Experiencing eLearning
JULY 7, 2011
If you are starting out as a freelance instructional designer or consultant, what do you need to know and do? I am currently exploring my options for freelance work. I know many of you out there have made the leap from regular employee to consultant. I’m interested in any words of wisdom you might have. Do you have any favorite resources or books?
Making Change
JULY 5, 2011
Do you want a checklist you can use to evaluate elearning? Here’s my contribution (PDF). I’m calling it a checklist because several people have asked for one, but it’s not really a checklist. Instead of checking a box to say, “Yup, got that covered!&# you choose a spot on a spectrum between “action-oriented materials&# and “information dump.&#.
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Upside Learning
JULY 7, 2011
In my recent play sessions with my six-year old (soon to be seven) I realize that one critical element of children’s play, and indirectly learning, is the ability to tell stories and just plain make them up going along. As adults, I think some of us lose that ability somewhere along the way; perhaps its one reason why society values storytellers and makers so much (writers, singers, film-makers, animators…).
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 6, 2011
by AJ George The push for mobile learning (mLearning) has been a surprisingly long one. Last year we talked about how mLearning wasn't quite ready , but we threw out some technical tips in case you were ready to dive in. Almost a year later we noted that the Horizon Report slated adoption of mLearning for one year or less. And now a recent T+D magazine features the article: " At Last: M-Learning Going Mainstream.
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Experiencing eLearning
JULY 3, 2011
Big Dog, Little Dog: Five Years later: A Review of Kirschner, Sweller and Clark’s Why Minimal Guidance during Instruction Does Not Work. Review of Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark’s paper bashing constructivism, discovery, and problem-based learning, plus some context and research on the other side. tags: learning training pbl constructivism research inquiry.
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Upside Learning
JULY 4, 2011
This takes on a post I wrote several weeks ago, that spoke about four themes that will (and not five) predominate learning in the future. As we prepare to iterate development of Upside2Go, we will need to start figuring out what sort of features our users (learners, managers, administrators) would really like from a mobile LMS. While our current system offers some cool features, we must look further into the future.
Integrated Learnings
JULY 6, 2011
By Joseph Suarez. Recently Trivantis, makers of the eLearning development program Lectora, announced the release of Snap! by Lectora. While the product isn't revolutionary and at times leaves more to be desired, with a $99 price tag, Snap deserves a closer look. So just what is Snap? Primarily it is a PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool with additional features for eLearning development such as narration recording , quiz assessments , and LMS publishing.
Jane Hart
JULY 8, 2011
Tweet. Next week is Twitter Week in the Twitter & Learning group on the Share&Learn platform. Each weekday there will be a discussion on a different aspect of using Twitter for learning. The schedule will be as follows. Day 1 - Mon 11 July: Using Twitter for personal learning and self-development. Day 2 – Tues 12 July: Using a Twitter backchannel for learning.
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 6, 2011
It seems to me that right now this is a wide open field. There are people looking at applying the Kirkpatrick model, there are people measuring the use of social learning tools, and there are people talking about something similar to Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method. In the spirit of my blog posts on Re-evaluating Evaluation and Revisiting Kirkpatrick , I decided to start with Don Clark ?
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Upside Learning
JULY 6, 2011
IDEO is one of the companies I admire for solid and contemporary product design and especially follow their Play and Digital Experience areas on their website. I recently heard on twitter that they’d launched a toolkit for educators to assist with Design Thinking at [link]. If you’re a K12 educator, you’ve probably heard about this one by now. IDEO has broken design thinking down into five elegant steps and describe them as: 1.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 6, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. I fell in love with Captivate 5 the moment I started the program. The user interface (UI) was a vast improvement over every legacy versions of the program. Looking back on my experience with Captivate 5, I have few complaints. Honestly, Captivate 5 is really, really good and there's not much to gripe about. That being said, I do have a few pet peeves in Captivate 5.
Jane Hart
JULY 4, 2011
Tweet. I’m currently in Johannesburg for the Intel ICT In the Classroom 2011 conference, where I am one of the keynote speakers and workshop leaders. My keynote takes place tomorrow (Wednesday 5th July) and is called Thinking Differently as Learning Professionals: Trends in Social Media. I am hoping for some audience participation during the presentation as well as from others outside the Hall on Twitter in the backchannel.
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 4, 2011
Here at Dashe & Thomson, we made a New Year’s resolution for 2011 to dig a little deeper into social media and explore how to use it for social and informal learning, increasing website traffic, and building networks. Of course, Twitter was on the list of tools we were nudged to start using on a regular basis. I have to say, I met this announcement with an inward groan.
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Kapp Notes
JULY 6, 2011
Online high schools are not without challenges. Elizabeth Birr Moje, a professor of education at the University of Michigan who has studied online learning, says “there are some huge advantages&# to online high schools, including an individualized pace and better access to multimedia content. But she points out disadvantages as well…&# The disadvantage is that you may not learn to work with other people quite as well.&# Some students do report feelings of isolation and state they lack conn
Learning Visions
JULY 8, 2011
Do you do it all? Are you a one-man/woman show as far as elearning goes in your organization? Lisa Goldstein (@LisaAGoldstein) is looking for some data! Please take her survey and share your stats.
Clark Quinn
JULY 4, 2011
Travel is a great learning opportunity. First, of course, is learning the history, geography, and culture of a place. The cuisine of a new place is a particular personal interest. Of course, you can also learn about politics, economics, and more as well. . A second level is looking at how these are portrayed within their own milieu; what are the stories they tell themselves and others about who and what they are.
Jane Hart
JULY 2, 2011
Tweet. I can’t believe it’s July already – and just before I head off to Johannesburg for my second trip this year, I thought I’d better do my monthly review. June was another busy month, with lots of interesting articles and blog posts, so has been difficult to choose my personal five favs this month, but here they are: Designs for natural learning , Tom Gram, Performance x Design, 2 June 2011 - we used this article as the basis for our first RealWorkplaceLearning live c
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The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 5, 2011
I heard Lisbeth Schorr once say, "No data without stories and no stories without data." She was pointing out both the sterile nature of numbers and the misleading nature of stories when describing populations. As we seek to describe human behavior in organizations her advice is important to keep in mind. The percentage of employees who indicate on a survey that they are satisfied with their work doesn't tell me how Bill becomes and stays engaged each day.
Kapp Notes
JULY 5, 2011
Check out this month’s ASTD magazine, T&D. I wrote an article on instructional strategies that I think will be helpful to anyone designing e-learning or stand up instruction. The article covers different levels of learning but here is a sneak preview of some of the article. The article is titled Matching the Right Design Strategy to the Right Content.
Clark Quinn
JULY 7, 2011
Traveling with Jay Cross and Ellen Wagner in Berlin last December, we hit a great museum where they had artifacts from aa major period of German dominance. It was easy to use those concrete representations of life at the times, and the annotations (as well as Jay & Ellen’s learned commentary) as a foundation to think about the historic changes.
Jane Hart
JULY 3, 2011
Tweet. Are you ready 4 the second wave of social media? [link] <“Internal SoMe is the 2nd wave; the future of work is in communities” #. RT @ realwplearn : Social learning in action [link] # realwplearn #. BBC News – Over-50s flock to social networks – [link] #. Resetting learning and work from @ hjarche [link] <We need to help workers take control of their learning #.
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Moodle Journal
JULY 8, 2011
I was at little gathering recently when I overheard a conversation between delegates from a college who had apparently made the case that engagement and achievement would be improved simply by providing students with access to the very latest technologies. So you are going to throw a shed load of money at it, and that basically is it, and this is going to work?
Kapp Notes
JULY 7, 2011
Well designed virtual worlds serve as more than mere 3D doll houses; instead, they provide the connectivity across distances, the opportunity to rapidly prototype and the ability to provide diverse training venues. A three-dimensional virtual immersive environment provides an opportunity for employees to work together regardless of distance. While time zones still present a problem for connecting people around the globe, in virtual immersive environments, the barriers of geography have essential
eLearning Cyclops
JULY 5, 2011
eLearning Cyclops. My insights on elearning and mlearning. Pages. Home. Free eLearning. Cloud Apps. About Me. Privacy Policy. Tuesday, July 5, 2011. This Month's #LCBQ - Fun. This months Big Question at the Learning Circuits blog is "How do you make e-learning fun?" Before listing my ideas regarding e-learning fun, I do want to note that just because its fun does not necessarily mean learning objectives are being met, that it is relevant to participants learning needs, that it will motivate
Learning with e's
JULY 5, 2011
I have written extensively on what makes a good blogpost and why it is so powerful. F rom personal experience blogging is one of the most beneficial professional development activities I have ever engaged with. I learn more from blogging than I do from almost any other activity I participate in. Here are 7 good reasons why teachers should blog: 1) Blogging causes you to reflect.
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TechSmith Camtasia
JULY 7, 2011
Photo credit: autan. Our superstar development teams have updated Camtasia, Jing, and Snagit to work on the soon-to-be-released Apple OS X 10.7 (aka "Lion"). Why is this necessary? Because there are serious incompatibilities between Lion and Camtasia, Jing, Camtasia Relay, and, to a lesser degree, Snagit. ( More info. ). You can download these free maintenance releases now -- they will work on your current operating system AND on Lion when it's released.
Marcia Conner
JULY 6, 2011
Sometimes people read The New Social Learning in the hope it will be written expressly for trainers in corporate training departments. They learn quickly that it was written for leaders in every sort of department determined to help themselves and their people learn more from everything, not only training… from work and the interactions that [.
eLearning Cyclops
JULY 5, 2011
eLearning Cyclops. My insights on elearning and mlearning. Pages. Home. Free eLearning. Cloud Apps. About Me. Privacy Policy. Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Jeff - How I make e-learning fun! Posted by. Jeff Goldman. at 4:18 PM. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. Labels: e-Learning. 0 comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Home.
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