Experiencing eLearning
JULY 27, 2009
Our team uses a wiki to document our design and development processes, something I wrote about in a short column for the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine. This weekend I was imagining a conversation between two people about the benefits of a wiki. This overlaps quite a bit with the reasons in my article, but it’s a more fun presentation with Xtranormal.
Upside Learning
JULY 28, 2009
Last month Tony Karrer posted this interesting piece on the Business of Learning on his blog – eLearning Technology. It provoked a discussion on the topic with many different perspectives brought to bear. To follow-up on that discussion, Tony organized a free webinar on the Future of Learning as a Business last week. The panelists included some well known personalities from the Learning industry like Josh Bersin, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, Ray Jimenez, and David Wilkins amongst others.
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Integrated Learnings
JULY 25, 2009
I can remember a project a few years ago where the subject matter expert (SME) fought and fought to include his 20-step process (complete with details and charts) in the course we were developing. He eventually persuaded his boss and won out, so we built the process into the course. Feedback from the learners was not positive and ranged from comments like "what is this and why in the world would I need to know it" on down to, shall we say, less positive remarks.
Kapp Notes
JULY 29, 2009
Class visits the Holocaust Museum in Second Life. This class consisted of three different parts. The first part we visited the exhibit at the US Holocaust Museum. The interactive nature of the exhibit and the interactions of the avatars with the exhibit made it a great educational place to visit. Holocaust Museum has some really well done effectives like fire and falling glass.
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Tony Karrer
JULY 27, 2009
I'm doing a free webinar in a few weeks where I will be discussing some of the major trends that are affecting models of learning. I think this will be an interesting discussion and I welcome your participation. Models for Learning in a New World This is a very interesting time to be a learning professional. Fragmentation of jobs, increasing concept work, and constant change all put a premium on learning.
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Living in Learning
JULY 31, 2009
Now that title should generate a ripple or two on the pond, especially when I have been so vocal about the need for just such a shift. So…is this post a confession that I have changed my mind? Not quite. Not even. If anything, I am more passionate than ever, but over the years, I have gotten smarter about moving around obstacles that stifle momentum rather than fight through immovable walls of opposition or resistance.
Clark Quinn
JULY 31, 2009
In last night’s #lrnchat , the topic was virtual worlds (VWs). This was largely because several of the organizers had recently attended one or another of the SRI/ADL meetings on the topic, but also because one of the organizers ( @KoreenOlbrish ) is majorly active in the business of virtual worlds for learning through her company Tandem Learning.
Tony Karrer
JULY 30, 2009
The Business of Learning (see Free Online Conference – Future of Learning with Recordings Here ) event went really well. One of the really interesting ideas came from Allessandria Polizzi who is Group Manager for Accountant Training & Relations at Intuit. Her role is to make sure that accountants are trained on the Quickbook products. You can see Allessandria at 21:30 of the following video: Intuit used to produce the content themselves, but they have transistioned to hiring their Accountant
Learning Visions
JULY 31, 2009
When we talk about the “industry”, we (and by “we”, I of course mean those of us in the industry) often refer to it as if it’s this monolithic thing that you can touch. The Industry. Ummm. Yeah. So. What is the eLearning Industry? Is it the vendors? -- The LMS companies, the custom content developers, the off-the-shelf content creators. Is it the tools we use to create eLearning?
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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
JULY 31, 2009
Helicopter Parents: Image courtesy The Telegraph, UK Helicopter parents, as we know, hover over kids, micromanaging every aspect of their lives. Unfortunately, like many other well-meaning actions, helicoptering can deliver more harm than good. It has been argued that too much hovering sometimes backfires, because kids learn their values backwards: they feel entitled to things that they must earn, they lack empathy where it is needed.
Lars is Learning
JULY 31, 2009
I ran a webinar for the Learning and Skills Group earlier this month on re-inventing the e-learning experience. I mentioned this in a previous post, so let me know what you think of the ideas and examples presented.Lars Hyland Webinar 090709 Re-inventing the E-learning ExperienceView more presentations from Lars Hyland.How can you show that e-learning is clearly adding value to your business?
Kapp Notes
JULY 31, 2009
Now video games are sneaking into the design of entire curriculums and starting to influence education in interesting and exciting ways. The Quest school located in Manhattan (New York) is creating a curriculum that is radical different from other schools. According to the web site, "Quest is not a school whose curriculum is made up of the play of commercial videogames, but rather a school that uses the underlying design principles of games to create highly immersive, game-like learning experien
Tony Karrer
JULY 31, 2009
I've received very positive feedback and lots of good ideas on the concept of having a combined calendar of Free Webinars. The really nice thing about the way Jon Udell has set up his elmcity project (the system we are using) is that it acts a lot like social curation on RSS sources as provided by Browse My Stuff , but brings together designated calendars instead of blogs or other RSS sources.
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Clark Quinn
JULY 30, 2009
On my last post, I got a comment that really made me think. The problem was content coming as PPTs from SMEs, and the question was poignant: “Given limited time and resources on a project how can you plan in advance to ensure that your learning is engaging and creates effective outcomes?&# I commented a reply, but I’d like to elaborate on that.
ID Reflections
JULY 28, 2009
Preamble The following para from Karl Kapp’s post called Yes, We Should Keep ADDIE, HPT and ISD Models is the trigger for my post. His post is an old one—almost 3 years old—yet extremely relevant in our situation today. I have pasted the para below: “Products typically aren’t designed, built and marketed in a day. Why should training for that product be designed, built and marketed in one day?
Kapp Notes
JULY 30, 2009
Opening my talk at the PDG Momentum 2009 Conference in Philadelphia. This year I once again had the privilege of speaking at the client conference of Performance Development Group (PDG). I was challenged with a really interesting topic. The title of my talk was " The Wrong Information to the Wrong Person at the Wrong Time: Why Corporate Training Programs are Not Alighted with Today's Workforce.
eLearning Cyclops
JULY 28, 2009
Hot Lava, which was recently acquired by OutStart, is now offering a free version of their m-learning development tool. It is accessible at this link, Hot Lava download-registration. Here is also a description of Hot Lava. It is a full version and without any time limitations. My guess is that OutStart will be making significant improvements to the software, so why not offer the current version free as a teaser.
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Clark Quinn
JULY 28, 2009
Getting the details right about instructional design is quite hard, or at least it appears that way, judging from how many bad examples there are. Yet the failures are more from a lack of knowledge rather than inherent complexity. While there are some depths to the underlying principles that aren’t sufficiently known, they can be learned. However, a second level of embedding systematic creativity into the process is another component that’s also missed, however this time it’
Upside Learning
JULY 28, 2009
Last month Tony Karrer posted this interesting piece on the Business of Learning on his blog – eLearning Technology. It provoked a discussion on the topic with many different perspectives brought to bear. To follow-up on that discussion, Tony organized a free webinar on the Future of Learning as a Business last week. The panelists included some well known personalities from the Learning industry like Josh Bersin, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, Ray Jimenez, and David Wilkins amongst others.
Web Courseworks
JULY 27, 2009
Web Courseworks’ game developer, Joe Rheaume, and I recently interviewed author Clark Aldrich about his impressions of the Acton MBA School’s use of simulation games to teach business concepts. For complete disclosure purposes, my company Web Courseworks is one of the vendors for the Acton Foundation, and Clark Aldrich has provided consulting services for Acton in the past.
Learning Visions
JULY 25, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Saturday, July 25, 2009 IPhone Test Dont mind me. Im just testing to see if I can blog from my iPhone. Which may not be a good thing, trust me.typo city. Posted by Cammy Bean at 9:32 PM 5comments: ? ??????? said. What do you use? I use blogpress. Yes, typos are pretty bad on the virtual keyboard 10:38 AM Cammy Bean said.
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TechSmith Camtasia
JULY 25, 2009
Last weekend I jumped in the car and headed to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Why? They were having a " GiveCamp ". Haven't heard of a GiveCamp? Well, they truly a wonderful thing. Here's the lowdown: "A GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations.
Rapid eLearning
JULY 28, 2009
PowerPoint is an important part of the rapid elearning world. If you want to build good elearning courses, you really have to learn to use PowerPoint and it’s many features. The challenge for many rapid elearning developers is that you have limited time to learn the tools because the expectation is that since you have rapid elearning software you’ll be able to get your work done rapidly.
Adobe Captivate
JULY 31, 2009
Text2Speech , Pronunciation. Adobe Captivate 4 Text-to-Speech feature gives a Dictionary Editor tool to add or change the pronunciation for a word. This tool is available at VT M16binUserDicEng.exe. The default version of this tool is not unlocked. So when a word is added/changed and its pronunciation is tested, it announces that it is a trial license.
Learning Visions
JULY 25, 2009
Don't mind me. I'm just testing to see if I can blog from my iPhone. Which may not be a good thing, trust me.typo city.
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TechSmith Camtasia
JULY 27, 2009
As you know, I love my job and I love working at TechSmith! :-). I feel very fortunate that I look forward to going to my job to every day. And for me, my job is perfect - I'm surrounded by smart and inspiring TechSmithies and users who continually amazed me. And, I love working working with people (internal and external), utilizing technology, being creative, participating at tradeshows and in the community (online and off), and being a user advocate.
Clive on Learning
JULY 27, 2009
There's plenty to ponder in the results of Rethinking Learning , a report published in June by SkillSoft and based on research conducted on their behalf by OnePoll. The survey canvassed 2019 people working in companies with more than fifty employees, evenly divided across eight European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK).
Learning with e's
JULY 27, 2009
Now the holiday season (for U.S. readers, try 'vacation') is upon us, it is apposite that danah boyd should blog a post (post a blog?) on how many of us seem to have an inbuilt need to obsessively record and share each and every one of our interesting daily experiences. I find myself doing this on occasions, seeing something unusual or eyecatching, whipping out my iPhone (yes I know it sounds bad) and capturing the image so I can upload it to Flickr and share it with anyone who has a few minutes
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