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DECEMBER 11, 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 The Big Question This months big question from the Learning Circuits Blog: What did you learn about learning in 2007? Forget the page of bulleted learning objectives at the beginning of the course. "At At the end of this course, you will know how to." Worst grade ever.

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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." The article cites new research from the University of New South Wales (home of John Sweller, "founding father" of Cognitive Load Theory). Raise your hand.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Little Shots of Theory Instructional Design as a practice in corporate vs. A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc. e-Learning Authoring Tools Crash Course -- Follow.

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AUGUST 23, 2009

former EVP Human Resources of First Group America on August 27 th for a case study on the development of a 15-minute course on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. All who attend will receive a FREE copy of the course. Schottmiller J.D, Moodle in 2010 Kineo Insights Webinar: Challenges and Best Practi.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Updating 19 courses (which I wrote last year). Built six courses. Courses way too big, but some cool features that I really like. My brain has a hard time these days parsing dense theory. So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? Jane -- In theory, Im not against theory. Little design work.

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APRIL 4, 2007

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 Off-the-Shelf Content: Help! Say, if youre purchasing a course library from SkillSoft or some other vendor: If a client has their own LMS, do they purchase the courses outright and host them on their own servers? I have some questions that I am hoping someone can answer for me.or

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JANUARY 2, 2008

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 Go Read a Book How many books did you read in 2007 that were not work or school related? by Caleb Craine, The New Yorker, December 24, 2007. Craine ) Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good For You) (a book of which I read about half of in 2007) argues that games can make us smarter. What do you think?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 InVision Learning: Seeking eLearning.NET Developer Were seeking a full-time.NET Developer to join our growing company here in Westborough, Massachusetts. Our company specializes in Custom Courses, Flash Templates, and Learning Portals. Moodle in 2010 Kineo Insights Webinar: Challenges and Best Practi.

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JUNE 8, 2007

Friday, June 08, 2007 Instructional Designers Tools Theres been a good conversation going on over at Christy Tuckers Experiencing E-Learning blog about instructional design. I dont build courses. My company creates customized course development templates for organizations. I think Im somewhat of an anomaly in the field.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

A SME builds a course with the latest rapid eLearning tool. Is it the number of courses you have created? The quality of those courses? Is it the number of theories you can cite? Whether youre a good one or a bad one, of course, is another question entirely. Adult learning theory? What are the criteria?

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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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JULY 7, 2009

Although I’ve been r eading Tom Kuhlman’s Rapid E-Learning Blog now for a couple of years, I’ve never actually designed (or for that matter, built) an Articulate course. That is, if a client uses Articulate in-house, they may ask us to build a few courses for them in Articulate. I’m such a n00b.

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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. Little nuggets that stand out to me: George Siemens writes, in Connectivism: Learning Theory or Pastime of the Self-Amused?: As opposed to building it?)

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2009

A nice follow-on to the webinar, we talked a bit more about learning campaigns, emerging technologies and, of course, the upcoming DevLearn 09. I posted my notes on Brents session , in case you missed it. Later in the week, Brent and I chatted it up a bit. Moodle in 2010 Kineo Insights Webinar: Challenges and Best Practi.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007 The Learning Show Thanks to Will Thalheimer for continuing to provide great learning resources. A 26-minute presentation with just the right mix of theory, practical information and humor. Then put the other information into references, performance support and follow-up courses. (

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Monday, November 05, 2007 Instructional Design Inspiration As I mentioned last week , Im in the midst of designing my first custom eLearning course in quite awhile. Were trying to include more game-like interactivity in this course , and this chapter is chock full of ideas. The 30-Minute Masters by Clive Shepherd.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Her statement is in keeping with traditional instructional design theory that says that learning objectives help learners organize their learning efforts. 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? How about you?

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MAY 22, 2007

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Adobe/Bersin Overview of the eLearning Industry I listened in this afternoon to the Adobe seminar: Overview of the eLearning Industry. Whereas if higher risk (development of entire course), people more likely to use non-open source tools. Nothing shocking, but some interesting tidbits. My notes here.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007 Instructional Design Stress I have to confess that although I call myself an instructional designer, its been quite awhile since Ive done anything like that. But I havent "done" a course in ages. And now Ive got a two-hour custom course on my plate. Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Our company specializes in Custom Courses, Flash Templates, and Learning Portals. Theory vs. Application in Instructional Design: On. Invision Learning is seeking an Instructional Designer to design leading-edge interactive multimedia and web-based eLearning applications. Online Chat with Charles Reigeluth (Instructional.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2007

Friday, February 16, 2007 eLearning Technology: What is eLearning 2.0? this clearly effects how we should all be designing and building courses now. I particularly liked this approach he describes for a software training course. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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APRIL 11, 2008

I put myself as academic, since the courses I develop are graduate courses. I figured youre really more interested in what type of courses I design rather than where the money comes from. Posted by Cammy Bean at 10:21 AM Labels: instructional design , poll , survey 2comments: christytucker said. 1:21 PM Dave Ferguson said.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

And schmoozing, of course!) Little Shots of Theory Instructional Design as a practice in corporate vs. A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc. Awesome, Ethan!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Thursday, June 14, 2007 Personal Hard Drive Mark Oehlert made some very sparky comments as he enters into the "raging PLE debate." (I The others, of course, are just showing off. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Mark writes, "You wanna know what a PLE is?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Instructional Designers with ID Degrees = 25% Instructional Designers are still responding to the survey I recently posted, asking instructional designers to tell us about their educational background and ID training. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Thursday, February 15, 2007 Pretesting: Why bother? Ive always wondered about them myself and have only reluctantly included them in courses. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Over at The Learning Circuits Blog , Clark Quinn is wondering about pre-tests.

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MARCH 16, 2007

Friday, March 16, 2007 How Does Gender Matter in the e-Learning Brain? Im wondering if any e-Learning designers out there consider these differences when creating courses. I know Ive asked the question about gender split, but I can honestly say Ive never designed a course with a specific gender in mind.

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MAY 1, 2009

I want to be able to ask people a series of questions and correlate their answers with topic areas to indicate what courses they should take. So if you say, yes I have signoff authority for travel vouchers, I could tell this tool to mark four courses. Im sure I could do a better job describing this, so let me know if Ive been clear.

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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. It has its own front end and outputs to HTML with javascript.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 5, 2009

So then its really easy to think that the best way to make a course more engaging is to make it fun. Of course, sometimes they coincide.) (Now (Realistically, sometimes all you can do is build the sucker in order to meet some crazy deadline.) Its easy to equate engaging with fun. Fun is a funny word.) Go for flow, not fun. (Of

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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. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Getting to Good Enough "Dont let good enough get in the way of perfect." Posted by Cammy Bean at 2:29 PM 7comments: Janet Clarey said.

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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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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. We need a course on this" when it might really be a management issue). Heres the first course, and heres the second one." To help improve on-the-job learning.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 8, 2007

Wednesday, August 08, 2007 Welcome to Tom Kuhlman Welcome to Tom Kuhlmann from Articulate, who adds The Rapid e-Learning Blog into the mix. Tom provides "practical real-world tips for rapid e-Learning success" with enticing blog entry titles such as How Can Baking Cookies Improve Your E-learning Course? Sounds good enough to eat.

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MARCH 5, 2008

Content Centric Solutions These are those courses that have the entire book of knowledge in em. That course that meets the needs of the learner. As the course designer, youre not encouraged or even allowed access to actual learners to get an understanding yourself. The sponsor says "we want this eLearning course."

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APRIL 18, 2007

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 eLearning Guild Event Take Home Point #1 Last Thursday night after the eLearning Guild event, I was fortunate to have dinner with a small group of eLearning professionals -- a diverse group coming at the industry from lots of different angles. They want to take the course and thats it." Custom Courses.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

What have you done lately to create a course that will intrigue and inspire your learners? Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! I know I do.

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