Kapp Notes

MAY 11, 2007

Here is a picture of the great folks from the ASTD Mid-NJ chapter. The photo is taken from the presenter's perspective. Last night I had the pleasure of speaking to the Mid-NJ Chapter of ASTD on one of my favorite topics “Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning.” It was a great event. I got to see a former students, CAC members, meet people whom I'd only spoken to on the phone and got to meet again Steve Woodruff whom I met at SPBT last year and with whom I've corresponed a number of times.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, May 10, 2007 Learning Styles In 1996, when I first started working as an "instructional designer", I was taught about learning styles. In the context of e-Learning (back then it was just plain old CBT), this meant you had audio/video on the screen with timed text bullets.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 10, 2007

I just saw this post: Blogs as community killers? and the white paper B logs in the CoP ecosystem. Both are quite interesting in that they point to the fact that Blogs form a network that is loosely coupled and thus lack the cohesive, singular environment that many communities desire (think listservs). This is something I've discussed before in lots of posts (see below).

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Moodle Journal

MAY 7, 2007

If like us here at Bromley College you have been deploying a VLE, then like me you may be wondering after having structured courses with all kinds of content from Word files to podcasts, where the technology is moving and what the outcomes have been. If you are thinking along these lines, then you will be interested in the findings of the JISC funded projects that are about to enter their second phase, you can find the site here.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 9, 2007

This month the Learning Circuits Blog Big Question is about PowerPoint. The question: PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? I decided to create a demonstration showing good and bad uses of PowerPoint to make a particular point. You can watch the short presentation (less than 10 minutes) by clicking on this link to the presentation Avoiding Death by PowerPoint.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 10, 2007

In response to the LCB Big Question - PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? - Karl created a presentation and a blog post that is wonderful on many levels - not the least of which that his use of a slide presentation (PowerPoint) to provide insights into the topic itself. At the same time it raised a bunch of questions for me that I asked as comments on his post.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 8, 2007

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Kapp Notes

MAY 8, 2007

One issue I address in Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning is how to overcome the fear some managers, tenured faculty and executives have of online games and "newfangled gadgets." This unspoken fear can make the "selling" of games, gadgets or gizmos for learning difficult. First, if we look at it from their perspective, we would be a little fearful as well.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations After reading Clarks comment on my posting from yesterday , Ive been looking into Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro), trying to better understand the notion of "multiple representations.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 10, 2007

Okay, I'm going to blame this on Karl Kapp, because in response to the LCB Big Question - PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? - Karl created a presentation and a blog post that inspired me to revisit a presentation I recently gave and try to improve it using some of his suggestions (and a few others that I've recently read). The presentation is aimed at folks who manage or are hands-on in the development of eLearning and it's designed to introduce them to eLearning 2.0 concepts and to

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 11, 2007

More than 240 books on Amazon.com and 90 articles on the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) website are devoted to the measurement and evaluation of training. There are also more than 2,000 websites featuring consultants and tools to help the measurement process. Yet, despite all these extensive resources, most training managers do not.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 8, 2007

Twice every year our Department of Instructional Technology holds its capstone event. Our Corporate Advisory Council Event. Alumni and professionals from the field return to the Bloomsburg Campus to participate in the event. The first day of the event is when Corporations show off what they are doing in terms of learning and e-learning to each other and to the students (who are all potential employees).

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Learning Visions

MAY 5, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Saturday, May 05, 2007 Humble Learning Moment File this one under the challenging of outdated theories and assumptions. Ive been reading e-Learning and the Science of Instruction (2003) by Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer. Id say this is a must-read for learning/experience/ instructional designers, or whatever you may call yourself.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 8, 2007

This month's big question on the Use of PowerPoint has already sparked some discussion and some good links. We'll likely get agreement that PowerPoint itself is not evil, but poor use of PowerPoint is. However, I'd also want to add that in my experience presenters who don't use slides often don't do a good job providing information, they are often ill-prepared, seem to ramble through stories, don't necessarily draw it to a conclusion, and make it really hard on the audience to extract the meanin

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The Learning Circuits

MAY 7, 2007

Due to some new research , the appropriate use of PowerPoint is again a topic of discussion. I went back to look at different opinions expressed in the past, and I'm not sure that there's much consensus on whether we should use PowerPoint, how to use it appropriately, when it makes sense or when it doesn't and why. So, this month, The Big Question is.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 7, 2007

This week over at TrainingDay blog , my post is titled Combine Simple Games and Information. Why not create distracting "casual games" that also educate customers or employees. Why do all the learning games have to be "serious." Let's make learning games fun and learning more "accidental" than forced. Perhaps less focus on Immersive Learning Simulations and more focus on fun and games.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 11, 2007

In the last 12 months we have seen many mergers in the learning market take place: Oracle’s acquisition of Peoplesoft, SumTotal’s acquisition of Pathlore, Saba’s acquisition of Thinq, and KnowledgePlanet’s acquisition of KnowledgeImpact. Why these Mergers are Occurring. In general the enterprise learning and LMS markets are maturing.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 8, 2007

Cognitive Load and PowerPoint pointed us to Seth Godin's free booklet Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it). A few of the points that Seth makes: Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them understand why you're excited (or sad, or optimistic or whatever else you are.) You can wreck a communication process with lousy logic or unsupported facts, but you can't complete it without emotion.

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Learning with e's

MAY 11, 2007

I've had this little link to the Web is Us/ing Us for some time now, and have even used it with some of my student groups. If there is anyone left who hasn't yet seen it on YouTube - then have a look. I highly recommend it as a thought provoking take on the participatory nature of Web 2.0. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Tags: YouTube e-learning Web 2.0 The Web.

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The Learning Circuits

MAY 11, 2007

Dear Hollywood, I bring you tidings from the Corporate training world. I hope you are doing well, and am looking forward to your summer fare. I just have two pieces of bad news for you, and as a friend, I thought I would break it to you directly. Here is the first: your movies are just too long. Here are just a few examples: Hot Fuzz: 2 hr. 1 min. Spiderman 3: 2 hr. 20 min Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest: 2 hr. 20 min Plus, when you add driving, parking, and previews, we are talking

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 11, 2007

More than 240 books on Amazon.com and 90 articles on the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) website are devoted to the measurement and evaluation of training. There are also more than 2,000 websites featuring consultants and tools to help the measurement process. Yet, despite all these extensive resources, most training managers do not.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 7, 2007

This month's LCB Big Question is on the Use of PowerPoint. In scanning around a bit for resources on this topic, I've found a few good starting points. I have tagged these in del.icio.us using the tag: lcbPowerPoint. I will continue to do so and you can find a current list at: [link] Research points the finger at PowerPoint Reports of the "Death of PowerPoint" greatly exaggerated Creating Presentations That Don't Suck!

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Vignettes Learning

MAY 10, 2007

Why don't we have an innovation using e-Learning, rapid e-Learning, Web 2.0 technologies and other technologies to measure training ROI? Over the past few months I have been involved in a small study on: "How to help learners apply what they learn from training and conferences." Yes, it is a very old question. Unfortunately, most of the literature that I reviewed or the people I interviewed discussed "training ROI" as driven by top executives and statisticians.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2007

May's Big Question in the Learning Curcuits Blog is PowerPoint: what is appropriate, when and why? Now I have just finished a three part posting on the subject of visualisation, so the body of my answer to this question can be found there: The power of pictures - part 1 The power of pictures - part 2 The power of pictures - part 3 But I can't resist trying to draw my thoughts on the subject together in some way so here goes.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 11, 2007

In the last 12 months we have seen many mergers in the learning market take place: Oracle’s acquisition of Peoplesoft, SumTotal’s acquisition of Pathlore, Saba’s acquisition of Thinq, and KnowledgePlanet’s acquisition of KnowledgeImpact. Why these Mergers are Occurring. In general the enterprise learning and LMS markets are maturing.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 7, 2007

I just saw a post from Tim Sosbe - The "New” Network that tells us the following about the Brandon Hall Network, www.brandonhallnetwork.com. We've been building this for a large part of the past year, constantly tweaking the service and offering new capabilities in order to make it the premier place for learning professionals and talent managers to collaborate, share resources and make new connections.

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Vignettes Learning

MAY 10, 2007

It is an interesting conversation to marry formal and informal learning and rapid e-learning. I agree with Patrick Dunn that rapid e-learning is largely misused. I think there are at least two ways to look at rapid e-learning: First, as a production process - where the concern is to "compress" content into the shortest, cheapest, and fastest delivery; Second, granularity of content to focus on rapid "application points.

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Learning with e's

MAY 8, 2007

First time I got my grubby little paws on a compact cassette tape was back in the steam driven days of my early teen years - the tape was the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles and it opened up a whole new world for me. I spent countless hours mixing down my favourite tracks onto cassette so that I could walk, skate or otherwise transport myself around with music as a constant companion (shouldn't be admitting to this as a fully paid of member of PRS).

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