The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 19, 2010

Before you just place any old photo into an online course or informational web site, it’s a good idea to think about whether a realistic graphic is required. Low-fidelity graphics can be more effective for learning when you need to: Provide an explanation to people with limited knowledge of the content.

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Scanning Cognitive Effectiveness Social Networks 105

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? 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.

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Social Media Social Networks Wiki Media 83

The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

It refers to the space instructional designers can give learners during instruction; the mental pause; the purposeful omission; the resting place that provides the time and space to use natural cognitive strategies to absorb things. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment. Quantity Of Information.

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Cognitive eLearning Strategy Picture Specialist 57

The eLearning Coach

JULY 27, 2009

It refers to the space instructional designers can give learners during instruction; the mental pause; the purposeful omission; the resting place that provides the time and space to use natural cognitive strategies to absorb things. This can be difficult to provide in an eLearning environment. Quantity Of Information.

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Cognitive eLearning Strategy Picture Specialist 57

The eLearning Coach

MARCH 1, 2010

Ensure feedback provides solid information and is phrased in an encouraging way. Using collaborative tools and social media can help learners build relationships, cooperate on tasks, and provide support and feedback to each other. You can provide humor in an unexpected moment or add an unusual twist to generic scenarios.

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Design Cognitive Simulations Case Study 76

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. Instead it means learning dictionaries where information can easily be looked up and retrieved. The impact of informal learning is huge. It does not mean “shrunken slides.”

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 30, 2010

Just click the header for each event for more information or go directly to the Register here link at the end of each description. Informal Learning: 5 Ways to do More with Less with Jay Cross. The first two are free and the last one is for members of The eLearning Guild, which I think is worth the membership price. Register here.

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Instructional Design Rapid eLearning eLearning Guild Social Networks 40

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 14, 2009

Expert knowledge is deeply intertwined, creating many paths for recalling information. So a slight nod to a prerequisite topic will ensure they recall the information. This helps them retrieve information quickly. Expert knowledge seems to be efficiently organized and easy to search through, like an orderly file cabinet.

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Expert Design Simulations Exercise 71

The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Thinking through what a particular audience group needs and how they will react as they proceed through a course provides a tangible focus for the design. Gather Information First. With this information in hand, write a descriptive profile of an audience group member. Then Write. How To Use Personas.

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 3, 2011

SMEs will often provide content resources and review design documents, scripts and media assets for accuracy. It’s difficult for experts to minimize information—they know so much. Review your notes and clean them up so the information is clear. Use sticky notes to indicate where there are gaps in the information.

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Brain Expert Instructional Design Guidelines 79

The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Promotes Informal Learning. By now we’ve all heard that the majority of one’s learning occurs informally. Whether it’s related to work, recreation or personal development, an immersive environment can be designed for creating the appropriate context and conditions for informal teaching moments.

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Brain Cognitive Social Networks Virtual World 74

The eLearning Coach

OCTOBER 12, 2009

As soon as we’re given a brain dump of information, we automatically come up with ways to organize and slim things down. For this particular course, we’ll remove content that can’t be remembered and provide it as reference material. It’s an instinct. We’ll take other content and turn it into a FAQ.

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Instructional Design Coaching Instructional Instruction 67

The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Online image editors and other multimedia production tools provide access to a host of new and often less expensive applications. While online applications for webinars, presentations and mind maps provide new ways to learn and collaborate online. Open Source Software. Some organizations forget to add in the costs of customization.

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Social Networks Authoring Tools Trends Online Learning 76

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 10, 2009

When knowledge structures are inter-connected, many retrieval cues will call up the same information. If the sounds don’t retrieve the relevant information, the mechanic might ask you to describe the problem. This speeds up searching for the right information and is another characteristic for making information easy to retrieve.

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Brain Cognitive Expert Engineering 68

The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 25, 2010

Cognitive psychology uses an information-processing model to explain mental operations in computational terms. Salvidar, a doctoral student in the above science, does a good job of culling informative and relevant articles at his site. He provides a short summary and a link to the original. Your resources are below.

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Cognitive Social Networks Courseware Brain 72

The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 15, 2009

In addition to providing instructions and wayfinding, microcopy can assure users that things are safe and secure. This assures potential users that their information will be safe and was definitely worth the 16 hours it took to write. .&# Good microcopy gives your audience the information they need in a small space.

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Tips Write Blog Social Networks Social Bookmarking 79

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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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

He makes a good case for developing independent learners and outlines the advantages of informal learning—it’s cheaper, more responsive, less controlling, less patronizing and more in tune with the times. Then continue to provide success stories to the next group on the continuum, moving along until you reach the Late Adopters.

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Social Media Media Communication Case Study 75

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As a result, designers and developers who can think visually are able to envision the final product, conceive visuals for content and visualize how information fits together. When I have a lots of information and content to understand and organize, I sit on the floor with large pieces of paper and start diagramming like mad.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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. Apply this knowledge to your eLearning courses to provide a richer user experience. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. Sound familiar?

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Cognitive Social Networks Social Bookmarking Community 62

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 22, 2009

Screenr is a speedy way to get information out to an audience. Use screencasts to provide on-demand support from a technical team, for internal and external clients. Publishing your finished product posts your screenr-cast to the public stream on the screenr site. Clicking a checkbox sends it through Twitter. You get the idea.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. Elgg provides a private integrated suite of social media tools—within a seamless environment for individuals to use for their own personal learning and for groups to use for formal or informal learning purposes.

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Social Media Social Networks Media Social 76

The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 6, 2010

Instructional design is the process of identifying the skills, knowledge, information and attitude gaps of a targeted audience and creating or selecting learning experiences that close this gap, based on instructional theory and best practices from the field. Provide for the effective implementation of instructional products and programs.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It’s safe to say that emotions are an influence on perception, attention, motivation, and the encoding and retrieval of information. They serve to energize people, providing intensity and direction. Over the past few decades, research has shown that emotions have an effect on many of the processes involved in learning.

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Cognitive Social Networks Social Bookmarking Attention 73

The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Alphabetical order allows for quick and easy access to information. information about cell phones with high-end cameras). This strategy provides a slow initiation into a subject, building the learner’s confidence and knowledge base. Providing the big picture helps adult learners make sense of information.

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Organization Content Instructional Design Cognitive 85

The eLearning Coach

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Compared to an expert, a novice will have a limited network of mental structures or schemas related to the subject, a reduced ability to make relevant perceptual discriminations, fewer paths for recalling information and inaccurate or fuzzy mental models resulting in less competent problem solving. Five Strategies for Novice Course Design.

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Design Beginner Expert eLearning Strategy 61

The eLearning Coach

MARCH 28, 2010

Imagine how you would like to encounter this information if you were the learner. Your problem is how to provide an engaging learning experience that turns information into knowledge that gets transferred to real world situations. This takes understanding how the mind works and how people process information.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 84

The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 31, 2009

Color helps us represent reality, provide focus, express emotion, connect information, increase legibility and create psychological impact. Color perception is affected by the brightness of ambient light, the colors that surround it and how an individual’s eyes and brain process visual information.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Both the Gestalt psychologists and modern perceptual researchers realized that perception tends to organize information into wholes, rather than parts. Enclosure is a compelling way to provide meaning. For example, you’re most likely grouping the orange shapes above into an arrow, rather than seeing them as separate elements.

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Social Networks Social Bookmarking Association LinkedIn 72