Breakthrough eLearning

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Our daughter wants to be an animator. She will be going to university or college next year and has been checking out various computer animation and digital media programs. Interestingly, none of these programs really care about the applicant's computer programming skills. They are looking for talented and creative artists. They will help them hone these skills and then teach them how to channel them appropriately in a digital environment.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, November 05, 2007 Instructional Design Inspiration As I mentioned last week , Im in the midst of designing my first custom eLearning course in quite awhile. Ive gotten rusty in the practice of ID, although very adept in the research and learning part (and I can talk a pretty good game).

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Sitting in a fun presentation by Kevin Oakes at DevLearn on the Rise and Fall of the LMS. He pointed back to entry of various players in the market and particularly the enterprise vendors as opposed to pure-play vendors from articles five years ago. See: " Supplier Savvy: Will Enterprise Software Companies Take Over E-Learning? " " Enterprise Software Redux ," In terms of "The Fall" his main point was that LMS will lose out to broader spectrum solutions - particularly Talent Management / Human C

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Second Life has come under a lot of attack recently because "it's empty." One especially hard hitting article How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life complained that "there's the question of what people do when they get there. Once you put in several hours flailing around learning how to function in Second Life, there isn't much to do.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

The Legal Services Act which was born out of the Clementi Review gained Royal Assent last week. Over the past few years you’ll have heard reports of “Tesco Law” and doom-mongers reporting that law firms will perish in the wake of increased competition from non-law firms. So what does the Act actually say? Today’s issue of The Lawyer has a handy summary. “The Legal Services Act will: Allow non-legal businesses to invest in firms; Make provision for alternative busine

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

This morning at DevLearn I did an informal session with Lance Dublin on management issues. Several interesting topics came up, but one that really struck me was around producing eLearning that is good enough vs. trying to produce better learning or what you consider to be a better solution. This is a topic that we've discussed before including in the Big Question for January - Quality vs.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Yesterday, I presented with Tony O'Driscoll at the DevLearn event virtually. Assisting us expertly was Matt Monahan my graduate assistant who has been helping me with many Second life tasks. Neither Tony or I could make it in person so we presented virtually. Which, of course, was a perfect use of Second Life. We provided a little tour with Brent Schlenker discussing the uses of Second Life for providing learning solutions.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Another DevLearn workshop I got a lot out of was “Opportunities for Performance Support” with Allison Rossett. I was excited to meet Allison because she is a professor in the educational technology program at San Diego State. I am starting the Ed Tech program in January and can't wait to get started. This workshop was right up my alley because it covered what I do at work every day.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Just to close the loop on my series of posts that I created as part of preparing my presentation: LMS Team Size and Time LMS RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Thanks again for the input. It helped. Here's the presentation on from slideshare: | View | Upload your own Other posts on LMS: Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas Tracking Without an LMS LMS Dissatisfaction on the Rise Do You W

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

In the spirit of broadening my keynote address and in providing a dialogue with audience members of the 5th Annual PA/DE/NJDLA Conference & Expo. I have pulled together a number of posts that may be of interest to attendees at the keynote who are looking for additional information. This post also provides a place where attendees can feel free to comment and add to the discussion Defining a "Gamer" Cheat Codes: Friend or Foe?

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eLearning Evangelist

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

NACOL's Virtual School Symposium took place this week. The Research Committee (of which I'm a member) has produced an Issues Brief: Professional Development for Virtual Schooling and Online Learning. This Issues Brief is freely available. I was co-author on that Issues Brief. If you're looking for information about preparing teachers for the online environment this is a good place to start.

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Going into DevLearn I was a little unsure of what to expect considering it was my first conference like this. I was hoping to get lucky and find some miracle idea or resource that will make it easy for me to implement eLearning at a minimal cost. Well, I didn't come back with any miracle ideas or resources but I did come back with a lot of gems that if I follow through on will easily earn %100 ROI on the $1000 investment.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Just wanted to through an idea at everyone that came up during several discussions today at DevLearn. How about asking select new hires to keep an inside the firewall blog as they begin their jobs at your company? or If they come into the company in waves, how about providing them a discussion group or better yet a social network tool that has good discussions as a means of communicating with each other and with coaches?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Great audience for the Keynote at the PA/DE/NJ Distance Learning Conference. We had over 100 attendees at the keynote. They were engaged and active. We had fun with the subject and they recognized many of the traits I discussed in both incoming employees to their organizations as well as their own kids. Here I am discussing the traits of the gamers.Multi-Tasking, Confident, Problem-Solvers, Social Resilent.

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eLearning Evangelist

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

The NACOL Virtual School Symposium was held this week in Louisville. They had initially hoped for 600, 800 registered. This conference grows every year. The Research Committee (of which I'm a member) produced two Issues Briefs which were given to most all the attendees. (They ran out of the print version because they weren't expecting 800 attendees.

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Vignettes Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

There is no immediate need for trainers or e-learning leaders to think of "how do I integrate the Web 2.0 in my formal programs?" Learn, experiment, discover and see how it works in small tests. Integration might not be needed. The strength of Web 2.0 is its flexibility. Once integrated, Web 2.0 tools may become the legacy system which we all disdain.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Notes from Sir Ken Robinson's keynote talk at DevLearn. I've seen Ken on his Ted talk which I've embedded below: His talk was quite entertaining and followed somewhat his talk from Ted. A few of the thoughts or points from his talk: $3.5B spent in California on state school system - $9B spent on prison system Creativity can be facilitated and supported to foster innovation Audience rated themselves average roughly of 7 in creativity and 7 in intelligence 73% give themselves different marks - ten

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Teachers, trainers and other educators tend to teach in the same style and format in which they have been taught. For the Greatest Generation, the Boomer generation and much of Generation X, this included a linear step-by-step approach with little technology in the classroom or room for discussion. The teacher or trainer was right and everyone else was an empty vessal to be filled with the wisdom of the instructor.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

On Wednesday, at the eLearning Guild's DevLearn conference in San Jose, I spoke about the progress that's been made with the 30-minute masters project. So much progress, in fact, that it's become the 60-minute masters. Rapid developers Kineo took the 30-minute masters scripts and built a rapid e-learning course out of it - the trouble is no-one without the aid of stimulants could get through it in under an hour.

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Vignettes Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Many years ago when you are in a conversation and you say you used dial-up for Internet connection -- it was a wow. you are connected. Then later. you need to have at least DSL to get the wow effect. If you rely on email as your form of communication, you are now old-styled and old-fashioned and no longer belong to the wow group. There are better ways than email, e.g. collaborative tool, Facebook, etc.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I'm about to present at the LMS session at DevLearn. Lance just asked everyone for the key questions they have given where they are. I wanted to capture this to be able to come back and talk about a few of these items later: What are the benefits, ROI, outcomes to be expected from LMS implementation? What are the implementation, acquisition, options - insource, outsource, build vs. buy?

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I attended my first day of DevLearn and needless to say ideas are bouncing around my head like a pinball. This is my attempt to get it all out before I forget. The first workshop of the day was eLearning 2.0, presented by Tony Karrer. I'm currently researching Wiki's for my organization so I was going into this presentation hoping to come out with a lot of ideas of how they can be used.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

This just in from WebProNews. 'Old media is epitomized by no news source more than the Associated Press. Literally thousands of journalists are employed around the world to bring current event coverage to readers of thousands of newspapers and their online sites. In the pre-Internet days the AP had little competition beyond a few other news syndicators like Reuters and UPI.

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Vignettes Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

How do you know if you are really behind the curve in technology? You wear a wrist watch. "Why use a wrist watch? What does it do? What?!!! It only does one think - tell time?" -- this is what a young person would say! Time is not in all other gadgets: iPods, Cell phones, Car dashboard -- eventually either wrist watches do more work, or it will be obsolete.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I've had near misses with flights before - I've gone to the wrong airport and forgotten to take my passport - but I've never missed a flight by a whole day! My PC diary said Sunday at 1.45pm, the ticket said Saturday. No wonder I couldn't check in online - the flight had long departed. One of the disadvantages of age is not so much forgetfulness, it's complacency.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Adobe Learning Summit I finally have an opportunity to sit and live blog. [yes Mark, I know living blogging is soooo 90's ;-)] I'm sitting in the Friday morning session of the Adobe eLearning Summit. Yesterday was awesome and the reception at Adobe was a blast. GREAT hosts!!! Good people. Can't ask for much more. Adobe eLearning Solutions So, Ellen is talking about Authorware and IT's future in eLearning: 6 part plan 1)Business continuity 2)conversion 3)migration 4)enablement 5)develop the next

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

My life is in boxes. Just like a Likert scale questionnaire. I am moving today from a communal office space into a basement office on another part of the campus. My soon to be ex-office is piled high with packing cases containing everything I need to survive a day in the office (and some things I don't need, but have kept anyway, just in case). The move is good and also bad.

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