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The big mistake in elearning

Making Change

A fun example of the type of information that should go in job aids. How to get people to stop telling you, “Turn this information into a course&#. To practice steering your client away from an information dump, you might try this challenge. To see a bigger version on YouTube, click the movie when it’s playing.

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How to design action-packed elearning

Making Change

Decide what should information should go in a course and what should go in a job aid. I didn’t announce this one because it was my first time flying solo as both a presenter and moderator in Elluminate. Brainstorm realistic activities that help learners apply their new knowledge on the job.

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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

Animations when possible (in Elluminate, must do a slide for each change). Use information to connect learner & content. Image Credit : elluminate by shareski. Share example = Microphone. Brainstorm = chat pod. Demonstrate = Application share/web tour. PPTs for structure. Show something on the screen at all times.

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19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences

Tony Karrer

There’s some good information back in Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences , Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee , Online Conference Formats , and Conference Preparation. We’ve used Elluminate as our webinar system. Assign people into roles. Technical Issues. It has issues with firewalls. This helps a lot.

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Synchronous Software Scavenger Hunts

Experiencing eLearning

Application training via a synchronous tool like WebEx, Adobe Connect, or Elluminate too often ends up with passive learners. I had two groups of people who needed to learn how to access and read the reports available in Moodle, which was a perfect topic for the scavenger hunt as a way of finding information in the assessment reports.

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TCC08: Transitioning from WebCT to Sakai

Experiencing eLearning

Missed the beginning of the presentation due to my computer’s inability to start Elluminate in under 9 minutes). A: In the past has been mostly face-to-face, but are doing some mentoring through Elluminate too. Collected information from variety of users. Open-ended interview questions for faculty. Faculty responses.

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

Formal –> informal. We focus on formal learning & productivity but ignore informal learning and performance. Maybe there is a better term than “manage&# for riding the wave of information… Fundamental shift from Stocks to Flows of information: you don’t stockpile information, it flows around you.