Experiencing eLearning

JULY 11, 2008

e-Learning Centre by Learning Light - e-Learning Quotations. Quotes on e-learning, learning, education, and change. tags: quoteable , e-learning , learning , education , change.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 10, 2008

We are about to embark on a new Moodle roll-out for staff in September 08 with three phase programme spread over as many years that will in the first year simply require everyone to utilise the system as repository for lessons plans schemes of work and handouts. One of the principle incentives for this will be 1 the running don and removal of the competing Intranet drive and the e-Maturity drive from Becta.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 10, 2008

Creating an Avatar in Google's Lively. Ok, so Google did create Google 3D Earth with some pretty cool 3D features as a venture into 3D worlds but now they are jumping in with both feet and offering (for free) a product called Lively. Here is an article on the release called Google Launches Virtual Reality Site As the article states: [Lively] is a three-dimensional software that enables people to congregate in electronic rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 10, 2008

This post is intended to capture a few of the common objections that I hear at various sessions as well as ways that people suggest you overcome those objections. I will update this over time. Kevin Jones recently went through and captured 15 Objections to Social Learning and some thoughts on responses to these objections: Objection #15: Silent Yet Deadly Objection #14: Prove It!

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 10, 2008

Taking the ‘A’ out of Asynchronous. Examples of colleges successfully using synchronous tools for office hours, student collaboration, and administrative work. tags: synchronous , highered , collaboration , education. ‘Socializing’ the CMS. The traditional CMS/LMS is designed for a more instructor-centered course, so the pedagogy of these courses reflects the technology.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 9, 2008

Thanks to SL Tips for pointing me in the direction of this interesting article in the Washington Post. Here is a story titled Congress Goes Virtual in Online World Hearing that explains how a sub-committee in congress got together to experience a virtual world. According to the article: The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet wanted to know some basics.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 10, 2008

Fortune Magazine interview with GE's CIO: Does social networking have a role within General Electric? We've gone out of our way to call it professional networking rather than social networking. We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. It's very searchable, so if someone is looking for a particular skill, they can go to that site.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 8, 2008

1: Introduction to The Web Standards Curriculum. Learn web standards online. Self paced, individual learning–this includes a series of articles by various authors, plus individual practice exercises and reflection questions. Currently 21 articles; more to be published in the future. Looks like this could be a pretty substantial open educational resource, especially as they continue to build articles.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 10, 2008

Fortune Magazine interview with GE's CIO: Does social networking have a role within General Electric? We've gone out of our way to call it professional networking rather than social networking. We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. It's very searchable, so if someone is looking for a particular skill, they can go to that site.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

The corporate sector is exploring a whole new world. Which world? The virtual world. What is a virtual world? A virtual world is a computer-generated environment that more-or-less replicates the real world. Arguably the best known virtual world today is Second Life. Anyone can download the Second Life Viewer from the Internet and set up a basic account for free.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 9, 2008

“ Don’t teach kids mathematics, teach them to be mathematicians.&# (I believe it was Seymour Papert). It was in the scoping phase of a new project where this came to mind, and I realized that, depending on your definition of ‘mathematician’, I don’t want them to be mathematicians either, but I want them to be mathematical problem solvers. That is, I don’t necessarily want them to be able to create mathematical theories any more than I want them to be able to

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Lars is Learning

JULY 8, 2008

Well, just over six months in, and I'm still here, albeit with a backlog of ideas/thoughts that really should be up here by now. So it's nice to find that this blog was selected as a Blog of the Week by the Learning Technologies team. A useful little motivator to step things up a little.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2008

Once again I am teaching a class using virtual worlds, this class "Learning in 3D" will include the use of both ProtoSphere and Second Life. The quick six week class will cover just the basics of navigating in 3D worlds, building a small structure and learning about the different type of environments available. The first class had the usual Second Life chaos but it was a lot of fun for everyone.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2008

Edupunk is anti-establishment apparently, and is a response to the corporate and institutional efforts to contain education. It is about destroying the boundaries of our oh so comfortable education systems. It is about wresting control from central authority and liberating the learner. Edupunk is certainly about using tools and services that are outside of the institution, beyond the walled garden, so to speak.

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Vignettes Learning

JULY 11, 2008

Apple is poised to take advantage of the learning, education and social media. in motion. See Apple's Modality Learning. iPhone learning production - the basics are easy enough. Of course, just anything else, if the content is bad, the learning will be bad. But the production could be as easy as 1-2-3 as shown below. I am not suggesting you should buy Toolbook.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 11, 2008

In my post So what is blended learning? I put forward the following definition: A blended learning solution mixes social contexts for learning (self-study, one-to-one, small group, larger community) with the aim of increasing learning effectiveness, and/or mixes learning media (face-to-face, online, print, etc.) to increase efficiency, in the context of a particular learning requirement, audience characteristics, and practical constraints and opportunities.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 7, 2008

Back in March, Kaplan , the huge learning company, announced that it was teaming with videogame developer and publisher Aspyr Media* to create Kaplan-branded interactive entertainment products and bring them to market. While most people think of Kaplan as a test prep company, the truth is, they are into all type of educational content and delivery. You should really check out all the neat things they are doing.

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eLearning Blender

JULY 9, 2008

Months and Months ago I mentioned how I am starting my first larger scale eLearning project in a posting titled Manager Training Program. I am now knee deep in the project and learning a lot along the way. I designed and developed a prototype for the first course and it is under review now. I am expecting that there may be some barriers I have to overcome due to the fact that this is a big change in how we facilitate training programs, and nobody likes change.

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Vignettes Learning

JULY 11, 2008

I stumbled upon eQuixotic Blog and was impressed with Chris' quality and mission. Chris talks about Apple's July 11, 2008 release of Modality Learning View Steve Jobs' Keynote Address at WWDC 2008. Comments: 1) In the training industry, many times, there is a reluctance to increase the quality of the aesthetics - the look and feel of programs. Cost and time are the usual culprits.

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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2008

Still here in a very hot and humid Kuala Lumpur, attending the four day long IFIP LYICT Conference - 'ICT and Learning for the Net Generation'. Last night we had a memorable evening barbeque style Conference Dinner by the side of the hotel's luxury swimming pool. I don't wish to sound twisty, but it wasn't all glamorous. We had to send the wine back because it was off.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things? Well I don't know about must , but they certainly should, if they want to remain credible as sources of expertise on organisational learning.

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Jay Cross

JULY 11, 2008

Text books cost a fortune these days. And they don’t age well. And they don’t contain local information. This morning I had a chat with former textbook publisher executive Erik Frank, who’s out to change the situation. He and another text veteran formed Flat World Knowledge to reverse the tide. Flat World proposes to offer e-texts by known authors to students for free.

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Vignettes Learning

JULY 11, 2008

This will be in restaurants soon. Surely, there is a training use - maybe a game, a workflow activity. Ray Jimenez, PhD [link] [link] "Helping Learners Learn Their Way" "Helping Learners Apply Learning" Ray Jimenez, PhD Author "3-Minute e-Learning" www.vignettestraining.

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Learning with e's

JULY 7, 2008

I'm sat here in the foyer of The Saujana Hotel , surrounded by palm trees (the foyer is completely open air) and there is birdsong and cicada chirping all around. It rained last night, which cleared the air for a short while, but the oppressive heat is returning with a vengeance. Someone yesterday gave me an alternative to IFIP - 'International Friends in Interesting Places', and I guess that is what IFIP is really all about.

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Janet Clarey

JULY 9, 2008

Soon to be sticking out like a sore thumb in the potato chip section of a grocery store near you is Pringles , recently determined not to be a chip (crisp) at all but a cake. Thanks UK! Apparently the UK courts don’t know that I try to avoid cake. A cake that conveniently fits in the cup holder of my car. Did you know we eat one billion dollars of Pringles each year?

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Jay Cross

JULY 10, 2008

Responding to the Big Questions (s) of the month: Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies? Shouldn’t they be starting with themselves and helping to develop it throughout the organizations? And then shouldn’t the learning organization become a driver for the organization? And like in the world of libraries don’t we need to market ourselves in this capacity?

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Vignettes Learning

JULY 10, 2008

Adding a Quiz Maker in a Wiki is one of the issues that really causes me anguish. It brings me back to what I call the diseases of trainers , instructional designers or even parents, or anyone for that matter. CONTROL- ITIS - controlling what learners should learn CONTENT- ITIS - forcing content on learners Adding a Quiz Maker in a Wiki is perplexing to me.

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Learning with e's

JULY 7, 2008

Well we did it. And it worked. Last time I was that nervous was when my (first) wife kept me waiting at the altar for 20 minutes over the odds, while her chauffer searched for a place to park. We are still married 22 years later, don't worry. Today was a technological success, where we linked 5 people together using Elluminate and managed a slightly flakey audio system in a very large and echoey hotel ballroom in Kuala Lumpur.

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