Breakthrough eLearning
OCTOBER 9, 2007
I received an email invitation today to join a webinar to be led by Ed Cohen, the Chief Technology Officer of Plateau Systems, titled "The Future of Learning Content." It promised that I would "learn about the important trends that are shaping the development, deployment and management of learning content," and discover "how content can be more effectively purchased, deployed and managed" (presumably using Plateau's technology).
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
OCTOBER 10, 2007
In this post, I present some thoughts on how to effectively use 3D metaphors and virtual worlds to enrich content presentation with little effort. Sounds exciting? Read on. 3D Objects for Content Navigation This sound different from navigation based on the ubiquitous Next and Previous buttons, right? Usually, navigation in courses is linear or guided.
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Learning Visions
OCTOBER 12, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, October 12, 2007 New Survey -- Whats Your Demographic? Because people are wondering. How old are all of you? Some of you call yourselves gamers. Some of you have been in Second Life. So where do you fit into the demographic, dear readers? Youll have to come visit the blog to respond to the new survey.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 12, 2007
The Arc La Defense through my digital camera, my hotel is only a few meters away. Yesterday, I presenting an e-learning (computer-based training) maturity model explaining how e-learning can move from cost savings to strategic advantage in the area of compliance to a European audience in La Defense which is a major business district in France. Europe is working through the same issues of e-learning as the rest of the world with the added struggle of working with various languages and governing b
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From the Coleface
OCTOBER 10, 2007
Web 2.0 is changing the way that pupils relate to teachers at schools in the form of RateMyTeachers. Will this dynamic also apply in the world of work? Ratemyteachers is a community site where pupils and parents can rate teachers on a variety of criteria from clarity to coolness. What I think is more significant than the ratings is the fact that the rating process is actually going on.
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Learning Visions
OCTOBER 12, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, October 12, 2007 College Women on Gamers: They Giggle I came across this on Wired: Giggling Girls Fail Videogame-Related Quiz , in which college-aged women are asked a series of somewhat spoofy questions on games and gamers. The responses are generally preceded by a giggle and a "whats that?
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 9, 2007
I'll be conducting a Second Life Workshop in conjunction with the folks from Training Magazine as an extension of my conference presentation on the topic. To learn more go to LOL's description of Second Life: Basic Design Workshop. If you want to sign up.Save $100—register with Discount Code tme27f online at: www.TrainingLiveAndOnline.com.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 10, 2007
As I recently announced , I'm helping George Siemens to organize Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations. When you go to the conference page via the link above, you can see that it's a big wiki. People are already in putting in their names, ideas, etc. There's also a link to the To Do page. Currently, this page lists some tasks that I'm sure I could figure out how to do, but I'm hoping that some reader might be willing to take on.
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Learning Visions
OCTOBER 10, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Second Life and Gaming Poll Results I dont claim to be a researcher, nor can I claim that the results of polls conducted on this site are in the least bit statistically significant. But I am interested in the responses Ive been getting.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 8, 2007
Chris Dede giving the group a tour of The River City Project. Last week I was fortunate enough to be taken on a tour of the virtual world of River City created under the direction of Chris Dede of Harvard. He is the principle investigator of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation designed to explore the teaching possibilities of virtual worlds.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 7, 2007
I'm helping George Siemens to organize a free, online conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations , Nov. 15 - 20, 2007. The conference will be held fully online (with live presentations and asynchronous discussions). There's an exceptional group of speakers/discussion leaders including: David Snowden Jay Cross Rebecca Stromeyer Richard Straub Clark Quinn Donald H.
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Learning Visions
OCTOBER 10, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Women Gamers on the Rise According to an article today in Times Online (Nintendos women gamers could transform market) , Japanese women gamers have overtaken men to become the biggest users of the Wii and DS. "If the change repeats itself around the globe, said analysts, it could force a complete change of business model for many of the world’s largest games makers.
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 12, 2007
I am scheduled to present in the following sessions at the TrainingTech Solutions Conference in Salt Lake City, Oct. 12-16, 2007 1. Rapid e-Learning Design Workshop 2. LMS 1. 2, LMS 2 and Beyond 3. Integrating Social Networking to Impact Learning & Performance 4. Rapid e-Learning Clinic 5. www.TrainingPayback.com orientation I look forward to meeting some of you at the conference.
Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 12, 2007
At the conference I attended this week in Luxembourg, participants were split into groups to try and find ways in which resistance to learning technologies from fellow learning and development professionals could be overcome. I kept notes of some of the more interesting suggestions to share with you: Adopt a blended learning strategy : Well I know what they meant, but as far as I'm concerned keeping classroom trainers on board is not a reason for blended learning.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 6, 2007
I've been slowly making my way through Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living - How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers. It's quite a good book, and I really like how Davenport structures his positions and structures the topic as a whole. But, wow, there was one part that just. arg. well here it is. Partisans of blogging argue that there are many potential business applications of the technology (and they discuss these applications in their blogs!).
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Learning with e's
OCTOBER 11, 2007
Well, I'm off on my travels yet again today, this time to the Fachhochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences, Germany. I'm involved in a transnational project called the Atlantis University Project , which connects students studying computer science in Germany, the UK, Ireland and other European countries. I'm going to act as a research mentor and provide some guidance for the project researchers.
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 10, 2007
We just released a study and report on "Micro-Learning Impacts." This study (on-going) was conducted in cooperation with Training Magazine Events showing how learners learn, apply, network, and measure results. The participants submitted micro-goals, networke d with their leaders and peers, and measured the impacts of their learnings. Participants reported total learning impacts of $1,600,000.
Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 11, 2007
We know online communication is practical, in that it allows us to keep in touch with each other at a distance, but we would normally consider it a second best to face-to-face communication; in other words, we do it because there is no practical alternative. I must admit that this was essentially my perception, but a chance encounter (albeit face-to-face) at a conference this week has made me think twice.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
OCTOBER 8, 2007
One step closer to the Facebook LMS: This little Facebook app is TV Trivia Quiz. I was surprised at how many questions I could answer. I was also pretty successful utilizing the theory, "when in doubt, B". That worked a lot for me. I could also guess many of the questions based on the image and poorly written distractors.but that's beside the point.
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Learning with e's
OCTOBER 8, 2007
We're in the sixth day of the UK mail strike , and I have to say I don't feel at all affected by it. If this had happened five years ago I might have. Now though, I am becoming less and less dependent on the paper based mail system, with much of my communication done electronically. I was throwing out stuff from my office a couple of days ago, and came across a sheaf of paper memos from about 10 years ago.
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 10, 2007
Tony Karrer and George Siemens are organizing a free online conference on Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations , Nov. 15 - 20, 2007. I am sure this will be a very good event that will further the understanding of some of the new thinking in learning and technology. Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com "Helping Learners Learn Their Way" Ray Jimenez, PhD Author "3-Minute e-Learning" www.vignettestraining.
Rapid eLearning
OCTOBER 8, 2007
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
OCTOBER 12, 2007
Actually Donald Clark's post title is Compliance Killing Training. But I prefer mine ;-) Donald nails it. And every now and then it takes a sobering moment to see that 90% of what training organizations do is done out of fear. USERS care about their learning, but they don't go to their training department to get it. Donald sums it up nicely here. The driver is NOT learning or people development, it's 'fear'.
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Mark Oehlert
OCTOBER 9, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Croquet Virtual World Demo | Main |.and were back. » October 09, 2007 We Lost A Good One Folks.Well Miss You Philip Philip Dodds , Chief Architect of SCORM and ADL (and so many more important things), died this Saturday. Im sure there will be many posts remembering Philip.there should be.
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 10, 2007
Tony Karrer spotted Commoncraft's interesting presentations. I find the snippets from Commoncraft very illustrative of the "3-Minute e-Learning" application points. They are short and wacky but effective. I am sure it is low budgeted as well. The topics on Social Networking and Learning 2.0 are good resources on the basics. Social Networking Social Bookmarking RSS Wiki Ray will be a presenter and facilitator in three Social Networking Events and Presentations: eLearning Guild Online Forums (Dece
Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 6, 2007
The Really Hard Science - Scientific American. Between technical and popular science writing is what I call "integrative science," a process that blends data, theory and narrative. Without all three of these metaphorical legs, the seat on which the enterprise of science rests would collapse. Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted By Sloppy Analysis -The Wall Street Journal.
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