February, 2007

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Course Development+Social Network+Commerce

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I'm knocking around this idea in my head and just wanted to see what people thought. Wouldn't it be great if there was a clearing house of eLearning Development Projects? I mean, let's say I'm at a high tech company and someone says, "we need all of our engineers to know the basics of thermal dynamics". So you're the developer that gets this rock dropped in your lap.

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Fun - Wheel of Fortune Graphic Generator

Tony Karrer

There's a few different fun tools at: [link] Error Message Generator Word Puzzle Generator Street Party Sign Generator Highway Sign Generator Gas Station Sign Generator Road Construction Sign Generator Pack Place Sign Generator Office Building Sign Generator Bar-B-Q Sign Generator Chinese Restaurant Sign Generator Graffiti Generator Las Vegas Strip Generator A fun/smart idea.

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Phones for Kids, again

Kapp Notes

Gushers are clearly aimed at kids, adults don't eat these things. Yet, here is an ad for the kids to get 4 cell phones. The marketers certainly understand that kids love gadgets.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Confessions of an Instructional Designer

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Confessions of an Instructional Designer I failed Will Thalheimers Learning Research Quiz. I was mortified. Ive been doing this for over ten years and I did terrible. How can I even call myself an instructional designer? It turns out that Im not alone.

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Learnlets » J. Nives Quinn, Jr. (1917-2007) RIP

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It’s a matter of culture

The Learning Circuits

I'd like to follow up on my last post and also weigh in on the question of investment in formal training and informal learning. I tend to see the world through my own professional lens, which is that of culture. Although usually taken to be about the behavioral differences between people of different national, geographical, ethnic, religious origins, culture is everywhere and constitutes a property of all groups.

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Top Ten eLearning Blogs

Tony Karrer

I was recently asked for a list of the top ten blogs that relate to corporate eLearning by someone who wanted to get a sense of content quality and value of reading blogs. I debated for a while, because I have quite a few blogs that I subscribe to and my personal style is to quickly scan a lot of blogs, selectively reading posts that I think are going to be interesting, comment on some, and post my thoughts about others.

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Shout Out: Abbey Stahl--All the Rage

Kapp Notes

Tonight's supplement to my daily newspaper is a paper within a paper called All the Rage, For Teens! By Teens! About Teens! Typical teen stuff, what to wear to the prom, choosing a college and so forth. However, one article caught my eye "MySpace, IM--why so addictive?" We spend a lot of time in the blogosphere talking about the future of learning, making predictions and lamenting formal instructional design but rarely is the voice of the "gamer generation" heard.the voice of the learners who wi

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: DIY vs. Formal Learning

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, February 27, 2007 DIY vs. Formal Learning DIY Learning (Do-it-Yourself) is the term of the week, it seems. Elliot Masies most recent Learning Trends newsletter leads with the headline "DIY: Do It Yourself Trends". He quotes an article by Dion Hinchcliffe in ZD Net in which Dion states, The idea of DIY (Do It Yourself) is to get developers and IT departments out of the demand loop and lettin

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

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Learnlets » Filling the informal gap

Clark Quinn

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No more excuses for poor e-learning content

Clive on Learning

By and large, the figures coming out of industry surveys in recent times have been kind to e-learning. There's more of it about and a generally positive disposition, at least in the case of employers, to use more of it in future. Naively, I rather supposed that this was a sign that the quality of e-learning was improving and that e-learners were more likely than not to be having positive experiences.

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The Numbers Behind Informal & Formal Learning

The Learning Circuits

I recently posted an article on this blog, Investing in Informal Learning. Seeing more in it that what I originally posted, I used it as part of a larger posting on trdev, State of the Learning Industry. Tony Karrer urged me to post it to Learning Circuits as trdev is semi-public in that you have to join the group to view any of the postings (it is free however).

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The future of learning is DIY

Tony Karrer

Harold Jarche tells us - The future of learning is DIY (Do It Yourself) and points to: With Google you can find most information that you need. YouTube is a quick and easy way to get "learning objects” to the world. Apple gives the essential tools for knowlege workers, and in a nice package. Wikipedia has shown that the wisdom of crowds is just as good as the wisdom of elites.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Learning to Spell

Kapp Notes

Learning to spell in elementary school can be a drag, it is all rote memorization. Writing the words over and over again so you can learn them for the test. A web-site named Spelling Time has developed a fun an interactive method to teach kids in grades 1-5 spelling in an engaging manner. The process involves multiple steps, first an animated character speaks a word and then you type the word.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Where Are All the Women Part II

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, February 26, 2007 Where Are All the Women Part II I wrote about this a few days ago in my post Where Are All the Women? where I was pointing out the general lack of women in the e-Learning blogosphere. But perhaps this is just a general business-blog issue.

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Learnlets » Game Design Docs Example

Clark Quinn

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Ten years on

Clive on Learning

As of this month, it's now ten years since I left Epic and became a freelance consultant. What a great opportunity to take a moment and reflect on the changes that I have witnessed in the field of corporate learning and development - my main focus over these ten years - from a largely UK perspective. Some changes in the field of learning and development generally: The term 'learning and development' has replaced 'training'.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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102 Questions

The Learning Circuits

UPDATE 2/19/07: After an error then a typo, the link below goes to the correct page. Just to be sure, it's [link] m/bigquestions and the list is now 112 questions long. Since I'm not tracking comments this month for The Big Question, I thought I'd do something that I hope will be valuable. I've aggregated all of the questions that have been proposed in the participating blogs.

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New Meme - Media I Consume - How about a change?

Tony Karrer

I got tagged by Luis Suarez around a new meme going around that focuses on "Media I Consume". I'm sure you all remember the Five Things Meme that struck the blogosphere a few months ago. My initial reaction was - "Not another one." Then I took a look at the information contained in his post and saw that Nancy White had done one as well. I'm personally not that interested in music, movies, magazines, but I was very interested how people were using the web.

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Implementation: Evaluating Collaboration

Kapp Notes

One of the goals of Web 2.0 and other technologies is to foster collaboration. But, there seems to be an issue with how many people actually collaborate. According to many sources, less than 1% of the people who visit blogs or wikis actually contribute or collaborate with the author of the wiki or blog. This is called the 1% rule. One of the major issues with collaboration in an academic or even a corporate setting is determining how to evaluate each individual's contribution to the overall coll

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Learning Show

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, February 26, 2007 The Learning Show Thanks to Will Thalheimer for continuing to provide great learning resources. I just watched/listened to The Learning Show: Dont Forget Forgetting. A 26-minute presentation with just the right mix of theory, practical information and humor.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Learnlets » Game Design Docs Example

Clark Quinn

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A rejoinder on The Science of Learning

Clive on Learning

In case you haven't seen it, Stephen Downes has written a really excellent rejoinder to my summary of what I took away from Dr Itiel Drior's workshop, The Science of Learning. I am really grateful to Stephen for this opportunity to reflect further on, and continue to explore, Itiel's ideas (or, more accurately, what I understood them to be).

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The wisdom of Jack Welch

The Learning Circuits

I'm not a great believer in leadership training, even though it's very much the trend. But the fact that such training exists means that there is a problem to be solved. I notice that some of the manuals like to quote the 10 leadership principles of Jack Welch. I've copied below the first five: 1. There is only one way - the straight way. It sets the tone of the organisation. 2.

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Rational and Irrational Inattention

Tony Karrer

Just saw a report of findings from a new Federal Reserve study. It reminds us of how our the flood of information has real impact on day-to-day decision-making, even in a high impact area like trading.: Our results suggest that market participants might be focusing irrationally on the headline number, as opposed to the most precise available data in a data release. reading the text of the data release seems to be something that should be extraordinarily easy for the markets.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Design: A Friendly Human/Computer Interface

Kapp Notes

One important thing we need to remember as designers of instruction or people who create "learner experiences" is to consider how to create an engaging user interface. Most interfaces are un-intuitive, unimaginative and confusing (thus the reason for so much software training.press the submit button to.) Designers often end up creating page-turning e-learning and not focusing on the experience for the learner.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Science of Learning

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, February 23, 2007 The Science of Learning This is the kind of science I like. Information framed in practical terms, rather than theory. Stuff I can actually apply to my work. I started off reading Clive Shepherds recap of a workshop he attended with Dr.

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Learnlets » Know-Why

Clark Quinn

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