Experiencing eLearning

MAY 11, 2021

Learning Trends to Know, Adopt, and Grow Your Skills. Nick Floro talked about a number of trends in this session (more than 6, honestly), but he also shared a bunch of resources. You can see the resources at [link]. A few resources I noted: Descript : Automatically transcribe audio and edit audio like a document.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 22, 2022

Instructional Design: Career Pathways and Trends in a Thriving Industry. “Join UCI Division of Continuing Education and USD Professional and Continuing Education for a joint webinar and learn from seasoned industry experts about their pathways to success and the trends driving the industry forward.”

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of the participants also shared trends to watch in 2022, other recommended content, and additional people to follow. Best from the Brightest: Key Ideas and Insights for L&P Professionals – TiER1 Performance. 48 learning and performance leaders share their favorite content shared in 2021.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Research Trends with Jane Bozarth and Julie Dirksen. Connie showed examples of four trending styles: the duotone effect, isometric illustrations, minimalism, and bold typography. She showed examples of each trend, but then showed how she adapted one specific example of each for elearning. You can pilot and test.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We talked broadly about trends in workplace training. The conversation touched on a number of other topics, including providing information versus practicing skills and using tools that aren’t intended for learning. Emotionally Engaging Content. Emotionally Engaging Content. I spoke with JW Marshall on the Voices of E-learning podcast.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

Listening to podcasts is one way to learn about the field and become familiar with terminology and trends. Check the bottom of the list for links to several discussions about interview questions. Dear Instructional Designer by Kristin Anthony eLearning Coach Podcast by Connie Malamed The Lounge Podcast by Jacqueline Hutchinson.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 28, 2022

Stella Lee’s keynote on trends in edtech was balanced. Remote workers also feel more connected to their coworkers and organizations than they had in the past. Post-COVID-19 EdTech Landscape: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 7, 2020

It’s easy to mock up a newspaper headline like the one above or a fake website screenshot with trending news. You might not have the resources to hire actors and film scenarios in multiple locations like this, but you could still provide this kind of setup.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2008

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 11, 2009

Great if you need something in a specific time frame, but it also shows the trends over time. Where Google Trends shows the search patterns (i.e., Like the Wonder Wheel, you can drill into the results to look at more narrow timeframes. what people are looking for), this appears to be showing the search results.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 15, 2008

Trendpedia - blog trend search. You can compare the trends for up to 3 terms at a time. Graphs the number of blog posts over time which include a search term or phrase. Works even for terms with low numbers of actual posts (e.g., tags: blog , visualization , patterns.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

New Trends. Mobile learning is certainly a good trend to keep an eye on. Gamification is a hot trend right now; I’m not sure if it’s going to last. A lot of what passes for “gamification” is really superficial and not very effective, so this trend might fizzle out. Those tools are generally underutilized though.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 9, 2017

Trends in the future of online learning. Key elements that make elearning effective. Methods to maintain student interest. Example of how to teach interpersonal communication. Presenting yourself and managing virtual classrooms. The interview is about 35 minutes long. Listen to the podcast in a new tab. Read the show notes and listen online.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I’m sure there are exceptions though, and I’m not even sure I have the trend right. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s easier as an individual to freelance or consult with smaller companies, while large businesses tend to work through recruiters and bigger firms. Can anybody shed some light on this question?

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Learn Trends 2009 This morning I learned about two free online conferences, one focused on educational technology in K-12 schools, one more focused on corporate learning. The first is the FETC Virtual Conference and Expo on October 22. I haven’t attended this conference before, but it looks interesting and the price is right.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 14, 2010

Research on US teacher pay and trends. Notes on a session with Karl Kapp comparing instructional design in corporate & higher ed environments. tags : instructionaldesign , education , highered , corporate. How Does Teacher Pay Compare? Methodological Challenges and Answers. tags : education , teaching , k-12 , research.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 27, 2015

Trends and Future Predictions. Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions. Attention and Motivation. Designing e-Learning for Maximum Motivation. Attract Students’ Attention in 30 Seconds or Less. The New Learning Architect. What’s on Your Horizon. E-Learning 2.0 Will Richardson Interview of Clay Shirky.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 10, 2016

It’s easy to mock up a newspaper headline like the one above or a fake website screenshot with trending news. You might not have the resources to hire actors and film scenarios in multiple locations like this, but you could still provide this kind of setup.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post 3 of 3.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post 1 of 3.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 4, 2022

One recent trend in elearning is a shift to include trans and nonbinary characters. I’m beginning to see this as something my clients request in scenarios, and I hope that trend continues. Usually, I use a woman as the mentor. Trans and nonbinary. This is another aspect of diversity and inclusion, just like gender and race.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What are the latest trends and best practices in regards to gender roles in instructional design materials?” ” Christina, a graduate student who critiqued my blog post said she wished that post went deeper and listed some unanswered questions. What about gender?

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 7, 2019

The 2019 salary report took a different approach since salaries have been fairly stable, focusing on job roles and trends. Members in the eLearning Guild (including a free membership) can access the 2018 salary report for more detail, including international data. ZipRecruiter lists the average salary for instructional designers at $78,699.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 29, 2021

We talked broadly about trends in workplace training. Trends in learning. I also talked about how the pandemic has increased the demand for elearning, and the continuing trend toward remote and distributed work will continue to drive growth in the field. You can watch the interview here or on Apple Podcasts.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

Listening to podcasts is one way to learn about the field and become familiar with terminology and trends. Check the bottom of the list for links to several discussions about interview questions. Dear Instructional Designer by Kristin Anthony. eLearning Coach Podcast by Connie Malamed. The Lounge Podcast by Jacqueline Hutchinson.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2008

Future Trends. Google Sites for the wiki. Plaxo–aggregating from multiple social sites. YouTube–lots of educational resources. iTunes University. Second Life. More for younger generations. More communities of practice. Move from passive to active participation (Isn’t that already happening?

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post 2 of 3.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 26, 2019

I see more people doing the freelance and consultant route now than I did 10 years ago, which seems consistent with trends in the economy overall. I have been working as an independent consultant since 2011. Elearning Vendors. Elearning vendors hire instructional designers, often as subcontractors.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 5, 2017

Google Trends. One reason for the concern about instructional design dying is that it has been trending down on Google for a number of years. The trend has mostly flattened out, but it is much lower than it was in 2004. Brent Schlenker observed this trend in 2016.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

Thinking about big networks and learning–you can’t control it, you can just go along with it–fighting against the network and the trend towards connection and transparency isn’t a good use of effor. Wu-wei is not doing nothing; it’s trusting the flow of energy and going with it rather than trying to control it.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2009

It’s possible there was a problem with tracking that month too, since the numbers seem out of line with the trend. The recent large dip you see in the chart is August 2008, when I only wrote one non-bookmark post. I expect that December dipped because of a combination of less posting and the holidays.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 12, 2024

There was even a trend of people asking for free long-term mentoring for a while (which thankfully seems to have died down now). Boundaries evolve over time Earlier in my career, I did more free one-on-one calls, portfolio reviews, interviews for students, etc. I had the time to do that.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

How AI will affect instructional design: Short-term and long-term effects The general trend with new technology and predictions is that people overestimate the effect of technology in the short term and underestimate the effect in the long term.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 7, 2016

On E-Learning Provocateur , Ryan Tracey writes about the future of L&D and the big trends in the field like curation, gamification, and augmented reality. The eLearning Leadership blog by Allen Interactions writes about e-learning as explained in Michael Allen’s books, including the SAM method and focusing on scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 27, 2009

Trends and Challenges facing education. Look at financial tools like Mint or Wesabe that make it easy to visualize your spending trends. Australia differs b/c mobile is fairly prevalent already, so next-gen mobile is a long-term trend. Horizon Report. Increasing Globalization. Mobile phones: Fast growth & innovation.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

But does either of those methods of learning really give you an overall picture of the trends or substance of something really big? If you analyze a large text with a word cloud to look for trends, that’s a connectivist approach. Does that help at all?

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Now it’s finally making sense to me; of course educational research should be more like psychology, where we have trends and patterns but few absolutes. That isn’t what he’s saying though; he’s saying that educational research is a different type of research. Posted in Connectivism, Lifelong Learning.

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