Tony Karrer
JULY 26, 2006
I should be working on content for my presentations at DevLearn in October that look at what's next in eLearning. (As a side note: if you are going to DevLearn and are reading this, please drop me a note.) However, the "what's next" question has become more challenging recently as we've seen the rapid growth of simple and easy to deploy tools displacing more complex systems.
Moodle Journal
JULY 27, 2006
I discovered a really promising web based application the other day that was promoted as an interactive whiteboard, not surprisingly it’s called Virtual White Board. I registered for an account and though you do not at this stage get all the fancy clipart and sound clips etc; its still in beta, I was impressed with the functionality. Here at college interactive white-boards, probably due to the cost just do not seem to have happened, though all our computing rooms do all have a master PC and pro
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The Learning Circuits
JULY 29, 2006
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a transglobal teleconference on the Future of Media here in San Francisco along with a link to a concurrent session in Sydney, Australia. Despite some audio/visual problems with the link between the two sites, the content of the sessions was thought provoking and painstakingly honest. To hear leaders in the field admit to not really knowing what's going to happen is both refreshing and a bit scary.
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Clive on Learning
JULY 27, 2006
Text chat would not be many learners' medium of choice for synchronous communication with their group during a course. The order of preference probably goes: Face-to-face communication. Web conferencing that includes a visual dimension (webcams / graphics, etc.) and an audio dimension (VOIP or acccompanying teleconference). Teleconferencing or instant messaging with VOIP.
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Tony Karrer
JULY 28, 2006
Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and several others Early Adopters - Moodle and a few others Early Majority - nobody Late Majority - forget about it I would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts.
Moodle Journal
JULY 23, 2006
In the last few weeks I have been taking a close look at elgg and trying to decide whether to promote it as part of my courses in the coming year. I set-up my account and began trawling through the various options and facilities, and came to the conclusion that it will be ideal for creating a personalised learning space. While on this subject, there is a whole debate going on it seems around personalised learning at the moment, so if you are interested in getting clarification you may like to br
The Learning Circuits
JULY 28, 2006
in exploring the new horizons for learning site, i came across an interesting set of articles by renate nummela caine and geoffrey caine. in their research on the human brain and learning, they established twelve principles regarding how we learn and what prevents us from learning. their twelve principles are: All learning is physiological. The Brain-Mind is social.
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Clive on Learning
JULY 24, 2006
In hindsight I approached the e-learning site Nuvvo with unrealistic optimism. I was keen because Nuvvo has a modern, Web 2.0 feel and ethos. Its aim - to provide a way for those who wish to teach online to reach those who want to learn online - seems attractive, even laudable. If you're an expert on something, use Nuvvo to put together a course incorporating simple online materials and collaboration; offer this free or charge for it if you wish/can/dare.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JULY 3, 2006
Engadget takes a look at the New Intel Eduwise laptop. The comments are interesting. It kind of looks like a purse when it's folded. Not sure that design will work for the guys.
Tony Karrer
JULY 31, 2006
Relevant to the recent discussions around Do You WANT an LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? and the possibility that we could soon be seeing something that looks more like a Wiki+Tracking capability, I just saw the news: Vignette Provides Online, On-Demand Training For Customers. They've added tracking and SCORM to their CMS solution. So, maybe my previous comments about this being a couple years away may have been too conservative.
Moodle Journal
JULY 15, 2006
Well the JISC bid event with our partner colleges went really well, and now I am looking forward to seeing the whole project hopefully come to life in the New Year. The web-cast also worked and our network manager informs me that we had 10 IP addresses connected, though one of those was him, so I guess that leaves 9. Following my request for the web-cast to be set-up, a first for Bromley College I must say, it was reassuring to have evidence of it actually being used, and given the technical iss
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Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 29, 2006
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The Learning Circuits
JULY 8, 2006
Recently I spent a little time pondering a statement that I've ascribed to for sometime now: In a ranking of all of the groups in a typical organization who have the responsibility for helping direct the learning of employees or customers, corporate training would finish 3rd - at best. What? 3rd!?!? No Way! WAY. It's my belief that an honest appraisal of any good size organization will likely show that two departments would prove to be more efficient and effective in helping their target a
Breakthrough eLearning
JULY 27, 2006
Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Thursday, July 27, 2006 We Need More Talented Jugglers When we talk with organizations that are having difficulties meeting their eLearning goals, it always seems to me that they are missing a key indgredient for success: a talented juggler.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JULY 30, 2006
Like I said a few posts back, we are at our worst when we try to create our own learning system thingy. However, OpenAcademic is not about an enterprise vendor riding the latest trend. This is the marriage of Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. Wow! Its like the snickers bar of learning: Lots of the most yummy open source platforms rolled into one.
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Tony Karrer
JULY 27, 2006
I just saw a great comment from Mark Oehlert around my post: Informal Learning - Harold Tells Us Where To Put It - Now What. In the comment he says relative to discussing Informal Learning: P.S. Can I just say that I love this debate and think that it is serving our industry well and that we need more of this and we need it at conferences, up on stage in front of thousands of people.
Moodle Journal
JULY 12, 2006
Tomorrow we shall be presenting our proposal details to partner colleges for the JISC bid along the lines of ‘ access to online content, and tools to support collaborative working and personalised learning experiences’. The network team have been working hard getting my request for streaming to work and this afternoon I saw it in action. If you are interested in looking in on the event, then click here between 2 and 5 gmt.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 28, 2006
After the Bell Curve - New York Times. The average I.Q. of children from well-to-do parents who were placed with families from the same social stratum was 119.6. But when such infants were adopted by poor families, their average I.Q. was 107.5 - 12 points lower. The same holds true for children born into impoverished families: youngsters adopted by parents of similarly modest means had average I.Q.
Tony Karrer
JULY 25, 2006
I ran across a post by Dave Boggs - More Standards In e-Learning? that pointed me to some presentations at alt-i 2 -lab 2006 that look at where the eLearning interoperability standards are going in the future. This is an interesting topic because it highlights a schism that is echoed in the larger world of IT: Enterprise IT (Big Systems) vs. Emergence (see Enterprise 2.0 and emergence ).
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Tony Karrer
JULY 24, 2006
I've received quite a bit of input on my blog post Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. I feel like many of us are in the same boat. We want to figure out what the process and mechanisms should look like when we are going after Intentional Informal Learning. Interestingly, Stephen Downes' new presentation - e-Learning 2.0 - Why the New Tools includes a slide that quotes my blog post: I'm becoming convinced that folks in the informal learning realm are quite willing to live with "free range" learn
Tony Karrer
JULY 19, 2006
Found this via a post on Column Two - Productive dashboards. Definitely worth a read since we've been seeing this trend as well and there is a definite opportunity to tie performance interventions to dashboards. The approach we've used with various clients is to tie each KPI to a set of performance suggestions, learning opportunities, etc. In some cases these are static lists, in other cases these are composed into action plans that must be approved.
Tony Karrer
JULY 19, 2006
Found via Joho Blog - Pew has a new report on a national survey of bloggers and blogging ( PDF Link Directly ). Interesting information: Eight percent of internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Thirty-nine percent of internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs - a significant increase since the fall of 2005. 37% of bloggers cite "my life and experiences" as a primary topic of their blog More than half (54%) of bloggers are under the age of 30.
Tony Karrer
JULY 18, 2006
Great post by Harold Jarche - Informal Learning and Performance Technology responding to my post - Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. His post is the kind of reasoned thinking that helps make sense of different approaches. It's interesting how Harold has broken up the world, and, frankly, I'm not sure how universal this is, but I think it helps. * Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g., Training) Non-Instructional Interventions (e.g., Job Aids) * I
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Tony Karrer
JULY 17, 2006
If you've been reading my blog, you know that I often discuss Personal Learning: Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning Professionals Tools and Strategies for Personal Learning More Effective Conferences for Learning Professionals A big part of what I've come to realize that the barrier to us moving beyond being The Worst Learners are: We (like many people today) lack the intrinsic motivation to systematically improve our personal learning capabilities.
Tony Karrer
JULY 14, 2006
I recently read an article by George Siemens - Changing Models where he points to the changes that necessarily need to happen in our understanding of how to support learning. I think he's right on the money (as usual), but then he points out: ISD can be very effective for learning that has both a clear end outcome and process. Often, today's learning has neither.
Tony Karrer
JULY 13, 2006
Interesting post by Brent - ISDers: The Master Filters that parallels some of my recent posts talking about instructional design transition as delivery models have changed. Brent's main point is that in a world of user-generated content (or even SME) generated content then the role of ISDers is different. I tend to agree with most of his assessment, but disagree with his statement: If we are good/lucky we meet in the middle and the compromise is the mediocrity of elearning click2death courses th
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