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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Limited time and access: I’m lucky that I live in London, where it wasn’t too hard to find somewhere I could enrol in a Greek course, and that my work allows me the flexibility to work from home when required to ensure I can get to class on time!

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Credit them with the ability to find their own way round a course or set of resources and step away from the enforced linear path model. Find something that works and tweak it to keep it fresh, for example by modelling your next course on a tried-and-tested website or tool. Resources not courses.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The second time was in Saffron’s free e-learning course for Learning At Work Day. The course, called ‘Planning for results, not activity’ , is about an alternative to the ‘traditional’ task-based project plan approach. It advocates an approach that is driven by the desired end result.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

An e-learning course is not an academic paper, a business report, a legal document or an instruction manual. Yes, an e-learning course should be free of typos and grammatical errors. Want to check your course is easy to read, without cutting out too much? Take a look at the slideshow to find out what they are. Break the rules.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The latter two clearly link to the course as parallels of the utopian and dystopian accounts of technology and digital culture that we’ve been looking at. Of course, that’ll be because I just read a couple of posts about it recently (it wasn’t a word I knew at all 18 months ago!). Salvation and destruction.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

I didn’t even really have to do anything myself to make that happen: the awards organisers publicise the winners and, of course, there’s the inevitable post-event chit-chat online. But afterwards, my individual profile in the industry grew and grew.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Limited time and access: I’m lucky that I live in London, where it wasn’t too hard to find somewhere I could enrol in a Greek course, and that my work allows me the flexibility to work from home when required to ensure I can get to class on time!

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← Three benefits of entering for an award Using a screen type index to create balanced storyboards → Five tips for e-learning they’ll fall in love with Posted on February 14, 2011 by Stephanie Dedhar | 2 Comments (..)

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APRIL 14, 2011

How great would it be to emulate this in an e-learning course? The freedom to explore; aside from a very quick navigation introduction and some gentle ‘jump here’ prompts, it’s all down to you to explore what is and isn’t possible.

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APRIL 3, 2012

” How often do we make the mistake of telling our learners that something is ‘very important’ – especially in compliance courses? You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The second week of the E-learning and Digital Cultures course still centres on utopian and dystopian accounts of technology. The prompt questions provided by the course were around visualisations of education, learning and teaching in these films. A Day Made of Glass 2. Productivity Future Vision. Countering popular complaints .

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AUGUST 23, 2011

If you were following last week’s series of blog posts about refreshing and improving an old e-learning course in five days , there was a lot to take in. If you were putting it into practice as you went, it will have been even more intense! So here is a quick recap of the key things we focused on.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

In-house DIY e-learning and rapid development mean that training managers and subject matter experts (among others) have to put on an e-learning design hat from time to time.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

I think good e-learning is: Engaging Relevant Effective Truth be told, most workplace learners are unlikely to jump at the chance to take yet another e-learning course. An e-learning course shouldn’t be cryptic – it needs to be crystal clear from the outset what value there is for the learner.

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MARCH 3, 2011

It’s the same with workplace learning: your learners will take more notice of a compliance training course if they’re given a chance to explore the consequences of action they might feasibly make in the workplace.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← A panel podcast on compliance training Two great ideas for your next sustainability course → Have you done your good deed for the day? Thanks for your support! Bookmark the permalink.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The second week of the E-learning and Digital Cultures course still centres on utopian and dystopian accounts of technology. The prompt questions provided by the course were around visualisations of education, learning and teaching in these films. A Day Made of Glass 2. Productivity Future Vision. Countering popular complaints .

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

This year’s series of Black Mirror has come at the perfect time, as many of the ideas and themes link to this course. And his solution is to add more video into course delivery. (He This made me immediately think of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, a book I’ve just read after it was recommended earlier in the course.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

For example: A compliance course can be greatly enhanced by inviting the learner to click on and read a series of newspaper articles, taken from real life, which illustrate the context (and severity) of the subject matter.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I did this partly out of curiosity about MOOCs generally and partly because this particular course sounded like it might be interesting. There’s been a lot of debate on Twitter and elsewhere about the merits of this course – the organisation, the language used, the subjects up for discussion. Bendito Machine III.

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APRIL 3, 2012

” How often do we make the mistake of telling our learners that something is ‘very important’ – especially in compliance courses? You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I did this partly out of curiosity about MOOCs generally and partly because this particular course sounded like it might be interesting. There’s been a lot of debate on Twitter and elsewhere about the merits of this course – the organisation, the language used, the subjects up for discussion. Bendito Machine III.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I wasn’t surprised to see this film – presumably inspired by Google’s Project Glass and similar technology – on the list, as it had already come to mind earlier in the course.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I wasn’t surprised to see this film – presumably inspired by Google’s Project Glass and similar technology – on the list, as it had already come to mind earlier in the course.

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MARCH 7, 2011

I was working on an e-learning course that I knew was worth talking about, so I made sure to gather evidence and document feedback and decisions throughout the project. By the time the awards rolled around, I had everything I needed to back up my views on the course and the project.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

My view has since been validated in a few different forums – when I ask that question at the start of a session, the answers of course vary but there are three words that come up time and time again. Engagement to me, means that the learner is consciously active in the process and making cognitive choices during any e-learning course.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

How long would you allow to QA a 60-minute e-learning course? It might sound laborious, but doing two or three QAs right first time is preferable to doing multiple iterations because your client picks up on mistakes you missed first time around. Allow plenty of time.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Sometimes this is based on experience, sometimes it’s prescribed (if it’s a training course, for example), and sometimes it’s just a best guess. Some people can probably handle this kind of vicarious life, but just thinking about it makes me feel anxious. I then find an appropriate slot in my calendar.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

How long would you allow to QA a 60-minute e-learning course? It might sound laborious, but doing two or three QAs right first time is preferable to doing multiple iterations because your client picks up on mistakes you missed first time around. Allow plenty of time.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

But I thoroughly agree with the sentiments in Ryan Tracey’s blog post prompted by the course, and he articulates them far better than I could hope to do. I haven’t done enough supplementary reading to feel well-informed about the theory and criticisms of it.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

But I thoroughly agree with the sentiments in Ryan Tracey’s blog post prompted by the course, and he articulates them far better than I could hope to do. I haven’t done enough supplementary reading to feel well-informed about the theory and criticisms of it.

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APRIL 11, 2011

We also had to identify the other element that it is most compatible with (simultaneously, as opposed to sequentially throughout an e-learning course). This opened up the discussion about the relationship between text and audio.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Of course, everything so far suggests that archetypes are fairly one-dimensional. The Warrior works well with the Lover, because both are driven by passion and both focus on the present. The Sage works well with the Jester, because both are driven by perception and both look heavily to the past.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

The two most useful activities that helped (and continue to help) me develop my understanding of the e-learning industry in general and of instructional design in particular were reviewing courses (designed by as many different people for as many different audiences and purposes as possible) and reading blogs.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Helping them live it Finally, if an e-learning course is going to translate into changed behaviour and improved performance, it’s got to be effective. Group job roles into risk categories or use a pre-test to identify gaps in knowledge, then point each user to what they specifically need to know (information overload = disengaged learners).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

What’s important for closing that gap and supporting learners in the world where they spend 80% of their time is not simply delivering short bursts of e-learning by breaking down an hour long course into bite-sized chunks, telling people they can access them as and when they have a spare few minutes and then assuming that they will.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Of course, everything so far suggests that archetypes are fairly one-dimensional. The Warrior works well with the Lover, because both are driven by passion and both focus on the present. The Sage works well with the Jester, because both are driven by perception and both look heavily to the past.

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