Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 16, 2008
I just received a question that I'm sure often is on the minds of people in eLearning - which conference they should attend (eLearning Guild DevLearn or ASTD TechKnowledge). I'm hoping that everyone can weigh in on their thoughts. Here's was the specific question (and all the information I have to go on) to help advise this person - I have been trying to decide whether to attend DevLearn 2008 or ASTD TechKnowledge in 2009.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 14, 2008
» What Everyone Should Know About Working with Subject Matter Experts The Rapid eLearning Blog. Tips for working with SMEs: * Don’t expect SMEs to be experts at learning theory. * Present good examples of what you think will work. * Everyone is working for the organization’s success. tags: sme , instructionaldesign , e-learning.
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Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Having recently been invited to speak in Las Vegas (see Keynoting in Vegas--Not the same as headlining but. ), I took some time to see a few shows and one of my favorites was the well known creative and innovative act know as the Blue Man Group. As the Blue Man Group's web site describes; Blue Man Group is a creative organization dedicated to creating exciting and innovative work in a wide variety of media.
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 13, 2008
With virtual classrooms and e-meetings becoming more popular in the corporate sector, netiquette (or “network etiquette&# ) is becoming increasingly important in our working day. Similarly, as the myriad of acronyms and abbreviations used in text-based chat become de rigueur for the tech-savvy, the rest of us are left scratching our heads. To shed some light on the situation for both myself and my colleagues, I have found the following sites on the web: • Internetiquette. • Top 10 Internet
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 14, 2008
The third week of Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Free Online Course (you can jump in at any time) is all about Blogs for Learning. Interestingly, when I prepared the notes for this week, I was able to leverage what the course members had produced during the previous week on Social Bookmarks : [link] [link] [link] You can read in the link Blogs for Learning about my perspective on using Blogs for Learning and Networking.
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Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Story telling and instructional design have a lot in common and perhaps they are not thought of as having any overlap but they do. In e-learning we have instructional strategies, in a story we have a plot. In e-learning we have objectives, in a story we have a morale or an underlying theme or symbolism (good ones anyway, i.e. the Christ references in the original Matrix).
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 13, 2008
In October’s TJ, Tim Drewitt wrote an interesting article about the transfer of learning in the workplace. He suggests that a typical ratio of organisational effort around a training course 10% pre-work, 85% learning event and 5% follow up would have greater impact if the allocation was 26% pre-work, 24% learning event and 50% follow up. This intuitively chimes with me from my experience as a face to face trainer and I suspect that many trainers would agree with the overall thrust of the a
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 13, 2008
I'd like to ask your help. Can you please take a really quick survey - three questions only. Your age and then shows you two images and asks if you know what they are. I'll post the results up pretty soon (within a week or two) as I need them for an upcoming presentation. You'll likely get the point of the question based on the two images in the survey.
eLearning Cyclops
OCTOBER 13, 2008
With Flash you easily convert your imported graphics into vector graphics. Once converted, you can manipulate the vector graphic from within Flash. For example, remove colors, add colors, distort shapes, etc. This has been extremely helpful while working on a Ben Franklin course I am currently developing. I have been importing graphics of historical illustrations and artifacts (none with copyrights).
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Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 13, 2008
Tomorrow is an exciting day for me, I will be keynoting the Inforum Conference in Las Vegas. Inforum is the conference of the software company, Infor. Infor is one of those "big software companies no one has ever heard about".but you should check them out. Infor is the world's third largest business software company. We develop and acquire proven software products that have rich, built-in functionality.
Lars is Learning
OCTOBER 12, 2008
We're getting excitingly close to observing how our memory works at a fundamental level. This study picked up by PsyBlog reports on a study that demonstrates how memory works through the reactivation of specific individual neurons in the hippocampus. Effectively, things that happen to us activate networks of neurons in the brain, and when we recall past events at least some of these same.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Much of intelligent tutoring system (ITS) work focuses on creating deep domain models of a particular task, creating essentially an expert system, and then coaching students as they navigate that domain. Valerie Shute and Jeffrey Bonar did something different a number of years ago, building a tutoring model/system that tutored your exploration and experimentation strategies and layered that same model on top of exploratory environments for optics, electric circuits, and economics.
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
OCTOBER 17, 2008
What do I have in common with Mark Gould, Dawn Foster and Richard McDermott? I wouldn't know but we are all mentioned in this blogpost in an unknown language :). I found it through tracking the referring URL to my weblog. I think this what is exciting about the online interactions. In the offline world, there is no way of tracking who is using your words, ideas, or who is talking about you.
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Rapid eLearning
OCTOBER 13, 2008
At a recent conference, we were asked what typically held up the production process for elearning courses. The number one response was working with the subject matter expert. This makes sense since they play such a critical role in the course’s success. The subject matter experts know the content and understand the work environment. Because of this, much of your project hinges on their time and the commitment they make to the project.
Learning with e's
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Yes, I know it's a bit of a lame title, but it kind of expresses exactly how I feel at the moment. I arrived home late last night from Handheld Learning 2008 in London, and got online very quickly to find out what I had missed by leaving early to catch the bus home. I always look forward to coming home again after one of my away trips, and this year I have done more than my fair share.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 15, 2008
I presented at an eLearningGuild online symposium a couple weeks ago. The topic of the symposium was eLearning 2.0 (or is it Learning 2.0). This presentation is where the Examples of eLearning 2.0 - which showed clearly these things are being applied to formal and informal learning opportunities. One of the other presentations of the day was This Isn’t your Mama’s Training: Implementing Learning 2.0 at eBay by Eric Hunter & Rich Reitter of eBay.
E-Learning Acupuncture
OCTOBER 16, 2008
If you are a faculty member or administrative staff at a college or university then you might be tempted to check out Academia.edu. Probably the simplest way I can describe it is to call it "Facebook for Academics." All institutions are organized on the top level of a 'tree' (i.e. an organizational chart). The second level of the chart shows the departments within the institution and the third level shows the individual faculty and staff.
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Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 16, 2008
I'm enjoying my short stay in Luxembourg, even though the hotel that was booked for me turned out to be full, the taxi I took late last night was involved in a minor accident, and I managed to break my glasses. These are, of course, only minor irritants given that my hosts at Eurocontrol , the European organisation responsible for air safety, are such good company.
Learning with e's
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Well it is certainly a mobile world, but unfortunately not for me this morning. My iPhone battery is dead as a dodo and I have just spent the best part of an hour running the battery down on my laptop trying to get my wifi connection to work. It's Wednesday and the final day here at Handheld Learning 2008. We have been Flickring and Tweeting the conference on Twemes since the outset - take a look at the fun we have been having!
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 13, 2008
All morning, a crew has been systematically demolishing our kitchen (one learning: it’s hard to concentrate with regular sounds of destruction in close proximity). This is as planned. We’ve wanted a new kitchen since we had experience with the one that came with the house. It was on our ‘todo’ list (heck, it was on my wife’s *can’t wait* list), but hadn’t risen to the top until the old refrigerator died.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Future of Talent is a community of talent executives from major corporations who meet once a year to explore emerging issues in talent management, staffing, recruiting, employee development, retention and leadership development. Yesterday we finished a three-day retreat in Tiburon, California. I’ve been privileged to act as faculty for four years now, and I always come away with fresh insights on how corporations are (and should be) interacting with their people.
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Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 15, 2008
A new survey from the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) asks how organisations are responding to Gen Y employees and Web 2.0 technologies. According to the report, "both CIPD members and London Business School alumni in senior positions were contacted by email to complete the online survey. A total of 488 responses were received, of which over half worked in private services, 20% worked in public services, 18% worked in manufacturing and production, and 6% worked in
Learning with e's
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Mark Kramer had his camera out a lot at Handheld Learning this year, as usual. He caught several of us in conversation near the front stage before the plenary session. In our conversation, Mark and myself, dana boyd , (and later on Marc Prensky) covered a lot of ground during our informal discussion including the effects of hypermedia, rhizomatic learning, constraints and affordances of technology, microblogging, data mining, democracy and privacy, freedom and online identity, etc.
Janet Clarey
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Ran across this in the “strong language&# section at Incisive.nu. The verb form of “leverage,†like all forms of Cheetos®, is composed mainly of hot air surrounded by a shell of creepily artificial substance. And just as Cheetos® can be mistaken for actual food and not a monstrosity produced by corn subsidies, “leverage†can be mistaken for a defensible and even useful word.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 14, 2008
God knows, the world could use more heroes. What would an agenda for creating everyday heroes look like? So asks psychologist extraordinaire Phillip Zimbardo. Hi HeroCamp! From Zim himself! Everyone has the POTENTIAL to be a hero, but, for whatever reason, most people aren’t incited to practice heroism everyday. Of course, this larger group will act heroically when called upon, like in times of disaster or crisis, but, as Dr.
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Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 14, 2008
I've been a user of Articulate Studio now for about three years. Although I have decades of experience using (and at one stage designing) more sophisticated e-learning authoring tools - you know, the highly configurable ones with their own scripting languages - I now find myself turning more and more often to the so-called rapid development tools. These do the job for me because it seems that nowadays I rarely need to create the sort of lengthy, stand-alone, highly elaborate, self-study courses
Learning with e's
OCTOBER 14, 2008
For a conference on handheld technologies, there are a lot of laptops about. But people are also recording the action using handhled devices, audio, video, you name it. There is a lot of creativity here at Handheld Learning 2008, and the lighting, music and most importantly, the people, are creating a real buzz of expectation. We are in the plenary session for the conference, and listening to some of the keynotes.
Janet Clarey
OCTOBER 15, 2008
I received the following question via the Google Talk widget on my blog: “I saw the ad for the Multi-Generational report you did. I like the alternative viewpoint that maybe the multi-generational thing isn’t a big deal as it is being discussed at all the industry trade shows. I am not yet buying into the idea that we need to create Facebook, SecondLife, learner-driven content (e.g., wiki, texting) type learning simply because the younger generation learns that way.&#.
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