Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The second half of the prediction “self directed learning” got less attention during the year than I anticipated, but it was there and certainly was a big part of the discussion around social and informal learning. Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0

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Learning Visions

MARCH 5, 2008

Are you being content centric or learner centric ? And probably killed a learner or two in the process, if they even bothered to stick with it. And probably killed a learner or two in the process, if they even bothered to stick with it. Learner Centric Solutions This is what were all striving for, right? Its all there.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 The Big Question This months big question from the Learning Circuits Blog: What did you learn about learning in 2007? I learned that connecting with the blogging community has helped me get more passionate about my work as an instructional designer. Worst grade ever. Youll be safer.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 3, 2009

Problems include the desire to narrate every word (when there are already too many words) and the belief that adding any visual will "appeal" to "visual learners". 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? But keep spreading the word! 5:02 PM MCSE_Karrox said.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

"The reason researchers roll their eyes at learning styles is the utter failure to find that assessing childrens learning and matching to instructional methods has any effect on their learning." Clark & Mayer address this a bit in e-Learning and the Science of Instruction when talking about closed navigation vs. learner control.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2009

So youve got some great ideas on how to make your content more engaging , how to get the learner into the flow. Admit to the learner upfront that the content may be dry. Michael Allen urges designers to provide "meaningful and memorable learning experiences." Sell the course to the learner. Set the expectation.

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Learning Visions

JULY 7, 2009

But now I’m starting to loosen up a bit, with help from my Kineo colleagues. Let the learner explore. Compel the learner to want to find out what comes next. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? I’m such a n00b. How constricting!&# Thanks especially to Matt !).

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Strategies that help learners connect with and remember the content. Or chunk out your content and create an easily remembered acronym to remind the learner of the steps they need to follow? She described getting her learners to "snap things out." How could you do that in an e-learning experience?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 6, 2007

But there seem to be some similarities between that and informal learning/DIY learning -- all this adult stuff weve been talking about lately. So, the question is, can we make the Montessori Method a part of the coporate learning environment? Is that what all this informal/DIY/learning 2.0 Games for Girls.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

How do you help your learners get into a state of flow ? 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It. Go for flow, not fun. (Of Of course, sometimes they coincide.) (Now

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

9% Hit us Hard 47% Hurt a little 41% Not much effect 3% Helped us MYTHS the Business Side Has about Learning Client asked him to develop a course for business side. To help improve on-the-job learning. Manager think learning and development is a low-priority part of their role. Learners know how to learn.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

[In the comments of this post, Karl clarifies: hes not suggesting pre-test questions, but rather a series of thought-provoking questions to get the learner to THINK about the content at hand]. He suggests a list of potential outcomes with check boxes , effectively allowing the learner to create his or her own objectives.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2007

Theyve also got an audio interview with Dr. Itiel Dror who discusses the brain and e-Learning. Dr. Dror is a cognitive scientist, who urges instructional designers to keep the focus on the learner rather than the learning materials and to design the learning experience to the human brain. Get into the learners shoes.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Learning News Microsoft just released Semblio , a new authoring tool Skype 4.0 much better video) Question of the Week -- Economy How has economy affected your Learning Unit? Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?) What are the measures of success?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Posted by Cammy Bean at 9:51 AM Labels: art history , e-learning , mona lisa 1 comments: Lindsey N said. Hey thanks for posting this, it might help me in my art history class and my e-learning class! 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Where Are All the Women?

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Here are some of specific ideas Ive taken from a few sources that (Im hoping) will help me design a kick-ass course: Chapter 2 of Gadgets, Games & Gizmos for Learning by Karl Kapp. Even something as simple as having the learner type their ideas on the screen. Michael Allens Guide to e-Learning.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Use multiple representations to provide the learner with multiple ways of accessing the information: visual or auditory. From the CFT vantage, multiple representations is not about providing the same information in a different format (the learning styles approach), but rather presenting different perspectives on that information.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

I havent signed up anywhere, I havent taken part in any of the sessions, but Im like a moth drawn to the flame: as I peer in on all the conversation beginning to happen, I cant help but join in. 9) Stephen Downes ( What Connectivism Is ) talks about the role of the teacher = model and demo; the role of the learner = practice and reflection.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 18, 2007

One test showed me to be a VKA learner (Visual, Kinesthetic, Auditory). The TIPP learning theory showed me to be Traditional Personal with a visual preference (although I was also high on the auditory scale). 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 9, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? The challenge in 3D world is the steep learning curve, which may daunt most IDs and eL content creators.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

And how many e-Learning courses have you created with on-screen text bullets timed to narrative audio? You know -- appeal to multiple learning styles; address the needs of both auditory and visual learners. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Raise your hand.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Vicki states as the first benefit of learning objectives: "Learners can focus more easily on what is important to their actual workplace performance." Her statement is in keeping with traditional instructional design theory that says that learning objectives help learners organize their learning efforts.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 2, 2008

Here are eleven helpful tips on the subject from Western Properties: 1. Todays challenge: apply one of the eleven helpful tips mentioned in this article to eLearning/instructional design. Dont linger too long on any point--keep things moving to keep learners (especially those "sensitive" women) engaged. Pick young married women.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

I created characters that the learner follows throughout the course. Learn from this manufacturing group and how they applied these principles to their work place. We had to go with lockouts, meaning the learner must go through the topics in order and cant advance to the next topic until the previous topic has been completed.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Many lessons learned. Small scale, help demos. Professional Development Reading The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles, et al. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2007

In the context of e-Learning (back then it was just plain old CBT), this meant you had audio/video on the screen with timed text bullets. The learner could listen to the audio if her preferred style was auditory, OR read the text if her preferred style was visual. Obviously, there is diversity in learning.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Is Learning Designer more descriptive? Am I now thinking about learning solutions – all the myriad ways to help someone actually learn – not just how to feed someone up with a little instructional tidbit? you convinced me "we" were learning designers months ago. Is it more all encompassing?

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Learning Visions

JUNE 9, 2009

Something like 60-70% of the learners preferred the rough version, created by the expert. And create content that learners will trust. I have also had SMEs, and myself, do the audio piece and the authenticity does help. Here are my top goals for learning / orientation building blocks: 1. Eliminate the middle-(wo)man.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2009

And at times not, especially when we find it is a performance management issue, which we also help find a intervention for. My issue, personally, is when customers (these are internal customers) try to "order" e-learning, making the assumption that the best approach is an online one.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2007

Product Vision: This is a key area where blogging has really helped me lately. How can I help our clients better use our tools? What strategies are helping other vendors succeed? e-Learning Strategy Consulting: This is a new area for me. 2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design?

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Learning Visions

JUNE 5, 2007

My job is to help this organization think about how they can use technology to support learning and community. Tony Hirst writes In Personal Learning Environments are also Social. Lifelong learning. Lifewide learning. The tool, the environment can only belong to the learner. Its a very exciting project.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Doesnt change the basic model of an expert/teacher delivering to a group of learners. Collaboration Software Learner generated content (instead of teacher preparing things, learners put things online and edit together. I would like to ask for some help: My team and I plan to develop an e-learning system for our university.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

e-Learning should be all neat and tied up in a nice wrapper with a Next button that moves you through a content checklist and a great assessment at the end. This may be why the concept of informal learning is such a hard sell. The key is there still needs to be some structure and good coordinate -- good facilitator helps.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 29, 2007

2 ► January (14) Learning Visions Has Moved What Is Instructional Design? Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It. Learning Mate Demo Learning from Observation Rise Up and sing you e-Learning designers of the 2. At least, I would hope thats what Im doing.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Has been working with Judy Brown, who is also quite passionate about m-learning. Loves any new technologies that helps us achieve our goals. Mobile helps us meet needs that we havent been able to touch before. What is m-Learning? Content that helps people perform their tasks better. blogging from your iPhone).

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

With all the research behind online social learning environments and the impact it has on the learner (which I agree with and promote), I always feel that one major piece is still being overlooked and still isnt hasnt become a big part of online learning communities. Non-Verbal Communication and/or Body Language.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

I started my professional life in operations -- behind the scenes helping people do their jobs better. I was a classroom assistant and lead teacher at a trade school for adult learners -- very hands-on (quite literally -- its massage therapy). Ive created a lot of bad e-Learning over the years -- page turner after page turner.

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