Tony Karrer
MARCH 5, 2008
I just saw a post by George Siemens discussing evolution of PLE concept and pointed me to two posts by Chris Lott based on his initial question - "What does your PLE look like?" - Tired of PLE Flak and I'm not interested in the PLE which then pointed me to a bunch of other posts as well - on the PLE and An audit on where stand with PLEs. Unfortunately, Chris got some flak based on his initial question.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 7, 2008
Apple has just released its developer kit.cool stuff. Check out this video of Jobs talking about what you can do in terms of software creation for the iPhone.at the Apple March 6th event. So this weekend, get a hold of an iPhone and start developing some neat software. I think this has the potential to push mlearning over the tipping point and really accelerate its adoption.
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Learning Visions
MARCH 5, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, March 05, 2008 Instructional Design: Wheres Your Center? Whos Your Master? As you create training solutions, to what master are you answering? Are you being content centric or learner centric ? Or are you forced to be sponsor centric ? Content Centric Solutions These are those courses that have the entire book of knowledge in em.
Lars is Learning
MARCH 2, 2008
Neuroplasticity refers to our brains ability to change and reorganise itself through forming new neural connections. This is clearly at the heart of the learning process but also shows itself in the remarkable ability to move and redevelop brain function in the event of injury or damage. Indeed, as we specialise and become experts in a specific skill or knowledge area, then the brain area used.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 3, 2008
Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Applications in Learning. It was designed to be a small to medium size group discussion, but because the room was large it was very challenging to do that successfully. I discussed a bit of these issues in First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions.
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Learning Visions
MARCH 3, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, March 03, 2008 Metaphors of Instructional Design In the exciting and sometimes heated recent debate on the role of instructional designers ( The Value of Instructional Designers , Karl Kapps We Need a Degree in Instructional Design , Learning Circuits Big Question for Feb ) Ive seen instructional design compared to: brain surgery interior design carpentry I certainly dont think its rocket sc
Tony Karrer
MARCH 7, 2008
It's Friday afternoon for me, I went to Bloglines to read some posts. And, I was happy to see some entertainment for a change. I apologize to those of you who feel this is serious stuff, this Friday afternoon, I'm not feeling that serious. With that preface. I've got to say that in comparison to other worlds of blogging, all us folks in the learning and development world seem rather civilized - possibly verging on boring.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 5, 2008
This is an older story but I still find it interesting. Nissan North America Inc.(NNA) and Microsoft Corp. have merged automobile design and gaming technology to create the first-ever fully integrated gaming system within a vehicle. Conceived by Nissan Design America Inc. (NDA) and equipped with the Xbox 360â„¢ next-generation video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the Nissan URGE concept car allows drivers (while parked) to play “Project Gotham Racing® 3†using the car's own st
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E-Learning Acupuncture
MARCH 7, 2008
If you want to be a nurse then you need to go to school. Many schools are using technological tools to delivery nursing education; especially in the area of nursing simulations. I came across one particularly interesting example of this just today. John Miller, a Nursing Professor, at Tacoma Community College in Washington is spearheading a nursing simulation hosted within Second Life.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 6, 2008
Found via Bad Science - A really fun game (simulation) that let's you create things and control the physics (dynamics) of the objects and the environment. Does that make it a serious game? Maybe. You pretty much need to watch the video for a while to figure out what it is. Time to get my kids started on it. You can download the program for free at: www.acc.umu.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 3, 2008
This post is a collection of a number of interesting things happening in the blogosphere which don't all fit under one nice, neat category. First, I have added my comments to the discussion about needing a degree to be an instructional designer. It has been a great discussion, check out the comments in my post We Need a Degree in Instructional Design.
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Clive on Learning
MARCH 7, 2008
It seems that if you come from the traditional instructional design community, which means you've spent a lot of your time designing formal, interactive, self-study lessons, then rapid e-learning means doing the same thing, only quicker. There's an assumption that digital learning content must be structured into sequences of screens containing informational material interspersed with interactions of some sort - what I've always referred to as 'tutorials'.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 3, 2008
Just saw this report - Blogging Boosts Your Social Life - a rather limited study, but interesting reporting: Bloggers reported a greater sense of belonging to a group of like-minded people and feeling more confident they could rely on others for help. All respondents, whether or not they blogged, reported feeling less anxious, depressed and stressed after two months of online social networking.
Vignettes Learning
MARCH 6, 2008
1. I want to use an LMS that allows me to author, publish, register participants, and track reports - in 30 minutes. 2. Anything beyond this, the LMS is not deemed a learning tool, but rather another tool for the software people and IT system administrator. 3. We want an LMS that is as simple as PowerPoint. Please let me know if you have the secret.
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Clive on Learning
MARCH 5, 2008
The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as learning professionals?' I took this to be an issue of scoping, i.e. what are the expectations of our various stakeholders (our managers, our 'customers', our learners) and what do we personally feel committed to achieving? I don't regard this question as just a topical response to the increased interest in informal learning - it's an issue that has been there as long as we have had learning p
Tony Karrer
MARCH 4, 2008
My experience has been that ASTD audiences do not blog as much as other audiences such as the eLearning Guild and I commented about that in More eLearning Bloggers. However, I've noticed that there have been quite a few posts discussing experiences at ASTD TechKnowledge 2008. Here are a few: First Thoughts After ASTD TechKnowledge Sessions. ASTD TechKnowledge 2008, Lots of Fun TK08 - Tony Karrer and Implementation of Social Learning How to Add Scenarios to Your Rapid E-Learning Courses.Rapidly!
Learning with e's
MARCH 4, 2008
It's been a week of lockouts. I spent most of last week over in County Kerry, on the extreme west coast of Ireland. It's beautiful countryside over there in and around Tralee, but it was bitter cold at times. (opposite is a picture I took of the Ardfert Friary ruins, northeast of Tralee). While I was there I shared a flat with three colleagues, one of whom is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany.
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E-Learning Acupuncture
MARCH 3, 2008
Do you really know who your students are and the challenges they face with education? If you answered 'yes' to this question then you are most likely in the minority. Check out this excellent video made by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. Very thought provoking! (Click here for the native YouTube page for this video.
The Learning Circuits
MARCH 3, 2008
Karl Kapp helped me with the March 2008 Big Question which is: What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals? This question comes from several recent experiences. One was a Chief Learning Officer panel discussion where it seemed that supporting informal learning or communities of practice was not something they were considering. There was also discussion on my blog around the fact that in corporations there is a limit to what we can do as a training organization (see Corporat
Tony Karrer
MARCH 3, 2008
I just saw a post by Chris - ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 Postmortem. I still need to do my more detailed session review, but I definitely left out a few thoughts in my posts Move to Front? and First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions. And really, Chris made me realize that I had left out a few things from some previous posts around Better Conferences and Conference Breakout Sessions. 1.
Vignettes Learning
MARCH 3, 2008
Oftentimes, I hear leaders and trainers moan, "learners can not be trusted, and they needed to be taught what to learn.†This is a frequent response when I tell leaders and trainers to allow learners to discover the learning points rather than a trainer directing or instructing the learner. What is the difference between these two approaches? Trainer to learner: "What do you think you should do to be effective on the job?
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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
MARCH 4, 2008
Rapid Intake has been quietly working on a killer elearning app. I totally dropped the ball on this one. I had the scoop on the story early and the old-school broadcast reporter in me wanted to be the first the break it and then bla, bla, bla.life happened.and all of sudden its released and it looks like I'm the last to post on it. Built on the Rapid Intake collaborative eLearning development platform, Unisonâ„¢ is a web-based solution that lets designers and subject matter experts (SMEs) co
Big Dog, Little Dog
MARCH 6, 2008
New Model Army - Metropolismag. Fine art has inspired a degree of discernment since cavemen doodled at Lascaux and is routinely dissected in publications as varied as Artforum, Time Out, and the New York Review of Books. Design, on the other hand, has only warranted formal scrutiny in the United States in the last 60 years, coinciding with the post-World War -- surfeit of stuff.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 2, 2008
As a comment on my last post First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions , Chris from eQuixotic reminded me that I could have asked the audience to move towards the front of the room to fill empty spots in order for them to hear. I thought about it, but decided not to. It certainly hurt the session to have a large room. But I also know that I hate having to move myself.
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