learning design."

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Case Study Bloom Taxonomy Learning Objects 120

Learning Visions

JUNE 12, 2014

other programs content into their platform. Some people go to the live session having completed all the online content. Others go to the live session and then get intrigued and go back and complete the online content. Program costs How are they performing against their objectives? And more measures. CorpU put Harvard, etc.

Compliance Training 124

Compliance Training Blended Learning Platform Case Study 124

Learning Visions

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Every major company is moving towards personalization and providing people with more relevant data. There''s a pull within us -- we want great content but sometimes we just want to watch Ace Ventura a fourth time. Provide the whole picture. This means we don''t all see the same news. There are three key problems with this: 1.

DevLearn 188

DevLearn Google eLearning Guild Trust 188

Learning Visions

APRIL 9, 2010

Wanted conversation to be more free flowing than an online forum – more natural and playful communication – not always about content of the course, but about students as people (how is your day going?) Can provide ways for students to connect with each other. Tools like Elluminate can provide connection through voice and immediacy.

Cognitive 154

Cognitive Classroom Social Virtual Classroom 154

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He’s a big fan of codebaby – uses lots of virtual coaches) As learner goes through content increase the graphics of the interfaces – give a reward for progress. Reward effort. Give the learner a cookie. 100 small rewards is better than one big reward.” Share the rewards so others can see them.

DevLearn 188

DevLearn Games Design Gamification 188

Learning Visions

JULY 25, 2012

NEW – new content – the theory and all that stuff. Before Apply – provide planners (reference guides, wikis, blogs, elearning). During Apply – provide sidekicks (job aids, context sensitive help, FAQ’s, coach/mentor, help desk, twitter). After Apply – provide quick checks (checklists, assessment tools, feedback loop).

Wiki 151

Wiki Performance Support Blended Learning Agile 151

Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This program is not about the learning content – it’s removed the content from the experience. The experience is how to get points and badges in relation to working through the course itself, and not the experience of the content. It’s got badges and things.

DevLearn 189

DevLearn Games Compliance Training Pattern 189

Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

The 4C’s of mobile: Content, Capture, Compute, Communicate Moving from event based model to “slow learning” – to match the way we learn and provide opportunities for repeated activation. Clark says yes. What are the ingredients of building a Community of Practice?

eLearning Guild 208

eLearning Guild Social Learning Social Metrics 208

Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Simple changes – user needs to be able to contribute to updates because they’re so close to the content. ** Training groups haven’t changed to support the design of performance support. Need to provide structure. Teach the performance support tool. What does the learner want? Understand what tasks apply to whom. Which tasks do you DO?

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Performance Support Informal Learning Support Performance 193

Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2013

A community that creates deeply problematic content – but also fun content. Teenagers know that they can’t control the access to the content, but they can control the access to meaning (by using in jokes) – danah shares a story of a teenager of Facebook (whose mom is also on FB and comments a lot in a lame, mom way).

Social Networks 174

Social Networks ASTD Knowledge Social Network 174

Learning Visions

APRIL 24, 2012

it to determine what learners are doing – what content they go to, what pages. If there’s content out there. Business example – health insurance provider using a performance support. At yahoo, using. are useful, it allows them to understand behavior. that no one is looking at…then why? This allows you to determine where they go.

Metrics 157

Metrics Conversation Yahoo Performance Support 157

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pulled my project together yesterday in about four hours – included hammering out content, figuring out the BBP storyboard template, grabbing graphics, and learning how to use PPT beyond the basics that I know. I also did a half-ass job writing out the detailed content – my “transcript” so to speak. Power to the SMEs!

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PPT Storyboard Slides Templates 178

Learning Visions

JANUARY 15, 2015

With Tin Can, we talk about an Activity Provider and an LRS (Learning Record Store). Example: AT&T Their question: What types of content best impacts completion, retention? Data showed that the higher fidelity content DID improve retention, etc. An API helps different apps talk to each other (e.g.,

Performance Support 100

Performance Support Code of Conduct Performance xapi 100

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Convert the course Provide a structure for the course. “make it interactive” (how do I make my courses more learner-centric?) The Usual Suspects Have a situation (some context),…interviewing or surveying some choices – see Tom’s blog for examples.

PPT 140

PPT Voice Articulate Simulations 140

Learning Visions

OCTOBER 1, 2015

WiQi -- -- cloud based system – you type in some content. Roger Schank’s PhD systems went Journalism: algorithms more powerful than news editors. The algorithms are smarter than the journalists – they have data back for 100s of years. It creates some eLearning with a semantic engine. affinitystudios.co.uk).

DevLearn 100

DevLearn Cognitive Compliance Training eLearning Guild 100

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. Here IDs sometimes work as technical writers and TW sometimes write courses to optimize the cost.

Market 100

Market Oracle eLearning ILT 100

Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2009

The pace of change means that traditional custom e-learning development processes are simply too long and with the economy in the doldrums off-the-shelf content can be too expensive. Rapid E-learning provides an alternative to develop compliance training cost-effectively and quickly. Join Kineo and Mary K. Schottmiller J.D,

Case Study 100

Case Study Compliance Training Compliance Rapid eLearning 100

Learning Visions

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Took content and pared it down to work on iphone. Had to edit video content from website – rechunking scenarios, etc. Course was to provide staff with basic information about work. Content generated in PPT, used Presenter plugin to upload to Connect. The iPhone App – 5 folks working on this program. million volunteers!

eLearning Guild 124

eLearning Guild PPT iPhone Adobe Connect 124

Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

For me this is is one of the key failings of traditional elearning content: fitting your learning need to pre-existing templates, whether thats SME built rapid content or something produced by an elearning provider. They provide a mental model. We create templates and tools that provide some instructional approach.

Rapid eLearning 100

Rapid eLearning Templates Instructional Design eLearning Guild 100

Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Blog link not provided to protect the innocent]. But I say that if these trainers have good content and their courses keep selling, whats the problem? When someone believes that "writing content" is instruction, he probably also believes that instructing is what causes learning to happen. 5:56 PM Blogger In Middle-earth said.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

Learning Visions

MAY 20, 2009

Clearly says something about the state of the fragmented eLearning market -- mostly small shops providing services or companies doing it in-house using all of the aforementioned tools. We review 150 developers in our custom content knowledge base and identified 550 vendors that produce custom courseware. No service companies.

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Brandon Hall Corporate eLearning eLearning Consultant Moodle 100

Learning Visions

JANUARY 16, 2015

Providing the least disruptive support to help people and give them what they need. L&D may not need to create that content anymore, they just need to help people connect to it. Don''t confuse people with outdated content. We''ve got multiple systems in our orgs -- in a well-run org, those systems are all connected.

Learning Strategy 100

Learning Strategy Resources eLearning Strategy Wiki 100

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Are you providing value or are you a servant to this experience? Don’t get distracted by the graphics, the bells and the slick – instead focus on the content.

Compliance Training 210

Compliance Training eLearning Consultant Corporate eLearning eLearning Strategy 210

Learning Visions

JULY 2, 2007

Monday, July 02, 2007 The Gin System As Ive been trying to sort out the role of FaceBook lately, I cant help but wonder "wheres the content?" You can point people to outside links, but I havent yet seen a great way to include content. It seems to me that FaceBook is a great networking tool. Then again, perhaps Im missing something.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks System Wiki Moodle 100

Learning Visions

DECEMBER 13, 2011

3 Forms of Cognitive Load: intrinsic (the complexity of your content) – listen to the audio, translate it, construct a response and pronounce it quickly – the number of cognitive activities you have to perform. We need to provide guidance and structure. But now we’re talking more about cognitive load. Credit to Sweller.

Cognitive 222

Cognitive Instructional Instruction Virtual Classroom 222

Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Collaborated with Adobe to identify trends in elearning industry re: content creation and trends in development. This session will provide big picture of trends in the industry. Provide support for SME online, resources, rapid e-learning chunks. 72% of training content is used informally. This is expected to increase.

Compliance Training 100

Compliance Training Blended Learning Adobe Wiki 100

Learning Visions

JANUARY 29, 2010

But with today’s carnival of content, mixed media, and unlimited access to new information, we must also create a story for the learner in which he or she is the main character.”

Blogging 133

Blogging Second Life Social Networks Case Study 133

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

People, Context, Content Corporate ISD: When working with a Subject Matter Expert (SME), they have a tendency to put everything into the training. It’s not about t-shirts and email blasts – it’s about providing more ways for learners to engage with and access content. A learning campaign is different than a marketing campaign.

Market 100

Market Games Instructional Design Develop 100

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

And yet in our education and training systems we attempt to teach a fixed amount of content in a fixed amount of time. How will they provide support to this project? As student is practicing a skill, the formative and summative assessments are both provided automatically. Best known for Instructional Design Theories and Models.

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Wiki Instructional Design Performance Support Instructional 160

Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Note: you can generally tell if info was provided by a real user or by an authoring tool company ;) Bryan Chapman, Brandon Hall Research Report, Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase 2009 (A Buyer's Guide to 120+ of the Best E-learning Content Development Applications). Still a work in progress as I see it's being updated all the time.

Brandon Hall 100

Brandon Hall Authoring Udutu Tools 100

Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

What instructional strategies do you use to make your content more memorable and engaging? Strategies that help learners connect with and remember the content. Or chunk out your content and create an easily remembered acronym to remind the learner of the steps they need to follow? I dont know if Ive ever done that.

eLearning Strategy 100

eLearning Strategy Instructional Instruction Strategy 100

Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Content that helps people perform their tasks better. Taking content youre already developing and delivering it on a mobile device.its not about putting a full course on a thing. Reusing your content in flexible ways. Dont want to make user go through a large amount of content. Shouldnt be highly dense, more bulleted.

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Mobile Learning Report Mobile eLearning Guild 100