Tony Karrer

MARCH 6, 2009

that asked why they would spend so much time teaching my kids cursive writing and not teaching them touch typing. My daughter is now in fifth grade in the same school district as I teach. A little more than a year ago, I published a post Touch Typing - Cursive Writing - Why?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Goal Setting and Making Plans There’s a lot of content that already exists around the basics of goal setting, i.e., SMART goals: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely However, it’s far easier to teach someone about these than it is to help them create the goals themselves. Or an account that goes up and down.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

By way of background, this person is a teacher/trainer who is bright and has lots of great experience teaching and training different adults across different topics. He's well versed in "advanced Teaching-Learning techniques." I may be pushing my luck, but I received another question that I thought was a good question.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? Horizon Report 2008 The annual Horizon Report seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff 75.

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Wiki Instructional Design Case Study Corporate eLearning 147

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 21, 2009

" or "Teaching 2.0" " or "Teaching 2.0" Still, I believe the crux of Mark's concern and where the disagreement comes … So there is no "Learning 2.0" " from the learners' view - there could well be "Instruction 2.0" Education 2.0) to eLearning 2.0 is that it's learner driven.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

The same can apply to most standard teaching and training lectures. In large universities where there is little to no interaction and the interaction is done with Teaching Assistants, why not have the lecture come from the absolute best teacher (hopefully one that is known in the field as well so you can drop names).

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Tony Karrer

JULY 2, 2008

Trying to come up with ways to teach people them all at once is going to be challenging. I think the thing we have to be careful of is teaching the tools outside of the benefits. Great stuff Gina. And there are some good comments in her post including: A lot of "us" learned these technologies organically, as we needed to.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

What do you need to teach people? Computer Science shifted to teaching Hadoop to freshman from teaching SQL. Mentions Google putting testing over the toilet. Not about the tools. It's about how to use them. How to leverage the data? Core competency of information age - leveraging collective intelligence. Statistics.

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Social Networks Wiki Wikipedia Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Second Life is not a teaching tool Tool Set 2009 New Design for My Smile Sheet The art of changing the brain Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Social Media makes this course stand out Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? Tools - A Summary PR 2.0:

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Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

He would put out offers for an upcoming course that he would teach online. This greatly changes things like tutoring and language teaching. These can be one person shops that selling training to particular audiences. I recently heard a podcast from a one-person operation that had a list of people in the world of real estate.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The person works in a corporation in Turkey and is looking to find eLearning to teach employees English. Almost the same time I posted the question, I received a question from a reader around Language Learning. I know there's a lot going on in online language training.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

So, I'm happy to say that eLearning Learning now includes the 15 following great sources in addition to the 99 previously listed: Living in Learning ZaidLearn Off Course-On Target Viplav Baxi Meanderings The Writers Gateway Speak Out eLearning Path Learnability Matters IDiot Games can Teach Free as in Freedom eLearning NOT As Usual Getting Down to (..)

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Blogging LCMS eLearning Web 102

Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

His background teaching e-learning classes, knowledge of adult learning theory, and experience training CEOs and front line staff provides him with a unique perspective on organizational learning. Recently, he won the Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology.

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eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy Free LearnTrends 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

The reality is that much of the training on these kinds of topics is rather boring and mundane because it assumes that its purpose is to teach the person the information in the first place. You'd find out that you need to teach the 3 second following rule. Performers need consistent reinforcement of these messages.

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Blended Learning Design Instructional Design Training 108

Tony Karrer

MARCH 19, 2009

Sharepoint) 57% Peer Coaching/Teaching 52% Media sharing (images, videos) 48% Collaborative Spaces - Wikis 47% Blogs 45% Learning Systems for Social Learning (LMS/LCMS) 42% Social Networks 41% Employee Profiles 33% Content Ratings and Reviews 13% Twitter and Mobile Content 12% So I'm not 100% sure I get the disconnect.

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Wiki Social Networks Enterprise 2.0 Compliance Training 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 27, 2008

If we want to teach new work we should embed more in complexity theory. I have no idea what Stuart means when he says we should teach new work via "complexity theory" - but the comment that creating more content may not be the answer - ever. That said - I really wonder how you teach the new work. To me, it IS partly content.

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Work Skills Skills Develop Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 21, 2009

Drafting a program to teach adults to use the right means of knowledge transfer is probably at least as difficult as teaching children to be discerning about information accessible on the Internet. It is likely too complex for a practical guiding taxonomy to be drawn up and be of any use. There are no hard and fast rules for this.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Grants demand accountability on success rate and outcomes of our GED teaching process. Here's the question: I am the Manager of Education and Training in a non-profit that serves homeless youth and whose mission is to get the kids off the streets by offering services which include getting their GED.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 16, 2007

It seems that no one is sure if the author is serious - but I worry that some people might actually think so, especially since it reminded me of conversations I had with fellow professors 15 years ago when I was teaching computer science at Loyola Marymount. Unfortunately, that's how I went through school and so I did the same thing.

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Wiki Course Classes Write Blog 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 31, 2008

The most recent was a comment by Bill Brantley who generally agreed, but added: In Boy Scouts, I use to teach wilderness survival which required a lot of memorization. There has been wonderful discussion with a few folks around my post: Life is an Open Book Test.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 28, 2007

There's a natural tendency to try to teach too much. So instead of teaching them a bunch of stuff up-front, we provided those few pieces of information inside a hybrid reference solution. However, I have a possibly different answer to the core question about how long should the course itself be. As short as you can make it.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Rather than getting a lecture from whoever is teaching your course locally, wouldn’t it be better to get a world-class lecture. And this is something that I’ve been thinking (and writing – see Physics Lectures ) about for a long time. Here’s the point: It’s incredibly easy to capture and distribute lectures.

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Lecture Corporate eLearning Internationalization Creative Commons 141

Tony Karrer

MARCH 20, 2008

The issue from what I could read an interpret from various posts ( statement, article ) is that Business Objects requires Classroom Licensing for third party training organizations to teach using their software. They also are trying to put restrictions on any use of their software in training materials, public presentations, etc.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2006

Found via: Big Dog, Little Dog - a very interesting article: Why Minimal Guidance during Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching - Educational Psychologist It points out that open learning environments may not be good ways for people to learn.

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Collaborative Learning Informal Learning Collaboration Informal 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2006

One thing that just struck me was a comment by Mark Oehlert that suggested we re-engineer the way professors teach ISD. I really doubt that we will see forward thinking professors start teaching about a different model before that model emerges elsewhere. In thinking about that comment, a few random things dawned on me: 1. At a Web 2.0

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Instructional Design Change ADDIE Enterprise 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Gerber has the class creating ePorfolios and Blogging as teaching tools! He teaches math and went through all of the normal stuff that all the teachers do. Still there were two standouts. ePortfolios and Blogs My oldest daughter, a freshman in high school, has a fantastic teacher, Ms. Gerber , for Honors English. Any pointers?

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Blogging System Classes Portfolio 108

Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

In other words, the objective of this blog is not really to try to teach the readers a particular set of things. I hate to be so self serving, but the objective is really to help my personal learning. To a lesser extent the learning objective is to help other people learn. I hope that each post offers insights into a topic.

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Learning Objects Learning Objectives Learning Association 102

Tony Karrer

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

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Social Bookmarking RSS eLearning 2.0 Poll 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 20, 2009

But, I think the part that really is interesting here is better captured in his post - That Was an Interesting Experience - “Teaching and learning in virtual worlds is an experience.” I'm not 100% sure I fully grasp the implications and meanings of the terms he uses and their importance to the social experience.

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Social Social Networks Virtual Classroom Elluminate 102

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 21, 2009

For people new to the concepts of social media and reviewing their tool set, is Twitter a good choice as a tool?

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Twitter Personal Learning Personal Personalization 128

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

And, as you know, I've been asking us to think about how we can help enable, support, teach DIY learning (personal learning - as I call it). Believe it or not, learners can, and will, do the rest. They already are. Well said Harold. And I still strongly believe we need to learn how to learn better ourselves first.

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Wikipedia Apple Portal YouTube 101

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Learnosity Learnosity provide a set of tools to help in the assessment, teaching and learning of spoken language skills. This combination, backed by flexible expert location, rating and ranking mechanisms, makes our offering stand apart in providing cutting edge performance support and learning management to large audiences.

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Innovation Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Simulations 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 31, 2007

personal learning, easy distribution of software (software as a service), video is here now, push to pull, teaching Gen Y (what he calls the netGeneration). Tony Bingham, President of ASTD, is doing his introduction, and his content is: Web 2.0, What a great setup for my presentation. Thanks Tony.

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TechKnowledge ASTD Open Social Bookmarking 100

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2007

Better fit for a name would be Teaching Management System or Institution Control System. These technologies are supposedly designed for learning but that is not true. These technologies are institution-centric and vertical by nature. The concept of Learning Management System (LMS) was wrongly named. Does a Learner WANT an LMS?

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Wiki PLE LMS eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Course Redesign We will see increasing efforts at redesigning courses to incorporate both online and face-to-face teaching 2. Virtual classrooms and smart-boards are used in a more student-centered way (not putting all the attention to one person up-front=bad). Tony Bates - eLearning Outlook for 2011 1. The Future is Mobile 3.

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Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Tony Karrer

APRIL 23, 2007

And since I was teaching techies who are natural problem solvers, it engaged them in something they love. In fact, the ideal in most cases is that learning is set up as doing. When I was a professor, I normally tried to start my lectures by setting up the problem. It gives context for what they were going to learn.

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Learning Environment Personal Learning Environment Personal 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2006

Given my list of media choices, I then generally think about media in terms of Kinds of teaching methods available given the media and its fit to my goals, learning design, etc. Often we find that we will separate our overall design into separate problems of Reach and Teach (although Teach is a somewhat older term).

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