E-Learning Provocateur
MARCH 16, 2009
Instructivism is dead. Gone are the days of an authoritarian teacher transmitting pre-defined information to passive students. In the 1990s, constructivism heralded a new dawn in instructional design, turbo-charged by the rise of Web 2.0. Students morphed into participants , empowered to seek new knowledge and understanding for themselves, in the context of their own unique, individual experiences.
Lars is Learning
MARCH 15, 2009
A nice little Doodle by Lee. This behaviour is undoubtedly not limited to toddlers - just watch an episode of The Apprentice or spend some time in any large organisation. Interestingly, the act of doodling (like the example above, but of course they come in all shapes and sizes and colours), often perceived as a sign of boredom and disengagement, is actually a highly effective means of enhancing.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 16, 2009
The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization? Are there training departments? What are they doing?
Kapp Notes
MARCH 19, 2009
In a few short weeks I will be doing a workshop at the Central Iowa ASTD chapter. The topic will be "Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning” and I will be presenting on Friday, April 3rd from 8:00am-Noon at the DeWaay Capital Managment complex. In honor of the presentation, I have posted a list of definitions of some common game, gadget and gizmo terms.
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Moodle Journal
MARCH 19, 2009
If like many of us you are intrigued by the uptake and attitudes toward social networking then you may well find this latest set of survey results from Masie worth looking at. From my initial scan it seems that some applications and approaches are bucking the popularist trend. Comments welcome.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 19, 2009
I recently did a presentation in Los Angeles on Web 2.0 for Professional Services for the Institute of Management Consultants. The focus was on the two main things that management consultants do with their time: Reaching Prospects and Serving Clients. Serving Clients In terms of serving clients, I covered parts of Tool Set , specifically Work Skills Keeping Up , Better Memory , Information Radar , Processing Pages with Links , Networks and Learning Communities , Collaborate , and Twitter as Pers
ID Reflections
MARCH 19, 2009
Learning by playing is neither a new invention nor a gift of the digital times we live in. All of us remember our first toys that taught us to count beads, recognize shapes, build a tower, win a business park, spell words, solve crosswords, and so on. We learned! Very effectively indeed! Because we had fun! The problem with learning usually starts when it becomes divorced from fun, when it becomes a chore, a “must do”, a training requirement to be accomplished.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 19, 2009
In April I will be facilitating a panel at the 3D Training, Learning and Collaboration Conference. You can check out a quick overview of the conference in this video created by the host of the conference (and the co-author of the Learning in 3D book) Tony O'Driscoll. For text-based learners, here is a description from the conference web-site. 3D Training, Learning and Collaboration (3D TLC) taking place April 20-21, 2009 in Washington, DC, is the leading event for businesses seeking to understan
eLearning Cyclops
MARCH 18, 2009
I absolutely love using characters in my e-learning courses. They are great for gaining attention throughout the course, acting as training facilitators, or for playing a role in a storyline or simulation. Over the past five years I have created many characters in my courses. And since my current role is coming to an end due to the bank acquisition, I feel it would be good to pay a quick tribute to my fictional colleagues who have made training easier and funner over the years.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 17, 2009
I had just finished posting about Networks and Topic Hubs when I saw the announcements around the launch of MyAllTop ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). The reviews are somewhat mixed, and I'm certainly sitting here scratching my head. I always perceived Alltop as a way to build Topic Hubs. This is a similar, but limited, form of what we are doing around sites like eLearning Learning , Mobile Learning , Informal Learning Flow , Communities and Networks Connection.
Lars is Learning
MARCH 18, 2009
Stress can be both negative and positive in affecting our performance. Interestingly, many training experiences lack any element of stress and as such can be unstimulating and unrepresentative of the real environment.This study however focuses on the negative impact stress has on forming context dependent memories.We exposed healthy adults to stress or a control procedure before they learned an.
Learning Visions
MARCH 17, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Video Games, Tire Swings and Learning My almost six-year old son LOVES video and computer games: Wii, Nintendo 64, computer, my iPod Touch. I struggle with this. Trying to strike a balance between how much is ok for a five year old to play (if he should play at all) and going with the Everything Bad is Good for You mentality.
Moodle Journal
MARCH 16, 2009
The Quality Improvement Project, is a new college initiative at raising attainment. A small group has been formed of which I am a member, looking into new approaches for teaching and learning. One of my insites of recent times has been the realisation, mainly from Moodle logs, that students do not seem to be engaging beyond college as much as they could.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 19, 2009
Stewart Mader points us to Sarah Denman's look at the four groups most likely to be involved in a wiki or other enterprise 2.0 implementations. The list is: IT HR - and no it doesn't include learning or training - it's more the compliance side of HR. Business Executives Obviously, I'm posting because most people reading this will say that learning or training is missing from this list.
Lars is Learning
MARCH 17, 2009
Donald Taylor's opinion piece on trainingzone prompted me to reflect that we are really just at the end of the beginning for e-learning - in its broadest sense - to transform the way we educate and train in the future. Here is my comment in full:E-learning is mission criticalIt has always been the case that new technology goes through similar cycles of early low adoption before crossing a chasm.
Learning Visions
MARCH 17, 2009
My almost six-year old son LOVES video and computer games: Wii, Nintendo 64, computer, my iPod Touch. I struggle with this. Trying to strike a balance between how much is ok for a five year old to play (if he should play at all) and going with the Everything Bad is Good for You mentality. Trying to embrace the notion that he is of the next generation.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 16, 2009
Here are some more advantages of 3D worlds for learning: The first is that these worlds allow the learner to explore places he or she could not visit in the physical world. Traveling around a giant drill would not be possible or would be prohibitively expensive in a physical space. With virtual worlds, learners can explore outer space, stand on a beach during a tsunami, walk through the veins of a heart patient or witness a building explode and spring into action.
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You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 18, 2009
Nancy Devine has been really helping me recently with comments on my blog on posts Topic Hubs , Good Writing , Search , Corporate Training. But it was a twitter comment (side note: Twitter Forces us to Transmit the Big Idea ) that really made me pause and go – wow, I need to think about that: @tonykarrer people are hungry to connect w/others, to talk about things that matter to them, to learn.
Lars is Learning
MARCH 16, 2009
Just this past weekend I took my family up to London and the O2 Centre (the rebranded Millenium Dome) to see an interactive installation called the British Music Experience. It was great to see a modern attempt to create an environment designed to engage an audience of all ages. It had some real lessons in how to provide an effective learning experience in the 21st Century.
Learning Visions
MARCH 16, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, March 16, 2009 Learning to Work, Working to Learn This post is my contribution to this months Work/Learning Blog Carnival hosted by the venerable Dave Ferguson. The last time I posted for this carnival (almost a year ago!) I wrote about trying to build learning into work when youre just too busy doing work.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 16, 2009
For the Working/Learning blog carnival , the topic is, as always, “work at learning, learning at work&#. Last time I participated (almost a year ago), I talked about how learning should be fun, so you shouldn’t be working at at, it really should be ‘hard fun’ I want to expand on that topic, as there are probably characteristics that make it fun or not.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 17, 2009
Using various social signals we came up with the following as being the hot items during February 2009 via eLearning Learning. You can find a bit more on this capability in the post Hot List. Enjoy. Top Posts and other Items The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle eLearning is not the answer Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Informal learning - what is it?
TechSmith Camtasia
MARCH 14, 2009
One request I hear is to add OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality to Snagit. There is a work-around if you'd like to do this with Snagit. Why would someone want OCR functionality? Well, say you need a list of all the file names you have in a directory (song list, photo names, expense reports, etc). You could manually type them out one by one, but that takes too long.
Learning Visions
MARCH 16, 2009
This post is my contribution to this month's Work/Learning Blog Carnival hosted by the venerable Dave Ferguson. The last time I posted for this carnival (almost a year ago!) I wrote about trying to build learning into work when you're just too busy doing work. This go-round, I'm at the other end of things: in a much-needed lull between projects, taking a breather.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 15, 2009
Previous Series Post. This is one in a series of thoughts on some broken areas of ID that I’ve been 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.
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Rapid eLearning
MARCH 17, 2009
Last week was a blur. Monday started with Articulate Live ‘09 and ended with the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering. In between, I delivered three presentations, met hundreds of people, and we announced the winners of our Guru Awards 2009. While it was an exhausting week, I love meeting you all and learning about what you do. Thank you to all who came by and said hello.
Learning with e's
MARCH 17, 2009
Multi-touch screen technology is the way forward apparently. I can see just how persuasive this argument is when I look at my own iPhone and see all the possibilities. I picked up my wife's phone a few weeks back to call someone back, and forgot. Hers is not a touch screen phone, and I found myself trying to pinch gesture, in vain. How long will it be before other phones are going down the route of the iPhone?
E-Learning Acupuncture
MARCH 18, 2009
I participated in a great online talk yesterday by James Falkofske, Director of Online Learning, St. Cloud Technical College ( here's a link to James' blog ). His talk was titled: Easy Steps for Expanding Desire2Learn with Web 2.0 Tools. In general, I love talks like this. There is always some little gold nugget that I can take away and use. Well, in this particular talk, I took away two: A web application index that catalogs all kinds of examples of Web 2.0 tools: Go2Web20.net.
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