Upside Learning
DECEMBER 15, 2009
With increasing bandwidths and better compression techniques available, use of videos in Flash platform based eLearning courses is on the rise. However, often we find videos not being used optimally. This could leave your learners with a bad experience. Here are a few technical aspects to keep in mind when working with videos. Please do share any others that you may know in comments area. 1.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Workplace Learning Today pointed me to a post Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History. I use similar kinds of examples in my presentations (and posts such as Work Skills Keeping Up? ). I thought it might be fun for me to catalog some of the ones that I’ve used in my presentations and other places as well as have this ready for future presentations.
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Entreprise Collaborative , a cross-cultural endeavor bridging English and French to provide a jumping off point on organizational collective intelligence (and co-led by my Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche ), is launching a blog carnival. The first topic is: the future of the training department in the Collaborative Enterprise. I’ve written before about the changes I see coming for organizations (e.g. here ), and they’re driven by the changes I am seeing in business and
E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 18, 2009
COP15 was a fiasco. At the eleventh hour, the world’s governments are cobbling together half‑baked emissions targets, after 2 weeks of posturing, grandstanding and generally faffing about. Why bother? At the next summit, they’ll realise they’ve got no hope of meeting those targets, so they’ll try to weasel out of the agreement just like they tried to weasel out of Kyoto.
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Upside Learning
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Often the real meaning and potential impact of a database can be hidden behind all the raw names and numbers, but a well-chosen visualization can bring the data to life. Google fusion is a cloud based application from Google where you can share and visualize data online. You can visualize data in a number of forms like: Map, Intensity Map, Bar, Pie chart, Table, line etc.
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 17, 2009
In prepping for tomorrow nights #lrnchat, Marcia Conner was asking about the value proposition of virtual worlds. I ripped out a screed and lobbed it, but thought I’d share it here as well: At core, I believe the essential affordances of the virtual world are 3D/spatial, and social. There are lower-overhead social environments (but…which I’ll get back to).
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 14, 2009
This Thursday I am on a great panel doing a webinar for Meridian Knowledge Solutions. I hope you can join me and this exciting panel. The Webinar is called " Future of eLearning Content " and is scheduled for December 17, 2009, at 2 p.m. ET. Short Description If you’re responsible for buying or managing your organization's training content, don’t miss this free, 45-minute online discussion.
Learning Visions
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Follow up to the eLearning Guild’s DemoFest held at DevLrn in San Jose this November. These are favorites of that event. (These are my live blogged notes from the presentation. eLearning Guild will make recorded presentation available on their website. [link] ) Brent Schlenker: This year a lot of great entries. This year didn’t do awards format – wanted it to be a sharing format for attendees to show what they do. iPhone App: Helping Parents Grades K-5 (Terri Gutierrez) Oregon Center for Applied
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 14, 2009
It’s always fun at the end of the year to go back and take a look at what you’ve been working on, what you’ve learned during the year. I’ve been doing this the past few years. And as part of this, I’ve been taking advantage of: 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? , 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year.
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 15, 2009
Norbert Hockenberry here, reporting on a giant floating patch of elearning that has recently been discovered. Like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , this has been created by discarded material being gathered by oceanic currents into a giant mess. Unlike the Pacific patch, this isn’t an environmental disaster so much as a economic and social catastrophe.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 15, 2009
A Virtual Immersive Environment is Not a Parallel Universe, It is an Alternative Reality. While it is possible to make a 3D virtual immersive environment (VIE) look exactly (or pretty darn close) to your actual office building or training room or college campus.what's the point? The real power of a virtual immersive environment is the ability to transport the learner or collaborators into an environment that is ideally suited for the learning or collaborating that needs to take place and this us
From the Coleface
DECEMBER 18, 2009
Jay Cross has an interesting article in the December issue of the “Inside Learning Technologies” magazine about making business decisions and the use of business metrics. As I made the claim in Feb that 2009 would be the year of “ bad measurement ” this is a topic close to my heart. Amongst the exhortations for L&D people to be more business savvy which are hard to take issue with, Jay states that we now work in an environment where a “great knowledge worker can
eLearning Cyclops
DECEMBER 16, 2009
I have written about building my low budget video studio in the past, but today I was really amazed at what the Center for Professional and Distance Education at the University of Central Oklahoma (CPDE) has built for less than $2,000. Today they presented for the e-Learning Guild's DemoFest. They are doing a fantastic job using video to personalize their online courses, but in addition to that they shared the details of their amazing feat of building a green screen video studio.
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ID Reflections
DECEMBER 16, 2009
What I think makes for a good discussion: An open-minded approach An ability to "listen" No pre-defined answers in one's mind Empathy and respect A willingness to change one's opinion/notions if the discussion demands What do we do instead: We come with a pre-defined set of answers (reciting them in our minds even as we enter the meeting room) We don't listen; we state our opinion We fail to.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Let's look at some thoughts on the subject. According to John Cone, former VP of Dell University (and someone I've worked with on an advisory board so I know he knows a lot on the subject), in an article for Fast Company."the ideal learning event has a class size of one, lasts five to ten minutes and takes place within ten minutes of need." A survey conducted by Bloomsburg University of pharmaceutical sales representatives indicated that they desired to have information presented in 15 minute in
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 17, 2009
Saturday Night Live certainly doesn't think much of online degrees a subject that I was thinking was going away since I posted about it back in 2006 - Lower Value of Online Degree Programs? eLearning Technology. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.
eLearning Cyclops
DECEMBER 13, 2009
A free e-book, New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile Learning in Higher Education , is available for free download through the University of Wollongong's Research Online. This book provides examples of m-learning implementation and concludes with some recommended design principles for m-learning. For anyone involved in m-learning, this is a worthwhile read.
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eLearning Brothers
DECEMBER 15, 2009
I ran across free storyboard templates on TheELearningCoach.com and thought that I share them with you. Connie has created a Storyboard Depot : “These storyboard templates have been donated by the eLearning community for you to download and use for projects. There are a variety of types so you can pull features from one and add them to another, for hours of safe, unsupervised fun.&#.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 18, 2009
One of the exciting things about working on the Learning in 3D book is that we are going to have a space for the book and some of its content in a 3D world. Here are some sneak peaks at the concept. It is in its early stages but we are looking forward to the unveiling in January along with the Blog book tour that starts on January 11th. The introduction area and place to meet.
TechSmith Camtasia
DECEMBER 15, 2009
I've been a Mac user at home for a long time and recently made the switch at work when we released Camtasia for Mac. One of the things I missed on the Mac was Snagit. Sure, sure, there's the built in screencapture just as there's the printscreen button on the PC, but I need more options for blogging, reporting and other tasks. After using Snagit nearly every day for the past 10 years, I can't do my job or other tasks without it.
The eLearning Coach
DECEMBER 13, 2009
A few months ago I published a list of the 10 Qualities Of The Ideal Instructional Designer. Since then, the eLearning community contributed so many qualities to the list it is now overflowing. The comments more or less fell into a few categories: working with SMEs, designing and developing content, love of learning, business savvy and personal attributes.
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Learning with e's
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Instead of simply recommending some Web 2.0 tools to you in the traditional way, I thought I would do something different. It's the festive season after all, and if that's not a licence for a bit of fun, then what is? So here are the links to some tools some of you already know about and may have been using for some time, and perhaps a few tools you have not heard of, or would like to try out.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 17, 2009
Want a sneak peak at Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration ? Here is a link to a Google book preview that you might enjoy. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide. Tags: lrn3d.
Adobe Captivate
DECEMBER 15, 2009
Early last month, Patti Shank did a detailed review of Captivate 4 on TrainingMediaReview. She highlights something that we’ve been hearing from a lot of the forward looking learning departments- ‘The workflow process for learning content creation is changing.’ Patti writes. “Much of the content that we previously needed developers to produce can now be produced by our instructional designers or clients' training staff and SMEs.
The eLearning Coach
DECEMBER 15, 2009
Did you ever spend an hour writing a four or five word phrase or short instruction? During that time, you probably felt like an obsessive perfectionist—hunched over the computer trying to get it just right. Now that there’s a term for this type of writing and recognition of how important it is, we can all feel a little more normal. I’m talking about microcopy , and it refers to the little instructions and phrases that we use in eLearning and web page interfaces to guide and assure us
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eLearning Blender
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Why Moodle? One of the most frequently asked questions I get from blog readers is "Why did I choose to go with Moodle" over other Learning Management Systems. The answer is simple; Moodle gives you the most bang for your buck, especially if you don't have a lot of bucks. A huge factor in my case is that I had zero budget to implement eLearning in my organization so I didn't have many options.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 15, 2009
Here are links to webinars past, present and future.not quite a Christmas Carol but. Past: Here is a link to the presentation I gave last week titled " Reaching and Teaching Across Generations " Screen shot from early in the presentation, the discussion was already lively. Description of the webinar:Today's classrooms can containing up to four different generations of students - each generation having unique motivators, learning styles, and technology preferences.
Rapid eLearning
DECEMBER 15, 2009
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you’ll know that I recommend looking at web design sites and at other media-related industries for inspiration. This is a good way to learn about different screen layouts and color schemes. And then consider how they might work in your elearning courses. It’s also a great way to learn to use PowerPoint’s graphic features; because a lot of your rapid elearning success depends on how well you can get around PowerPoint.
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