Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
These are my live blogged notes from Harold Jarche’s LearnTrends session on Personal Knowledge Management. My side comments are in italics. Sense-making with PKM. When he moved to consulting and didn’t have an IT department and those resources, he realized he had to do something different. Idea from Will Richardson: what do you do when you read a blog post and come across an interesting few sentences?
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Here are some interesting Web 2.0 Statistics gathered from a number of different sources. Web 2.0 users report a 20% decrease in communication and travel costs both internally and in external supplier relationships (according to a November 2009 T&D Magazine article, The Wonders of Conversion , quoting a McKinsey & Company Survey ) Production innovation soared by 20% because organizations could receive input from partners and customers quickly and apply feedback to products.
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Upside Learning
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Note: This is a self-promotional post. Mobile Learning has finally come of age. It’s been on the horizon for many years, but now with bandwidth available for mobiles & the devices themselves are becoming more capable to start competing with computers in processing capabilities, it’s finally here! We believe mobile learning has the potential to truly become anywhere, anytime, for anyone learning.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
Last week I was at the excellent-as-always DevLearn , and this week I attended the Virtual School Symposium (VSS; for the first time). Both are about online learning, but the former is in the corporate world, and the latter is in the K12 world. There are a lot of differences! There are similarities, for example both are great conferences. Both are experiencing growth, offer good lineups of presentations, have appropriate exhibitions, good food, and socializing.
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Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn’s LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. My side comments in italics. Article they wrote for CLO mag: “Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer&#. Need to be more agile & change. If you don’t know the solution & need to network/collaborate to find it, that’s learning.
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Web Courseworks
NOVEMBER 20, 2009
Jeff Cobb of Tagoras Inc. recently released a report focused on learning management systems for associations. Find below my interview with Jeff, discussing not only the report but also his life as an entrepreneur and his quest for a balanced lifestyle. Full disclosure: Web Courseworks’ LMS called CourseStage is one of the featured systems in the report.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Earlier this month, Charles Jennings , Harold Jarche , Jay Cross and I got together, virtually, to represent the Internet Time Alliance for a discussion around organizations and social media with Xyleme Learning. Dawn Polous elegantly and eloquently hosted us, providing the starting questions and segueing between the comments. They’ve gathered them up in a series of podcasts , and if you’re curious about what we’re up to, I recommend you go have a listen.
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
These are my live blogged notes from Tony O’Driscoll’s LearnTrends session on The Immernet Singularity. My side comments are in italics. Official description: The Immernet Singularity: How the Immersive Internet Will Redefine Learning and Collaboration. Four technology arenas, 2D Synchronous Learning, Knowledge Sharing Spaces, Web 2.0 Tools and Virtual Worlds, are on a convergence trajectory towards an immersive web future that will redefine how we work, learn and play.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
Here is a chance for you to step into the role of a Somali Pirate in Wired's C utthroat Capitalism. The folks over at Wired have created an interesting game to "teach" people stories in the news, the idea is that someone can better understand the news story of the Somali pirates by understanding their motivation and by taking on the role of the pirate to better understand the economic motivations behind the Somali attacks.
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Web Courseworks
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I recently came across an article I wrote this past February on building a team for game development, which headlined in the Training Conference daily newsletter called Game On or Game Over for Online Training. I defined the four critical components to effective management of immersive learning simulation (ILS) projects: Defining a culture. Setting goals.
Integrated Learnings
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
by Shelley A. Gable. We all know that attitudes toward training vary greatly in the workplace. Some people seize every professional development opportunity possible and are always eager to learn something new. Many are less enthusiastic. Why are some people less enthusiastic? The reasons are numerous.and even those of us who work in the training field have probably felt less than enthusiastic about some training we've had to complete (I know I have!).
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Live blogged notes from Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations with Charles Jennings & Andy McGovern. My side comments are in italics. Official description: Thomson Reuters meets the challenge of supporting the learning and development of its employees across the world through the innovative use of technology and a strategy based on the 70:20:10 model.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy? Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work. Maybe reading blog posts about the topic is okay :) Tool Set 2009 Work Skills Keeping Up Top-Down Strategy Better Memory Information Radar Processing Pages with Links Networks and Learning Communities Collaborate Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool Search Browser Short Cuts Work Literacy Workshop eLearning Technology
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Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
I mmersed in a learning environment (notice, no bulleted list of objectives) An important virtual world design principle is that the participant (not the teacher) must be positioned at the center of the learning experience--a 360 degree immersion in an learning experience. Thus the term Virtual Immersive Environment (VIE) Unlike the classroom-based “Sage on the Stage” model where the teacher imparts knowledge upon the passive learning consumer, in a 3D Learning Experience, the participant must b
eLearning Cyclops
NOVEMBER 20, 2009
If you were not able to attend this past week's LearnTrends Conference, they have recorded the sessions and made them available at the link below. [link] The sessions were wonderful. Thank you to everyone who put it together. I learned quite a bit during these 3 days and plan to visit the recordings of the few sessions I was unable to attend.
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I’ve gotten a bunch of comments from students in the Masters of Instructional Design program at Walden in the last week—enough that I suspect that there’s an assignment that requires commenting on a blog. I’m not complaining; I’m enjoying the discussions and hope they continue. However, I’d like to ask a favor of those of you in that program.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I participated in a session at DevLearn that I mentioned last week in my posts Missed Opportunities and Enough Tools for Now. The session was conducted where we broken into discussion groups around different topics each their own facilitator. My group discussed that as learning professionals we need to put ourselves in position to be able to serve learners and internal/external clients through the best possible solution we can design and create given the constraints that exist.
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Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
I'm hanging out in Times Square right now, looking forward to our seminar here tomorrow morning. New York is so exhilarating. The lights! The tall buildings! I feel like such an awestruck country bumpkin. Here's where I'll be: Kineo hosts e-learning conference in New York on Nov 20th New York Workshop: Strategies for Delivering Effective eLearning in Trying Times Join us in New York on Nov 20 th for a breakfast session, kindly hosted by Barclays, one of Kineo's key US and UK clients.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Today student's present their mock solution to a mock exercise as part of their Master's of Science in Instructional Technology degree requirement. It is a great event. Students have written a 40 page proposal, created a 20 minute "sales" presentation and are prepared for a 15 minute question and answer session from our corporate advisory council members (we have over 30 in attendance this semester).
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
These are my live blogged notes from the first LearnTrends session, Introduction: Convergence in Learning , with George Siemens , Tony Karrer , and Jay Cross. Awkward phrasing, typos, or things that simply don’t make sense out of the context of the live session are par for the course. My side comments are in italics. Jay Cross. E-learning is 10 years old.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
LearnTrends 2009 starts tomorrow! I’m really looking forward to very interesting conversations around the messy topic of convergence. There seems to be quite a bit of last minute registration activity. We have over 500 attending and over 140 who say they might attend. Should be lively. There will be lots of time for conversation as well. Speakers generally are scheduled for half the time and half for discussion.
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Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Last week at DevLearn in San Jose, Stephen Walsh and I presented to a packed room: "Yawn-proof Your e-Learning without Busting the Bank" It was Friday morning and everyone was quite exhausted. Before we got started, I joked that we'd know we'd been successful if no one yawned. I think people were quite engaged and I didn't catch any yawns, so I'd say we hit the mark.
eLearning Cyclops
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Here is a free, practical tool for creating charts. ChartGo.com provides an incredibly easy to use web-based tool for creating charts, including bar, pie, line and area charts. You can quickly create a chart, save it, and add it to a course, website or blog. They also provide numerous avenues of sharing your chart (URL, e-mail link to chart, social bookmarking, Twitter, etc.).
Moodle Journal
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
If you have been following this blog, then you will have read that last year marked the start of a new rollout strategy for our Moodle vle to staff at the college. While there has always been a steady though often less than regular stream of staff attending my training sessions, the strategy this time around has been more of a drip feed approach rather than the former one of empowerment.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
I was surprised by the fear and loathing expressed around SharePoint yesterday at LearnTrends 2009. I don’t think it’s the best tool out there, but it likely is the best tool being adopted by your IT department and is part of the Enterprise 2.0 plan in your organization. My belief is that it’s going to be a big part of eLearning 2.0 for many workplace learning professionals.
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Lars is Learning
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Just published on the popular Trainingzone site. Comments welcome. -- In a real-time business environment, how do you ensure staff are kept fully up to speed on new products and services, while also keeping customers happy? Lars Hyland outlines ways in which technology can improve knowledge, learning and communication in the pressurised environment of the contact centre.
eLearning Brothers
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
eLearning is better than classroom training! Ok…I’m just being sarcastic. eLearning is actually just different than classroom training. They both have their pros and cons. I want to list a few areas that are positive “pros&# for eLearning. Geography. At times you need to training people that are dispersed geographically. They may be in various buildings or working from home.
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