From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
Fair play to Richard Naish in November’s e.learning age – he has the poke to write about the impact of the “cult of the amateur” in an article provocatively called “Monkeys typing” (as in get enough monkeys typing for long enough and eventually Hamlet will be reproduced). Essentially he laments the trend of the diminishing status of the expert as user-generated content becomes more prevalent under the general trend that is Web 2.0.
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, November 16, 2007 Blog Readability Test: What a Joke! Get a Cash Advance My blog came in at the genius level on the readability test. I take it to mean that it must take a genius to figure out what Im really trying to say, since I must not be saying it all that clearly.
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Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
Recently, in two different contexts, I've been asked about some methods for teaching when the audience is comprised of different generations who have different preferences for learning. Here are somethings you can do to work across the generations. Acknowledge to the class that their are multiple generations within the class and that each generation may have a different preference for learning and different expectations.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
One of the interesting issues that came up today during an online presentation was around the use of back channels. I had heard about an in-person presentation by Stephen Downes where the back channel contain lots of chatter that didn't necessarily contribute to the presentation. Many of the attendees were distracted by it. And many others felt it was disrespectful.
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From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 12, 2007
As I read November’s Accountancy magazine, I was pleased to see Tracy Gordon, who I used to sit next to 10 years ago at Deloitte, has become famous enough to write an article about the latest Companies Act. I enjoyed that it was more apocalyptic than the usual articles about Financial Reporting…and there may be some significant impacts on accountancy firms, especially those in the mid tier.
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Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 13, 2007
Here is a very funny video put together by a grad student of mine about the tv show The Office and Second Life.The Office is a really funny show and this clip is funny. Check it out. It is very "LOL" as the gamers would say. As you may or may not know.CNN now has an office in Second Life. You can read all about it in the article CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life As the article states; Just as CNN asks its real-life audience to submit I-Reports -- user-generated content submitted from c
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
Going back through the back chat / back channel during my presentation was really interesting to me. Since I couldn't read it at the same time I was presenting, it was amazing how much conversation was going on among the participants. I'm not sure I get how anyone could keep up with all the discussion there and listen to my presentation at the same time.
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Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 12, 2007
In an effort to eliminate the "digital divide" between wealthy and poor students, Maine public schools in 2002 and 2003 distributed 36,000 laptops to seventh- and eighth-graders across the state. Many critics wondered if this was just technology in search of a problem or if the kids would actually benefit from the use of technology. Some of the results are in and.they look good for the advocates of giving every child a laptop.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 13, 2007
Small edit on 11/19. Is it my imagination, or is blogging slowly taking off among eLearning folks? The past few conferences I did, I didn't see many bloggers talking about sessions who weren't presenters or long time bloggers. This time I've seen quite a few more mentions in relatively new bloggers: Blog, Blogger, Bloggest eLearning 2.0 Presentation with Tony Karrer Trainer's First Blog Ephemerally Important What did I get out of DevLearn ?
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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
This week I was on a panel at the Oracle Users Group discussing the needs of the multi-generational workforce. Most of the attendees (HR and training managers) were focused on identifying what their organizations need to do to attract, manage, and integrate younger workers into their organizations. . Our research clearly shows that the Millenia (20s).
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 13, 2007
A mistitled article - found via Bill Ives on the FastForward blog - Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet. The real focus of the article is how Serena Software has adopted a practice called Facebook Fridays: Each Friday, employees are granted one hour of personal time to spend on their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers, customers, family and friends.
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
Never ceases to amaze me how the web can be searched to unearth all sorts of curios. I recently discovered several reviews of my scribblings in other languages, but there always seem to be words that don't translate. Here's a Finnish review of the paper I presented at the EDEN conference in June: Steve Wheeler kuvasi tulevaisuuden opiskelua käsitteellä ”Nomadic Learning”, missä opiskelija vaeltaa digitaalisissa maailmoissa kehittäen omaa osaamistaan vapaasti saatavien resurssien avulla yhdessä t
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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
This week I was on a panel at the Oracle Users Group discussing the needs of the multi-generational workforce. Most of the attendees (HR and training managers) were focused on identifying what their organizations need to do to attract, manage, and integrate younger workers into their organizations. . Our research clearly shows that the Millenia (20s).
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 11, 2007
For a few upcoming presentations, I would love to be able to cite how much faster things are moving today for corporations than in the past. Certainly, we all are seeing and feeling it. Yet, I've been struggling to find good charts, graphs, quotes, etc. that show examples of: Trends in the number of new products introduced Trends in the time it takes from concept through launch and lifetime of new products Other aspects of the pace for corporate entities I saw an interesting article that talked
Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
Very pleased to see that our article on Second Life for medical education has finally been published today in Health Information and Libraries Journal. Seductively entitled 'Second Life: An overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education' , it was co-written with Maged Kamel Boulos (my mate from the Faculty of Health and Social Work, here at the University of Plymouth ) and one of our graduated students Lee Hetherington, whose VNEC (Virtual Neurological Education
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Vignettes Learning
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
On the way to Medellin, Colombia from Los Angeles, I was seated beside a Chinese lady, around 25 years old, and her client or boss from Beijing. The elderly gentleman did not speak English nor Spanish. The lady spoke some English and Spanish. I inquired about the nature of their travels. They came from Beijing and were traveling to Colombia and Puerto Rico for business.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 11, 2007
I had a great time this Saturday presenting to ISPI Los Angeles on eLearning 2.0. This presentation was somewhat similar to past presentations, but I've added a couple of new slides and concepts. I'm including my slides (via Slideshare below, but it misses a lot of what the discussions were really about). Oh, and if you are interested in this topic, I will be presenting a slightly different take on it this Thursday at a Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations.
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 14, 2007
eLearning Blender
NOVEMBER 13, 2007
The company I work for has a tight grip on the training budget this year and if I want to make eLearning a priority in future budgets I need to make the ROI on eLearning obvious. As you may have seen in the previous post, I am attempting to do this by replacing some content that is currently delivered through instructor led training. By doing that I could easily point to the salary of the trainer and the cost of paying our employees to leave the store and sit through training.
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Vignettes Learning
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
Try this experiment. I created a blog that participants from the audience can send email to , post their comments , questions and ideas. During the whole length of my presentation, on Social Networking and Learning Impacts , I asked the audience of 1,000 who are Spanish- speaking , in Medellin , Colombia , to post their emails in Spanish. It worked.
Clive on Learning
NOVEMBER 13, 2007
I have been reading with interest Stephen Downes' analysis of Kirschner, Sweller and Clark's paper Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work. I have myself commented on this paper back in June of last year under the heading A Challenge to Constructivism. What shone out of Stephen's review for me was just how bitter and hostile the battle has become between - on the one side - the rationalists , who tend to favour highly directive instructional strategies, and - on the other side - th
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