Tony Karrer

JULY 26, 2010

I’m not and I gave him the standard advice about looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. A colleague just asked me if I knew anyone who was using Augmented Reality for learning. He did that, but didn’t find particular people.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2010

Brightstorm focuses on helping students prepare for AP tests, as well as standardized tests. Some eLearning startups rouhgly in this space: Knewton focuses on test preparation online using test experts to help students study. TutorJam offers online tutoring programs for students in K-12, AP classes, and college.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 27, 2009

I know that many of you reading this want to jump to the part where we convince the organization that they are wrong to base their standards on number of hours. However, most of us are well aware that in most cases it will not be possible to get a large complex organization to change it's standards, so we have to work within the standards.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 27, 2008

Thus, stick with standard ports, protocols, file formats, etc. There have been a couple of occasions when we could get changes made to the firewall. But unless you have a lot of influence, you should not be creating solutions that generally require changes. Does anyone disagree? What about getting changes made to firewall settings?

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

The same can apply to most standard teaching and training lectures. This is a simple solution to a massive problem. Students are already voting with their fingers and dumping their third-rate, real, local lectures for first-rate, online, global lectures.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2011

The standard model for asynchronous conversations is discussion forum software like vBulletin. The main issue with these is that the primary value is in the real-time nature. While Twitter is asynchronous, it's not easily used as other kinds of tools for discussion.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Playback is through standard technologies allowing easier distribution. It provides an authoring interface that fuses a visual story boarding system with easy to follow templates, both of which require no programming skill at all. It makes it possible to develop rich simulations in a fast and cost-effective way.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I will say that I found the content presentation to be fairly standard. Shows recently completed activity and rewards earned. Tons of Badges and explanation of the badges: Nice statistics. It uses very familiar voice/language that makes it feel comfortable. But there wasn't anything that special or different about it.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

And, Quizmaker allows you to track your results with your standards based Learning Management System as Quizmaker output is SCORM and AICC compliant. Adobe Captivate is the easiest way to create professional-quality, interactive simulations and software demonstrations in Adobe's Flash format.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2008

Unless you are trying to do something where you are automatically generating the pages based off of a CMS or database, then I'm not sure I get why you would use a standard tool. You can embed Flash interactions. My conclusion - without additional knowledge - the consultants in this case are right.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 23, 2009

Business of Learning - eLearning Technology , June 15, 2009 New online book on mobile learning -available for free download - Ignatia Webs , June 12, 2009 Phases of the 3PD Approach: Discovering Instructional Design 15 - The E-Learning Curve , June 16, 2009 Google Wave as a Learning Tool - Learning and Technology , June 12, 2009 Student Guide: Introduction (..)

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

You want to implement your courseware to the SCORM standard if you plan to have it launched and/or tracked under an LMS. SCORM is a fairly easy standard to deal with especially since most people are fine with a single SCO that does only single score/completion reporting. What about other Standards? in the eLearning world.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2007

Especially as things become less revolutionary and more standardized. One thing I would point out is that it is highly likely (and in fact happening) that open source will begin to become increasingly important in the eLearning world. Think Moodle as an LMS. The discussions on the posts are quite interesting - and heated.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. Why is Facebook so hot right now? I see two main reasons which I give below, but first. What is Facebook?

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Again, most of this gets handled by standard network folders and permission structures. You don't want people seeing your stuff that's still in development. There's some course content that should not be accessible outside a particular group.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2006

If you notice my first paragraph (which is fairly standard in my blog) it contains four "I"s. Many bloggers apparently believe that people not only give a shiitake about everything they say, but that these people are hanging on to every word. So, for a couple of days, I've been self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my blog.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 24, 2008

Most eLearning tools do not promote the creation of effective courses, do not promote web standards, and do not promote accessibility; they merely make cookie-cutter course development easier for technically inexperienced course developers.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 23, 2008

Our webinars have been successful by our standards and for the most part, we've been early adopters of the technology. I've made the case, or at least the statements on the reduced costs for travel, lunch, and copies we can expect. What I fear is that we are secretly not committed to the shift in the way we meet.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

Q&A - eLearning Standards Especially SCORM Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning Web 2.0 Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge - Decisions Learning Professionals Make Everyday New Kind of LMS? and eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Mainstream media -> YouTube Mainstream press -> Blogs And this has real impact when you see things like: InfoWorld Folds Print Magazine and you also see things like The Industry Standard coming back, but as an aggregator / prediction market. It will be interesting to see what begins to happen to mainstream sources that chase large audiences.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 27, 2010

A general approach in which developers use any standard authoring tool such as Articulate or Lectora and use stand-alone TTS on-demand services/products to create audio files that are then linked or embedded in the presentation.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Delivering a file via a standard HTTP request (without a streaming server) will leave the asset available. By contrast, audio, video, and data streamed to Flash clients using Flash Media Server are not cached on local client machines. The only way around this is to use a Flash Media Server. Of course, the same is true of the other formats.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Blackboard has done well for us although I am not pleased with their support of the SCORM standards. We have recently been exploring putting more coursework online and have experimented with the Articulate line of products.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers LMS Dissatisfaction on the Rise Topic #2 - LMS Selection Process I'm going to break the process into a few bigger buckets: Start Up Form a core selection team and define stakeholders Define business and learning strategy Agree to process with key stakeholders Evaluation Capture requirements and differentiating (..)

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

We don't want a standard demo, we want to see how they handle the challenges. It makes all the difference in the world. I personally like to have demos after you've defined your differentiating use cases and know where the system is likely going to be more challenging.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I sort of agree. Certainly, niches offer an opportunity to leverage social networking capabilities, but I think that there are really big risks right now for any site because you need critical mass and passion to be successful.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In other cases, having a very simple daily/weekly check in with a standard question or two can be effective. In some cases, have specific days on a schedule, checking off completed items, providing ratings to evaluate progress, etc. all make sense.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

It was unlikely there would be an issue and if one arose, they would follow standard procedures that would have been executed via e-mail in the past. Lending assistants were already familiar with sending questions via e-mail and documenting loans. These folks were knowledgeable about issues related to fair lending.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 13, 2006

eLearning Guild's Research Report on Rapid eLearning talks about how hot this topic is, but then you get things like a recent blog post by Gabe Anderson of Articulate: Of course, Articulate has long been at the forefront of the industry, setting the standard in PowerPoint to Flash conversion.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Both organizations have played with creating and using Wikis, but unless there is critical mass of content and visitors, unless they become the defacto standard of where you find this information then you won't get sufficient content. Theoretically, ASTD's Learning Circuits or the eLearningGuild should do it right?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Isn't this standard design stuff? I definitely agree with creating representations of what the screens will be and/or storyboards. Again, design 101. So, what the heck is he talking about with this? Tom goes on. Another portion of visual thinking is usability, information design, and interactivity.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 3, 2008

Short, fast and to the point will be the standard. This will increase the discussion of the relevance of ISD / ADDIE (see also ADDIE Not Relevant?). Prediction #5 => Mobile Learning - Continued Scattered Examples and Disappointment This is going to be another somewhat disappointing year for mobile learning.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 18, 2007

My rough draft of my LMS Selection Process is: Form a core selection team and define stakeholders Define business and learning strategy Agree to process with key stakeholders Capture requirements and differentiating use cases Questions Interviews / expectation setting Drill down on non-standard items Conduct initial research, select initial vendors, (..)

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

Oh, and real-time editing with multiple authors will be standard. You won't think of things like the location of the document (local, email attachment, network drive, SharePoint) or multiple versions in files at all.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Is there something that your company needs that's not standard? Another example from a different source: Please describe how the application displays course information to the users. Duh, it lists them and then it shows the course information. Another example I ran into: Describe administrative interface and usability.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Short, fast and to the point will be the standard. And while Harbinger has provided some interesting tools that are essentially mash-ups for authoring, not sure I've seen much adoption. This will increase the discussion of the relevance of ISD / ADDIE (see also ADDIE Not Relevant?).

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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