eLearning Blender

MAY 23, 2009

You've got the cool new informal or social learning tool up and ready to go now you're ready for the masses to arrive and start using it. informal learning is the wave of the future in instructional design. The learner is going to see more benefits in the resource while they are still struggling to learn the software.

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eLearning Blender

JULY 21, 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. An important part of reaching this goal is marketing my skills through online services such as Twitter.

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eLearning Blender

OCTOBER 16, 2009

In the last post of the Project Based Learning series, I introduced what project based learning is and the benefits of using Project Based Learning in corporate environments. Project Based Lessons begin with what I believe to be the most critical aspect of the instructional design process, the Driving Question.

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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. Behavioral, Cognitive, or Brain Based Training?

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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. The Quest Continues!

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2009

2009 was all about Moodle and Project Based Learning for me. I look forward to another year of Moodle and increasing the amount of posts I write on other topics such as Blended Training Solutions, Instructional Design, Adobe Captivate and Training and Development in general. Telecollaboration and Project Based Learning

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eLearning Blender

MAY 10, 2010

Back when I started this blog about 3 years ago I was coming from an instructor led training background and transitioning into the world of eLearning. I was working on a variety of instructional design projects involving instructor led (face to face) training and beginning to implement eLearning within my organization.

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 1, 2009

I am hoping that Twitter provides what Facebook and LinkedIn do not, a running conversation with other professionals in the Training and Development industry. From all I hear about Twitter, it sounds like it is much more conducive to starting these "live" ongoing conversations about training and development. So far, so good!

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 25, 2008

I work for an organization that has heavily depended on Instructor Led training and has experienced great success with ILT over the last 20 years. I am the computer geek of the training dept and have been working hard to bring our systems into the 21st century by gravitating towards a blended format of training.

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eLearning Blender

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While I was waiting for the software to arrive, I designed and storyboarded a soft skill scenario simulation for management training courses that I am working on. I'm looking forward to learning more. My Adobe creative suite and Captivate arrived and I have already dove into a project in Captivate.

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

This workshop helped me develop a new way of looking at training initiatives. I think sometimes I have a tendency to assume some kind of training course is the best way of handling the issue and this workshop helped me realize that this is not true. I learned to always ask myself “Do they already know how to perform this task?

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eLearning Blender

MARCH 22, 2010

A great way to create effective eLearning is to throw the learner into a simulation of the task or performance you are training them to complete. 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.

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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, and anything technology or training related.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I have no prior Wiki experience and I was under the impression that I could just copy and paste sections of training manuals that I have written into the Wiki and have it ready to go in no time. I can take experts from different areas of the company and train them on the Wiki so that they can be responsible for their area.

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 21, 2009

Although I am already taking in a lot of information I was looking for a better format for discussing this information with other corporate training professionals. I was reluctant to start using Twitter because of the amount of information I am already consuming through Google Reader and on LinkedIn.

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eLearning Blender

MAY 3, 2010

View Video on Screenr) Goals of Introductory Synchronous Session: The overall goal of the course is for participants to learn how to build Moodle course sites by actually building a site on their own. K12 Course Site Corporate Training Other Brainstorming for Project Ideas (Whiteboard) - Now we'll dive into creating project ideas.

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eLearning Blender

JANUARY 7, 2008

If you have read my previous posts Proving ROI in Training and One small step for eLearning, a giant step for the company you know that we are focusing on improving product knowledge amongst our sales staff. They were so distracted with beating their co worker that they forgot they were actually studying and learning.

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eLearning Blender

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Events Manager - The "Events Manager" allows you to allocate "Real World" events such as instructor led training to users without having to create a course site specifically for that event. This is a nice feature which makes it easier to integrate instructor led training with eLearning and track it all in one place.

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