Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

I stumbled across this on a writers blog today: "Officially, I’m now an Instructional Designer. A fancy term for writing training material." Blog link not provided to protect the innocent]. If all we do is write training material, then perhaps yes. I write and design self-paced eLearning for the corporate market.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

Friday, January 25, 2008 Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives My recent post on alternatives to listing out learning objectives generated a lot of interest and a good conversation. ( Christy Tucker did a nice write up from the the opening presentation of the WebEx/eLearning Guild Online eLearning Summit.

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Learning Visions

JULY 26, 2007

Im not a techie -- far from it. Im an instructional designer with an emphasis on writing and schmoozing. Google Alerts A nice adjunct to Google Reader; Im always discovering something new via my "instructional design" alert. Im #34 on the list. Im #34 on the list. Gmail Gmail love. Take the Survey!

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WhatFix

MARCH 27, 2020

For example, taking calls during dinner or while feeding your young one, perhaps responding to emails quite late at night or in between your personal tasks, or in general working much longer hours daily to present yourself as productive could severely affect work life balance even though you are at the comfort of your home. .

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Marshall McLuhan) -- Im not trying to be a smarty-pants here, but I looked this up and Gary was close: "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. Learning Objects and Repositories Location-based Technologies Mashups (came from hiphop -- artists would take samples and pieces and put them together into one creative work.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

But I find them painfully boring to read and to write. Ray Sims has written a great summary on Writing Learning Objectives , with citations to some good resources, including Vicki Heaths post Learning Objectives: Writing Learning Outcomes So They Matter. I see the value. Thanks for the post, Cammy. 1:46 PM Cammy Bean said.

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eFront

JANUARY 16, 2011

> If you know a free or open source text-to-speech tool that is not included in the list I will highly appreciate if you write a comment with a link! The Festival Speech Synthesis System Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules.

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eFront

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Here are some real world examples of micro-learning to help you understand its practice: – watching small instructional videos on YouTube. – receiving small nuggets of information through email, sms, IM, etc. . – receiving small nuggets of information through email, sms, IM, etc. to aid in memorizing them.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 7, 2007

Tuesday, August 07, 2007 31 Days to a Better Blog: Days 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 This whole 31 Days to a Better Blog exercise is proving harder to stay on top of than I had even imagined. Well, I didnt even have an About This Blog Page. Day 7: Plan a Weeks Worth of Blog Posts. Im not trying to make money off this blog.

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eLearning Cyclops

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Someone shows up at your office and says "Im here for the online training."* To prove it they provided sample SCORM 2004 content which they offered as a diagnostic tool to demonstrate how sequencing totally worked in their LMS. Here's an actual example of elearning hell (developers). A couple more to add.

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Learning Visions

JULY 6, 2007

Now Ive left Word behind and am writing everything directly in the wiki. Im a Word power-user and love all the little tricks and shortcuts. And theyre just so much more flexible than writing in Word, particularly when you want to embed multimedia, etc. I agree that it will be a process of Conversion by Example.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

It doesnt need to be much - but there should be something (verbal instruction rather than just text for example). Now, maybe Im just jaded and want to get to an approved storyboard. Maybe its the fact that Im recovering from pneumonia and just dont have the energy to fight the fight. But I caved. 2:03 PM Dave Ferguson said.

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Learning Visions

JULY 11, 2007

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 My 100th Post In honor of my 39th birthday (which is today), I write my 100th post (which seems improbable). Well, lets just say that theres no denying now that Im almost 40. Blogging friends sent me birthday messages via FB today. In fact, I think Ill just start saying that I am 40. Happy Birthday too.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 3, 2008

Brent Schlenker of the eLearning Guild, commented on my post Memoirs of an Instructional Designer : Im one of the unfortunate ones with a actual honest to goodness Masters Degree in EdTech. For example, I know Dr. Karl Kapp does some amazingly innovative projects for his students. The degree opens many doors but thats about it.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

There are great tools with a short learning curve (for example, Adobe Captivate and Articulate Presenter) and tools with a longer learning curve that are really excellent (for example, Lectora, and Flashform). One oh-so-hopeful prediction: Instructional design programs will begin teaching instructional designers to write.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? If you have another minute, check this out this Inkling anatomy “textbook&# example.) Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Mark Oehlert

APRIL 22, 2008

Im sure that the Romans thought their empire wold stand for all time as well and look what happened to them. Step-by-step I plan to prove it with examples. books futures Web 2.0 typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003 " Hmmm.wow.I

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Learning Visions

MARCH 21, 2008

This post has been removed by a blog administrator. Oh, except Im the developer and audio engineer too. And Im "lucky" enough to have access to the software. Im wondering if theres anything better out there. Most of the learning blogs speak of out of hte box immersive simulations. 3:30 PM Wendy said. Thank you.

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Learning Visions

JULY 25, 2007

Other benefits of working with two monitors: 1) Have a source document open on one screen and be writing a proposal/storyboard/script on the other. 2) Watch an online Adobe Connect presentation in one screen and blog about it in the other. So the search feature -- I get that and Im sold. Very useful feature. Take the Survey!

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eLearningArt

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Those future trends include Spontaneous Learning Systems (SLS), Intelligent Mentoring Systems (IMS), and highly personalized learning services. He’s well known for his books , thought leadership, and conference speaking engagements. Julie’s book, Design for How People Learn , is a must read for every instructional designer.

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Xyleme

DECEMBER 3, 2009

While I could write an entire blog post on the reasons for this, I think Clark Quinn summarizes it quite nicely: “As work becomes more complex and the level of information explodes, speed-to-competence will depend on an organizations ability to allow learners to support themselves by tapping into the knowledge of others.”

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Xyleme

OCTOBER 9, 2009

For example, if you check out Michael Hanley’s blog , you’ll see that he’s dedicated most of his recent posts to this subject. Brent Schlenker, commenting on Michael Hanley’s blog , says: “. will be supporting IMS Common Cartridge. Meanwhile, there are plenty of SCORM authoring tools that work well with Moodle.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 11, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Ive had some reports of this blog hanging up.anybody else having issues? Im also opposed to the conflation of ISD with anything that has to dowith learning instead of being honest about what something like ADDIEis - a production model not a design process.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

I primarily focus on the content, the writing, and the schmoozing with the client. (My Some of these discussions about tools is similar to the arguments that the main stream media has made about blogs and wikis. But Im not sure I can get people to hold their answers back. 1:32 AM Tom Kuhlmann said. Good post and comments.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

link] December 2, 2011 Getting Research to Researchers in Developing Countries : Examples from East and Southern Africa, sponsored by Publishers for Development, Charles Darwin House, London, The United Kingdom. link] May 14-17, 2012 Learning Impact 2012 , sponsored by IMS Global Learning Consortium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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