eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Tony Karrer of the eLearning Technology blog invited me to take part in a new site called eLearning Learning. If you click on one of the topics it will bring you to the learning eLearning site where you will see a listing of my posts related to that topic. Thanks to all who are taking part in learning eLearning.

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eLearning Blender

MAY 4, 2009

Through experience I am learning that training should never be a one time event, it should be a continuous learning experience. This raises the question, " What are the best "Continuous Learning" solutions? This post highlights some of the wins and losses I have had in creating continuous learning experiences.

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eLearning Blender

AUGUST 10, 2009

An assignment for my "Tech for Teaching" class at SDSU requires us to follow Ed Tech related blogs on our reader than write up a summary of what we learned from reading these posts and how these lessons apply to our professional goals. A valuable tool in implementing a blended training approach is the learning management system, Moodle.

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

You have developed your big idea and polished the driving question , now for the most important aspect of Project Based Learning - planning the assessments. In this post I highlight some best practices that will help you ensure a successful project based learning assessment. Related Posts: Project Based Learning - Are you doing it?

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Are you implementing Project Based Learning in a corporate environment? In an instructional design class I took over the summer we focused on "Project Based Learning." What I learned in this class inspired me to make it more of a priority in my work as an instructional designer in a corporate environment.

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eLearning Blender

DECEMBER 14, 2008

In a previous post I mentioned a new eLearning community I am taking part in called eLearning Learning. In my sidebar you will see the eLearning Learning keyword widget which lists common topics I talk about on my blog. If you haven't already, you really should check out this site. You can actually dive in right here from my blog.

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I read an interesting article titled "Behavioral, Cognitive, or Brain Based Learning" by Paul G. By taking "Brain Based Learning" into consideration during the performance analysis, it is likely there may be unexpected outcomes discovered. Whitmore and it gave me a whole new perspective in analyzing performance problems.

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

An Instructional Designers "Cheat Sheet" for Designing Project Based Learning Four blog posts ago I set out on a long strange trip to dissect project based learning in a corporate environment. Based off the name "Project Based Learning", it's not so tough to figure out that it's all about learning through the development of a project.

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eLearning Blender

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Until recently I was working with a decent budget and the broad guidelines of getting us started on e-learning. Senior Management recognizes e-learning as an opportunity for our training dept to take a giant leap forward and more importantly, achieve a better ROI on our training efforts. That is of course until we hit a slump in sales.

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eLearning Blender

AUGUST 20, 2009

This post describes a couple of projects I developed for this class and what I learned from them. A telecollaboration or telecollaborative lesson is an educational project where participants learn by sharing information with other groups of people over the internet. Check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions.

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eLearning Blender

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The "Best Of" the information from my series of posts about Project Based Learning in a business environment was published on eLearn Mag today. With the help of Jill Duffy from eLearn Mag, I boiled down the key steps and tips for developing project based learning into one article covering it from head to toe.

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 29, 2010

I’m happy to announce that I will now be contributing to MoodleTuts , the Moodle blog that makes learning Moodle easy. MoodleTuts was started by Dave Mozealous with the intention of solving this problem through short, less than 5 minute video tutorials that make learning Moodle easy.

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eLearning Blender

APRIL 21, 2010

Excerpts from Syllabus Course Description: This course introduces Moodle , the Learning Management System and how it can be used to create an online course site and learning activities. Create social learning activities such as Forums, Chats, Wiki's, and Blogs. Post link to your project site in forum posting.

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eLearning Blender

MARCH 22, 2010

This blog post takes you through the development of this scene, and describes some of the lessons I learned along the way with a little help from fellow eLearning developers. Click here to view Bruno De Pace's suggestions) Posting this question was a very educational experience for me and I hope others can learn from it.

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eLearning Blender

DECEMBER 31, 2009

2009 was all about Moodle and Project Based Learning for me. A Corporate Example of Project Based Learning Project Based Learning in 3 Steps Adobe Captivate - "Continue" or "Go to Next Slide?" Telecollaboration and Project Based Learning

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 8, 2010

Slide views - Best used for Presenter projects that don't include a quizmaker or Learning Objects quiz. Quiz score - Best used for Quizmaker and Presenter projects that include a Learning Objects quiz.

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eLearning Blender

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

To this point, most of the classes I have taken focused mainly on instructional design topics so I am eager to learn more about the tools that can make those designs happen. I've always taken a "Do it yourself" approach to eLearning development and I am looking forward to learning about different tools and methods from others in the class.

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eLearning Blender

DECEMBER 14, 2009

One of the most frequently asked questions I get from blog readers is "Why did I choose to go with Moodle" over other Learning Management Systems. It is important to do your research and testing before making the leap to Moodle or any Learning Management System. Why Moodle?

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 1, 2010

if teachers can look past the fact that there are a lot of choices, working with Moodle to build content is easy - Joseph Thibault ( MM - GC ) The Real Cost - Upside Learning wrote a good post highlighting some important factors to take into consideration before implementing Moodle.

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eLearning Blender

AUGUST 6, 2009

Much of the reading I do about Moodle has to do with administration tasks I am struggling with so I am looking forward to learning some content development tricks from " Moodle 1.9 I am amazed at the amount of options and tools available for customizing Moodle content to your learners needs and am eager to dive into this book to learn more.

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with Tony Karrer, and through this conversation I learned a couple of things in addition to some great information about LMS's. Outside of LMS's I learned how ignorant I am when it comes to Web 2.o o and E-Learning 2.0,

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 1, 2009

Informal Learning Twitter. I'm excited to see what Twitter brings to the social networking table and I hope I get a lot out of it. If you are tweeting, help me get some conversations started by following me @joe_deegan.

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eLearning Blender

JULY 15, 2009

I recently learned a valuable lesson after implementing an eLearning course on Moodle where quiz scores did not save. From my research in the Moodle Forums, I learned that "Teachers" and "Non Editing Teachers" have permissions to "Preview" quizzes instead of "Attempt." Oops, where are the scores!

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 12, 2010

This is one in a series of books from Packt Publishing that will help you learn the ins and outs of Moodle. Even a seasoned instructional design veteran can learn about a new multimedia tool or two from this book. Multimedia " by João Pedro Soares Fernandes. Multimedia " is a great place to start. Related Posts: Moodle 1.9

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

A great source that was a big help in getting started is Geo Learnings RFP Template. Something that I found to be helpful is Geo Learnings Top Five Things to Include in your RFP: Your overall training goal - Within your RFP you should include the general business goals which need to be met by the proposed e-learning program.

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eLearning Blender

MAY 10, 2010

Will I mess up my "eLearning Learning" feed? This may be a question I need to ask Tony Karrer but I am hoping changing the name won't mess anything up on the eLearning Learning site. - I'm concerned that I may have to set up a new RSS feed for the new name which would put me at risk of losing current subscribers.

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 4, 2010

Making the decision to go with Moodle over other Learning Management Systems can be a very difficult decision, especially when you don't have the experience to know the benefits and drawbacks of Moodle. Something that can be very helpful in this decision making process is feedback from Moodlers on the Pros and Cons of Moodle.

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eLearning Blender

JULY 31, 2008

I put together a portfolio website with my newly learned Dreamweaver skills. My intentions of the portfolio website is to share some of my work and tell you a little more about who I am. At this point, it doesn't contain much but ultimately it will contain a collection of my work in instructional design.

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 11, 2008

However, I have been learning some great stuff at SDSU and feel like I need to get back in the blogging habit so I can reflect on these lessons. After a long hiatus I am making an attempt to get back to posting. Classes in the Ed Tech program at SDSU have me swamped on top of my work schedule so it's been tough to make the blog a priority.

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 21, 2009

In my short experience I have learned that you really shouldn't try to read everything and you'll get more from the experience if you scan through and find what is important to you. To deal with this I am using Tony Karrer's " Skim Dive Skim " approach. If you're on Twitter, let's follow each other.

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 18, 2008

So far, I have been amazed at what you can do with Dreamweaver and photoshop and I am hungry to learn more. As of now, it seems like it's not neccessarry and only complicates the process.

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 25, 2008

This is a hassle for experienced managers because it's old hat and they want to learn something new as well as brush up on some of the important aspects of the course. With everything I have learned over the past couple of years I am sure I will see the course in a whole new light.

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I'm looking forward to learning more. I am using employees of the company as characters in the eLearning module which is requiring quite a bit of work extracting images from their background in Photoshop. I've been stoked about work now that I have all of these cool tools to play with.

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 11, 2008

From this class, I have learned that trying to save time by jumping to a solution is only going to cost me more time to create an inferior product. Prior to taking this class, I had a tendency to put the cart before the horse and jump straight to a solution without conducting a proper analysis.

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 25, 2008

Turns out the main objective for 2008 is to make a large leap towards a blended learning format. On top of that, using some kind of an eLearning assignment as post work has been helping with transference back on the job. Yesterday I sat in a meeting to plan the Training Dept objectives and goals for 2008. My Task list just got very full!

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eLearning Blender

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The ILT course is largely based on completing a workbook filled with exercises that build on what they learned in the eLearning courses. I have finished developing the eLearning courses and the instructor led course so now I need to prepare SME’s to facilitate the instructor led classes on their own.

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eLearning Blender

JULY 27, 2009

Follow me @joe_deegan so that we can learn from each other. Hopefully this blog post will prevent another Captivate user from making the same mistake and having to waste time revising old projects. This problem was solved thanks to the power of Twitter !

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