Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
I've been asked several times a similar question so I thought I would throw it out to see what readers here will recommend for doing basic video-based elearning authoring. The situation is that they have five, two-hour training videos (10 hours total). It's currently used as a watch and then answer these questions experience. The topic almost doesn't matter, but assume it's Safety Training.
E-Learning Provocateur
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
While the digital age has opened up (and continues to open up) new avenues for learning and knowledge sharing, I sometimes feel the effects of information overload. Indeed, useful tools are available for managing the avalanche of information. For example, RSS allows us to aggregate feeds from our favourite sources, without the need to visit each and every site every day.
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Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Previous Series Post. This is one in a series of thoughts on some broken areas of ID that I’m posting for Mondays. The intention is to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. The point is not to say ‘bad designer’, but instead to point out how to do better design. At some point (typically, after the introduction ) we need to present the concept.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Within the last few years many higher education institutions and systems have invested heavily in technology and have raised the bar in student expectations for online student services and online learning opportunities. Why? Because systems and schools that fail to offer state-of-the-art online learning opportunities and accompanying services over the next decade will lose students who routinely use commercial applications such as Amazon.com, PayPal and Facebook to browse catalogs, pay bills and
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Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
For some reason, I've recently seen a whole lot of new subscribers. I would think that it was errors in Feedburner's counting, except that for many of the subscribers are doing it through email and there has definitely been an increase. I'm thankful, but I really don't quite know the cause. And, most of the comments come from folks who I've known for a while - but with a few new folks coming in recently.
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Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
While I agree vehemently with most of a post by Lars Hyland, he said one thing I slightly disagree with, and I want to elaborate on it. He was disagreeing with “buying rapid development tools to bash out ill formed ‘e-learning’ to an audience that will not only be unimpressed but also none the wiser - or more productive&# , a point I want to nuance.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
As recently announced by Bersin & Associates , in the United States, corporate learning and development (L&D) expenditures dropped by more than 11 % in 2008. It seems likely that the cuts are will continue in 2009. The organization continues to report that the spending has fallen from $1,202 per learner in 2007 to $1,075 per learner in 2008. Training staff resources are also dropping: Companies overall averaged 3.4 training staffers per 1,000 learners, down from 5.1 per 1,000 in 2007.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Fantastic post by Michele Martin - Blogging for Personal Branding. I would have titled it as Blogging and Your Career. After reading this, I think you will realize the value that Michele is bringing that I mentioned in Social Job Seeker Resource. While I focus on Tapping the Social Grid as a part of current work. Michele is focusing on using Social Media as part of your Career.
From the Coleface
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
Today it is official…I can tell everyone that I am a Redtray employee now. Redtray has acquired Academy Internet and here’s the press release. Big picture, it’s part of the inevitable consolidation in the e-learning industry which looks set to continue throughout 2009. The AI team will also benefit from having a bigger balance sheet behind it when it comes to pitching for larger contracts, and being part of a company that has the capability to deliver a wide range of blended le
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Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
For sins in my past, I’ve been invited on to our school district’s technology committee. So, yesterday evening I was there as we were reviewing and rewriting the technology plan (being new to the committee, I wasn’t there when the existing one was drafted). Broken up into five parts, including curriculum, infrastructure, funding, I was on the professional development section, with a teacher and a library media specialist.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
Catching a shark in RuneScape. Discussion with my son a few years ago. “Dad, I want you to know the second clan meeting went better than the first,” my son unexpectedly announced one day. “What, a clan meeting?” was my response, “clan, what do you mean clan?” I was nervous. “I formed an online team in Runescape , we call it a clan.” “Oh, of course.” “We have six members but need someone who can cook shark.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Another good question from a reader. This person works in a military environment with some very particular requirements for how multimedia assets are treated during development. Because of that he's in the position of having to determine how much disk space will be needed during development. He's seeking help to answer. Are there formulas you use to determine disk space needs during development of multimedia training?
eLearning Cyclops
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
The video studio is now complete and ready to go. I have uploaded a tour of the studio on YouTube, which is embedded below. .
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Rapid eLearning
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
Last week was great. I was in Atlanta at the Training 2009 and got to meet many blog readers who presented me with some interesting elearning challenges. I love it. The problem solving is fun and a great learning opportunity. During the conversations, one of the things that really stood out was how tough the economy has made it for many in the learning industry.
Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
I love crossing into related disciplines and exploring the received wisdom. I'm obviously not a professional graphic designer but I am an enthusiastic amateur and keen to improve. With this in mind I enjoyed exploring Timothy Samara's sumptuous Design elements - a graphic style manual. This book has two appeals: firstly, it lays out clearly and simply a number of basic rules; secondly, it overflows with breathtaking examples that just cry out to be stolen.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
I'm going to be doing a free webinar with Mark Sylvester of IntroNetworks that's about Crowdsourcing in the Small and Social Brain. Hat tip to Virginia Yonkers for calling it the Social Grid. I'm still not sold on the term - but the concept is very important. This should be a very interesting discussion. Tapping the Social Grid Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 9 - 10 am PACIFIC, Noon - 1 pm EASTERN Register Here Over the past 20 years, knowledge work has been transformed by the explosion of inf
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
I’ve been thinking about fresh approaches to instructional design. Instructional design was invented around the time of World War II. Starting virtually from scratch, America had to train millions of men to be soldiers and millions of civilians to make ships and armaments. The training film was born, soon to be followed with the ADDIE model. ADDIE (analyze, design, develop, implement & evaluate) made it possible to manage the process of creating useful training programs systematically.
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E-Learning Acupuncture
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
If you work in the field of science – then you have been there. You know… Friday night… 11pm… and you’re in the lab doing some experiment while every other person is either home in bed or out having fun with friends. Science is a strange discipline isn’t it? Well, there’s one company out there that is turning the concept of late night science experimentation into a complete success story.
Saffron Interactive
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
The Chinese are full of words of wisdom and I’ve come across a proverb (in a promotional freebie booklet from Pret, as it happens) that seems particularly relevant to what. The post Tell me and I’ll forget… appeared first on Saffron Interactive.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
I'm happy to announce that Judy Brown today officially launched the Mobile Learning Content Community. This uses the same technology behind eLearning Learning. Judy is THE person I have gone to for years for anything having to do with mobile learning. It's great to have her pull together content and bloggers into this community. In other words, Judy is marking good content she comes across as well as bringing in content from top bloggers in the space such as: Cell Phones in Learning, Golden Swam
There Is No Chalk
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
As I continue in my Masters coursework at Capella University, each successive quarter project has increasingly driven home the sense that Instructional Design (ID) and Human Performance Improvement (HPI) are converging. Never has this been more apparent than my project this Q1. I am helping a friend and former manager at a company (who shall remain nameless.research ethics) who is seeing this.
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Take an e-Learning Break
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
The FDIC has an online learning series designed to help people with little or no banking experience. Money Smart is available in two versions: an instructor-led version and a computer-based instruction ( CBI ) version. Both versions consist of the same 10 modules.
Learning with e's
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
The new Nintendo DSi games console will be on sale in UK and US stores as early as first week in April. Here in the UK it is expected to retail for around £150, and will be available in any colour you like, as long as it's black (or white). It has already been available in Japan since November 2008, and has been selling like hot sushi ( What?? - Ed.
eLearning Blender
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
I am responsible for an upcoming software rollout for a retail organization and I am looking for ideas for structuring a train the trainer course. The training plan involves the learners completing a series of eLearning courses which will be followed by a one day instructor led course. I have finished developing the eLearning courses and the instructor led course so now I need to prepare SME’s to facilitate the instructor led classes on their own.
Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for February is What is the impact of the economy on you and your organization? What are you doing as a result? Well, in my case, as an independent consultant, I am the organisation, so any economic impact is going to hit me directly. So what are we seeing, at least in the UK: Lower budget, rapid e-learning development is flourishing.
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Take an e-Learning Break
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Just read a great article that has tips on working with subject matter experts ( SMEs ). In my experience, making sure that SMEs understand the time commitment they need to devote to the project is essential to your project's success.
Learning with e's
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
Today I sent back the corrected proofs for a new article due to be published next month in the journal Learning, Media and Technology. I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but LMT must be one of the most attractive journal covers I've seen. It's also a quality publication, so I'm delighted the article has been accepted. I co-authored it last year with my wife Dawn, who was working with me as an associate lecturer in Education at the University of Plymouth.
bozarthzone
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
My January 24 post, "Collapse of a Community of Practice", included an aside about what training practitioners are really doing v. what the media -- print, business blogs, "forums" and "webinars" would have us believe (another aside: there is nothing positive about the word "webinar"). My third book, From Analysis to Evaluation , was envisioned as a compilation of tools developed and used by practitioners in the field, loosely arranged around the ADDIE model of instructional design.
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