Kapp Notes
JULY 20, 2007
Here is a video I created for my "Learning in 3D Class" which contrasts the world of 2D Synchronous tools with 3D Synchronous learning tools. I hope it illustrates some of the advantages of 3D environments and some of the things that can be done to faciliate learning within a 3D environment. The video is based on the work Tony O'Driscoll and I did for the e-learning guild's Synchronous Learning 360 Report.
Tony Karrer
JULY 17, 2007
I'll remind people when it gets closer, but if you read this blog and can come to a presentation in Irvine, CA on September 12, it would be great to have a few blog readers there. Details here.
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From the Coleface
JULY 17, 2007
I attended a Clive Shepherd webinar today and found that one of his early slides encapsulated what I’d been reflecting upon for a while. If a training identifies that learners need some learning content, it typically goes through the following process. Of course none of the enlightened L&D professionals reading this would think so simply.
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JULY 17, 2007
The Top 22 Business Processes which Drive Business Impact. In 2007 we conducted one of the largest-ever studies of corporate talent management: we interviewed and surveyed more than 750 corporations to gain an understanding of their business problems, their talent challenges, and their levels of maturity and sophistication in 62 different talent management processes.
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Kapp Notes
JULY 19, 2007
Avatar from ProtonMedia's ProtoSphere which will be discussed today. Today at 12:45 EST, I will presenting, along with Ron Burns of ProtonMedia a session titled Fostering Informal Learning in a 3D Learning Environment. It should be very interesting and a lot of fun. We will focus on how informal learning can be fostered in a 3D environment. Also, next Tuesday Steve Wexler, the Director of Research and Emerging Technologies, of the e-Learning Guild will be conducting conducting two webinars along
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eLearning Evangelist
JULY 20, 2007
I spoke recently at TeraGrid 07. My focus was on things the TeraGrid community could do to help school reform issues in this country. I've found some interesting information about our current K12 structure. I had thought the current calendar was based on an agrarian society, but recently saw an article that presented a different origin at least for the structure in some locals.
Kapp Notes
JULY 17, 2007
The second "Learning in 3D" class had a few technical difficulties. Second Life was slow and not everyone could log in. And our other 3D space was not accessible either. Our goal of this class was to view a number of educational locations to see what types of educational environments are being created within Second Life. We had a great guest speaker, one of our graduates, Bart Pursel.
Tony Karrer
JULY 14, 2007
Found via Dave Boggs - Consensus: Podcasting Has No 'Inherent' Pedagogic Value This would seem to be another article where the headline sounds more interesting than what the content turns out to be. The article tells us: The pedagogical value of podcasts depends almost entirely on student motivation and the learning "context" of the application. Podcasting does not contain any inherent value.
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Clive on Learning
JULY 20, 2007
Next week I'm off to Kuala Lumpur to speak at the Asian HRD Conference. It's a long way to go for an hour's presentation (and I notice that Eliott Masie's doing his piece by video link) but hey, I've never been there before. I'll try to keep you infomed of any interesting sessions that I get to attend. Of course I should be preparing and packing, but I got distracted trying out a piece of software called FaceFilter.
Kapp Notes
JULY 15, 2007
As an academic and a person who values research, I think it is critically important to our industry to back research and to use it to make sound judgments regarding the design, development and delivery of e-learning. One site I especially like is No Significant Difference. Will Thalheimer has done a fantastic job in promoting that agenda and so have the likes of Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard Mayer as well as others.
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JULY 16, 2007
Compliance-related training is a very big business. Bersin & Associates estimates that complying with regulatory guidelines accounts for as much as 30% of training-related technology expenditures. Many technology expenditures (LMS systems in particular) have been justified simply on the basis of keeping more accurate and accessible compliance records. .
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Learning with e's
JULY 17, 2007
I'm back safely on British soil again, courtesy of British Airways , who always get you there in the end. I'm worried about National Express though. They seem to be incapable of joined-up-thinking. They got me from Gatwick to Heathrow OK, but then I sat waiting for an eternity at Heathrow central bus station for the 500 service to Plymouth. It was delayed by over two hours due to 'traffic congestion' in London.
Clive on Learning
JULY 19, 2007
In Blood Flow and Learning , Michelle Gallen claims that: "When you sit down for more than 20 minutes your blood pools in your behind and feet?If you get up and move around your blood recirculates, and inside a minute, your brain gets a hit of about 15% more blood. This helps you think." Presumably that means that if you have a big behind or big feet then you're in even bigger trouble.
E-Learning Acupuncture
JULY 16, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar e-Learning Acupuncture Erics ramblings, experiences and random thoughts about e-Learning, distance education and Educational Technology. Monday, July 16, 2007 Definitions: Web-courses John Gedeon , an Educational Technologist from the University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago), recently contacted me with a question about my opinion regarding the definitions for courses that have different degrees of web-involvement.
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JULY 17, 2007
The Top 22 Business Processes which Drive Business Impact. In 2007 we conducted one of the largest-ever studies of corporate talent management: we interviewed and surveyed more than 750 corporations to gain an understanding of their business problems, their talent challenges, and their levels of maturity and sophistication in 62 different talent management processes.
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Learning with e's
JULY 15, 2007
It's a sweltering 37 degrees plus here in Heraklion today, and it's Sunday, a day of rest. I have seen several bearded Greek Orthodox priests milling around in their black robes and pillbox hats, and wonder how they keep cool. The heat is bearable if you can find periodic shade, but we're all cooking here. I guess you could say that we are the Sunday roast.
Clive on Learning
JULY 17, 2007
Back in early June I posted a criticism of Andrew Keen's anti-Web 2.0 book, The Cult of the Amateur. I received several comments on this posting, all supportive of my position. Recently, someone who goes by the name 'anonymous' posted this comment as a riposte: "The comments on this review underline the basic thesis of the book. Nobody goes to sites that provide them with views that are alternative to their own.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 20, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Slow Week.Goin Campin | Main | PSP in the Classroom (UK style) » July 20, 2007 Wanna new job? How about CEO at SocialText? Well, Ross Mayfield certainly knows how to stir things up. Ross is the founder of Social Text , "the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions.
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JULY 16, 2007
Compliance-related training is a very big business. Bersin & Associates estimates that complying with regulatory guidelines accounts for as much as 30% of training-related technology expenditures. Many technology expenditures (LMS systems in particular) have been justified simply on the basis of keeping more accurate and accessible compliance records. .
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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JULY 20, 2007
Facebook buys Parakey Facebook has just acquired an Operating System. A WHAT? Why in the heck, would a social networking company buy an OS company? From INSIDE FACEBOOK So what they also get are the 2 brains behind the creation of Firefox. Firefox's incredible flexibility and openness is what made it attractive to the Facebook folks. Facebook opened up to developers and now it has blown away the competition.
Clive on Learning
JULY 17, 2007
I've just finished reading Gordon Brown's latest book, Courage - Eight portraits , a study of eight particularly courageous people - the best known being Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, but six equally fascinating others - and what brought them to behave the way they did. Gordon, the new UK Prime Minister (in case you've been asleep for a very long time), was born the son of a preacher and the book reads a little like one of his father's sermons; as such, it is pretty inspiring stuff and
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 15, 2007
After-action Reviews - Kent Blumberg. The point of routine AARs is to capture lessons learned from each project, find ways to improve future performance, implement those improvements in your own area, and transfer the lessons to other parts of your organization. Users are transforming innovation - Financial Times. Academic researchers are rapidly converging on the notion that the most effective form of user-centred innovation involves design collaborations among many, widely distributed contribu
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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JULY 20, 2007
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm an eLearning Guild employee] The Research and amazing data is what initially guided me to the eLearning Guild. I know ALL of my Learning Colleagues use data. I also know they all need BETTER data. It truly doesn't get much better than this. But I want to here it from you. Check it out and let me know you think. Much of the data is FREE and it can help make better decisions about your career and so much more.
Learning with e's
JULY 19, 2007
We are just over one week into our new project after being given a free land grant in Second Life. My co-investigators Maged Boulos ( University of Plymouth , UK) and Susan Toth-Cohen ( Thomas Jefferson University , USA) have been busy developing the Sexual Health Education site on Education Island. While I have been away in Greece they have made some impressive progress.
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