Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, January 25, 2008 Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives My recent post on alternatives to listing out learning objectives generated a lot of interest and a good conversation. ( See My Objection to Learning Objectives.) I attempt to summarize here, but feel free to go back to the original post and read all the comments: Clive Shepherd hates when learning objectives are the first thing

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 22, 2008

I just saw a link by Christy Tucker to a wonderfully funny, but a little too true: On the High Art of Getting Grades Without Learning Anything. It caused me to remember that last year while attending a session at ASTD 2007, a few random people and I were discussing session hopping (prior to a session). I think the term is probably self-explanatory – but in case you don't know what this is – A session hopper moves between sessions at a conference that are scheduled at the same time in order t

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 24, 2008

I do a lot of work with organizations funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). My work as an evaluator provides me the opportunity to see the high quality work these organizations produce. One of the NSF funded organizations, Wisc-Online has created a large database of online, multimedia learning objects on dozens of topics. There are even social networking aspects such at "write a review" and "tell a friend" built into the library.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 21, 2008

It seems that in its constant desire to be taken seriously by people ‘in the business’, training professionals have been telling a few porkie pies about the scientific basis of their stories. Early in a new year, it was surely only a matter of time before the old chesnut about goal setting in Harvard was used…step forward Rob Yeung in January’s Accountancy magazine.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, January 21, 2008 Putting the Demand Back in On-Demand Learning I didnt come up with that headline. One of my very smart and witty clients said that in a conversation we were having the other day with a group of his internal subject matter experts.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 22, 2008

Ok, so I have dreamed of such a device for years. Check out Mike Qaissaunee's post about pocket projectors. I've got to have one. Think of the ease and level of comfort any trainer or academic would have knowing that they could do an impromptu lecture at any time.a presenter's dream. Believe me, I've carried around enough heavy equipment to seriously covet one of these devices.

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Lars is Learning

JANUARY 19, 2008

After a short break skiing in the Swiss/French Alps (the break fortunately not involving any bones), I found myself thinking further about how much (most?) training activity across the planet fails to transfer into any lasting learning. When I learned to ski some 20 odd years ago, I started out on a dry slope which, back then, was more like skiing on a thick, plastic carpet with the consistency.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 24, 2008

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 22, 2008

I'm not sure if it's only our school district, but 4th graders (9 year olds) spend considerable time learning cursive writing and are not taught touch typing. Why? This is especially troubling because students certainly are expected to write their assignments on a computer. Oh, that is unless the teacher wants them to write it in cursive just to help them learn how to write in cursive.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 23, 2008

Lisa Neal has compiled her annual list of expert predication's. You can see the entire list of predication's-- Predictions for 2008. There are some really interesting ideas so check them out. Here is my predication based on a number of projects I am currently working on: Content within corporations and universities is going to become more and more disaggregated and learner created.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2008

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 24, 2008

There's been a fantastic discussion in my post - Touch Typing - Cursive Writing - Why? I never know how to alert people, so I thought I'd just post.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 21, 2008

The other day someone asked me if I knew any good resources concerning the writing of a proposal for an e-learning project. It just so happens I do know a few resources that can help in that area. In fact, I have spent a great deal of time writing, critiquing and developing proposals for e-learning. I even teach a class on the subject.so it is something near and dear to my heart.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 24, 2008

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2008

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 20, 2008

Screen Capture from America's Army Game which Helped Save a Life. The power of games for learning is that they can teach lessons that the learner doesn't even realized she or he has learned until the time comes to apply those skills. A player of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Game( MMORPG) American's Army was able to aid a victim because knowledge he learned from the game.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 21, 2008

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 22, 2008

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 25, 2008

I work for an organization that has heavily depended on Instructor Led training and has experienced great success with ILT over the last 20 years. I am the computer geek of the training dept and have been working hard to bring our systems into the 21st century by gravitating towards a blended format of training. It has been a tough battle due to the resistance to change.

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eLearning Evangelist

JANUARY 24, 2008

The Issues Brief that I wrote with Bob Blomeyer on access and equity and followup webinar has attracted some attention. A Google search shows a number of links. And now, Bob and I have been asked to speak at Innovation 2008 April 14-15 at Breckenridge CO.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2008

So how often does this happen? A trainer or instructional designer comes up with a great idea for making online content engaging and interesting-- something better than bullet points -- and by the time management and marketing and the Policy Police get through with it it's turned back into a dry, cover-every-possible-contingency-CYA-and, yes, bullet-ridden mind-numbing, learning-less online presentation (not "training").

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 20, 2008

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 25, 2008

Now that the tide towards eLearning has turned I am getting ready to begin the biggest eLearning project I've worked on. It's actually two projects for the same course. This would be small beans for experienced Instructional designers but I am new to the party and I am still trying to find my way so I am looking forward to getting started. The first project is to revamp our current “Manager Training Program” aka “MTP” certification course.

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eLearning Evangelist

JANUARY 24, 2008

Finally! We, Rose & Smith, wrote Chapter 9 -- Online Discussions -- at least a year ago, and now finally the book is out. Of course we don't get any royalties so, don't feel the need to run out and buy it to help support me, but if you're interested in learning more about What Works in K-12 Online Learning I thing there is a lot of good stuff in the book.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2008

As I write this, my Adobe Updater program is busy installing the latest updates to my Adobe Creative Suite 3. I had thought that, with my extravagant purchases, I was maintaining the Adobe share price all on my own, but the eLearning Guild's latest research report on authoring and development tools proves otherwise. Just look at these results, showing the market share of tools in various categories: Rapid development tools: #1 Captivate (65% of Guild members); #4 Presenter (26%) Courseware autho

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 19, 2008

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