Experiencing eLearning
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Yesterday one of my SMEs asked me how I learned about accessibility requirements for online learning. Like most of my instructional design knowledge, I guess I’m self-taught on accessibility. In a previous job, I was given the task of figuring out how to make text-based versions of interactive Flash practice activities. That project forced me to think about what it’s like to listen to content rather than read it.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Jay Cross - father of the Informal Learning Flow has been doing some great writing recently that look at the future of corporate training. His recent posts make me really think (that's good) but also make me wonder. How many people really have the opportunity to pursue the Future of Corporate Training? More on this below. But first some context. Courseware and Broader eLearning Jay's post eLearning is not the Answer : Corporations are flocking to eLearning for all the wrong reasons.
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Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Harold Jarche and Jay Cross have been talking about rethinking the training department, and I have to agree. In principle, if there is a ‘training’ department, it needs to be coupled with a ‘performance’ department and a ‘social learning’ department, all under an organizational learning & performance umbrella. What’s wrong with a training department?
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
Visiting with alumni Carl and Jen at AXIOM. It is always good to get out and about and visit old friends and meet new ones. Yesterday I presented on the topic of "Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning" at AXIOM Professional Health Learning. There I caught up with a couple of alumni and got to see some interesting and fascinating projects they are developing.
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eLearning Cyclops
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Thus far, I have conducted five face-to-face online professional networking classes, which focuses on leveraging Linked In for finding business opportunities and professional development opportunities. Class participants are bankers and/or staff from the bank’s support areas and most are very new to social media. I will highlight what has generated the most interest and discussion among the participants.
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Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Multi Generational Learning in the Workplace My notes may be spotty here.eating and twittering. Brandon Hall: Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace webinar with Janet Clarey. [Update: Janets own post with her summary is surely more worthwhile reading than my notes.
Making Change
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
U.S. Department of Justice staff are just like you and me—their retirement plan took a hit in the economic downturn. So when they got an email saying they might qualify for bailout money, some of them responded. Unfortunately, the response required them to enter their account information at a fake website. Fortunately, the site was set up by their own employer.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
So on the way to dinner, my son told me on Friday that he’d tied a guy’s shoes together (the kid fell down when he tried to get up at the end of class, and was late to the next). I asked, and this was a) a friend, b) a prank (the latest volley in an ongoing series), c) the boy wasn’t hurt, but d) was amused. Unacceptable, still.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Hot List - 2/1/2009 - 2/14/2009 Posts Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers A Guide to Social Learning What Goes in the LMS? Sacred Training Cows Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Blogging in a Walled Garden Itiel provides more food for thought Get Out of the Training Business Multi-Tasking & Social Media - Mastering the Balance Advantages of 3D for Learning Pacing the mobile project update 1: html + mp4 + mobile mood
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Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
My notes may be spotty here.eating and twittering. Brandon Hall: Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace webinar with Janet Clarey. Janet's Bias: Went to K-12 in US (New York) in the 1970s. Teacher with chalkboard, film strips. College in the 80s = profs, textbook, some hands on (Comm major). Corporate learning = instructor led training, then in 2000 got into eLearning (1.0).
Lars is Learning
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
I have a lot of time for Sir Ken Robinson. Here he is essentially promoting his new book The Element which champions the notion that education should first and foremost be about self discovery and self development, actively supporting us as individuals to discover our talents and passionate interests. He does so with wit and with a quiet persuasion that really needs a wider audience if the.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
Previous Series Post. This is one in a series of thoughts on some broken areas of ID that I’m posting for Mondays. I intend 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 good design. I see several reliable problems with examples, and they aren’t even the deepest problems.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
I was thinking about my upcoming presentation - Tapping the Social Grid that is coming up on Friday, Feb. 27 when I ran into a great post - All Things Workplace: Make People Listen: Know Your Big Idea : How to Get to Your Big Idea 1. Wade through the facts, figures and themes of a topic until you can distill it to the point where it can be expressed in fewer than 10 words. 2.
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Rapid eLearning
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
In today’s post, I’m going to show you five easy ways to build a glossary for your rapid elearning courses. You can use these tips to define words, footnote information, or as a way to add additional content to your courses. This helps keep your course content light and still gives you a way to share more with your learners. It also gives your learners control to choose what additional information they want or need when they need it. 1.
Janet Clarey
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
Here are the slides from an online session I did yesterday on Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace. This was the first time I presented on this topic and the first time I led a session using Saba’s Centra platform. Great questions, great crowd, no big tech issues. Cammy Bean took some notes and gratuitously posted them on her blog. Funny it was also the first time Cammy “heard&# my voice (other than in it’s written form). ( From her Tweet: listening to @jclarey She
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
In addition to working on the technology plan for my school district, I’ve also been assisting a not-for-profit trying to get strategic about technology. The struggles are instructive, but looking across these two separate instances as well as the previous organizations I’ve assisted, I’m realizing that there are some common barriers.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
The readers' response to my post Subscribers - Who Are You? was far beyond anything that I had imagined. It really makes me wonder what happened? What should I learn from this? What should I do different going forward? So here are some initial thoughts. and a lot of questions. Blog Icebreakers Obviously, I finally asked a question that got a lot of people to comment.
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Learning with e's
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
It's official. Facebook can give you cancer. Prolonged use of the Internet causes autism. ADHD. Heart disease. (And Twitter may make your head explode). Baroness 'Susan' Greenfield's recent comments in the House of Lords have caused no end of consternation. Her controversial claims are about the effect of computers on children's health. Greenfield seems to think that there may be links between autism and the prevalance of 'screen relationships' where kids interact with their peers predominantly
Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
When Will Thalheimer alerted me to Siftables, via a video of a presentation given by David Merrill at TED , it lightened my day. What a great idea - a genuinely groundbreaking educational innovation that opens up all sorts of new possibilities, particularly for the teaching of maths and English. It made me realise that, when times are tough and our normal working practices are no longer delivering the results to which we've been accustomed, we find ourselves under an increasing pressure to impro
Take an e-Learning Break
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
I'm checking out a social e?learning authoring system that allows you to to create and deliver interactive e?learning 2.0 content with embedded social media. Composica 4.0 empowers authors to take full advantage of social media tools to create a learning community around each course. Courses then become both formal and social by nature - learners can share knowledge with others, learn from each other, comment on anything, rate everything and more - all while browsing a course, without ever leavi
Saffron Interactive
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Everything in life is about learning. From the moment our eyes open in the morning to the moment we close them at night our brains are taking in information. There’s. The post Look and learn appeared first on Saffron Interactive.
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Learning with e's
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
I gave my second year student teachers a 7 day project to tackle this week. It involved them going off in pairs and researching the psychology of the internet, as represented in a number of activities including blogging, using social networks, and effects such as the reduction of social cues, respellings through txting or 'rebus', and the nature of online relationships.
Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Yesterday Amazon sent me an email telling me that they'd noticed that 'customers who have purchased or rated books by Clive Shepherd have also purchased Essential Articulate Studio '09 by Patti Shank. This was rather a strange message because surely the least likely person to purchase books by Clive Shepherd is me. It was also odd because Patti's book is not out yet, at least not in the UK, which must have made it hard for all those readers who have supposedly already purchased it.
Rapid eLearning
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
I don’t know about you but I am starting to get tired of the PowerPoint haters. I go to a lot of conferences and there’s always someone trashing PowerPoint. They’ll throw in the usual, “it’s not PowerPoint but the presenter&# disclaimer and then go on a 45 minute anti-PowerPoint rant. The irony is that many of them happen to use Power, they’ll actually be using PowerPoint.
Take an e-Learning Break
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
With millions of Americans unemployed and uncertain about how to pursue new careers, Microsoft Elevate America program seems perfectly timed. The company will provide up to two million people with free technology training over the next three years to prepare them for the new marketplace in IT.
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There Is No Chalk
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
I received a Tweet from Clive Shepherd of Clive On Learning this morning, and I must say the video he linked is very compelling. It's a demonstration of a new interactive interface that utilizes microcomputers within small block-sized instruments - called "Siftables" - with small LCD screens, and each block interacts and is aware of other blocks through wireless communication.
Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Will Thaleimer has put together a survey to find out just how the downturn (is that an adequate term, should we say 'collapse''?) is affecting independent contractors in workplace learning and development. We know some organisations are benefiting from the situation, but you would expect learning and development in general and independents in particular to be hit hardest.
eLearning Blender
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
This week in an Instructional Design class I am taking in the Ed Tech program at SDSU we will be discussing Second Life. I've been hearing so much about using it as an instructional design tool and now that it has come up on the class schedule my curiosity has reached it's tipping point. I decided to sign on and see what it's all about. I was hoping to get set up with my avatar and figure out how to "teleport" around in about an hour because that is all the time I had to play around.
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