Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
JANUARY 10, 2006
Course creators know of Rapid Authoring, and Programmers are aware of Rapid Application Development. The general idea is the same: waste less time and effort, get more bang for the buck. For those people who need to build interactive content, there has been a need for something on those lines. Rapid Interactivity is a new paradigm, which answers this unmet need.
Moodle Journal
JANUARY 29, 2006
As we enter phase 2 of the rollout and our Moodle system continues to grow here at Bromley College, we now have 128 staff and 340 students enrolled. The implications and impact of the VLE have begun to filter out far beyond just teaching staff, with our Quality Manager now chairing a new steering group, which is good, should be interesting, goes without saying.
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The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 31, 2006
Fair warning people, if you also read my e-Clippings blog (that goes for both of you), you'll see me post this there as well.let's just say I am fired up. Wanna know why? Try looking here. What you'll see at that link is a bunch of stories about how Google's stock took a monster hit today (12-20% depending on what time you're looking at). Why? Because the company ONLY reported a 4th quarter growth in profits of 82% !!!!
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Clive on Learning
JANUARY 27, 2006
I don't know about you, but nothing gets my back up more than someone trying to persuade me to do something because everyone else is doing it. The ASTD managed to achieve this unwittingly in one day, with two articles that they published through their 'e-learning community'. The first of these I have mislaid and cannot find anywhere on the ASTD site.
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Skilful Minds
JANUARY 2, 2006
Three of the four people in my household own an IPod, with yours truly the only holdout. I love what the device does, but since I first toyed with my wife's, I've been reluctant to buy my own. Tags: Experience Design usability user experience.
Moodle Journal
JANUARY 22, 2006
I came across a nice little freebe the other day that’s worth a look, it’s a web based mind-mapping tool called ThinkLink. In use it’s an intuitive application, students drag and drop various symbols onto the main stage and then type text into them, which in turn gets over any legibility issues. We are about to trial a mobile BlueTooth graphic pad in class and I feel tools like ThinkLink are going to come into their own.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 30, 2006
I'll keep this little trend of responding to and playing off other's posts going here - Peter wrote: "I would suggest we start looking at what I call the sense of "identity†(personal, social, professional), a permanently evolving entity or bundle of beliefs that is nevertheless based on some deeply stable elements (personality, culture, social status, etc.).
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Clive on Learning
JANUARY 19, 2006
It seems only days since Xmas and I haven't yet got used to waking up in the dark and having to work. Anyway, next week I have to get up on time because I'm speaking at Learning Technologies 2006, the conference that always gets in first. My topic is 'testing the case for blended learning', an attempt to prove that blended learning is still a valid and even an exciting concept, in spite of the fact that it's no longer the very latest fad (aka informal learning).
Big Dog, Little Dog
JANUARY 29, 2006
Kintaro Walks Japan - Google movie (67 min.). Kintaro Walks Japan is the meticulously filmed and edited story of Tyler MacNiven's 2,000 mile trek from the bottom of Japan to the very top. His five-month odyssey was meant to impress a girl and to find his American father's Japanese birthplace. Tyler arm wrestled 100-year old ladies, dodged trains in tunnels and walked into the hearts of the Japanese people, quickly becoming a celebrity.
Breakthrough eLearning
JANUARY 16, 2006
Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Monday, January 16, 2006 eLearning That Doesnt Break the Bank How do you deal with information overload?
Moodle Journal
JANUARY 20, 2006
With the arrival of phase 2, a new series of staff training is about to begin, that means some new courses, so I am pleased to say the file has closed on Moodle Quizzes this week. As an added extra I have included a chapter on Hot Potatoes, which seems to hook nicely into the Moodles quiz reporting system, well done out there for that one. I have been having some thoughts regarding the viability of doing things this way though, particularly for some of the lighter features, like say Journals and
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Moodle Journal
JANUARY 19, 2006
The rollout here has hit one of those inevitable census points: how is the system actually being used. The findings are a bit mixed, with some staff uploading content, creating links and generally planning their delivery and taking advantage of VLE facilities. However its not that good everywhere, and this means that some courses are only partially served by Moodle, while with others its not really happening at all.
Moodle Journal
JANUARY 8, 2006
I set up a new project on Moodle just before the end of winter term, more blogs on this later. Anyway realising that this implied students maybe having to do some work over the Christmas break, I say no more, I thought the decent thing to do would be to make myself available using a chat session. So we agreed a time each day. Well all I can say is that it would have been lonely old Christmas had relied on that strategy, not one contact!
Moodle Journal
JANUARY 6, 2006
The upgrade to Moodle 1.5.2 went smoothly and I completed necessary changes to the course notes, so they will be OK to go for the next staff development. Started work on the “Creating a Quiz in Moodle” course and it's about 50+% complete so hopefully I can start to offer that by the end of Jan. Our Conference video is still being sliced up into easy chunks by the media team for me to edit and stream.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 30, 2006
Players create paths on maps , especially in tycoon style games, to connect processes and places, and direct and sometimes limit units ' movements. Paths can be: Bidirectional or one way; Narrow/bottleneck or broad; Free to use or toll; Expensive to build or cheap or free; Too few or too numerous; Connect the right things or connect the wrong things; Perment, or temporary; Wear down with use, or increase with use; Aligning of interests; Physical, contractual, virtual, informational; Connecting o
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The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 28, 2006
Sunday I hop on a plane for Denver, the locus of ASTD's TechKnowledge conference. In the past, this was generally an introductory conference, with lots of very basic material. It was perfect for newbies. This year's TechKnowledge looks to be more sophisticated. Elliott Masie delivers one keynote, Ray Kurzweil the other. If you read Internet Time Blog , you already know I'm a tremendous fan of Ray's work.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 28, 2006
I have a quick question, spurred on by Jay's post below. A client asked me the other day, "what is the best way for a division of a large company to launch and maintain a public wiki, including what is the best software?" I had some ideas, but I would greatly value what others would suggest.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 28, 2006
Wanting psychology to be a more precise science , researchers in the field of psychology turned to physics and created "behaviorism", which is based upon Newton's one-way cause effect mechanics. Behaviorism attempts to explain behavior without referring to unobservable internal forces such as thoughts or needs. It explains behavior by focusing only upon the behavior that can be observed: the behavior itself and the environmental events that proceed and follow it, which thus becomes its main weak
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 25, 2006
In making a computer game, rubber banding is the technique to allow computerized opponents to bend the rules to keep things exciting and "close" for the player. The term comes from racing games, where you can imagine a giant rubber band extending out from the player's car to pull lagging cars forward and winning cars back. Rubber banding is a "game element," something done to make an experience more fun, in this case at the expense of accuracy.
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The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 21, 2006
Startling but true! There are illegal websites out there that make electronic copies of popular books and encourage people to download them for free. These pirate sites make their money off advertisements, including Google ads. A friend recently pointed me to an illegal copy of one of my books, SATFOL , which was sponsored (without his knowledge, of course) by "Elliott Massie"!
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 21, 2006
We have talked a bit about units , little creatures that interact in a computer game or educational simulation. While most simulations have broad categories of units, increasingly when describing constituents , be they customers or voters, the more accurate simulations use at least ten or fifteen variables to capture attributes such as spending ability, preferred/trusted media, relationships with other units, and interests and concerns.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 19, 2006
At the end of each play of SimuLearn's Virtual Leader, a student see a series of charts that provide reflections on his or her performance. Here is a piece that we created to help students evaluate their own performance.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 17, 2006
Pedagogy in educational simulations is that layer on top that makes things easier to understand. It includes charts and advice, as well as prereading and after action reviews. Done well, it speeds the learning and avoids the development of superstitious behavior. One truism of edSims is that the same pedagogy that helps in doing the simulation also helps people understand real life.
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The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 15, 2006
A couple of years ago, I was discussing the timeliness of training with a colleague. See said to me, "It would be ideal if we could have the right training ready when the employees asked us for it." I responded, "No, ideal would be that we have learning content ready before they ask for it." Recently I ran across a tool that tries to do just that. Watson 2.0 is a nifty little search tool that sits in a sidebar on your desktop.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 16, 2006
There are a list of skills that could be classified as soft skills, but I prefer the term "Big Skills." These skills have a few attributes: These skills are critical to almost any job, but more than vocational, they are truly life skills. We practice them, in some form or another, almost every day. Schools, self-help book, and enterprise training programs have done a terrible job at facilitating their adoption, although they talk incessantly about them.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 13, 2006
The eighth paradox, and this is true of any transformation (from getting a big promotion to moving to a better house), is that things get worse before they get better, even when the transformation is sought after and desired. New clarity only follows frustration. New power comes from not being able to do things the way you have in the past.
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