The eLearning Coach

MARCH 1, 2010

This might mean telling the audience how a program will help them become more effective, more competent, or enable them to help others. Ensure feedback provides solid information and is phrased in an encouraging way. If you design for social interaction, consider providing guidelines to make the experience more meaningful.

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Design Cognitive Simulations Case Study 76

The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Not only are her revelations fascinating, but you get the sense that somehow she will help you hone your craft. This book is an excellent introduction to online user interface design, providing the background, thought processes and uses for just about every type of user interface element you can imagine. Sound familiar?

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Cognitive Social Networks Social Bookmarking Community 62

The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 21, 2009

They teach in an informal and casual style and give you the sense that they can help you become competent in whatever you’re trying to learn. Also, as a Regular member, you are not provided with exercise files that go along with each course. The instructors are knowledgeable. You only need to pay for one month at a time.

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Library Online Tutorial Google Docs 73

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 14, 2009

This helps them retrieve information quickly. If your content is logically and conventionally organized, it will help experts quickly fit new information into their existing structures. Quickly touch on prerequisites in a way they barely notice. Or have prerequisite content available as an extra resource. Keep it Organized.

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Expert Design Simulations Exercise 71

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Understanding the universe of options can help you match your need to the best approach. Each tool fulfills at least one of these criteria: encourages collaboration; enables user-generated content or input; provides a way to share; and facilitates informal or formal learning. Edublogs Campus. Category: Blogs. MindMeister. Wikispaces.

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Social Media Social Networks Wiki Media 83

The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

They prefer to partake in learning activities that help them reach their goals. Adults in the workplace prefer practical knowledge and experiences that will make work easier or provide important skills. Many adults have specific goals they are trying to achieve. In other words, adults need personal relevance in learning activities.

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Learner Picture Community Lecture 90

The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2009

For this particular course, we’ll remove content that can’t be remembered and provide it as reference material. It opens new worlds, provides new skills, changes attitudes and helps people advance in their careers. Personally, I even have a prepared speech about the limits of what people can retain.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

It might take ten tries to pull it altogether, but drawing definitely helps many of us to think things through. We might need to convince a client that training will solve a problem, show a SME a quick sketch for an interactive activity, or visualize some concepts to help a client understand where we’re going with an idea.

Authoring Tools 62

Authoring Tools Social Networks Social Bookmarking Picture 62

The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They serve to energize people, providing intensity and direction. A positive reaction to the experience should help the learner sustain attention. Many studies show that positive emotions can facilitate the processes of working memory as well as help long-term memory and retrieval. Motivation.

Cognitive 73

Cognitive Social Networks Social Bookmarking Attention 73

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They use authentic sounds to put the listener in the location of the interview, stories to provide the context of the segment and then insightful questions. We create a learning community where students, alumni and faculty can all help each other stay connected and up-to-date on the latest in the field. Thanks, Karl! Comment below.

Instructional Design 77

Instructional Design Design Wiki Simulations 77

The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Jay: Getting an answer from the Help Desk, asking Twitter friends for an answer, looking at a FAQ on a wiki. Other people are providing the context and the need, even if they’re not in the room. Coach: What are examples of offline informal learning? Jay: Learning to walk, talk, eat, kiss, smooch, run or ride a bicycle.

Informal Learning 76

Informal Learning Social Networks Informal Wiki 76

The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The effective 3DLE is designed to provide guidance as learners engage in discovery activities that facilitate the learning goals of the experience. I’ve been caught in an immersive 3D Learning Environment! Oh wait, this is just my office. I guess the book, Learning in 3D, has kind of rewired my brain. Individualized Guidance.

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Brain Cognitive Social Networks Virtual World 74

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 10, 2009

And if we want to help novices become competent in a particular content or skill area, understanding the expert brain can help us move in the right direction. In this way, an inter-connected network of knowledge provides multiple opportunities for retrieving knowledge from long-term memory. A Network of Knowledge.

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Brain Cognitive Expert Engineering 68

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Identifying the IT social media users and doing some initial legwork for them could help. Then continue to provide success stories to the next group on the continuum, moving along until you reach the Late Adopters. or “Can anyone help me?&# Get willing users to create buzz. Focus on the Audience and Organization.

Social Media 75

Social Media Media Communication Case Study 75

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 3, 2011

SMEs will often provide content resources and review design documents, scripts and media assets for accuracy. Encourage your expert to draw diagrams and mind maps whenever it will help you better understand the content. Leveraging the knowledge of SMEs is one reason that instructional designers are content neutral.

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Brain Expert Instructional Design Guidelines 79

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 22, 2009

It helps users quickly create content for Twitter or embedding into a web page, it promotes sharing and it’s entirely in the cloud. Use screencasts to provide on-demand support from a technical team, for internal and external clients. Screenr has a lot of potential for online learning. Screenr is trendy—it screams Web 2.0.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 15, 2009

In addition to providing instructions and wayfinding, microcopy can assure users that things are safe and secure. Through your little phrase, you are helping people get oriented, find their way, or feel assured. I thought I was supposed to click on the words, “click to expand.&# Was I frustrated? Remember its value.

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Tips Write Blog Social Networks Social Bookmarking 79

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

In addition to researching and developing content for courses, you may find yourself creating training manuals for webinars or the classroom, writing web copy, making reference materials, and developing Electronic Performance Support Systems, Help documentation, presentations and so on. The content on this page is organized alphabetically.

Organization 85

Organization Content Instructional Design Cognitive 85

The eLearning Coach

MARCH 28, 2010

Remember that your course will help someone. Your course has the potential to help another person become more competent at work, at life or at school. Sketching is a cognitive aid that might help you break through the doldrums. Advocating for learners is a purposeful and motivating mission. Get fascinated by the brain.

Instructional Design 84

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 84

The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Many of the higher end subscription services provide customers with access to multiple collections so you can search among millions of photos, making it more likely to find what you need. Some services even provide corresponding search terms with each photo, which can give you ideas for alternate keywords. Compelling Images.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 31, 2009

It will help you become more discriminating and sophisticated in your visual choices. Color helps us represent reality, provide focus, express emotion, connect information, increase legibility and create psychological impact. Aside from impressing your friends, there are practical reasons for learning more about graphic design.

Communication 82

Communication Reference Tutorial Photo 82

The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

You can help this situation by providing a visual of a simple framework showing how the course’s information fits together. Most important, provide novice learners with content that’s logically organized for how they will use the information. Relate Content to Something Known.

Design 61

Design Beginner Expert eLearning Strategy 61

The eLearning Coach

MARCH 8, 2010

The publisher provides a list of sites where you can download the application. It’s open source software, yet actually has some Help documentation. This is supposed to work more smoothly than the software that comes with Windows for burning CDs and DVDs. It creates data backups, video DVDs and music CDs. DOCUMENT CREATION.

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Software Free FLV Audacity 74