Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 22, 2010

So, while SurveyMonkey’s research is interesting, it still doesn’t tell us conclusively what the effect is of over-questioning your clients. When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read. My vote to solve this problem?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. I’ll be seeing it again!

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, May 04, 2007 New Rapid e-Learning Tool from Epic Another new rapid e-Learning tool, this from Epic (UK). Posted by Cammy Bean at 8:42 AM Labels: epic , rapid e-learning 4comments: Dan said.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 4, 2011

They may by very knowledgeable about the technology behind a tool but can’t bridge the gap to explaining its usage to the people who will be using it, or they don’t know of the most effective learning solutions (e.g. ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning).

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That knowledge has to be replaced and distributed to personnel in different geographic locations, which is where distance learning becomes a necessity.&# Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That knowledge has to be replaced and distributed to personnel in different geographic locations, which is where distance learning becomes a necessity.&# Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

To be effective the game must make work seem like play. There are many elements of games and simulations that, when designed effectively, can help our learners achieve a state of flow: rich back stories and characters, compelling plotlines, and that delicate balance between something that is difficult, yet still achievable.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” Instead of getting answers, by the time it was over I found myself asking more questions. The webinar hosts didn’t have an answer. I’m not trying to discredit either of these firms whatsoever.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What more would you need to learn effectively on your mobile device? Best Buy has tapped into a present-day societal truth: people prefer learning to being taught. Mobile devices are just one set of tools that can be utilized to deliver this flexible, on-demand learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What more would you need to learn effectively on your mobile device? Best Buy has tapped into a present-day societal truth: people prefer learning to being taught. Mobile devices are just one set of tools that can be utilized to deliver this flexible, on-demand learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

If that doesn’t scream ‘revolution in learning’ then I should find something else to do. Sure, these are great tools, but how do we utilize them effectively to change how people learn in the workplace or at school? It may be too early to know for sure, but mark my words, these tools will change the learning landscape.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” Instead of getting answers, by the time it was over I found myself asking more questions. The webinar hosts didn’t have an answer. I’m not trying to discredit either of these firms whatsoever.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, May 21, 2007 Learning Styles as Fortune Telling My research into understanding the role of learning styles in e-Learning continues. Im struck by why I find this topic so interesting. We got Wii!

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APRIL 15, 2009

eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 eLearning Solutions Enterprise 2.0 Im not sure I buy how much real impact any of this will have on bottom line measures. Do we really believe they will be proxies for effectiveness? Im not trying to be flip.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2007

I can see how theorists might argue that reading text aloud to the learner addresses multiple "learning styles," but the real-world experience is one of frustration: you want to read ahead but you cant because the narrator reads more slowly than you do. Im with you. But I just thought that was my learning style. Youre right.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2010

The Business Case for Social Learning - Daretoshare , April 13, 2009 Job losses, combined with cutbacks in workforce development investments, mean that many companies are less able to serve customers, make sales or generate innovations than they were just a few months ago. The Business Case for Social Learning. Im looking for the Why?

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Learning Visions

MAY 16, 2007

The designer may assume that the multiple illustrations work because learners choose the representation that is most congruent to their learning styles. It is probably more accurate that such instruction is effective because the multiple illustrations induce learners to devote more time to these concepts. We got Wii!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 12, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, June 12, 2007 My Personalized Personal Work Learning Environmental World Tony Karrer asked in the comments on my PLE post yesterday , Im curious if you distinguish your learning environment (tools, skills, etc.)

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eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2010

These two facts make communication and common understanding of e-Learning issues hard to follow. It is important that e-Learning professionals, researchers, experts, and learners have a common basis in order to communicate effectively. Therefore, I have created the following list of e-learning glossaries.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

She raised the question about e-Learning content and how well companies keep track of content updates. Can you prove when and how your e-Learning content has changed? As an e-Learning vendor, I think its our responsibility to make sure that our clients have thought this through. Im sure it matters to them.

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eFront

JANUARY 5, 2011

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/02/2011 Top 10 Open Source e-Learning Projects to Watch for 2011 2011 is the e-Learning year!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Just as water will always find its own level by the path of least resistance, individual learners, working in collaboration and unhampered by the precepts of authority, tend to do an excellent job of finding and sharing what they need to know efficiently and effectively, even if they don’t necessarily know what they are looking for to begin with.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> Resources Down-and-dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses Joanna C. Dunlap Improving the Odds of Effective Collaborative Work in Online Courses Joanna C. Dunlap Learning 2.0 for Associations by Jeff Cobb (Update 11/30/2010: suggested by Christopher Pappas ) “In Learning 2.0

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eFront

JULY 12, 2010

Before CSS3 we would need to work with images or javascript to produce a round box effect. Actually, there are dozens of wide spread techniques to produce the round corner effect (for example, check [link] ) – which by its turn is a clear signal that there is no perfect solution.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind and decreases your ability to understand what is being presented." It should be ditched." "It

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 2, 2011

While Cisco’s success may be partly attributable to the ability of social media to effectively eliminate distance, you don’t need to be a multi-national to reap the benefits. When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Ive been working as an instructional designer in the corporate training and e-learning field since the mid-1990s. For me, instructional design is about designing "engaging and effective" asynchronous learning experiences (web-based training programs). Im a writer and a schmoozer. 12:23 AM Cammy Bean said.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 15, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, June 15, 2007 ADDIE: Its a Process This is probably an argument made in any Instructional Design 101 class; I dont think Im saying anything new here. You could apply the ADDIE model to software development, right?

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eFront

JUNE 1, 2010

Previously you had to create 4 different courses to achieve this effect. Consider a scenario in which you have a school with a physics course (which includes several lessons), separated in 4 different classrooms. Each classroom has its own teacher(s) and students.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

How much of the pedagogy used by IDs is less to do with learning and more to do with design? And by asking this, Im not suggesting that design isnt important, for it is - its seen by some as part of the pedagogy. I wonder about this, for scaffolding is important for the effectiveness of resources that are used.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2006

I'm slowly beginning to prepare for some future presentations and slowly writing a couple of articles that discuss the impact of relatively newer developments in eLearning such as: Rapid eLearning , the Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids , eLearning 2.0 , Podcasts, Wikis, Content Management, etc.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 16, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Give User Adoption the Respect it Deserves by Paul on May 17, 2011 in user adoption User adoption is the single biggest challenge when implementing new technology – it is now and it has been for 15 years.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some of them are your learners and they know how to use Facebook effectively! Using Facebook for e-Learning could inspire many of our students to learn. As a result, my question is how can we use Facebook for e-Learning? For an e-Learning course I would prefer a Facebook group instead of a Facebook page.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

(David) There will be 9x more smart phones in 2011 than there are today (PDAs, blackberries) M-Learning supports best practices in pedagogy (being able to reinforce content) Just-in-time vs. formal learning From mobile consumer to mobile producer Its a key issue to be able to integrate with many back-end business systems. Many thanks!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 18, 2007

Monday, June 18, 2007 Visual and Auditory Multi-Tasking From the Eide Neurolearning Blog: Voluntary Control of Attention - Visual and Auditory Multi-Tasking There is a yin and yang effect between visual and auditory attention. Maybe the "underadditive effect" occurs when a multimedia presentation does all the thinking for you.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

Reuben on the downside of rapid e-Learning tools: The emergence of "easy-to-use" authoring tools, however, has tempted us to believe that the instructional designer can do it all! Posted by Cammy Bean at 3:15 PM Labels: instructional design , rapid e-learning 44comments: Tony Karrer said.

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Breakthrough eLearning

JUNE 8, 2006

Video is another very effective tool in teaching. I went to your elearning-onestop site.what a great collection of resources! Actually I wrote about this in my blog: [link] Apart from spicing up the course, I use graphic to illustrate certain concept. Students can easily relate the graphic with their own experience. html index3.html

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