#DevLearn Email courses
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 26, 2018
This session was about a simple but rather cool idea sending out a spaced course via email. I think it is a cool idea if you do not have an LMS or do not want to use it.
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Jane Hart’s op 200 Tools for Learning
Challenge to Learn
SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
Writing down my thoughts, experiences, and ideas in WordPress in the form of a blog is still one of my best ways to learn. I have to say that, initially, I was not a big fan, but it has grown on me significantly. We use Zoom for internal meetings, webinars and learning sessions with customers.
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Make e-Learning work: Outcome learning
Challenge to Learn
SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
At easygenerator we use these ideas to give direction to product development and our market approach. Over the past year I joined these ideas, tried to develop them further and I renamed it to ‘outcome learning’. Although I developed these ideas to give direction to easygenerator I believe that they apply in a broader context.
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Help me build a how-to-guide for the #elearningmanifesto principles
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 27, 2014
I came up with the idea to write 22 blog post (one on each principle) in an attempt to answer these questions. Therefore I call on you to send me your ideas/links/input on every one of these principles. I noticed that quit a few of them have two major questions: How do I implement these principles? I will moderate them into 22 posts.
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#DevLearn retrospective: Start dreaming about the future of eLearning
Challenge to Learn
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
We do have some ideas but we know we can’t figure this out without our partners and the users of our authoring tool. Any user can click on it and can come up with a suggestion or an idea. All ideas will go direct to our product owner who is responsible for the product development. And we will.
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New Learning metaphors: presentation on learning maps at #LSCON12
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 16, 2012
I will present my ideas about new learning metaphors and will show some examples of possible solutions. A great opportunity to get feed back on this ideas and I hope to get some new ideas from the audience too. I will present concurrent session 311, Wednesday at 14.30 in the International Center Room.
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163 #ASTD2014 keynote: Kevinn Caroll: Play
Challenge to Learn
MAY 7, 2014
went into the army as translate for 10 years, than became an NBA coach and ended up with Nike in a free role he called ‘Katalyst’ A role where he helped others turn ideas and dreams into practice.He He promotes the idea of play to solve problems, innovate and many other things. Learned his live lessons at the play ground.
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#DevLearn: Lisa Minogue: What organizations can learn from the MOOC experience
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 30, 2014
One of the most interesting ideas is to reuse MOOCS content and wrap your corporate context around them. She presented lessons learned from MOOCs that can be applied to corporate learning. Here are my notes: e-Learning DevLearn lessons learned for corporate learning MOOCs'
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What did 100 blog posts bring me?
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 7, 2012
I use my blog to try out ideas. With the responses I can improve my idea or decide to drop the idea. There is less room for loose ideas and opinions in comparison to this personal blog. When I started out I just wrote about my learning experiences in my work and at conferences. But that has now shifted.
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Easygenerator: a great place to work and grow
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 23, 2021
When we started building Easygenerator back in 2013, we had a vision about our product, but we also had a clear idea about what kind of company we wanted to become. We knew that it is the people that make your company; they define the heart and soul of the company. Now, eight years later, we are the company I hoped to become.
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148 Creating an e-Learning piranha network!
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
The key idea of the book is that small agile companies working together can create innovative solutions in a pace big corporations only can dream of. You can use standards like SCORM to make sure that your new ideas will be working in that environment, but I want more.
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Learning objectives and how to create them
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 28, 2014
The idea is that we help people in this way to create better courses. Everybody knows (or should know) that learning development starts with defining clear learning objectives. In the new web edition o f easygenerator you can’t create any content or questions without creating a learning objective first.
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Project Tincan: What should SCORM 2.0 look like?: Participate!
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
On their website you can add ideas, vote for others ideas and you can assign for an interview with Ben to discuss everything in more detail. I will not bother you with all my wishes (except one!) you can make op your own and participate in the project.
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Valve handbook: an unique way to organize talent and business
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 21, 2012
The idea is that they are best capable to decide where they are of the biggest value for the company (and for the customers). For me books like this are interesting because the ideas are so far out of the box that it stretches your own boundaries. Roles are fluid and can change when the requirements of the work change.
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Online Educa Berlin 2011 recap
Challenge to Learn
DECEMBER 4, 2011
I love this idea it gives a whole new perspective on learning content using well-known paradigms from geographical maps. The only thing I don’t like about this idea is that I haven’t thought of it myself. This idea really got me exited, we will explore this further, but I can envision what this can do for e-Learning.
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People that inspire me: my 5 eLearning heroes
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 21, 2015
Read this interview with Michael Allen, it is a great way to get to know him and his ideas better and to get inspired by him. I wrote several blogs on her ideas because her ideas may have the most direct impact on my work. I wrote about their ideas several times in this blog so check that out for more detail.
A new methaphor for e-Learning
Challenge to Learn
JANUARY 22, 2012
I hope to share my ideas in more detail and get feedback on them and hopefully will receive some suggestions on the direction to take. If you have examples or ideas you want to share with me, that would be great. In the meantime I will keep my eyes open for other possibilities.
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Start-up growth Challenge
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 6, 2018
I have an idea, a vision of the direction in which our product and company should grow. I have my product manager, who leads the product development as I supply him with new ideas. Guarding the company’s direction is another main task. We are only at the very early stages of that master plan.
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124 Improve your lessons: 3 ways to make them more effective
Challenge to Learn
MAY 3, 2016
The idea is that you replace instruction by a video or an e-learning course (or a combination. How to improve your lessons: Flip, repeat and automate. Flip your classroom. If you ‘ flip your classroom ‘ you reverse the lecture and homework elements of a lesson: do the lecture at home and do homework at school.
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181 Webinar: Didactics, Management theory, Agile and new learning metaphors equals Outcome learning
Challenge to Learn
JANUARY 29, 2012
I order to make it more complete I now added principles from Agile (Scrum) software development and my ideas about a new learning metaphor. In the earlier version I combined didactic principles with a management theory. I presented on this subject at the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas last November.
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My E-learning predictions and plans for 2011 #LCBQ
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
Therefore I created a LinkedIn group called the ‘ e-learning piranhas ‘ This group is aimed at collaborating on those ideas to make them more concrete, sharing our knowledge and insights, and creating partnerships that can convert these ideas into tools. Kasper Spiro: My E-learning predictions and plans for 2011 #LCBQ.
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Agile eLearning development (3): Best practices, Demo’s, user stories and backlog
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 4, 2013
A user story can be initiated by an idea or a problem (bug). Based on the estimation we also will have a good idea what we can do for the next version and what not. Of course they need to be connected to the goals (as I described in an earlier post). A user story describes a change or new functionality from the perspective of a user.
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The how to guide on the principles of the #elearningmanifesto: 1 Do Not Assume that Learning is the Solution
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 30, 2014
The idea is that I will receive and include contributions of others as well, so please sent me your ideas, best practices, great theories and whatever you come up with at mail@kasperspiro.com or put it in a comment in this post. Of course I do not have the knowledge nor the experience to cover this completely by myself.
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Food for thought: 50 Educational thinkers
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 15, 2012
Yet most learning professionals have at best a sketchy idea of learning theory and the minds that have shaped this theory, and practice.’ Businessmen know of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and Bill Gates. Even criminals would know of Guy Fawkes, Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler.
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Teachers and trainers: Use eLearning to flip your classroom and take it one step further
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
The idea is that you replace instruction by a video or an e-learning course. Originally the flipped classroom idea was done very simple. If you ‘ flip your classroom ‘ you reverse the lecture and homework elements of a lesson: lecture at home and do homework at school. This is the advantage of the flipped classroom.
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100 Generating an Easy startup
Challenge to Learn
NOVEMBER 12, 2010
I have high expectations; I have received a ‘product tree’ from them with tons of ideas. Getting the priorities right is not easy, especially if you have my mind, I can come up with a thousand ideas. We will start planning some short-term developments on the software and start working on a roadmap for the product.
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114 Reflection: my first 265 days as CEO of easygenerator
Challenge to Learn
AUGUST 23, 2011
So I decided that it would be a good idea to restore that balance. A great way to spread your ideas. The other thing is that the market will decide if these ideas (and our product) do add value for them, I can’t imagine a better way to get feed back on a vision. I read back some posts and he is right.
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Easygenerator to launch new free web based eLearning authoring software at #DevLearn
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 21, 2013
The idea is that this web edition will grow over the next 12 to 18 months into a solution that can replace our current windows edition. TinCan enabled HTML publication. Since we developed this application for the future we choose for a TinCan enabled HTML publication. This first edition has no SCORM, but we will ad that later.
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221 My blog as a learning experience
Challenge to Learn
DECEMBER 22, 2010
The other two are just a way of catching thoughts and ideas and reflect on them. But by writing them, I forced myself to think about these topics in a different manner and make my ideas concrete by writing them down. That’s the way it works for me more and more. I have a hole bundle of draft blogs that I will never publish.
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154 User Interface lessons applied to eLearning
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 28, 2016
It also generated ideas that we will implement in Easygenerator and I found that a lot of the findings will apply to the development of eLearning courses as well. Our idea is to give information to the author based on the behavior of the learners, indicating the flaws in the course all based on XAPI data. But that is the future.
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Learning Solutions conference: the day after. #LS2011
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 27, 2011
Overall I got confirmation on my ideas where e-Learning will be going. But I got more, my ideas are deepened and enriched. It would be interesting to find out what is more effective the US or the European way. Confirmation. In my ‘ vision ‘ post I addressed a number of issues.
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169 Salesforce.com: “Behind the cloud”, shines the sun
Challenge to Learn
MAY 11, 2011
He describes in 111 plays how Salesforces grew from idea to billion dollar company. This gave him an opportunity to attract more interest in his ideas. I have read the book ‘ Behind the cloud ‘ by Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce and I liked it a lot. He wants to move software from to PC to the cloud.
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#LSCON and #ECOCON day one
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 25, 2015
We came up with some nice ideas. I had a whole bunch of other meetings, some business meetings with which I will not bore you. But I also spoke with Bill Brandon about publishing some articles in the Learning Solution magazine. But again, you can do this as well.
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#LSCon day 1, Leapfrogging serious lean agile innovation performance ecosystems for 90%
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 20, 2014
The essence of his story is that good breakthrough business ideas always have a form of surprise in them. This sparked the idea of surprise that he investigated more. He had an example of a café in Paris that is regarded the number one place (from 30,000 competitors) to be. Not something you would expect in a café.
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Improve your lessons: 3 ways to make them more effective
Challenge to Learn
MAY 3, 2016
The idea is that you replace instruction by a video or an e-learning course (or a combination. How to improve your lessons: Flip, repeat and automate. Flip your classroom. If you ‘ flip your classroom ‘ you reverse the lecture and homework elements of a lesson: do the lecture at home and do homework at school.
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100 From output management and e-Learning to output learning
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 27, 2011
Recently I have reviewed a lot of e-Learning courses to get ideas for our further product development of easygenerator. One of the things I noticed was that learning objectives often play a secondary role or no role at all. Writing this post created some new insights for me. ‘Output learning’ might be an option.
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Join me in a Q&A session on easygenerator and eLearning
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 25, 2015
Do you have ideas or requirements that we do need meet? Do you have questions about easygenerator, how to get the most out of it? Do you have questions in general about eLearning? Join me at one of my weekly Question & Answer sessions. from now on I will be available each Thursday 5 PM CET, 11 EDT to answer your questions on this topic.
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100 LSCON: day 2 Erik Wahl (wow!), curation and again a lot of people
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 22, 2012
This video will give you an idea his of performance. We entered the Grand ballroom and they announced the keynote of the day: Erik Wahl with a presentation on ‘The art of Vision’ Music started (a beautiful day by U2) a guy jumps on stage and starts painting. After the music stops he has painted a portrait of Bono.
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157 The power of storytelling
Challenge to Learn
MAY 5, 2011
The idea behind ‘corporate storytelling’ is simple. I also told stories to my kids before they went to sleep, I had some characters like boef-mega-boef (translated that would be crook-mega-crook) and my kids where always the hero that saved the day. A story is easier to remember than a mission statement.
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Why I love mindmapping in MindNode
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 1, 2014
I love to mind map It is such an easy way to organize your ideas, but I use it for much more. If I take notes in a meeting, a conversation, a discussion, a presentation, a conference session, I will do that in the form of a mind map. Tony Buzan claims to have invented them.
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134 OEB11 Scenarios for the future of corporate e-Learning: participate! #lrnscen
Challenge to Learn
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
The idea is that this session was only the start of the process and we will collaborate through the website and work further on the scenarios. The groups all reported back on their outcomes. Hans en Willem gave us an assignment: we must look for trends at the online Educa conference and report them back to them.
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Learning path in easygenerator: beta testers wanted!
Challenge to Learn
JULY 10, 2015
Not only can you help us improve the current application, we also love to hear your ideas and your priorities for the further development. We will make it possible that you can only do a next step (or the final exam) when you reach a certain score, there will be certificates and more.
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70:20:10 and user generated learning: no way!
Challenge to Learn
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Even companies that like the idea of User Generated learning are uncertain about this; will my organization embrace this idea? This will not work for us: Objections! How many people will actually start creating content, how to control quality, will there be a good return on investment? And more questions like these.
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Returning to the didactical roots: innovation in eLearning?
Challenge to Learn
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
But the bottom-line is that this idea is independent of a tool, it is how you organize your development process. Create learning maps, where the learner can navigate through on his journey to reaching his learning objective. Create better support for case based and scenario based eLearning in the authoring environment.
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