Upside Learning
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
I’ve spent an inordinately long time writing a whitepaper on mobile learning trying to expound our thoughts about it and how it might be used in the workplace. I’ve been doing some research around it and I’ve documented some of the better links I’ve come across. Again, as with the links I posted about Games and Simulation, these aren’t categorized in any way nor does the order assume any significance.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Audio is a powerful and impactful tool, but it is often used incorrectly within e-learning courses. I recently had a discussion with Dan Bliton in his role at the Metro DC ASTD chapter about this topic, here is a small part of the interview. A common question is "Should we have audio in the e-learning module that exactly matches the text on the screen?
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Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Yesterday I attended the Social Web incubator Bar Camp of the W3C , focusing on issues in web support for social media. It was a small group, overall, but an interesting group, including folks keen on issues like technical underpinnings (discussion of FOAF , RDF , etc), and folks with an interest in more applied topics like enterprise, health, and journalism.
eLearning Brothers
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
We’ve been building a lot of eLearning Flash templates lately and I started to think what I’ve learned that I might be able to share. Lots of people like to use templates to start a project. It speeds up development time and can help new users build some great content without having to know how to build it from scratch. However there are a few things that, if done properly, help the templates to be more user-friendly.
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Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
After my session at ISPI earlier this week, someone commented that what would have really been useful is a list of the top 10 authoring tools in the market. During my presentation, I flashed up on the screen a list of the 122+ tools listed in the Brandon Hall database. It was meant to be a bit tongue and cheek (breaking all rules for text font sizes!
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Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
There has been really great response to both Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending? and this month's Big Question: Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning. For both, lots of ideas that I never would have been able to provide on my own. I may be pushing my luck, but I received another question that I thought was a good question. By way of background, this person is a teacher/trainer who is bright and has lots of great experience teaching and training different adults across d
Moodle Journal
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Apart from my work here at Bromley Colleg with Moodle and all that that involves, some time ago, I think it must be about 7 or 8 years now, I discovered 3DML and started to do some developing with buidling 3D worlds or Spots as they were called back then. Anyway I built a Spot, and trialed it with my students with really encouraging results. But then the world moved on, which is when Second Life appeared; if you look down the left side bar you will see the link or slurl to one of my sims.
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
I had the great pleasure of speaking last night at the Massachusetts chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). It was a lively conversation and a wonderful opportunity for me to meet some of my online colleagues from the twitter sphere (thanks for coming, y'all!) as well as connect with some new folks in the Boston e-learning community.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
The definition of an economic bubble is, according to Wikipedia , “trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values ”.(Another way to describe it is: trade in products or assets with inflated values.) Universities and colleges have inflated values disproportionate to their value. A number of signs of the stock market bubble, technology bubble, and recent credit bubble point to the higher education bubble continuing to grow.
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Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
I just saw a couple of comments on my post Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending? that were asking about quality differences between a Blue Snowball mic and SHURE mics. While I wouldn't know the specific answer to this off the top of my head, I thought I'd show what I do to find a pretty close answer and some people who I could easily ask.
From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
If you’re struggling to think of what you’d like to receive or buy someone for Christmas, I’d recommend Ben Goldacre’s book Bad Science. Amongst other things it successfully and perceptively: . lampoons the nutritionist claims of the likes of Dr Gillian McKeith (whose only doctoral credentials appear to be having bought a mail-order doctorate from an American university); highlights the tragedy caused by the South African government’s insistence that garlic was more
eLearning Cyclops
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Learning Circuit's Big Question this month is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" In response, I have put together a list of strategies I feel are important and if done right can be effective. Management buy-in Demo its use to decision makers. Show them case studies (from your industry, if possible, and emphasize return on investment (ROI)).
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
ASTD , recently released their State of the Industry Report. Here are a few highlights. US organizations spent $134.07 billion on employee learning and development in 2008. $88.59 billion was spent on the internal learning function $45.48 billion was allocated to external services Average annual expenditure per employee feel 3.8% from 2007 to $1,068 The figure for learning expenditure as a percentage of payroll was 2.24% a small increase from 2007.
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Web Courseworks
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
One of my goals as an eLearning manager is to facilitate collaboration and efficient communication between my staff members, our clients, and their subject matter experts (SME). eLearning managers need to consider ways to encourage their staff to use visual representation tools for portraying concepts to each other, project sponsors, and SMEs at each stage of development and testing.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
I received a question today that I really wasn't sure how to answer and thought that lots of folks might have thoughts around this. Here's the question: I have some extra budget money and I need to invest in software and hardware that will help me create cutting edge, top shelf eLearning programs. I already have these software programs: Articulate Suite '09 Adobe Master Suite CS3 (Not sure that I really need to upgrade to CS4) Camtasia & Snag It Are there any other must have software program
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, November 02, 2009 Kineo e-Learning Development Survey We have already gotten over 100 responses to our survey. Take a few minutes to answer a few questions about e-learning development at your organization and youll get a free Articulate skin! Well be analyzing your responses over the coming weeks and let you know what trends and patterns we find.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Some interesting things are going on with the folks over at Linden Labs , the developers of the virtual immersive environment of Second Life. Second Life is going corporate. First, they are sponsoring a contest called The 2010 Linden Prize. As described: The Linden Prize will award one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD for an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world.
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ID Reflections
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
I had planned to write on topics like how not to turn a course into a content dump, about rapid authoring tools, and how performance outcome is related to course design, and other such matters of import to an instructional designer. But today afternoon has wiped the last vestige of all such thoughts from my mind…I can no longer pull out from my memory the careful outlines I had made for such posts… Currently, I have no idea what I am going to write in this post.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Great post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy where he discusses what Steve Balmer calls “the new normal”. Balmer talks about how a reset of economic expectations during the downturn has created an environment that is putting pressure on business to do more with less. Some of the specifics of this transformation are captured in the following graphic: This is lines up really well with a lot of what I discuss in Business of Learning and Trends in Learning.
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
We have already gotten over 100 responses to our survey. Take a few minutes to answer a few questions about e-learning development at your organization and you'll get a free Articulate skin! We'll be analyzing your responses over the coming weeks and let you know what trends and patterns we find. Tags: e-learning kineo.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
One of my favorite shows on TV is CSI because I like the mystery and putting together the clues to solve the crime. You can recreate those feelings with a couple of online games. The first is called Fraud Scene Investigator (FSI). This game is created in a comic book style with stylized images and events. The movement from one scene to another is done by shifting from one frame to another.
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eLearning Brothers
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
So how do you visually indicate where or what a user should click on? How do they know when they are supposed to interact with your course content? Here are some examples of what I call “click alerts&#. I like to use click alerts through out the course to help the user know when I expect them to interact with content. The click alerts below are made in flash and usually have a slight pulse or strobe.
TechSmith Camtasia
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
I'm sitting in Detroit, Michigan at the Airport watching people run to catch their planes, wrestle with their luggage, and herding children. It's good people watching today! :-) I'm getting ready to head across the pond for "Microsoft TechEd EMEA":[link] in Berlin! TechSmith will have a booth at the show, so if you're attending the tradeshow, please stop by!
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
The other day, I wrote on the topic of teacher performance and school reform in Bill Gates Puts his 2 Cents in the Pot (ok, a little more than 2 cents) then Clark Quinn of Learnlets posted a related comment and then expanded it in a really thoughtful post called Teacher preparation, and more , I think the discussion is worth following so check out these discussion threads and feel free to leave a comment on the entries, let us know what you think about teacher pay for performance and school refo
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The eLearning Coach
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
You can’t make it through a year of designing eLearning without having to write test questions at some point. If you don’t have formal training in this area or if you forgot what you learned in that sleep-inducing Educational Statistics class, this article is for you. ( Personally, I found my Educational Statistics textbook to be an excellent sleeping pill. ).
Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Socrates once said: 'I cannot teach anyone anything, all I can do is make them think'. And then there was Andrew Carnegie who said: 'People who can't motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.' Some teachers struggle to motivate their students, and some students find it hard to concentrate for long enough to learn anything.
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