Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. Im already feeling a bit overwhelmed. Im about halfway through Michael Allens new book, Designing Successful E-Learning. Between you and John Im going to need to ask for a visit to Ikea for a new bookshelf too! I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety. What would you add?

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Beginning Instructional Designers Toolkit I want to incorporate a reading list for the next level of the 30-minute masters (taking a crash course in Instructional Design). Im not a big theory person.

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Learning Visions

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. Ive gotten rusty in the practice of ID, although very adept in the research and learning part (and I can talk a pretty good game). Theres more, Im sure.

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eFront

JANUARY 5, 2011

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/02/2011 Top 10 Open Source e-Learning Projects to Watch for 2011 2011 is the e-Learning year! The project is hosted at Google Code. by Christopher Pappas M.B.A.,

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, May 21, 2007 Learning Styles as Fortune Telling My research into understanding the role of learning styles in e-Learning continues. Im struck by why I find this topic so interesting. For the moment.

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eFront

JANUARY 10, 2011

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: delivering e-learning , designing successful e-learning , e-learning and the science of instruction , e-learning books , e-learning by design , elearning for begginers , the e-learning handbook Reactions: 2comments: Tanya said.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Licensing Options For Learning Management Systems There are two main licensing options for Learning Management Systems: Open Source and Paid. Open Source With an open source learning management system, you get the code for free, wherein you can modify it as you wish.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Licensing Options For Learning Management Systems There are two main licensing options for Learning Management Systems: Open Source and Paid. Open Source With an open source learning management system, you get the code for free, wherein you can modify it as you wish.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Licensing Options For Learning Management Systems There are two main licensing options for Learning Management Systems: Open Source and Paid. Open Source With an open source learning management system, you get the code for free, wherein you can modify it as you wish.

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eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le.

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eFront

APRIL 8, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 4/08/2010 ADL accepts eFront as SCORM 2004 adopter eFront is an LMS commited to international standards. and IMS Common Catridge and with version 3.6 Through time we offered support for SCORM 1.2

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eFront

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. The English version supports Windows, OS X, Linux, and even eeePC. Celtx creating a storyboard!

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The boundaries between traditional face-to-face courses and completely online courses are beginning to blur. > Resources Down-and-dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses Joanna C. Dunlap Improving the Odds of Effective Collaborative Work in Online Courses Joanna C. Dunlap Learning 2.0

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Docebo

AUGUST 16, 2019

A Learning Platform empowers L&D departments to drive business growth through their efforts, and a key pillar of this solution is the Learning Management System (LMS). Our complete guide to a Learning Management System is here to help. What is an LMS Used For?

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 8, 2008

Im guessing youre designing online distance learning courses. Im in the weird place of for-profit education, which really has characteristics of both market sectors. The courses I develop are 3-credit graduate courses for K-12 teachers, taught over 9 weeks. What do you do? What do you design?

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

Im co-opting it and encourage all of you to do the same. 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! So much on-demand training consists of boring page turners.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Id go so far as to say that Ive reinvented myself as a learning professional. And this is definitely not one of those things that Im learning for the first time, but here goes: Motivation is everything! Over the past two weeks, Ive had the privilege of watching my 4 1/2 year old son learn how to write. The motivation?

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 22, 2007

Im no Facebook super-user and I havent experienced a huge time suck from it, but I suppose its possible. Cammy, Im just a "lite" Facebook user, but I have seen profile pages that list their workplaces with commentary about how horrible their company is, or how much they hate their job. And Im in complete agreement.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 14, 2009

Im curious, have you had a chance to listen to yours or any of the others? Im happy with how they turned out. Hey Cammy, I heard your interview and I thought we seem to have a lot in common : 12 years in multimedia/elearning, e-learning for the corporate market, Project Management in e-learning. Curry said. Thanks again!

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eFront

DECEMBER 26, 2010

=> Which is your favorite e-Learning blog post for 2010? by e-Learning Queen on 09/22/2010 Learning Perspectives: 2010 by Jeff on 10/28/2010 Ellen’s introduction to the free aLearning tutorials by Ellen on 11/07/2010 How to Design an e-Learning Course on a Budget by Tom on 12/21/2010 by Christopher Pappas M.B.A.,

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Right now, Im feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement. Right now, Im proofing a storyboard thats full of endless text bullets and boring software demos with no interactivity -- and theres really nothing I can do about it.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2007

The focus here the last few months has been less on creating custom courses for clients and more on building Templates and Learning Portals (think LMS-lite). Havent written a course script in a long time here. So, what do I do if Im not doing that? Im not such an anal person, so this isnt my favorite thing in the world.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Updating 19 courses (which I wrote last year). Built six courses. Many lessons learned. Courses way too big, but some cool features that I really like. Im a convert. Yes, Im an English major who writes mostly text bullets instead of novels. So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? Thankfully.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

@JudithELS Gisele Brugger e-Learning designer & developer @giselebrugger Ian Huckabee e-Learning and social learning laughter @weejeelearning Tom Kuhlmann Tom shares practical tips & tricks for building e-Learning courses. tomkuhlmann Connie Malamed Consultant, writer and speaker in the field of e-Learning.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2009

Friday, May 01, 2009 Name That Tool I just got a FaceBook query from someone and I thought you all could help: Im looking for a tool you might have come across, but I dont even know what product/programming group it belongs to. So if you say, yes I have signoff authority for travel vouchers, I could tell this tool to mark four courses.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 22, 2007

But I havent "done" a course in ages. I havent worked with a SME and thought about appropriate learning activities and chunked out the content. And now Ive got a two-hour custom course on my plate. Im excited. Im nervous. Ive blogged about much of what Ive learned , right here.

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eFront

JUNE 1, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 6/01/2010 Course-instances on eFront 3.6.3 which has just been released by the way) introduces a shift from a Lesson-centric to a Course-centric eFront. eFront 3.6.3

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Learning Visions

JULY 26, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Im not a techie -- far from it. Im an instructional designer with an emphasis on writing and schmoozing. For the most part, I like tools that are easy to use, easy to learn, look good, and create good-looking output.

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eFront

JULY 23, 2010

Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le.

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eFront

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Using Facebook for e-Learning could inspire many of our students to learn. As a result, my question is how can we use Facebook for e-Learning? For an e-Learning course I would prefer a Facebook group instead of a Facebook page. You can share information relevant to your course with your learners.

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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). Im glad youre on board with my ducks!

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Learning Visions

MARCH 16, 2007

Another important reason to understand your audience when developing e-Learning, even along gender lines. Im wondering if any e-Learning designers out there consider these differences when creating courses. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

In fact, Ive had very little of interest to add to any conversation of late, mostly because Im much more focused on my personal life and the many transitions Im handling there. Hey Cammy--you know me, I think you can always apply the personal to the professional, so Im with Karl that you should blog about the Wii. Which is fine.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2007

I thought Patrick Dunn did a nice job presenting the difference between e-learning designers of the "last century" who follow the addie method to create courses (click me, read me) and thus bored learners, vs. todays e-learning designers who "create experiences". But its more than that.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Im a writer and a schmoozer. Many instructional designers are also responsible for building and developing content into working courses. Many of them learn ID only via their hands-on experience. Im sorry its taken me so long to get back to you on your question about Instructional Designers here in the US.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 8, 2007

I think Im somewhat of an anomaly in the field. I dont build courses. Maybe Im not an instructional designer at all. If youre an instructional designer within a corporate training group, it seems -- most likely -- that youll be asked to both design and build courses. I dont do any programming. Easy breezy.

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