Learning Visions

MARCH 19, 2007

Whos really used music in e-Learning to good effect? I think my resistance to using music in courses may have something to do with the notion of music not being taken seriously in a learning environment. We might use the same clip as the course faded out to great dramatic effect. Dont think so.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Monday, May 21, 2007 Learning Styles as Fortune Telling My research into understanding the role of learning styles in e-Learning continues. The reason researchers roll their eyes at learning styles is the utter failure to find that assessing childrens learning and matching to instructional methods has any effect on their learning."

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

If you have ever taken an eLearning course (and be honest -- have you really taken an eLearning course?) , have you taken the time to read those objectives? I called this one out as one of the top things I learned about learning in 2007. What are the outcomes youd like to achieve for yourself from this course?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 NewsFlash: PowerPoint Bad For Learning Found via SlashDot , an article in todays Sydney Morning Herald " Research points the finger at PowerPoint." It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. It should be ditched." "It

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Of course good is very subjective. Not usually, of course, but I tried. Ive also tried to argue with clients about what makes effective learning. Right now, Im feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement.

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Learning Visions

MAY 15, 2007

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5 Myths About Rapid E-Learning An excellent post on the Articulate blog by Tom Kuhlmann: 5 Myths About Rapid E-Learning. Clives 30-Minute Masters Wiki got a nice plug -- "Create a way to help your SME learn more about building effective e-learning courses. Clives wiki is really evolving nicely.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 27, 2007

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 The Rise of Rapid e-Learning Mike Alcock, MD of Atlantic Link Ltd has written an article over at Trainingzone.co.uk: The Rise of Rapid e-Learning. At the end of the development cycle, Vedior purchased the tools so that they could update and maintain the courses that Laurence had developed.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

9% Hit us Hard 47% Hurt a little 41% Not much effect 3% Helped us MYTHS the Business Side Has about Learning Client asked him to develop a course for business side. Measurement myths Technology is key to learning success (we must use elearning, social media, video etc. -- nothing else is effective). 3:37 PM Cammy Bean said.

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

Friday, May 04, 2007 New Rapid e-Learning Tool from Epic Another new rapid e-Learning tool, this from Epic (UK). Cammy If this is anything like the previous tool Epic developed it should be very easy for non-technical folk to turn out functional SCORM compliant-ish courses. Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 e-Learning Content & Version Control Earlier this week, Janet Clarey wrote about the " Preservation of e-Learning Content." After reading Janets post, I talked with our CTO about some ways that we could build a little bit of "version control" into our Flash Course Development Templates. Is that true?)

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007 The Learning Show Thanks to Will Thalheimer for continuing to provide great learning resources. Then put the other information into references, performance support and follow-up courses. ( Have the system send a link to a test a week or two after the learner completes the course?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 5, 2007

Thursday, April 05, 2007 More on PowerPoint and Instructional Design Continuing the PowerPoint conversation begun yesterday here and picked up by Clive on Learning: Dont blame PowerPoint.and Quintus Joubert PowerPoint vs. Interactive Learning. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Do you ever develop a mnemonic for a custom course? But Ive got a mind to try it out one of these courses. Getting Snappy I had an interview with an instructional designer the other day, whos developed and led a lot of instructor-led courses. Things might get a bit silly with all that snapping, but I bet its effective.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Open Source eLearning Tools , October 13, 2010 I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory. It opens the doors to thousands of quick customizations.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Monday, August 20, 2007 Getting Started in Instructional Design Many readers find their way to this blog because they are interested in learning more about instructional design. For me, instructional design is about designing "engaging and effective" asynchronous learning experiences (web-based training programs).

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Friday, September 12, 2008 Connectivism: Week 1 With little time these days, Ill be auditing the auditors version of the 12 week Connectivism course happening now. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. See Christy Tuckers musings on this topic: Does Learning Grow or is it Built?

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations After reading Clarks comment on my posting from yesterday , Ive been looking into Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro), trying to better understand the notion of "multiple representations." Makes sense. Ill definitely look into it. 12:06 PM Clark said.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

(responses in parens below) Hit us Hard (18%) Hurt a Little (50%) Not much effect (32?) If objectives worded general, they have very little effect. 47% of us said "some of the time" Which will be more effective at guiding learner atttention? You dont need to use focusing questions and prequestions in every course.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training: Perspectives and Guidance for the Enlightened Trainer and Designing World-Class E-Learning : How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, And Columbia University Are Succeeding At E-Learning These have been very valuable to me in the way I think about how and where elearning can be most effective.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?) You could go all out and separate the effects of training by using control groups. But the level of measurement has gotta be proportional to the strategic value of the course and its benefits.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

When we talk about the “industry&# , we (and by “we&# , I of course mean those of us in the industry) often refer to it as if it’s this monolithic thing that you can touch. Of course it's not the perfect analogy. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. Facebook for Learning?

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

This manufacturing process training course was originally delivered as a four hour plus death-by-PowerPoint classroom session (if you could see the original PPT source content, youd begin glazing over within a few slides). Within certain parameters as defined by the client (of course). Cut, cut, cut. Storyline. Using Audio.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 4, 2007

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

Its like the opening credits of a movie. When clients insist on the objectives list, Clive includes an opening scene to spice things up. Karl Kapp suggests starting off a course with a series of questions related to the objectives, or to start off with a scenario. [In Another point of resistance is "Weve always done it X way."

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JANUARY 2, 2009

link] January 26-February 21, 2009 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, (AACRAO) Registrar 101 online course. link] development/courses/ registrar101.cfm link] February 16-18, 2009 Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference and Expo, Grand Hyatt Singapore, Singapore.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 9, 2009

My argument is that if the information is presented as 'real' conversation it is more believable, more engaging and ultimately more effective. Sure the quality isn't as good but for internal clips embedded in Articulate courses, they're "good enough" for us. Time will tell :-) 10:28 PM David Anderson said.

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Learning Visions

MAY 12, 2009

Weve taken this up before and many of us IDs know the strategies for using audio most effectively by now. What about eLearning in the UK has led to such an excessive lack of audio in their courses? In India, most courses have no audio but I suspect this has more to do with costs rather than learners preferences. Do I hear India?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007 Messy Learning OK. Sure experience is a great teacher but organizations are about efficiency and effectiveness. Sure experience is a great teacher but organizations are about efficiency and effectiveness. Messy Training Not OK. Ive been thinking about messes a lot the past few days.

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Learning Visions

MAY 16, 2007

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Debunking the Learning Styles Myth As you may know, Ive been on a focused mission to better understand so-called learning styles and their place -- or not -- in e-Learning. Ive done classroom teaching as well, and of course Ive found its good to keep different styles in mind.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Thursday, December 20, 2007 Technology, Colleges and Community Online Conference I live in Canada and these days everywhere I look, I see snow. ► April (3) Cheating in Online Courses 50,000 Hit Friday! ► August (2) Short Cuts for Converting Classroom Courses to Onl. STOP and THINK: What inspires you? Are educat.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2007

Thursday, May 10, 2007 Learning Styles In 1996, when I first started working as an "instructional designer", I was taught about learning styles. But even when theres a visual that needs examination, it might be more effective to provide a rollover rather than explaining the image with an audio presentation. 10:13 PM jmarrapodi said.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 e-Learning Guild Mobile Learning Report The e-Learning Guild presentation of the most recent 360 Research Report on Mobile Learning. Taking content youre already developing and delivering it on a mobile device.its not about putting a full course on a thing. The iPhone (Brent -- of course!)

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Mark Oehlert

APRIL 29, 2007

For our forces to be effective in that world, they have to prepare with a joint perspective from the start,” he said. For example, one of the portal’s first offerings, the Joint Individual Augmentee Module, will replace a week-long resident course that was offered in Suffolk, Va. Biographies: David S.C. Smith, USAF Related Sites: U.S.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 21, 2007

| Main | Alternative and Activist Search Engines » June 21, 2007 Video Killed the Radio Star but What About the Instructional Designer? They are of course free and ad supported by Google ads. Then we have Sclipo. Feature wise, many of the same features and employing some nice design as well.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2009

As such, Ive seen the manager able to champion ideas and standards much more effectively than if there was a lack of degree or experience. Here in the UK, and I'm sure that if I say this someone will put me right, there are few, if any ID degrees (though there are various multimedia and even 'e-learning' courses).

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Friday, November 02, 2007 Instructional Designers: Do You Have a Degree in ID? My problem however is that they keep dropping courses. Im not on to trying to source another college or university to try out. My last issue that I keep facing is many of the courses I do find are mostly Masters. Do we really all need Masters?

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