Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, February 15, 2008 Essential Reading for Instructional Design? As an instructional designer/eLearning professional, what books are the essential tools in your reference library ? Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 5, 2008
At the end of 2006, I spent some time thinking about 2007 and wrote a post challenges and predictions for 2007. This was a great exercise and the fact that I had not considered my big challenges for 2008 made it harder to do my Conference Planning for ASTD TechKnowledge 2008. When I was writing that post, I told myself that I really needed to sit down and define what I see as some of my bigger challenges right now.
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 7, 2008
Yesterday, graduate student Matt Monahan and I presented at the Training 2008 conference. Our topic was "Learning in 3D." We had a great group of attendees who stayed with us for the entire 3 hours with no break. We had a lot to cover from how to navigate in Second Life to simple scripting with building, teleporting and designing Second Life training solutions in between.
From the Coleface
FEBRUARY 29, 2008
When you first turned your thoughts to evaluating training, it’s odds-on that a colleague or consultant recommended you to have a look at the Kirkpatrick model. It’s a straightforward concept to grasp and it’s been in use for 50 years. However, in practice it’s really difficult to apply, and probably even more so in a professional services firm.
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FEBRUARY 28, 2008
After spending two weeks in London and Paris, my interactions with elearning professionals have left me even more convinced about the need for embracing new technology to advance learning. At the Olympia 2 Conference Center in London, the topic of my talk was “Unleash the Potential of Learning Interactions and Informal Learning.” The occasion was the Learning Technologies 2008 Conference.
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Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, February 26, 2008 InVision Learning: Seeking an Instructional Designer Were seeking a full-time Instructional Designer to join our growing company here in Westborough, Massachusetts. Invision Learning is seeking an Instructional Designer to design leading-edge interactive multimedia and web-based eLearning applications.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 talks about the implications of the Long Tail on Education. The article is definitely worth a read, and it got me to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning. Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 29, 2008
Arrived back from the ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 conference late the other night (3:00am) but the conference was worth it. I got to see a lot of people and make some really good connections. Matt Monahan and I had a lot of fun in our pre-conference workshop, Learning in 3D. We had a lively group of about 10 participants some of who had never even logged into Second Life before and some who were practically pros.
From the Coleface
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
Life in the business world is getting more unpredictable. The increasing availability of information and ever increasing expectations for client service and response time mean that there is less that can be planned reliably. If therefore you accept that a “plan for everything” policy is unachievable, then it’s time to stop focusing so much on the future and be more skilled at behaving spontaneously in the present…can you smell the fear from the old school accountants/ law
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Experiencing eLearning
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Lars is Learning
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
The BBC reports on the New Scientist reporting on a German study finding (here's the source article) that: Just six minutes "shut-eye" for volunteers was followed by significantly better recall of words. "Ultra-short" sleep could launch memory processing in the brain, suggested the researchers from the University of Dusseldorf. This follows on from my earlier post Snooze and Learn Faster.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, February 21, 2008 My Client is Addicted: Audio in eLearning Cathy Moore had a post a few months ago ( Addicted to Audio? ) that inspired me to change my approach to using audio in eLearning. She suggested using audio sparingly. So Ive been storyboarding differently.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 7, 2008
I don't remember what I was reading, but the post/article differentiated learning as what the learner does and training as what we do to the person - and hopefully they learn. What's interesting is that eLearning has become pretty much synonymous with Online Training as opposed to use of technology for various kinds of learning. In a world: where we have to be responsible for our learning, where learning and work are often not separate activities, where there's just too much for each of us to le
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Here are the slides for the ASTD TechKnowledge Presentation. It was an all day workshop and we spent most of the time in Second Life but you may find the slides helpful. For the ASTD Conference, we talked about a couple of books used for Second Life.
From the Coleface
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
I was recently invited to take part in Jane Hart’s excellent survey on the top tools that learning professionals use for their own and other peoples’ learning. Jane’s 2007 survey formed part of a session on free e-learning that I chaired for the ELN. It’s a really good way to find out how other people are making the best of technology.
Lars is Learning
FEBRUARY 17, 2008
I had an interesting comment from Mark on my article on Applying Social Networking in the Workplace. This statement got me thinking: I think social networks within an organisation will become tremendously useful - think of the opportunities for knowledge sharing through the creation of pools of expertise across the organisation consisting of people who would otherwise be locked into some.
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Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Who Gets to Be Called an Instructional Designer? A SME builds a course with the latest rapid eLearning tool. A teacher makes a leap into a new field and gets a job as an "instructional designer". A technical writer takes on a new challenge.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 14, 2008
Some interesting discussions are going on in the Big Question for February The Learning Circuits Blog: Instructional Design - If - When - How Much. I thought I'd take a cut at an answer based on something we've been involved with recent - the design of safety training. This includes topics like driver safety, defensive driving, following rules, workplace safety, OSHA, operating machinery, wrist safety, food preparation, kitchen safety, first aid, fire, etc.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Yesterday, Tony O'Driscoll , Matthew Monahan and I gave an ASTD Webinar on the topic of Second Life. We talked about it a little and gave a tour. One of the attendees was Tom Werner who wrote a nice post about his participation in the webinar called Simple vs Complex Spaces. Tom has written a great deal on Second Life and innovative learning content and methods.
From the Coleface
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
A good fun couple of days were had in Olympia, seeing what was new in the e-learning industry. I caught up with a few old friends, met several new people, and left feeling that our own particular corner of the e-learning industry will be in good shape in 2008. My colleague Tim thought so too, see the article in the Academy Internet newsletter.
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Experiencing eLearning
FEBRUARY 28, 2008
Lars is Learning
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
I have an enthusiastic interest in memory and how our brains learn. So I thought I'd try and learn some more from the experts using some of the openly available material from MIT. I came across something that looked interesting (well to me anyway): Neurobiology of Memory: How Do We Acquire, Consolidate and Recall Memory Speaker: Susumu Tonegawa, Director, Picower Institute for Learning and.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Theory vs. Application in Instructional Design: One Academics View A long time ago, I decided I was much better at the practical side of things than the theoretical. I did great in Calculus AB(?) in high school, which involved solving problems like figuring out the volume of weird spaces.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
Mohamed Amine Chatti (a fellow Eddie eLearning nominee) last two posts The LaaN Perspective , and Requirements of a PLE Framework are both interesting posts and worth reading. His requirements for a PLE Framework include: Personalization Social features Social filtering I ncorporate various Web 2.0 concepts and technologies (mashups, widgets, aggregation, OpenID, RSS, etc.
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
One of the pleasures of my job is seeing students create really neat and wonderful things and then having them point me to the latest software and web gadgets that make the creation possible. In fact, I am blogging today because of student named Waleed. So the other day Mike DePalma , a student I have in my Managing Multimedia Projects class showed me a project he did for another class.
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