Learning Visions

JULY 13, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, July 13, 2009 Kineo Product Knowledge E-Learning Webinar Kineo will be holding a free webinar on creating effective product knowledge e-learning on July 16th, 2009.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Project Sun Microsytems Brandon Carson, instructional designer Project: New Hire Experience “Join the Network&# Sun has put a real focus on telecommuting -- many employees dont work in an office. Game Based Learning Finding more effective ways to teach about Sun and the business. Publicly available training program.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Bottom line on smile sheets: Favorable returns on smile sheets have little correlation with the overall value of the learning experience. Dr. Thalheimer talked about ways hes been trying to make smile sheets more effective so that they can be used to tell us something valuable about the learning experience.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 15, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, March 15, 2007 Learning Mate Demo Im in search of good examples of cheap but effective e-Learning in the vein of the 21st century designer (web 2.0, ils, etc.).

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

this clearly effects how we should all be designing and building courses now. Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0, Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0, Friday, February 16, 2007 eLearning Technology: What is eLearning 2.0? I particularly liked this approach he describes for a software training course.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

A Critique of Learning Styles American Educator (Fall 1999) American Federation of Teachers. 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." Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In the past, Ive cut it down significantly, and sent it back to the writer/author hoping theyll learn a leaner writing style. Ive also tried to argue with clients about what makes effective learning. Dont just give in every time, learn, plan, and try to prevent it in the future 7:08 PM Tony Karrer said.

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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

MAY 15, 2007

Nice synthesis of many of the conversations that have been floating around about the role of SMEs and all these great content creation tools that empower non-programmers to create e-Learning, including this one here which had a good comment thread. Getting an Informal M.Ed Clives wiki is really evolving nicely.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

Some key nuggets from the Sydney Herald article: It is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time. 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

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. Similar to that whole corporate resistance to games -- excuse me, I meant to say "immersive learning simulations".

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Learning Visions

JULY 24, 2007

The company you surround yourself with may be shallow, but their effects upon your reality are tremendously deep. by Virginia Woolf Your life seems utterly bland and normal to the casual observer, but inside you are churning with a million tensions and worries. Youre not crazy, youre just a little unwell.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

Question of the Week -- Economy How has the economy affected your learning unit? 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. To help improve on-the-job learning. Stay tuned for topic.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 15, 2007

Theres nothing in ADDIE about learning objects or the presentation of information. Most e-Learning vendors mention ADDIE or some form thereof on their websites as if it was a real science about creating effective learning. You could apply the ADDIE model to software development, right?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

See Christy Tuckers musings on this topic: Does Learning Grow or is it Built? As I sift through this weeks reading assignments, Im trying to pick out how this learning theory effects my work as a creator (an instructional designer) of self-paced eLearning experiences for the corporate market.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 18, 2007

While they recognize that some of this info is useful for understanding ways to effectively present information, ".the Their main take-home point: For the classroom, what may seem to be redundant information in a presentation, may be necessary for students with different information processing preferences.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 16, 2008

Ive forgotten most everything I learned the last knitting go-around. As I was struggling to figure out once more how to purl, I thought about the spacing effect and forgetting. These two resources came to mind: For more on the spacing effect, be sure to read this 2006 article by Lars Hyland: Less Learning More Often.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I agree to the higher end of that range, and if so, then is that the percent of communication lost in online learning communities. Or is it substituted by other tools (how effective?)(web How simple and effective is that eyebrow raise? And how effective is that substitution? web cam or emoticons)? 8:37 AM Eric W said.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2007

They provide some fabulous (free) resources to the e-Learning community and have just been nominated the "Best New Kids on the Block" by the Brighton and Hove Business Awards. Although its geared towards "rapid e-Learning" efforts, these guidelines can be applied to any type of training. This months newsletter is no exception.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 7, 2007

Check it out. Click on one of the pedals (theyre all hand painted, wow!) and then click demo video at the top.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

Jan 23rd on Myths Question of the Week How has the economy affected your Learning Unit? 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?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

And now it turns out that learning is messy, too. Janet Clarey was reporting back from the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference, including experiments with un-workshops when things dont go as you planned. This may be why the concept of informal learning is such a hard sell. Forget about it.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

A rubric is a statement describing the quality of the learning outcome, or rather a way to evaluate the effectives of the teaching experience and the students comprehension or mastery. I was personally introduced to rubrics last semester in a faculty meeting at the school where I have been teaching.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 5, 2007

I also stumbled on this interview by Karl Kapp with Jane Bozarth over at e-Learning guru.com that had some good nuggets on basic instructional design and using low cost tools (like PowerPoint) to build effective e-Learning. Ive always pooh-poohed PowerPoint as an e-Learning tool.but its all in how you look at, I suppose.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

Is it a logical extension of the internet? I understand what you are saying - but if you give it some thought, the learning resource is not 'consumed' in the same way as most commercial commodities. Is it performance development? Is it the theoretical educational models we use to structure our content? Is it a methodology?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

More nuggets: Retrieval practice Space the learning experiences Make learning as realistic as possible -- in context/on the job Dont cover too much material Dont forget about performance support Provide for more authentic practice -- practice & decision making in context (simulations!) Spacing Effect -- space our learning over time.

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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. If we read Ruth Clark's e-Learning and the Science of Instruction we learn that audio can be a great way to aid learning -- when used effectively. This has happened to me!) You do know that, right?)

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Things might get a bit silly with all that snapping, but I bet its effective. How could you do that in an e-learning experience? Online courses provide ample opportunities to creatively and repeatedly introduce learners to concepts through the subtle, yet effective, use of graphics and/or audio. 8:34 AM Cammy Bean said.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Learning News Microsoft just released Semblio , a new authoring tool Skype 4.0 much better video) Question of the Week -- Economy How has economy affected your Learning Unit? 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?) Who would observe this?

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

This allows the learner to be more flexible in her understanding of the material, so that she can effectively apply it to concepts in the real world (knowledge transfer). Getting an Informal M.Ed Provide a variety of examples or case studies that get to the concept in different ways. Makes sense.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 27, 2007

They have become adept at incorporating flash animations, pdfs, PowerPoint presentations, audio-visual material and any number of other techniques for getting training messages across to users in effective and imaginative ways. Are they producing high-quality e-Learning? This sounds like a bit of an overstatement to me.

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

To makes sure that clients get the most out of Rapid Create, or from any other authoring tool they may select, Epic also provides training and capability building to ensure internal teams are skilled-up in creating effective e-learning. Posted by Cammy Bean at 8:42 AM Labels: epic , rapid e-learning 4comments: Dan said.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Gen Xers are digital immigrants; they did not grow up with the dual technologies of the Internet and video games. But then Karl says this: "The first generation to be fully immersed in video games and the Internet is the gamer generation." (p. Different thought processes…different learning. Im a Gen Xer and a Gamer 1.0er.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009 Jay Cross response to this month’s big question “In a Learning 2.0 Learning Management System (29).

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

In the Learning Portals that we create for our clients, we need to think about how we can ensure that updates are effectively tracked and recorded and that old versions of courses are properly archived. I suppose most LMS/LCMS keep track of versions on some levels. (Is Is that true?)

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Ive been working as an instructional designer in the corporate training and e-learning field since the mid-1990s. For me, instructional design is about designing "engaging and effective" asynchronous learning experiences (web-based training programs).

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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. Look at games like Mass Effect 2 as a perfect example. Time will tell :-) 10:28 PM David Anderson said. In this economy it is hard to justify professional voices, actors, etc.

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