E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 10, 2012

• Theme: Designing instructionally sound and engaging learning. . • Theme: Near future of learning in Australia. • More info: Learning Cafe. Australian Instructional Design Conference. • Where: Sydney. • When: 21 March 2012. • More info: LearnX Foundation. Blended Learning Conference. • Where: Sydney.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 1, 2013

On the contrary, the backchannel is a vehicle for precious WOM that can raise awareness of the event among the Twitterati and – if it sounds appealing enough – encourage them to attend next time. So I see heating up the backchannel as a critical aspect of the conference organiser’s role.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2010

Does this sound like your workplace? If this doesn’t sound like your culture, your competitors won’t mind at all. While the organisation has invested in social technology, and maybe even documented a social media policy, the majority of its social media activity is driven from the bottom up. If so, what does it mean?

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it make a sound? Randomisation - Putting the actuaries through the training and then comparing their culture metric to everyone else’s sounds like a great idea, but it will skew the results. Perhaps the CEO approved a special bonus to all staff.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

When you think about it, a media rich e-book is what a pedagogically-sound online course ought to be: • engaging. If we replace it with a recording, we call it audio or video. If we combine all of the above, do we not call it an online course …? • interactive. • learner centered. • logically structured.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 12, 2011

I know it sounds boring, but as Tom Kuhlmann said recently: Learners won’t complain about the lack of interactivity. While show/hide interactions and other bells and whistles arguably improve learner engagement in an online course, they are downright confusing on a mobile device. if the content is relevant.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 3, 2010

It just sounded empty. For about a decade, people from all corners of the globe have been saying “We are now entering the age of the e-book&#. Whenever I heard someone say that, I couldn’t shake off the analogy of the real estate agent saying “Now is a great time to buy&#. And you know what?

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It’s not as flippant as it sounds, for it is our artificial enhancements that paradoxically make us more human. All this philosophy starts to do my head in after a while, and that’s before getting into Freud’s posthumanism. Somehow I prefer Joseph Gliddon’s simpler definition of a human: something that drinks coffee.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

These people are relics of a bygone era, clinging to the old paradigm because “that’s how we’ve always done it” And while this might sound a bit harsh, it may contain a seed of truth. Consequently, some point the finger at trainers. Change is hard, and no one wants their livelihood threatened.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 10, 2012

• Theme: Designing instructionally sound and engaging learning. . • Theme: Near future of learning in Australia. • More info: Learning Cafe. Australian Instructional Design Conference. • Where: Sydney. • When: 21 March 2012. • More info: LearnX Foundation. Blended Learning Conference. • Where: Sydney.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 27, 2011

The sound of a penny dropping. Promotion to the postconventional stages of Individualist , Strategist and Alchemist is relatively rare, while I presume the transpersonal stages are the realm of the Zen Master.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

This sounds admirable prima facie , but for me it raises a couple of concerns. Furthermore, I can update my tin can manually. For example, if I read a newspaper article or have an enlightening conversation with someone around the water cooler, I can log into my account and record it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

When you think about it, a media rich e-book is what a pedagogically-sound online course ought to be: • engaging. If we replace it with a recording, we call it audio or video. If we combine all of the above, do we not call it an online course …? • interactive. • learner centered. • logically structured.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 4, 2015

This is sound advice. The argument is that in the absence of such evidence, don’t waste time and money trying to match your teaching style to everyone’s learning styles; instead, divert that energy towards other, evidence-based pedagogy. Nonetheless, I urge my peers not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it make a sound? Randomisation - Putting the actuaries through the training and then comparing their culture metric to everyone else’s sounds like a great idea, but it will skew the results. Perhaps the CEO approved a special bonus to all staff.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 21, 2008

It all sounds like common sense to me. Put yourself in their shoes before uploading. Think carefully about your profile picture. If you don’t want to see it in your local newspaper, don’t put it online. social networking.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2012

Sounds reasonable, but when Klout changed its algorithm last year, it was discredited by an avalanche of commentators – all of whom, I suspect, had experienced a reduction in their Klout Score. The more engagement your posts receive, the more influential you are.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2013

If Udemy had rejected my argument, I would have had no choice but to consolidate my Q&A videos into one long clip – which not only would have compromised the integrity of the instruction IMHO, but also would have affected the marketing as prospective students would not be able to see the full outline of the contents.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

This sounds admirable prima facie , but for me it raises a couple of concerns. Furthermore, I can update my tin can manually. For example, if I read a newspaper article or have an enlightening conversation with someone around the water cooler, I can log into my account and record it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

I am busy – No, I’m not just saying that to sound important. On the contrary, I hope it gives you valuable insight into your customer’s expectations – which of course you can use to your advantage. Obviously I have my own reasons for doing this too, so let’s call it a “win-win&# situation! :0).

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

Not only does a sound understanding of the fundamental concepts have an obvious bearing on the employee’s ability to do their job properly, but leaving such learning to chance could have serious risk management and compliance ramifications.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2012

Sounds reasonable, but when Klout changed its algorithm last year, it was discredited by an avalanche of commentators – all of whom, I suspect, had experienced a reduction in their Klout Score. The more engagement your posts receive, the more influential you are.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

But the science doesn’t matter because the assumptions sound right. To this day there remains an intriguing paucity of statistical evidence to support andragogy, despite the litany of arguments pitched against it. Deep in your gut, you just know that they’re true.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

I am busy – No, I’m not just saying that to sound important. Obviously I have my own reasons for doing this too, so let’s call it a “win-win” situation! :0). I am seriously busy. The legacy of the GFC is less people in the company expected to do more than ever before.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2011

Given the realities of the workplace for student doctors, shifting the pedagogy – if ever so slightly – from formal to informal sounds long overdue. [Source: Location and Learning ]. What a wonderful idea! I certainly support the idea of staff profiles.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 12, 2010

This concept was demonstrated in the early 1900s by Ivan Pavlov, who reported that after a period of conditioning, a dog will associate the sound of a beating metronome (neutral stimulus) with food, and respond to it in the same manner (salivate). .

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 28, 2012

We were treated to national treasures such as the Australian War Memorial , the National Museum of Australia , the National Film and Sound Archive , the Australian National Botanic Gardens and Canberra Glassworks – not to mention lunch at Two Before Ten , dinner at Mezzalira and z’s at the Diamant Hotel.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 2, 2017

The graphics, the sounds, the historical context, the immersive realism, are nothing short of astonishing. I could have listed any of the latest games released for Xbox or PlayStation, but as a history buff I’m drawn to Battlefield 1. It’s brilliant. We’ve come a long way since Activision’s Tennis.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 28, 2012

We were treated to national treasures such as the Australian War Memorial , the National Museum of Australia , the National Film and Sound Archive , the Australian National Botanic Gardens and Canberra Glassworks – not to mention lunch at Two Before Ten , dinner at Mezzalira and z’s at the Diamant Hotel.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2011

Amused by our industry’s obsession with single letter prefixes, I replied facetiously that I preferred the term slearning – simply because it sounds so awful. It all started with a tweet by Anne Bartlett-Bragg ( @AnneBB ) observing an instance of the term s-learning representing social learning. action learning? adaptive learning?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 15, 2010

This may sound like a fluffy question, but unless your employees are cyborgs, it’s also a relevant one. Does spirituality belong in the workplace? Of course we are human, and that means every single one of us brings our personal beliefs, goals, needs and values into the workplace. This poses a challenge for corporations.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

. • Reward correct responses to questions with a visual/verbal reward (eg a big green tick and the message “Well done!&# ) and perhaps a brief sound (eg a pleasant bing). • Avoid exposing the correct answer upon an incorrect response: instead, allow the learner to re-try (unless of course the assessment is summative).

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Hmm… sounds interesting. I was pleasantly surprised to find ParraConnect – a new “connected city and community&# framework designed to link existing programs as well as foster the development of new digital initiatives in the local public sphere.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I know that sounds preposterous given my observations above, but it was so. Maybe we can’t predict how it will change, but we know that it will. Shoot the messenger. When I finished reading Friesen’s paper, I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that I really didn’t disagree with him.

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