Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I just watched the slides from Laura Kratochvil’s DevLearn08 presentation The Making of a Blockbuster: Using Cinematic Techniques in eLearning ( PDF also available ). I need to spend some more time thinking about how I can incorporate these ideas into what I do, but I really like the idea of focusing on emotional impact for online learning. Laura starts with the idea of storytelling, which is a powerful instructional design technique on its own, but goes further by looking at how visuals,

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

ASTD TechKnowledge 2009 is coming to Las Vegas in January. I'm doing two sessions including a keynote / general session - descriptions below. If you are planning to go to the conference and read this, please drop me a comment because Get Together at Conferences - F2F Still Matters. Better yet, go take a look at: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions Should We be Asking?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

I won't be blogging the rest of this week due to spending quality time with my family and recovering from eating all that turkey. So just, remember to be thankful for all you have, I know I am. Even in these tough times, we all have much to be thankful for. Enjoy the holiday. And if it isn't a holiday you celebrate.take some time to just give thanks.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Meeting Face to Face Yesterday I had the pleasure of working on-site with a client for the day. This is a group Ive been working very closely with for the past year. Although I talk to many of these people on an almost daily basis, I had never met most of them in person before.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

In “Inside Learning Technologies”, Vaughan Waller writes an interesting article article about the gap between what he regarded as e-learning good practice and how accountants said that they wanted to learn. He cites the example of his firm providing International Financial Reporting Standards e-learning and how he’d like to approach it.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Social media has many upsides but it also has a few downsides as well. Their is certainly value in many people creating all types of videos and you can find all types of good information on YouTube and other video sites but.you can also find some.not so good material and here is a parody of a contest involving YouTube. I rate the video as "fairly funny, LOL" (Contains some potentially offensive language.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Yesterday I had the pleasure of working on-site with a client for the day. This is a group I've been working very closely with for the past year. Although I talk to many of these people on an almost daily basis, I had never met most of them in person before. Nevertheless, their voices are deeply etched in my brain, and I could have picked any of them out of a lineup if we were going by voice and not visual.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It seems universal for e-learning staff - working with IT is a challenge. It certainly has been for me at the organizations I have worked. I do want to note that my current IT department has very talented and supportive staff. However, as with most IT departments, they are in big demand and dedicating the resources that are asked of them is challenging.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Someone asked me for an example of a conference using a Wiki both for organizers during planning, evaluating proposed sessions, etc. and for attendees with session pages, participant lists, that kind of stuff. Certainly we did parts of this for Corporate Learning Trends 2007. It was more aimed at the attendee side. I can say that this made pulling things together for the conference significantly easier.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It came up in the Corporate Learning Trends conference last week that one person was responsible for knowledge workers who were, as she claimed, passive learners. This is a really interesting issue, because it crosses several different areas. In research on education, it’s been found that what learners believe about their role in learning has an impact on the outcomes of learning interventions.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

As a culmination of our Corporate Track, students are required to answer an e-learning request for proposal (RFP), create a prototype of the proposed solution and give a 20 minute sales presentation to a group of representatives from various positons within the field of e-learning. Describing the rules of the exercise to CAC Members. This year we had two teams (seven students total) presenting their solutions to the Corporate Advisory Council during the student portion of the event.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I'm grateful to all those who have commented on my recent ' Monkey Business' post. I also seem to have stirred up some passion from the edublogging community, judging by some of the blog responses to my Edupunk rant on VLEs. Felix Grant (on his delightfully named 'The Growlery' blog) wrote a couple of posts agreeing with much of my argument that VLEs are overpriced, restricted in their functionality and poorly designed, and made the point that: "My own (frequent!

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I rely pretty heavily on Google Blog Search to help me find people who are citing blog posts of mine so that I can see that kind of conversation. Unfortunately, it looks like Google Blog Search has decided that they will now include the entire contents of the web page rather than just the contents of the RSS feed. What this means is that I now get links to every post where the author includes my blog in their blog roll.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

If you wanted to provide someone with an impression of the Wild West, you could show them an old John Wayne film, you could create a virtual frontier town in Second Life, or you could just introduce them to eBay. Over the past couple of years I have had cause to buy and sell some fairly high-ticket audio-visual items. First I bought a couple of Sennheiser radio mics that normally sell for about $750 each.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Here are all the posts related to the Fall 2008 Corporate Advisory Council Conference held at Bloomsburg University last week through our Nationally Acclaimed Instructional Technology program.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Warm wishes from me and Donald the Answer Dog for a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a little assignment for everyone, even those of you not here in the US. Get a piece of paper. Write: 1. One thing you are thankful for about your life, spouse, partner, or family. 2. One thing you are thankful for about your work. 3. One thing you are thankful for about yourself. 4.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I'm doing a keynote presentation at ASTD TechKnowledge in January on New Work Literacies and eLearning 2.0 and another session on Learning 2.0. I would really like to be able to point attendees, blog readers, and realistically a lot of other folks to a set of resources that would help them on these topics. But, I really don't have time to create what I want to create.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Berlin beckons again next week - i t's the end of the year, and it's time for OEB! Online Educa Berlin is without doubt the largest e-learning industry conference in Europe, and some would argue, the most influential. For many, OEB is the uber-conference for e-learning. For me it holds many memories of speaking to large and appreciative audiences, the remains of the Berlin Wall, the Checkpoint Charlie museum, Christmas markets, Unter den Linden, Alexanderplatz, Ka De We, and the Brandenburg Gate

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

The Corporate CAC presentations this fall began with a little snow fall at Monty's but quickly progressed into some great presentations and sharing of information. Here is a brief re-cap of the presentations. First Presentation Christopher Reese discusses Knowledge Management with CAC members. Christopher Reese opened the corporate presentations with a talk about Knowledge Management and NASA.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Note: This is a follow-up message to an item posted to eLearning Acupuncture a week ago (19 Nov 2008), so be sure to read the original post first before reading this post. I left off in the last post with the intention of testing if the use of cellphones in teaching contributed positively towards student learning. So here's the simple experiment I designed.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

An article in The Economist of November 6th entitled " Oh, grow up ", highlighted the way that blogging has entered the mainstream and explored the positive and negative implications of this. The article was prompted by the 'retirement' of A-list blogger Jason Calacanis, who complained that "blogging had become simply too big, too impersonal, and now lacks the intimacy that drew me to it.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

This is a couple of years old but it's the first time I've seen it. No surprise for any of you who've ever participated in an online community, online course discussion board, looked at Wikipedia. "In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Home Speaker Contact internet time alliance Learnstream Resources Internet Time Blog from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group An email of complaint sent to Air India by Jay Cross on April 23, 2007 Air India, Last month I purchased a Business Class ticket from Oakland to London with return to San Francisco. The cost was $4339.50. Copies of receipts and boarding pass stubs are attached.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

A 24-minute video prepared for the closing conference of “Establishing a Collective Understanding and Raising Awareness on Informal Learning in Turkey in the Context of Lifelong Learning&# in Ankara, Turkey. Find more videos like this on Internet Time. Tags: general.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Mark Oehlert kindly invited me to contribute to the Great ILS Challenge at DevLearn 08. Now I wasn't able to get to the event, but I did submit some slides describing my ideas for a game that would "reveal the 'ethical truth' of a person" You can see my slides on SlideShare here. They should be self-explanatory. But of course the real fun is that so many others contributed quite different ideas based on their own perspectives.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

This is the beginning of a huge paradigm shift for the Instructional Design community. Actually the shift started a few years ago but as I see it today we are finally seeing this as more than the next elearning fad. What is "this"? What is "it"? "It" is the reality that technology is turning everyone into experts and more importantly it is allowing all of the experts (everyone) to share their knowledge in a format that easily discoverable by anybody with a web connection.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

George Siemens’ and Stephen Downes’ online course, Connectivism & Connected Knowledge , has drawn to a close after a great twelve-week run. George writes: By way of a final analysis, thousands came, less stayed, and even less contributed. Did we change the world? No. Not yet. But we (and I mean all course participants, not just Stephen and I) managed to explore what is possible online.

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eLearning Weekly

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

In looking back at all the posts I’ve written, I’m surprised I haven’t mentioned usability and usability testing more. Usability testing is a critical process that too often gets skipped due to lack of time and/or resources. I decided to gather some of my favorite resources related to usability and present them here. I hope they save you some time, effort, and money.

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