Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

I got a good question via Ask a Question yesterday and would like to hear some other opinions on this issue: I’m very seriously considering a career change into ID. (I’ve spent 20 years in various business assignments with the last 8 in IT.) I’m involved in teaching extra-curricular activities to kids and adults in my community. I very fulfilled when I’m teaching and I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to follow this as a career path.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The other day at a presentation, a participant asked me how many companies have adopted mobile learning.was it widespread and if they where behind because they didn't have a full blown mobile learning roll out yet? The answer is that mobile learning is just now starting to get a foothold but it is not widespread by any means. In fact, two separate surveys indicate that m-learning is just now starting to become of interest to organizations.

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Lars is Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Here's an article I wrote a few weeks back for Learning Technologies magazine which has just been published. It's a fairly long post but if you make it to the end I would welcome your comments. == When unpredictable change becomes the only constant, learning on your own terms is an essential survival skill in these turbulent times, says Lars Hyland.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

I'm happy to announce the launch of eLearning Learning. This is the beginning of a community portal where the community will help to collect and organize the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding eLearning. To be clear eLearning Learning is a jump off point.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Recursive flower. These are my liveblogged notes from this morning’s live session for CCK08. Although I usually aim for a fairly complete transcript of live sessions, I spent more time paying attention to and participating in the backchannel chat today. Therefore, some of the questions and discussion near the end aren’t included in my notes.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Here is some interesting results related to playing video games from the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association that was held in August. The article, Playing video games offers learning across life span, say studies , does a good job comparing the good and bad of video games and states that: "The big picture is that there are several dimensions on which games have effects, including the amount they are played, the content of each game, what you have to pay attention to on th

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Over several months now, Harold Jarche, Jane Hart, Jay Cross, and I have been working on getting our arms around assisting people with the informal side of organizational learning. Ever since Jay’s book, Informal Learning , people have wanted specific ways to go about supporting this component of the organizational environment. And we’re close to a concrete solution.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

This month's question on the Learning Circuits Blog is regarding the best place to network, or receive feedback. I have used Facebook, Linked In, and I blog, but I still find that user groups , such as groups in Google and Yahoo, have been the best way to network. It is a very easy way, via e-mail, to request and receive advice, feedback, and network among peers.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I sat in on a great lunchtime webinosh with Dr. Will Thalheimer on smile sheets. My live blogged notes were beautiful and then poof -- my machine crashed and my notes are gone. The sorrow. ( Please oh please can I throw this laptop out the window now?) I won't attempt to recreate them -- don't have the time. But it was great, and I highly recommend you attend his next session on context.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Several weeks ago my original link to this video was lost. This video is from a local television station that interviewed me about Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. Unfortunately, somehow it was deleted. Finally, I found the lost footage and have been able to post it. You can see the original blog posting at Roll The Tape.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Next week is DevLearn , and as it’s run by the eLearning Guild, it’s always good. I’ll be switching time between two pre-conference symposiums , one on games, and one on mobile. Then I’ll be presenting on Deeper Instructional Design, doing Breakfast Bytes on (learning) games in the organization and one with Jay Cross on hot topics from the conference, and will be part of Jay Cross’ Learnscaping presentation.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Over on the Big Question, we are discussing Network Feedback which is basically how can you reach out and get help around a question. Almost the same time I posted the question, I received a question from a reader around Language Learning. The person works in a corporation in Turkey and is looking to find eLearning to teach employees English. I know there's a lot going on in online language training.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, November 06, 2008 Blogger's Hut in Second Life Scott Merrick (also check out Scotts SecondLife Blog ) runs the ISTEs Bloggers Hut in Second Life. Scotts Twitter bio describes him as a "teacher, learner,old hippy." Just the kind I like! I hadnt heard of Bloggers Hut before I got Scotts email telling me Id been nominated as Blog-O-the-Month.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Ok, I do not want to be political on this blog since today is election day in the US. Really, I don't care who you vote for (just vote) but no matter who you want to vote for.check out this video. The technique is really awesome. It embeds the name of any person into the video. Look for my name in the newspaper headline, on the cardboard box, on the Facebook page, on the scroll bar on the bottom.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

On Monday I went along to the Ramada Hotel in the Bayswater Rd for an event that was titled “Motivating Learners using Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts”. The day was organised by Dice UK and the presenter was Adrian Jarratt. The sessions were organised to achieve a nice balance between Adrians presentations, which were very informative and supplemented with notable comments and idea’s from Adrian; I found myself scribbling away a fair amount, and practical hands-on exercises.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

As a result of my recent change in my Approach to LinkedIn Connections , I've actually met quite a few people who read my blog, but I don't believe had ever commented. They were comfortable connecting with me via LinkedIn and since it offers mutual value it was worth the effort. It truly does feel like a (virtual) networking event. Interestingly, one of the people who connected to me suggested we might want to do the same on Facebook and Twitter.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, November 06, 2008 Learning About eLearning: Browse My Stuff Tony Karrer has just rebranded and launched eLearning Learning. Its kind of like Technorati, but community focused around the singular topic of eLearning. Ive added a widget to my blogs sidebar that lets you browse my stuff (it does the tagging for me, so I dont have to).

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Calling a meeting to order.sort of. The other day, a blog reader sent me an email asking about Immersive Learning and wanted some information about what it meant and how it is being used. So, here are some interesting facts and figures about immersive learning environments. But first, let's define the term. Immersive Learning—An umbrella term that refers to an online educational experience which is highly interactive in which the learning engages with the content to facilitate the learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Recently I mentioned how, many (many) years ago, we’d found that different folks flourished in different contexts for classroom communication. My takehome was that you should be eclectic in where you look, what you read, etc. I realized another outcome of this yesterday as well. Different people flourish in different media. Some are great to converse with.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Your rapid elearning software makes it easy to record your narration. Most of the time that works for you. However, there are times when recording your own narration doesn’t make sense. Today we’re going to look at when it makes sense to consider professional narration for some of your elearning courses. A Good Voice Doesn’t Equal Good Results. “Why pay for professional narration?

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Scott Merrick (also check out Scott's SecondLife Blog ) runs the ISTE's Blogger's Hut in Second Life. Scott's Twitter bio describes him as a "teacher, learner,old hippy." Just the kind I like! I hadn't heard of Blogger's Hut before I got Scott's email telling me I'd been nominated as Blog-O'-the-Month. How kind! If you spend any time in Second Life, all November visiting avatars will have the opportunity to click on the polling object in the Hut and vote for a blog to be featured throughout the

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

This might not be what McCain would have had you believe, but I will sleep much more soundly in my bed tonight now Obama has finally made it to the White House. The hostility to America that Bush has managed to engender has saddened me. Unlike many of my peers, I have always had a soft spot for America and most especially Americans. I worked for an American company for over ten years and made many very enjoyable visits as a result.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Some people don't know about this. It's a website called Newseum. Billed as the 'World's most interactive museum', it contains a very nice resource of newspaper frontpages from around the world. For example, this morning, via twitter, many of my friends shared links from this website to show a visual representation of the Obama Presidential victory.

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The Learning Circuits

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

This month's question comes out of part of the dialog that occur during the recent Work Literacy course. While discussing social networking for personal learning, the question came up around being able to reach out and get help from people or find expertise in the form of a person / conversation. Thus, for November we are exploring: Network Feedback In Getting Help , I discussed some aspects of the central question being raised.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Tony Karrer has just rebranded and launched eLearning Learning. It's kind of like Technorati, but community focused around the singular topic of eLearning. I've added a widget to my blog's sidebar that lets you browse my stuff (it does the tagging for me, so I don't have to). If you click on a topic you'll go to the hub, where you can access posts by others on the same topic.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Ok here's the second non-e-learning/training post for the week, and I promise to start focusing again really soon. Meanwhile: If you have not yet seen the film "Young @ Heart" then do yourself a favor. It will make your heart glad.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

For those who attended ALT-C 2008, and for those who didn't but wished they had, a report on the conference has just been published, nicely capturing the mood, highlights and reflections of the event. Thanks go to Matt Lingard and his team, Athina Chatzigavriil and Kris Roger, who have done a great job conveying the atmosphere and ambience of a very diverse and enjoyable conference.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

This weekend I'll be heading to San Jose for the eLearning Guild's DevLearn 2008 conference. Last year I managed to miss my plane and had to fly in and out in a day (see Senior Moments ). This year I hope to do a lot better and see a bit of San Francisco before attending the Adobe Learning Summit (on a press pass - it pays to be a blogger), then a workshop on scenario-based learning with Ruth Clark, before attending the conference itself.

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