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, Moodle in 2010 Kineo Insights Webinar: Challenges and Best Practi.

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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. Take the Survey!

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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. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

this clearly effects how we should all be designing and building courses now. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. Take the Survey! Pretesting: Why bother?

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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. Take the Survey!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 9, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, June 09, 2009 Audio in eLearning: When Rough Around the Edges is Better At our seminar today on using Articulate and Moodle and "Doing More for Less" , the conversation turned (as it always does) to using audio in eLearning.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 7, 2007

Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f. Check it out.

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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. Moodle in 2010 Kineo Insights Webinar: Challenges and Best Practi.

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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. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des.

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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. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des.

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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

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

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. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Lots of widgets on the site View other users who are logged in and talk to them Watch videos of CEO, corporate commercials If logged in behind Sun Firewall, see Tag Cloud and more links to internal information. Game Based Learning Finding more effective ways to teach about Sun and the business. They are really rocking.

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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

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

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

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

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

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. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Take the Survey!

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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

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

JULY 31, 2009

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. For it to be successful, it has to satisfy the criterion of 'learning' as well as all the other niceties of commercial goods: functionality, cost effectiveness, design etc.

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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). Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Getting an Informal M.Ed 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 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. Free Articulate & Moodle Seminars in Boston and Ch.

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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). Moodle in 2010 Kineo Insights Webinar: Challenges and Best Practi.

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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

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. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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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. The MBA is fine, but you have to have experience and education (formal, certification or informal) in learning theory and learning design. In my little corp. 1:23 PM Steve Sorden said.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 16, 2010

Virtual Team Management - ID Reflections , March 8, 2010 I recommend this simulation to all those who either are handling a globally distributed team or a project, and to all managers who feel that effective communication is one of the keys to business success. Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

Jay Cross says its "presumptuous and confining for developers to foist objectives on learners, for it disregards the learners needs, prior learning, and context." He suggests a list of potential outcomes with check boxes , effectively allowing the learner to create his or her own objectives. Take the Survey! United States License.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

For design inspiration, I took a few pages out of Karl Kapps book Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. I tried to make more effective use of audio. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point? Using Audio. Avoided reading text heavy pages word-for-word.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

e-Learning should be all neat and tied up in a nice wrapper with a Next button that moves you through a content checklist and a great assessment at the end. This may be why the concept of informal learning is such a hard sell. Sure experience is a great teacher but organizations are about efficiency and effectiveness.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 17, 2007

On the other hand, a little levity and humor can make training less stressful and -- perhaps -- more effective. On the other hand, a little levity and humor can make training less stressful and -- perhaps -- more effective. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

And hopefully, they are flexible enough that they can be altered as needed in order to create an effective learning experience. This approach saved them a ton of time, and resulted in an effective training program. Best of Learning Visions Essential Reading for Instructional Designers The Corporate Moodle: A Tipping Point?

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