Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 12, 2010
I received a question from a current classroom teacher who is hoping to make the career move to instructional design. Specifically, she wanted to know how to prepare for an interview for an instructional design position. Any sage wisdom? I’m brushing up on ID jargon, but want to be as prepared as possible. What questions might they ask? Anything I should avoid discussing?
Upside Learning
MARCH 10, 2010
Everyone’s been talking about Social Learning Environments (SLEs), the internet offers a plethora of tools that could become a part of a SLE. While some of these tools cost money, the bulk of them are free. We can construct our very SLE using these free tools. Jane Hart wrote about ‘How to Create a Social Learning Environment’ in the November 09 issue of Inside Learning Technologies.
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Making Change
MARCH 8, 2010
Are you dreaming of an immersive simulation while your team members plan yet another Jeopardy game? If you want stakeholders to expand their horizons, a working prototype is your best friend. A working prototype has simple placeholder graphics, but the clicking and dragging work as they will in the final activity. Build a quick-and-dirty version of the activity of your dreams, and use it to convert everyone on your team.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 11, 2010
In the future, experts predict that wars will be fought both in physical places, like Afghanistan and Iraq and in cyberspace such as the recent attacks that have allegedly originated in China on NATO and the European Union computers searching for secret intelligence material. In fact, Edward Castronova, in his book, Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games predicts in the future battles may occur between virtual armies for virtual territory and that countries must begin to trai
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The Performance Improvement Blog
MARCH 12, 2010
Business Week calls them the “disposable worker”. These are the temps, contractors, contingent workers, and free-lancers who fill the gaps when a company has a job to do but would rather hire short-term employees than make a long-term commitment to so-called “permanent” employees. It used to be that these temporary workers were the exception; now they are the rule.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 12, 2010
by David R. Mankin A while back I wrote about Acrobat's watermark feature. At that time, I created the watermark by typing the word DRAFT in the watermark creation dialog box. There's another type of watermark possible in Acrobat 9--an image-based watermark that will allow you to have your company logo display on each page. The image watermark can be bold or subtle, and can appear on whatever pages you choose.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 10, 2010
Here are three "lessons learned" in from an actual 3D virtual world implementation. And for tips on piloting a virtual world implementation see blog entries Diffusions of Innovations and Implementing New Learning Technology? Choose the Right Pilot Group. Lessons Lesson 1 :Understand the client’s learning needs, participant volume requirements, technology access and security requirements, and participant appetite for working with new technologies.
Learning Visions
MARCH 10, 2010
I had great fun last week talking with Will Thalheimer on common design flaws in e-Learning. In case you don’t know Will, he’s an amazing asset to the e-Learning community, providing a bridge between research and practice. According to Will, the top three mistakes learning designers make: 1. We’re too focused on information presentation. 2. We fail to minimize forgetting. 3.
Upside Learning
MARCH 8, 2010
In a couple of years, microblogging tools have become very popular. Twitter has become the number 1 tool for learning in just three years – voted by hundreds of learning professionals in this survey at Jane Hart’s site. Microblogging platforms are a great tool to keep you updated with latest trends & get real time support or answers to questions.
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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
MARCH 9, 2010
I've now participated in three Twitter chat sessions. The first time was I late, I arrived on the scene towards the end. The second I could not really follow well, I saw all these separate and short messages. I pulled out. The third time was my lucky time. I used tweetdeck to follow the hashtag, did not continue working simultaneously but devoted myself to the chat.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 10, 2010
by Jennie Ruby. My colleague was writing on his laptop across the room when he asked "Is smackdown one word or two?" Intrigued as to why a training professional was writing about wrestling or extreme fighting, I walked over to take a look at his document. "Show me how you are using it," I said. "Are you using it as a noun or a verb?
Learning Visions
MARCH 8, 2010
Back in June, I asked if the corporate Moodle was at a tipping point ? People were on the fence. And then the eLearning Guild published their LMS report in the fall of 2009, with Moodle clearly gaining a foothold in the corporate market. ( Hear my October 2009 interview with Ellen Wagner , one of the report’s authors). So is Moodle still gaining traction in the corporate market?
Upside Learning
MARCH 11, 2010
1. Direct access to OpenGL ES 2.0 features On Android devices using Android Native Developer Kit (NDK) – The Android NDK can be used to target Android devices with 1.5 or higher, and includes a number of enhancements; however, what’s really exciting is that developers building apps for 2.0 or higher will get “direct access to OpenGL ES 2.0 features” like controlling the way graphics are rendered.
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ID Reflections
MARCH 9, 2010
People need free reign in making their work what they want to do; that’s what works with intrinsically motivated workers. The big payoff arrives when companies are doing the sort of greater good that makes a team proud. This is an excerpt from Motivation is not what you think from the Internet Time Blog. In Informal Learning , Jay writes about knowledge workers as: I like to work on things I help create.
Integrated Learnings
MARCH 11, 2010
By Shelley A. Gable. How often do you receive requests for refresher training? And how do you handle those requests? When I first started working in training, I'd usually ask the client exactly what skills and knowledge needed to be refreshed. Then I'd dig for existing training materials that could meet the stated need. I've wised up since then. First of all, I've learned to identify an actual performance gap.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 10, 2010
by AJ George. I've been a devoted Facebook member since the first year it made its way out of Harvard and into most college campuses. I had a MySpace back when you could only have eight top friends. I regularly post content to Twitter , YouTube and PhotoBucket. I write my own blog in addition to writing for IconLogic's blog. Somewhere along the line I'd convinced myself that I was a social networking whiz.
The Performance Improvement Blog
MARCH 10, 2010
Most organization change efforts fail because they lack clarity of focus, leadership, a sense of urgency, a solid plan, preparation, the right people, the right resources, execution and follow-through, measurement and feedback, and organizational learning. This was the message that I heard from Clinton O. Longenecker in a workshop on “rapid performance improvement.
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ID Reflections
MARCH 8, 2010
I was going through the Demonstrations and Case Studies on the Enspire Learning website when I came across a marvelous simulation on Virtual Team Management. You can access the demos by registering. I recommend this simulation to all those who either are handling a globally distributed team or a project, and to all managers who feel that effective communication is one of the keys to business success.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 9, 2010
As part of the Big Question this month Open Content in Workplace Learning? , I’m exploring whether Open Content can be used by for-profit companies. And, since Open Content comes in under the Creative Commons license structure. Actually, I’m curious if Open Content ever is not Creative Commons? It’s by definition Open, but theoretically you could choose a different open license.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 9, 2010
by AJ George In a previous article I taught you how to ungroup chart elements for more specific formatting. Say you were giving a presentation on quarterly sales and wanted to keep your audience in suspense by having the bars of your chart come in one at a time. Today you'll learn how to do that. Follow those instructions to insert a fully ungrouped chart.
Moodle Journal
MARCH 6, 2010
It was a while ago now that I was asked to head up an e-learning project initiative here at the college. Just this week the proposal finally received that seal of approval, funding. The idea, is that now teaching staff are beginning to make more use of the vle, which after all is really little more than an e-Learning delivery platform, they should now start to think in terms using it deploy and track learning activities rather than just as a means of distributing course notes, which so often is
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ID Reflections
MARCH 8, 2010
"It's the communication, stupid!" as Terry Holley aptly said in the comment. I found the following post from Quit List. #997-Quit thinking you are a great communicator. You ain’t! The post seemed particularly relevant to me in this age of information overload where SYNTHESIS and not only ANALYSIS is the key to success. The anatomy of bad communication.
KnowledgeStar
MARCH 11, 2010
This piece was written by a friend of mine Clark Aldrich, who also authors one of the best blogs around the blogosphere about digital education in the Knowledge Economy. He is also the simulations Guru. Check out his terrific blog at Unschooling Rules For the later part of the 19th century and the first half [.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 12, 2010
Adobe Captivate: Can I Stop The Presentation From Continuing After a Web Link? I have a Captivate slide that contains buttons taking the student to one of our Web pages (a link to a URL). My problem is I'm not sure how to get the lesson to stop playing while the student checks out the site. as it stands now, the lesson continues to play in the background.
eLearning Cyclops
MARCH 10, 2010
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="CellScope"] [/caption] Here are a couple of great and innovative uses of mobile devices I stumbled upon on SmartPlanet,com. Not only do these innovations increase the ability to provide better healthcare in the developing world, but also has great potential in mobile learning (m-learning). [link] You can read more about the CellScope at UC Berkeley News.
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ID Reflections
MARCH 12, 2010
A colleague pointed out the article from which I have pasted the excerpt below. Since my primary job is that of a learning solutions consultant and designer of training to corporate organizations, I tend to apply my learnings to today's training design scenario. The traditional world of project management belongs to yesterday. There will continue to be applications for which the traditional linear models we grew up with are appropriate, but as our profession matures we have discovered a whole ne
Kapp Notes
MARCH 9, 2010
ASTD's Big Question for March is How do we leverage open content in workplace learning? The concept seems straightforward--a no brainer, take content that is used by many different organizations, and share it with others so that the overall cost is extremely low or free. Many organizations are involved with such initiatives. One of the best known is MIT's Open Courseware project.
KnowledgeStar
MARCH 7, 2010
When we were thinking about creating a blog, we initially had all this great stuff we wanted to share – articles, stories, parts of research papers, quotes, pictures and more. Then we stopped to think about it … What do we provide to our customers and clients when we design and deliver education and training? [.].
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