must confess to using this practice, however, and I have recorded GA evidence for it providing significant visitor access to old posts. Courtesy NASA A recent search I made on Google Reader returned, among other interesting information, a series of unrelated posts dated earlier than 2005 and that had no comments. They reminded me of the Ashleigh Brilliant quote: “ I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you. I frequently come across posts with no comments and I often think of why this occurs. There’s a shower of activity when it is first posted.

services, typically provided free to the user, with the assumption that online advertising would eventually provide the revenue stream to 'monetize' the venture. Products and services can only be provided free of charge if someone other than the user is prepared to foot the bill. If advertising is not sought or is not available in sufficient quantities, it seems to me that there are only so many reasons why this situation might arise: The provider is the beneficiary of some form of grant, most likely through government, but perhaps from some charitable institution.

When travel dollars gets cut, when services are needed but there are fewer people to provide them, when it's time to get serious about developing new job skills, it is no longer a hard sell to get decision-makers to see that elearning offers solutions for getting smarter faster in a variety of different technology-mediated ways. eLearning has been a relatively bright light in the economic downturn, particularly in essential vertical markets such as education, government and health care. From my perspective, IDs owe it to ourselves to be more effective at flexing our business muscles.

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Unfortunately, the majority of companies that provide training today are currently involved only with this side of the continuum. Thursday, online, 9 am Pacific. An Informal Conversation about Informal Learning. You can’t get too formal when your topic is informal learning. Shortly after my book on informal learning came out, I told an audience, “I’m really glad to be here because I’m looking forward to hearing what I have to say.&# It’s been improv ever since. Spontaneity is part of the magic of conversation. Return on Investment. Innovation in Learning.

Oracle has Oracle University that provides services or graphics, editing and publishing to the other Business Units who need this for a price, but several times the BUs choose to have only IDs who would be required to create their own content, whether ILT, elearning, demos, etc using rapid development tools, to optimize the cost and get maximum output. I'm a fan of the number 42. So it seems significant that my post The Value of Instructional Designers just got its 42nd comment. Amazing how a post from a year ago can still generate conversation! But I know of few variable cases too: 1.

Enrollment growth (3500 students) - Increased Operational Complexity How to link planning, budgeting, assessment (steps) - Mission - Vision - Strategic Priorities - Institutional Goals - Departmental Action Plans -- >Budget - Key performance indicators BI system provides transactional data and aggregate data + strategic indicators. Presentation: Business Intelligence: A Case Study Presenters: Lynne Hamre and Bill Reichet, The College of St. Scholastica -- Very excited! Found the wireless! Not in the meeting rooms, but I found the wireless! Also found the free coffee. College of St.

15,000 employees Fall 2008 – completed 4 year Banner implementation on-time and under budget - IT staff of 12 – including 5 full-time SGHE employees provide first line support to enterprise. Presentation: The Changing Face of Support Presenter: Margaret Mason, Tennessee Board of Regents -- When asking directions around a huge conference taking up 3 large buildings – always ask the AV guys. Great directions, no extraneous BS. To the 3 IATSE Local 8 guys sitting outside the Liberty Ballroom, thanks! Did I say this conference is HUGE. managed to attend one session yesterday. 3) Leave.

The intention is to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. Previous Series Post. This is the last formal post in a series of thoughts on some broken areas of ID that I’ve been posting for Mondays.  The point is not to say ‘bad designer’, but instead to point out how to do better design. We’ve been talking about lots of ways instructional design can be wrong, but if that’s the case, the process we’re using must be broken too.  But they really hadn’t.

While both speakers were excellent, Robin highlighted a trend that really struck a chord with me: Technology providers are primarily targeting the consumer market, not the enterprise market. I attended an informative presentation today called Mobile Mania and the Business Impact presented by Robin Simpson , Research Director at Gartner , and Matt Brennan, Enterprise BDM for Emerging Technologies at Apple. Even when the enterprise market is targeted, it appears to be a secondary, subsequent concern. Take Apple for example. So what does it mean for the corporate sector?

Wells Fargo was the first bank to enter Second Life, which they did to provide financial education to young students. Since then, complaints about virtual financial services providers prompted the operators of Second Life to institute a new policy : As of January 22, 2008, it will be prohibited to offer interest or any direct return on an investment (whether in L$ or other currency) from any object, such as an ATM, located in Second Life, without proof of an applicable government registration statement or financial institution charter. Which world? The virtual world. So what?

Westley kicked off by providing us with an overview of emerging technologies, including QR codes and holograms. Yesterday, I attended a seminar at my workplace about emerging technologies and virtual worlds, which was presented by guest speakers Westley Field , the Director of Online Learning at MLC School and the Managing Director of Skoolaborate , Second Life “architect&# Mike Mikula , and education consultant Lindy McKeown who joined us remotely via webcam and also via her avatar in Second Life. Emerging technologies. Don’t believe me? Check out this eye-opening video.

This article from Ergonomics Now talks about the causes of computer related eye strain, and provides some practical tips on what we can do to prevent it. Anyone who works on a computer all day can become susceptible to eye strain, and maybe more serious eye problems. It’s important that we all take care of our eyes and keep them healthy. What are your tips for taking care of your eyes in the workplace?

Jan provided an overview of a series of workshops undertaken at UOW in which both teachers and students learned how to develop vodcasts for dissemination via PDAs and iPods. Today I attended the Learning Technology Research Symposium hosted by CoCo at my old stomping ground, Sydney University. The first part of the day comprised a “Research Poster Showcase&# , in which the symposium attendees browsed posters about the work being undertaken by researchers not only at Sydney University, but also at other universities in Australia and overseas.

An excellent illustration of this concept is provided by The Unteachables , a BBC documentary currently showing in Australia on the ABC. Different people have different learning styles , so it’s important that we apply this fact to our delivery models.

Steven Bradley provides an enjoyable review of some of the negative sentiment out there that’s brooding over social media icons. Social media provides them with an opportunity for promotion. These catch-all icons allow me to provide access to dozens of popular social media sites without having to list each and every one up front. I’ve been seeing a lot more social media icons on websites these days, and you may have noticed that I’ve recently added a few to this blog. However, not everyone shares my view. Quality. Social media can help them do that. P.P.S.

Normally, we look at the elements of successful learning cultures as providing safety and reward for contributing, acceptance of diversity, and other dimensions.  I’ve been a wee bit busy this week, engaged on two different initiatives involved in improving what the organizations are doing. The interesting bit was that there were two widely different cultures, and yet each was successful.  How could that be? It’s easy to imagine that this results in a relatively homogeneous outcome, which, while certainly desirable, might seem bland.  Definitely a nice thing to learn.

As both an intermediary and an innovator in online technologies, Google supports a flexible and adaptable legal framework that provides those who create and invest in new technologies the freedom to innovate without fear that their efforts will be hindered by an overly restrictive approach to copyright. Lean Instructional System Design - by Wong Yew Yip (YY) in Ditagroup. It is not uncommon for learners who signed up for a particular course to find that what was delivered was not what they had expected. Social Learning Survey - The Masie Center. It arrived in the mail on Thursday.

When an industry fails to provide good oversight and regulation, bad things can happen. The Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) is now famously known for making seriously contaminated products, killing 9 since September 2008 and sickening almost 700 others. You all know that. What you may not know is that PCA was inspected by the leading certifying agency in the food industry on multiple occasions and was given glowing reviews. The institute conducted scheduled inspections of PCA's facilities and never flagged serious problems. congressional investigators said. Lessons Learned. You bet.

AG|09 LIVE provided virtual attendees with a connection to the action as well as connecting colleagues with each other at the event. While the current recession kept a few eLearning practitioners in the office, the rest of us were sharing/learning from our colleagues in Orlando at The eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering Conference.  TWITTER Of course twitter was the social glue that kept everyone connected.  I don't have a photo of it this time, but we used the Twittercamp bigscreen again so that everyone could follow the conversation in the halls of the event.  I think so.  Thanks Jean!

Client organizations and learning providers continue talking about RoI on learning. The Learning Circuits Blog has gotten real ambitious now: their question of the month for December is actually three questions. And real tough ones, each of them. Anyway, here are my quick responses. Three points for each question, in the interest of brevity. Some personal, some not quite. What will you remember most about 2006? Migrated to Mozilla Firefox as my default browser, and a Google-based portfolio (Personalized Home, Google Desktop, GMail, and GTalk) as my main window to the web world.

Expecting the respondent to have analyzed these events in his/her mind and provide us with a processed response is a bit facile, not to mention more than a bit lazy. don’t expect a questionnaire to provide insight; I’d rather talk to the person face to face on an informal note for that. “What Questions Should We Be Asking?” asks the Learning Circuits Blog this month. That’s a neat one – I love the way the QotM is shaping up as a self-fuelling engine – we raise our own questions and we answer them ourselves. Collaboration in action, truly. Small pieces, loosely joined, if you will.

Could also provide the opportunity for learners to visualize their learning and share it with their co-learners. Came across Beth Kanter’s detailed post on the use of widgets to build online communities. Now web widgets have existed since 1995, but the recent wave of web 2.0 action has seen widgets come to the forefront. And Beth’s post is a very extensive piece on the different kinds of widgets, services, and applications, including a research report on what people thought what widgets can be used for. How can widgets be used in eLearning? Here are some possibilities. Polls. Chats.

that is tied to a service provider, the Neonode N2 is an unlocked device. It's a cell phone that claims to have been “designed for advanced simplicity”. The Neonode N2 looks a nifty device all right – a full-service GSM cell phone that is smaller than a credit card is worth a closer look. An optical touch screen mechanism and a specially designed user interface make this handset different from most others in the market. And, unlike a certain news-making cell phone device in the U.S. The company web site ( [link] ) has a neat video demonstrating how the Neonode N2 works.

The new template also provides a wider line length, thus ensuring a smaller scroll bar. There are some cosmetic changes I have made to this blog over the past few days after staying unchanged for more than two years. To begin with, I have changed the template to ensure videos don't bleed on to the text in the sidebar, especially in Firefox. In an expression of extreme vanity, I have added a photograph to the About Me section. Also, I have added widgets linking to all my social networking hangouts - Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Shelfari.

It’s certainly a challenge and one that provides plenty of food for thought. An early morning and back up in the air heading across the water to England I was mulling over logo concepts - where they come from, what they can represent and how they do so. It’s a real challenge for any organisation, new and old, to portray how they want the world to see them - in either a typeface, an icon or a few letters. The Shamrock. Looking around me I can see the traditional, some would say old fashioned logo of Aerlingus , the shamrock. You can’t get more Irish than a shamrock!

Yet, the amount of data we are constantly producing provides a whole world of contexts, many of which can reveal astonishing relationships if only looked at through time. From SocialCollider.net (via @gsiemens): With the Internet’s promise of instant and absolute connectedness, two things appear to be curiously underrepresented: both temporal and lateral perspective of our data-trails. This experiment explores these possibilities by starting with messages on the microblogging-platform Twitter. We are not in control of our information once it’s on the Net.

When this happens, it allows the learner to more effectively encode the learning for future recall and provides the cues needed to apply the experience from the 3D world to actual on-the-job performance. Fourth is that virtual worlds provide the opportunities for learners to be online in the same place at the same time looking and interacting with one another. The 3D world provides a sense of “being there” which, again, ties to visual and mental cues which makes the recall and application of the learning that occurs in a 3D world more effective. It is learning by doing.

I'm thinking he may miss the food we usually provide. Although I have little brain capacity to think new thoughts, it occurred to me yesterday on the drive home from a planning session with a client that I've begun to see some movement on the social media front. It seemed worth it to document this moment in time, since I usually just complain about how clueless people are. persuaded an association client to give up their outdated static website in favor of a blog. OK, so I'm writing the articles and we still aren't getting tons of comments, but baby steps, people. Baby steps. Excellent!

Then, the State of Newsmedia provides the happily bleak outlook: “Journalism, deluded by its profitability and fearful of technology, let others outside the industry steal chance after chance online. Newspapers are the current topic of interest on many blogs/news sites. Seattle PI announces it will stop publishing a paper-version , to focus on online resources (which it states will be more than only an online newspaper but will serve as a community platform). By 2008, the industry had finally begun to get serious. Traditional news can’t make the adjustment.

Providing feedback is enough to correct mistakes (it's not). The following photographs I took with my cell phone (Samsung Omnia) looking outside my windshield while double-parked in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can click to enlarge the pictures. Here is a question for you to answer: Why do the snowflakes in the picture look like needles (or needle-like structures)? To make this more difficult, more than one answer is correct. They broke apart while falling to the earth. They were originally formed as needle-like structures. The temperature of the air dictated the shape.

While that's a good default, it doesn't have to be that way, and there are times when it makes sense to provide other approaches or even self-navigation.". For example, you present a case study and then the learners provide the general information about the case study. This method normally provides the learners with a deeper understanding than the deductive-expository method, but is not as good as the inductive-inquisitory method, thus it provides a middle-of-the-road method. This post adds on to Clark's methods of presenting information (concepts) and examples.

It had some real lessons in how to provide an effective learning experience in the 21st Century. Just this past weekend I took my family up to London and the O2 Centre (the rebranded Millenium Dome) to see an interactive installation called the British Music Experience. It was great to see a modern attempt to create an environment designed to engage an audience of all ages. First of all, Tags: British Music Experience education

Find out one key contact (from the provider) for your implementation project so that you can maintain constant communication. I facilitated a Breakfast Byte session at the eLearing Guild Annual Gathering and wanted to capture the points I shared and those of the participants. It's a long list so be prepared and is not in any particular order. These are many of the questions I've had to answer as I've gone along trying to get my system up. Get your hands on a demo or sandbox version. Make sure you get to play with the LMS before purchasing. Make sure they are as informed as you.

Now, armed with better data-crunching capabilities, the same principles of extracting value from exploring connections between articles can be applied on a much larger scale: Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science : “Maps of science resulting from large-scale clickstream data provide a detailed, contemporary view of scientific activity and correct the underrepresentation of the social sciences and humanities that is commonly found in citation data.&#. The data is current provided as images.

The CoP provided them the opportunity to learn about their work while learning while doing their work. Dave Ferguson has revived the Working/Learning Blog Carnival and has asked for thoughts on "work at learning: learning at work". Here's what's on my mind this rainy Sunday. My dissertation research focused broadly on communities of practice (CoPs), and narrowly on a single community comprised of workplace trainers who gathered voluntarily to “stamp out bad training”. Where does passion germinate? Why does one worker become passionate where another gives up and moves on to another role?

The intention is to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. While that’s a good default, it doesn’t have to be that way, and there are times when it makes sense to provide other approaches or even self-navigation.  When we did a course on speaking to the media (and without an LMS to handle the navigation, so no built-in ‘next button’), we had a scheme that both provided a good default, and allowed self-navigation.  Previous Series Post. And more. Show Me, Let Me).

Wrapping Up This is a simple model, with a few observations provided. I’m Not Actually a Geek October 30, 2008 Enterprise 2.0 Vendors - An Implementation Lifecycle Model Filed under: mba — Tags: adoption , enterprise 2.0 — Hutch Carpenter @ 6:56 am On a phone call with a Connectbeam customer, I heard what seemed like a good description of the way in which Enterprise 2.0 - and perhaps other enterprise software - achieves enterprise-wide adoption. Now anyone following the space knows there are many, many factors in the process of gaining adoption. Measure usage stats.

We will have a on line presence that allows the organization to offer a supportive online environment where constituents (Agencies, residents, consumers of services etc) a means to have questions answered, learn how to survive with less resources, build partnerships and collaborations, provide timely feedback from residents to different levels of government; 16. by CowGummy. Many non profit organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of using technology to address their communication and capacity building goals. will save that for a post next week. Non Profit Web Site.

Register or Login Ask the Experts Research Store Empty Search Advanced Search Research Library Website Membership Program Advisory Services Solution Providers Organization & Governance Learning Programs Content Development Learning Measurement LMS Informal Learning Workforce Planning Performance Management Leadership Development Succession Management Competency Management Sourcing & Recruiting Talent Mgmt. Monday, February 09, 2009 As an analyst, I am often approached for advice by companies - both practitioner and provider. Those providers built on Microsoft's.

This program uses a "recommendation engine" to watch how a child plays math games and provide new content according to what's observed. The recommendation engine, patented as GuideRight technology, watches every motion the child makes while playing the game, and then adjusts on the fly to present kids with a math curriculum that is most appropriate for them. With more than 350 math activities to choose from, the game can present more than a million different paths. Check it out: [link

As they say, “ Our purpose is to provide an understanding of the type of culture required to support collaboration. &#. I’m reviewing my resources on communities of practice and synthesizing some of the articles I’ve come across and added to my social bookmarks or blogged about on my Communities Thread. One of the best sources of practical knowledge on online community building is Anecdote from Australia. In Building a Collaborative Workplace , they discuss three types of collaboration - Team, Community and Network.

So, as you head out and plan your conference activities, look to see if you are providing the appropriate infrastructure to support these functions This post from Marketing Vox is a great piece for continuing the thread of how we can change conferences. They cite a survey that found that: Conference organizers are now planning more time for Q&A (72% more vs. three years ago), more interactive sessions between speaker and audience (70%), and more panel sessions (64%). At the same time, they plan fewer keynote sessions (30%) than three years ago.

25 Million internet users world wide 10 Million from the US 1 Million websites 172 Industry Categories Millions of Search terms per month Monthly, Weekly, & Daily All from direct internet providers One of the first charts that interested him was what was being searched for on one specific term. Click: What Millions Are Doing Online and Why it Matters to You as an e-Learning Professional. Bill Tancer, General Manager, Hitwise Keynote – Thursday, March 12, 2009 I found this keynote so interesting I took a lot of notes. guess I love data too! Saturday, March 13, 2009 is Pi day.

Education has three components that provide value to learners: content, interaction, and accreditation. Content creation/validation has moved sharply (but not exclusively) to learner control…and where still under institutional control, it’s often available for free. Interaction with peers and experts outside of universities is not confined to classrooms anymore. Blogs, podcasts, mailing lists, etc. offer learners the prospect of connecting with others globally. Which leaves accreditation as the main value offered by institutions to learners.

Recommendations : clear learning opportunties provide formal, informal, online, training pair with mentors build communities. Senior Analyst with Forrester Research (internationally) - Characteristics of new workers - learning approaches - ways of recruiting - tools/resources Millennials between 1980 & 2000, There are 81 million of them coming. 78 Million baby boomers will be retiring with only 45 million Gen X to fill the places. Short Term - boomers are working longer -workers are being imported -jobs are outsourced -economy shifting But. The millenials are the catalysts of change.

However, Lectora provides a bit more flexibility for customizing that Captivate. As my organization selects an LMS and gears up for web based training, I've been looking at a variety of authoring tools for online training. I was naive enough to think that tool existed that would have everything I want. I imagined something similar to Microsoft Word or PowerPoint that was designed for eLearning. Such a tool does not exist yet. I'm sure this is due to the complexity of web based learning content, the variety of requirements out there, and the market size of eLearning.

By -Dr. Margaret Martinez Psychological factors and relationships that influence persistence, motivation and attrition. Dominate influence of emotion s and intentions on learning. What was the one time in your life you felt truly passionate about learning? Smiles took over the room, positive emotion grew. That is what we want to get each time we teach. Brain Fitness market revenues continue to grow. 100million in 2005, $225 million in 2007 What is happening though is that you once used a linear process to finger walk through a card catalogue to find book. Development is occurring.

They both were providing, giving to communities. Crowdsourcing - video displayed by Jeff. Few key ideas Now with the internet we can create a crowd virtually with shared interest. Shared passions for hobbies, crafts, arts, etc. Ie: quality of stockphotos by amateurs is abundant, drives supply up and prices downforces companies to approach us as potential partners, not just buyers Technology is so good that people are becoming better. Spent time covering the Vans Warp tour for some time and during this became infatuated with the process (he was a member of the Suburban Morons). Jeff Howe.

Learning Design must accommodate this and I particularly believe that we should Shift from Courseware towards Reference Hybrids – put as little as possible in the courseware and provide well-organized, well-written, easily saved, easily accessed reference material. One of the common themes on my blog is the world we live in with availability of trillions of web pages, millions of people, and thousands of tools, has meant a significant and continuous change in our work literacy. It also has an impact on Learning Design and Learning Organizations … more on this below. eLearning Technology.

Chapter One provides definition of terms, the context in which 3D learning is coming to the field and the basic knowledge required to understand 3D worlds for learning. It provides a step-by-step road map for developing the instruction. It also provides basic steps that are essential for successful implementations of virtual worlds. In Chapters Six through Ten , case studies are provided. The book also contains a comprehensive glossary to provide a quick look up of terms and concepts discussed within the chapters. got some awesome responses from Guy W.

It doesn't offer the potential for collaborative work that a wiki can provide. In summary, Twitter is providing me with plenty of value, so I'm sticking with it. Back at Online Educa in Berlin last December, I made the decision to undertake a three month trial of Twitter. must admit I didn't really get it, but I was encouraged by the enthusiasm of Jane Hart , Josie Fraser and others, and decided to give it a go. Well, the three months are now up and it's time to reflect on my experience. Do I continue or call it a day? Technically all this has worked fine and cost me nothing.

Donated Land for eLearning Providers. I create free tutorials for eLearning providers.  They Customer service for eLearning.  It’s important, obviously. was in mid-management in the 90’s for Circuit City and was a regional customer service manager for part of that time.  It was a multi-state position over about 30 stores.  Our service center handled product for the stores and typically had no direct customer contact (customers brought defective units into the store, those managers sent the units to us).  My customers were internal - the store managers. Is it fair? 

Provident Bank. e-Learning DevCon 2009 - June 17-19. Looks like another opportunity to share my passion for making eLearning (and any education) more fun and engaging.  Two sessions at DevCon 2009 ! Teaching others is such a reward and it comes in all forms.  From how to build a better downhill section of a mountain bike trail to reduce erosion and lessen future maintenance to an easy demi-glace for dinner.  By the way, the second one is so easy once you learn how! And if you can add to your eLearning with very little additional money and reasonable time, it’s worthwhile to do. 

The Questionable Question Possibly because I had just written this, when I received the following inquiry: I was wondering if you could provide me with your definition of a “Rapid Elearning Tool”. Are these appropriate steps to gently providing guidance on how to ask better questions without offending and discouraging further questions? I need some help with appropriate way to handle a somewhat common situation. Let me set this up a bit … I've said many times in presentations and on this blog that I really like to get questions. To me, that's the fun part. I'm working on XXX.

Long way of saying that I can be an ID's worst nightmare - I know what I want, I know what the theoretical constructs of the field should be able to provide, and I know the results I should be able to expect. On March 12, Dr. Curt Bonk and I are going to be featured debaters at the eLearning Guild Annual Gathering's ID Zone in Orlando, Florida. I'm very glad to be a part of this debate - am amused that I am going to be an ID defender. Instructional design has always been a big part of my professional life, one way or another. know what the research says. don't "love" ID. Write a report.

We’re also providing students with cash and. Yianni wrote to tell me about GradeGuru: "GradeGuru.com is a note sharing. platform for college students to share notes, give each other feedback and. engage in collaborative learning. rewards for their notes because we believe students should earn for sharing. their knowledge. Our vision is to create a community of students who can rely on. each other for academic support - whether through the feedback they receive on. the notes that they contribute, or the ability to download their peers' notes. for free. version of a study group. and US.

Your participation will help the field and provide some much needed update to the original article. When the article is published we will be certain to provide the link here and at other places! One article that I wrote seems to get more attention than any other, it is called How Long Does it Take? Estimation Methods for Developing E-Learning and while the formulas and ideas in the article are up-to-date (written in 2003), one section really needs to be updated. That is the section on Industry Standards. am teaming with Robyn A. Here is a link to the survey.

The intention is to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. Previous Series Post. This is one in a series of thoughts on some broken areas of ID that I’m posting for Mondays.  The point is not to say ‘bad designer’, but instead to point out how to do better design. When it comes to closing the elearning experience, not surprisingly too often we drop the ball here, too.  Our endings tend to be too abrupt, and merely rehash what has been learned, and, if we’re lucky, point out further directions.

Many different urls for many different companies providing social media services. Especially when it's used in combination with other media that provides great depth of content, great degrees of security, appropriate representation, better distribution and the like I wonder if the real questions are more about the variety, composition and management of the mix of technology experiences to be marshaled when facilitating learning and performance support rather than worrying about the categories of the tools that we use. When I hear people getting excited about eLearning 2.0

L & D provided tools & instructional design support for users wishing to create their own ‘content.’ I had a conversation by email with someone I really care about that probably came off a bit bitchy, a bit holier-than-thou…it you can have just “a bit&# of either of those traits.  And, I’m probably about to come off the same way here. That’s not an apology. yam what I yam. And, no doubt I’ll piss off some people for my opinion of rapid e-learning tools. ’  I told him there are a lot of people who share his struggle.

Special collections from guest content providers. Home Blog Newsletter Back Issues December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 Podcast Resources Teaching Sells About Contact Privacy Policy Mission to Learn Know Better. Live Better. Current Article Customer Education: 25 Sampler Sites By jtcobb on Mar 5, 2009 in Trends & Theories Being a learner and being a consumer often go hand in hand - and not just because we purchase things like books, or training seminars, or college educations. After each lesson, test your knowledge by taking a quiz.

Training departments can be the mechanism that provides each worker with access to the information required to perform his/her job duties successfully. This month’s Big Question from ASTD is “what will workplace learning be like in 10 years?&#. If you go to their post, there are already some really interesting thoughts and comments about this topic. Byron said “The best prophet of the future is the past&#. I’m a firm believer in that notion, so I’d like to answer the Big Question with a question of my own: what happened 10 years ago to workplace learning?

nice new review of research on goal-setting provides some balance in how goals can be used to guide workplace performance. Interactivity - when do we need it? eel-learning. Interactivity is activity aimed at processing the information presented in order to. help chunk it for memory management. allow self-assessment - have I grasped this? keep interest and motivation, for example, by asking questions in the context of a game. What Makes a Company the 'World's Most Innovative?' - Harvard Business Review. The current issue of Fast Company was sure to get my attention. the cover blared.

In spite of dramatic changes in information creation, sharing, dissemination, and validation, tools don’t yet exist to help provide images and patterns of what information means. Fragmented information means that the act of coherence making now rests with individuals, not with linear (or centralized) structures like newspapers, books, and courses. Innovation has been limited in conceiving new tools for the task of helping individuals make sense of complex information patterns. Visual browsers such as KartOO help a bit with information. FriendFeed helps with tracking people.

think that Stephen provides tremendous value on top of a network (and is part of the network himself). Maybe a better term is provided by Robin Good - he calls this - NewsMastering. believe that Topic Hubs like eLearning Learning , Mobile Learning , Informal Learning Flow , Communities and Networks Connection provide a similar kind of value as Stephen and Robin - but attack it differently. This relies much more on automation and doesn't have the editorial that Stephen or Robin provide. You can argue that none of the information provided by a Topic Hub is new.

The research wasn’t all music to providers ears (trust me!) Secondly it also presented some continuing challenges to workplace providers of Skills for Life training including ensuring that workplace courses are not viewed as a “ magic bullet ” of short term interventions, rather they should represent the start of a learners journey on an upward trajectory of skills progression and enhanced career and life opportunities. Contributed by Guest Blogger - Lorna Tyrtania, Senior Product Manager at ThirdForce. with Skills for Life learners in the workplace. Use it or lose it!

In the meantime, I sent a bug report to Adobe, which they followed-up the next morning saying that some sound cards have trouble with the audio dll file and provided this fix: Close Captivate 4 if it is open. I have been trying out Adobe's eLearning Suite and soon came across a slight bug -- Captivate would not record an audio narration. To work around it, I used Adobe Soundbooth CS4 to record the narration. first tried saving the narration as a *.WAV WAV file, but Captivate would not load it into the slide. then went back to Soundbooth and saved it as an *.MP3 MP3 file.

A nice new review of research on goal-setting provides some balance in how goals can be used to guide workplace performance. The SMART goal revolution didn't always acknowledge some of the downsides, nor did it provide a Situation-Based Learning Design approach, providing learners with a sense of when to use goals, and when not to. The following (admittedly low-quality) graphic comes from the authors' working paper. The authors don't deny that goals can be useful and powerful. Instead, they focus on the negative side-effects that can occur. The authors: Lisa D.

Yesterday Manchester United took advantage of the fact that mobile learning provides learning-on-demand , at the point-of-need and just-in-time. Any employer can use it to provide performance support to learners in the workplace. Sir Alex Ferguson yesterday praised Ben Foster calling him Englands first-choice goalkeeper in waiting , after a game changing penalty shoot-out save. It proved pivotal to Manchester United claiming the Carling Cup to complete the second leg of what could be an unprecedented haul of five trophies. As a form of positive reinforcement it clearly adds value.

The phenomena sites attempts to cut through the confusion between real life and Internet based activities, in addition to providing entertaining and informative reading." Sam wrote to tell me about InternetPhenomenon, a free public interest site that was formed "to offer a unique reference point on extensive information on internet phenomena". She explains: "The Internet phenomena site describes various companies, terms, jokes and developments which have themselves become unusual, new or mega-successful as a result of the Internet and have become phenomena in their own right.

Provided there is sufficient time for trajectory adjustment before the projectile travels out of range, the target is decided upon. Tony Karrer, in his recent post Adoption Ideas , brought our attention to the post , Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results. In it, Peter Bregman posits the idea that organisations should aim for imperfection. I'm not suggesting you settle for imperfect. I'm telling you to shoot for it”, was how he put his advice. Bergman heads a change management firm. Few were really aware of what it was. In many ways I still do. There are no repercussions.

I intend to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. Of course, we may need to have some intermediate tasks to develop their skills at an appropriate pace, providing scaffolding to simplify the task until it’s mastered. We can provide tasks with simplified data first, that don’t get complicated with other factors.  We can provide problems with parts worked, so learners can accomplish the component skills separately and then combine. Previous Series Post. Really, the key to learning is the practice.

Seven years ago, Lance Dublin and I wrote a book entitled Implementing eLearning. The cover explained… Here Is How To: Manage the Change to E-Learning. Successfully Market to Learners. Create an Implementation Strategy. We wrote that for eLearning to work, you needed to set the stage with change management and sell the stakeholders with the methods of consumer marketing. The message is timeless. People still buy copies of Implementing eLearning today. For years, we’ve offered excerpts from the rough draft of the book for free. Find out what didn’t get into the book. Brand.

Insights provide powerful lessons for architects and designers creating the schools of tomorrow. IDEO's Ten Tips For Creating a 21st-Century Classroom Experience - Metropolis. Also see Open-Ended Learning. Information Wants to Be Expensive - Wall Street Journal. When author Stewart Brand coined the expression "Information wants to be free," he focused on how technology makes it cheap and easy to communicate and share knowledge. But the rest of his quote is rarely noticed. iTunes U better than attending class? Lars is Learning. This says, "Information also wants to be expensive."

Several things you’ll probably recognize: all problems have one answer - ‘a course’; no relationships to the groups providing the myriad of portals, no relationship to anyone doing any sort of social learning, no ‘big picture’ comprehension of the organization’s needs, and typically the courses aren’t that great either! Harold Jarche and Jay Cross have been talking about rethinking the training department, and I have to agree.  What’s wrong with a training department?  To put it another way, it’s not working for the organizational constituencies.  Epic fail, as they say. 

There is no “ let’s be friends &# first, and I believe that the “SMS/text&# like format of the posts provides people with a level of confidence to put their thoughts out there rather than having to write longer detailed articles. I’ve been doing some research on Twitter , the only place to be these days it seems, and putting in some random searches on learning, specifically subject areas relevant to ThirdForce. The results are amazing and in fact could be compared to carrying out an independent survey. Like Blogs for example! Twitter a free research portal. maybe?

The company will provide up to two million people with free technology training over the next three years to prepare them for the new marketplace in IT. With millions of Americans unemployed and uncertain about how to pursue new careers, Microsoft Elevate America program seems perfectly timed. Check it out: [link

Case studies online suggest Bank of Montreal , Arthur Andersen and Boeing are just three companies that have invested heavily in learning facilities that provide formal and informal learning under one roof for employees. Social hang outs like Twitter , Ning and Facebook and many other sites have had mobile options for some time now and provide a big opportunity to support informal learning. Informal learning takes place outside of traditional settings like classrooms, training rooms and self study programmes. Many options. Which one do I choose? Elite). it will work for you also.

I called a meeting with our LMS provider on Friday. It felt as if we had come to a stand still again with the entire project. Some of that was on our part some on the part of the vendor. Year end is never great time in any organization for true productivity. Top that off with our organization going through the Accreditation process. Participating in accreditation demonstrates an organizations commitment to quality health care to its staff, patients, clients, and community. Getting down to serious LMS work really didn't fall high on my list of priority to-dos. What had happened?

Sacred Training Cows Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Blogging in a Walled Garden Itiel provides more food for thought Get Out of the Training Business Multi-Tasking & Social Media - Mastering the Balance Advantages of 3D for Learning Pacing the mobile project update 1: html + mp4 + mobile moodle On Blogging – Report on Index Page Economic Impact Younger Generation NOT Good at Multitasking Either! The posts come from the primary sources for this group. Other items come from other sources. Browse eLearning Content at www.elearninglearning.com.

They provide stimuli of one sort or another. My role often tends to be that of interpreter - helping IT people understand HR/Learning specialists and vice versa. This often means I'm involved in discussions about choosing and using software, particularly social software, often known as web 2.0. HR and Learning & Development see web 2.0 tools in use around the world, connecting people and ideas, and want to make that happen inside their organisation. The IT team see risks, loss of intellectual property and bandwidth hogging. Gross generalisations, I know. But they'll do for now.

We can engage in  ongoing reflective practice , which provides us with a framework for examining our assumptions. These, too, provide a structure for reflection and evaluation and allow us to see where we should and shouldn't rest consider other alternatives.  Shafeen Charania makes an intriguing suggestion --that the best predictor of our future failure is our past successes. His premise is that when we've found a course of action that proves successful, we are more likely to become wedded to it. We then resist changing our approach, even when circumstances have changed.

You'll not only reward Will for his efforts, you'll help to provide all of us with better intelligence. Will Thaleimer has put together a survey to find out just how the downturn (is that an adequate term, should we say 'collapse''?) is affecting independent contractors in workplace learning and development. We know some organisations are benefiting from the situation, but you would expect learning and development in general and independents in particular to be hit hardest. Will's survey is to test that hypothesis. If you're an independent contractor, take a few minutes to participate.

One great feature is that it uploads the data to the web immediately following a run and provides me access to it. So I am setting myself up for a big year. am finalizing a transition to a new job and getting myself organized around the goals that I have set out for myself in 2009. On the personal side I am seeking to find balance in my spiritual, mental, social, and physical components of my life. While, I have some specific things in each of the four areas, in this post I want to share my goals for my focus on the physical component. This will be my second marathon.

Interaction designers working on the product's interaction flows can thus provide visual designers with key information to select and apply visual elements, in order to start the conversation, and keep it alive. Provide Orientation from Time to Time Photos for interaction - Boxes and Arrows. In software applications, photography in most cases is used as content element, since photos express situations of human life very well and thus are well suited to capture and represent a certain message. Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results - Harvard Business.

Some of the sites provide tools for production and publication. Infinite Thinking Machine: Friday Five: Create, Express, Learn with Primary Source Material. Five sites to find and use online primary source content with students, focusing on sites that encourage students to remix and share multimedia content. tags : primarysources , education , multimedia , history. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Posted in Bookmarks.

It must do that to achieve administrative efficiency; education sets out to provide a set of bountiful connections which are random, willful, promiscuous, even disharmonious with one another — understanding that the learning of resourcefulness, self sufficiency, and invention will inevitably involve surprising blends of things, things impossible to predict or anticipate in advance. Today I read Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto.  Formerly an award-winning school teacher, Gatto now spews more vitriol at schooling than anyone else I have ever encountered. Enter trains.

Network analysis provides a powerful means for leaders to understand and drive value through this seemingly invisible aspect of organzations. Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizaiotns Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth by Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas. This sequel to Rob Cross’s The Hidden Power of Social Networks is chock full of practical advice on leveraging networks for innovation and increased performance. Not all value-based networks are the same. We are living in a time rife with opposites.

I intend to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. Previous Series Post. This is one in a series of thoughts on some broken areas of ID that I’m posting for Mondays.  The point is not to say ‘bad designer’, but instead to point out how to do good design. see several reliable problems with examples, and they aren’t even the deepest problems. They tend to be mixed in with the concept , instead of separate, if they exist at all.  Conceptually, examples are applications of the concept in a context.  …”). Be exemplary!

What can you do that will provide just the amount of help you need to make progress?  In addition to working on the technology plan for my school district, I’ve also been assisting a not-for-profit trying to get strategic about technology.  The struggles are instructive, but looking across these two separate instances as well as the previous organizations I’ve assisted, I’m realizing that there are some common barriers. The obvious one is time. The old saying about alligators and draining the swamp is too true, and it’s only getting worse.  Yet, we must.

But there are times when we need to provide new information and skills to self-directed learners.  We can just provide support to a SME so that their talk presents the relevant bits  in a streamlined and effective way, and let them loose.   While I agree vehemently with most of a post by Lars Hyland, he said one thing I slightly disagree with, and I want to elaborate on it.  I agree with not using rapid elearning to create courses for novices, but there is a role for bashing out courses for another audience, the practitioner.  And there’s something deeper here to tease out.

Providing print based alternatives for those students can give them welcome relief and provide some of the necessary variety that has brought blended learning to the fore in recent years. Provide as many pathways to learning a skill, knowledge or concept as are practically possible. Providing a variety of learning pathways that embraces learner choice at appropriate points in a course empowers the learner. I am a dyed-in-the-wool in-favour-of-elearning teacher. If I had the option, I would choose elearning as the way to teach distance students most of the time.

While a bit dated (original printing was 2000, this is the 2004 update), this book provides you with the templates, storyboards and other paper-based tools to help you organize your multimedia and online learning elements. During my ASTD Essentials webinar series this past week, several people asked about the fundamentals of good eLearning design and where they could go to learn the basics of good eLearning design. joked that I can teach you to mash buttons in Flash, Dreamweaver and Photoshop, but I can't teach you to have that "eye". Technology for Trainers. by Thomas Toth (Me).

One of our goals was to provide participants with a planning tool that they can use to begin the strategy and implementation process within their organization.The document was first introduced to me at the Social Tech Training Conferenc e that I attended in the summer of 2008. On Friday, Feb. 14th, I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop in Windsor to workers from the settlement and housing sectors. The workshop was titled Building Capacity Within the Housing and Settlement Sector. OCASI has an award winning online site called Settlement.Org. Thanks Colleen and Heather!  Web 2.0

Military multimedia development is contracted to 3 or four different companies who put development teams here on the base to research and develop the courseware using government provided computers, software and networks. Another good question from a reader. This person works in a military environment with some very particular requirements for how multimedia assets are treated during development. Because of that he's in the position of having to determine how much disk space will be needed during development. He's seeking help to answer. My first reaction was - just buy more disk space.

If I were to make an invention for myself, I bet it would provide to the needs and thinking of my community, but my invention might not necessarily be exportable to other communities. What do you do in such region if you are asked to be a provider? The last couple of weeks I have been following a module of a Master in Distance Education at Athabasca University. This particular module focuses on the International issues that arise while developing distance education for different regions around the globe. So I have been learning a lot lately, but consequently blogposted less.

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. Enough variety to provide a wide range of options Enough opportunities for informal fellowship to allow me to meet others. Provides an opportunity to interact with others and create collaborative work. Response 9 Too many panel discussions, not enough practical application advice provided in sessions, poorly laid out conference locations, not enough time for expo floors. seldom use them to provide substantive content. Wireless.

My goal with this post is to demonstrate that corporations can have engineering / technology blogs that are "soft sell" and provide useful information. Last July I started my Engineering Blog Quest ( original post and it's six updates ). My goal was to identify blogs run by individuals which focused upon technology. without trying to sell you anything. In other words. folks like myself who were participating in the world of Web 2.0 with the simple goal of furthering knowledge. have posted my results / links to the Engineering Learning Wiki. seems to be required to view.

social grid has formed that provides concept workers new work methods. I'm going to be doing a free webinar with Mark Sylvester of IntroNetworks that's about Crowdsourcing in the Small and Social Brain. Hat tip to Virginia Yonkers for calling it the Social Grid. I'm still not sold on the term - but the concept is very important. This should be a very interesting discussion. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods. But the bigger and more profound change is the radically increased accessibility of experts and expertise around the world. and Ph.D.