Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, December 20, 2007 My Objection to Learning Objectives After reading this post, you will be able to: Explain two of the reasons why Cammy Bean doesnt like learning objectives Explain your own view of learning objectives Develop an alternative approach to listing learning objectives in your next eLearning course Introduction I hate writing learning objectives.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Maybe I've not been paying attention, but in the webinar that I just finished, the tool GoToMeeting had a neat feature that showed the percentages of people who were paying attention (had the meeting visual in the foreground) vs. those who were not paying attention. These were shown in percentages - easy to see and understand. There was also a display of those in attendance vs. those who had left.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 21, 2007

It’s the time of year that I, like many other professionals, have cleared my desk enough to think about whether I have met with my Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements. And I wonder just how necessary it is for me to have to meet these requirements and document them. Do highly motivated professionals really need the burden of a compliance framework to ensure that they continue to be competent?

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Lars is Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2007

It's that time of year again, a time to reflect on trends past and future. Sparked by Tom King's comparison of authoring tools I thought I'd take a fresh look at what Google Trends can tell us about e-learning and the wider training industry. There is a seemingly endless debate over how to spell the name of what we do. Are we "e-learning" or "elearning" or "eLearning"?

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 21, 2007

How do you teach ethics? Sometimes a lawyer comes to a company and speaks on the topic, sometimes it is part of a new employee orientation program and sometimes it is an e-learning module where you answer true/false or multiple choice questions.seriously does anyone think that type of training is going to impact ethical decisions? Instead, I think you should make everyone read three books, all about actual ethical breaches and then dissect and discuss the main characters and then talk about what

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 20, 2007

A few times when I’ve been talking to potential clients about their wanting to have some diversity e-learning developed, it’s quickly become apparent that the task is not as easy as it looked at first glance. That’s because there are few topics as wide ranging as diversity and a key first step in e-learning is define what content you’re aiming to convey.

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Lars is Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I've been a contributor to others blogs and feel I might be ready to add a voice with some useful thoughts. So I'll be using the new year burst of enthusiasm to hopefully get me off the ground. Watch this space.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 19, 2007

The folks over at Enspire have created a wonderful holiday greeting. You really need to check out the animated story How the Finch Stole E-Learning. It will bring a smile to your face. Thanks to Cammy Bean for pointing this out. And thanks to Bjorn Billhardt, Stephen Robinson and the whole gang at Enspire for a little holiday cheer and laughter!

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 20, 2007

If you've not seen this, there's a Facebook application by Worklight called Workbook that represents an overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something I've been expecting for a while based on some conversations with large organizations who planned to use Facebook as their social network. WorkBook combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, including integration with existing enterprise security services an

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Happy Holidays from Enspire Learning Brought to you by those creative cooks at Enspire Learning in Austin, Texas: How the Finch Stole E-Learning. May all of our skill sets grow three sizes in 2008! Posted by Cammy Bean at 10:53 AM Labels: enspire learning 1 comments: Karl Kapp said.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 18, 2007

December’s TJ has an article highlighting the importance of supervision for coaches as part of their continuing professional development. A survey of coaches by Hawkins and Schwenk showed that whilst 86% of coaches thought that supervision was important, only 44% were in regular coaching supervision. I like the delicious irony that approximately half the coaches who thought supervision was a good idea had failed to get round to it…clearly some barriers that they need coaching around.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I am sure you've tuned into GeekBrief.TV before. But.if you haven't.you should. GeekBrief.TV provides viewers with quick, easy-to-understand videos with just the right amount of information about the latest and greatest gadgets and gizmos. I've been into videos lately (see Shooting Educational/Instructional Videos ) so the show's format, style and approach has really caught my attention.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I had seen these physics lectures before, but I was reminded via Stephen Downes and the NY Times article about professor Lewin's lectures and was telling someone about them just the other day. Thought I should definitely point you to them. I personally am compelled by watching something like Planet Earth. Professor Lewin has managed to create something akin to that experience on a topic that can be made extremely boring by most professors.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Things That Light Up My Life This is a geeky instructional designer moment. But here it is. photo by tanakawho Whats been lighting up my life this week is when I hear a Subject Matter Expert say, "Lets cut that. Lets go with your Less is More.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 21, 2007

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Have you ever wondered. "What would MacGyver do if he were stuck in a conference room with a pen, a projector, a tripod, an LED light, and a Wiimote." Here is the answer Two things: Of, course.who doesn't mount a projector onto a tripod???? (generally useful) The hardware, software and concepts of video games are coming to mainstream products.it is only a matter of time.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 19, 2007

There's a great discussion in the comments on my post around small group discussions at conferences. I've updated the original post a bit and would welcome additional thoughts over the next two days in order to help me figure out what I'm going to do in my session at ASTD TechKnowledge.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2007

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 21, 2007

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 15, 2007

It is always so hard to determine what type of corporate gift is appropriate for clients, co-workers or your boss? What do you get them that is not too expensive but not too cheap, that is business-focused but not too business-focused. Well, I think the perfect answer is Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. , it is fun but serious, informative but easy-to-read, insightful but not overly academic.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Interesting to see the buzz around Diso. DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it : "to build a social network with its skin inside out". Our first target is Wordpress , bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there. This aligns pretty well with my experience of Learning and Networking with a Blog.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2007

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 19, 2007

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2007

I'm signing off now for the Christmas period. Looking back, I've had a fantastic time this year posting my thoughts, engaging with your comments and collaborating with fellow bloggers - it's hard to imagine how dull life used to be BB (before blogging). Do have a wonderful holiday.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I'm doing some web research (actually I'm constantly doing web research) and I consistently find myself: 1. Finding an interesting page 2. Copying and Pasting Content from the Page 3. Creating a small citation to the page 4. Editing my thoughts This is part of creating blog posts or part of doing research. I've looked at various tools to use as part of this, but I'm finding that what I really want is a better Copy-to-Clipboard function (in Firefox) that would include a citation to the original s

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 18, 2007

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 18, 2007

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2007

We recently conducted focus groups with our research members and one of the topics which comes up frequently is the question: how can we better align with our business leaders? Let me discuss a few important comments here (we have much more coming on this topic), and give you a “short guide to becoming aligned. Read more» The post Aligning HR with the Business: What to do appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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