Rapid eLearning
AUGUST 1, 2008
The Rapid Elearning Blog. 5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development. December 11th, 2007. 15 comments. Almost daily I get emails asking how to get started with developing elearning. There’s no substitution for experience. Here are five tips that will help you gain experience and develop the skills to build elearning courses that you can be proud of.
eLearning Blender
AUGUST 28, 2008
Jackpot! Finally got the buy in from the boss to spend some money on Adobe software, mainly for developing eLearning and printed training materials. Thanks to the good ol' educational discount I can really make the most out of a $1000 budget. Obviously, I need the Creative Suite 3 but that's where things get sticky. I am looking at 2 different packages and the only difference between the 2 packages is that one includes InDesign and the other includes Fireworks.
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Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 31, 2008
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How to Make Wiki References. Screencast and directions for adding references in Wikispaces. Wikispaces references now work like Wikipedia, where you can add a reference and it creates a linked footnote. tags: wiki , citations , howto , screencast. WebAIM: Web Accessibility Gone Wild. Common web accessibility mistakes and what you should do instead. tags: accessibility , webdesign.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 26, 2008
Great post by Jay Cross that uses the history of performance support to set up the need for what Jay calls Learnscapes. I've been a long-time believer in EPSS and ePerformance. Jay tells us: Performance support is blossoming in organizations today under the label of Web 2.0. Remember the original premise of PS, making information available to workers instead of forcing them to memorize it?
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Kapp Notes
AUGUST 14, 2008
Here is a great video from Northern Illinois University showing how mechanical engineering can be made fun by incorporating game elements, problem-based learning and real race cars into the course. I especially like the beginning contrasting a textbook with the video game.food for thought.
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From the Coleface
AUGUST 27, 2008
Over many years of running Train the Trainer courses and coaching facilitators, I’ve spent time talking about learning styles e.g. Honey & Mumford and occasionally Visual, Auditory & Kinasethetic. Whilst I feel like participants have got great learning value from them, I’ve had a growing sense of unease about the robustness of their scientific basis and how much you could validly infer from them.
Lars is Learning
AUGUST 23, 2008
Following my last post, I received a comment from njtom as follows: "Brain scans of humans and animals have indicated that bursts of information pass between the neocortex and the hippocampus during the first hours of sleep, known as slow wave sleep. It is during slow wave sleep that the brain remembers declarative or episodic memory – precise facts a person can access consciously.
Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 28, 2008
YouTube - Learning Styles Don’t Exist. A cognitive psychologist argues that learning styles, as the theory is generally understood, don’t exist and aren’t supported by research. He acknowledges that there are differences in visual and auditory memory, but says the research doesn’t show that differentiating instruction based on learning styles actually has any effect. tags: learningstyles , education , cogpsych.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 25, 2008
I've been working with Steve Wexler and the eLearningGuild on the eLearning 2.0 survey and report. Some interesting data points are coming out of the study. Right now there are more than 1000 respondents. I've not really seen good numbers on what people are using as part of their day-to-day lives. Here are some numbers that confirm a bit of what we thought and a few surprises.
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Kapp Notes
AUGUST 29, 2008
IBM has released a 3D game to teach engineering concepts to kids. It comes complete with lesson plans for teachers including one called windturbine design and build challenge. They are working through a group they helped form called TryScience. Read more about IBM and TryScience here. You can read about their other partner, New York Hall of Science as well.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 2, 2008
Brain 2.0 has sparked some very interesting discussion and quite a bit of disagreement. My basic claim is that technology changes what is considered In Does new technology reduce the need to memorise facts? Mark Frank rightly argues: We remember things better if we elaborate on them – and there is much more scope for elaboration if you already know a lot.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 20, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, August 20, 2008 In Loving Memory of My Father Captain Robert M. Morrison (USN Ret.) January 20, 1933 - August 18, 2008 Posted by Cammy Bean at 3:23 PM Labels: me 9comments: Chris said. Cammy, my sincere sympathies for your loss. 4:41 PM Christine Martell said.
From the Coleface
AUGUST 8, 2008
My colleague Richard Middleton recently presented a session at the e-learning Network showcase ‘Fun & games – are they really necessary? It was a lively and insightful session on when using games can add learning value to an e-learning experience. Feedback forms showed that this was the most positively received session of the whole event.
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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.
Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 26, 2008
Tools Used : eLearning Technology. Tony Karrer looks at some results from the eLearning Guild survey on eLearning 2.0, specifically what tools learning professionals are using themselves. He compares people in corporations, education, and government. Surprisingly, people working in education are using more of these tools than their corporate counterparts. tags: web2.0 , e-learning , research , learning2.0.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 25, 2008
I received a question: I am an educator in Arizona about to graduate with my Masters in Instructional Design. I wish to apply my experience designing courses for online learning; however I've searched and don't know where to begin to actually learn how to use the LMS and course design software available. I came across your blog and thought you might be able to offer some suggestions.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 28, 2008
Gordon Synder of Gordon's Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Blog has a great post titled Obama on Technology and Innovation where Gordon summarizes Obama's policy. I have reproduced some of it here but check out the entire post. 1. Ensure the full and free exchange of information among Americans through an open Internet and diverse media outlets: - Protect the Openness of the Internet. - Encourage Diversity in Media Ownership - Protect Our Children While Preserving the First Amen
Lars is Learning
AUGUST 3, 2008
I've previously posted on the effect of sleep on our learning and memory effectiveness in Snooze and Learn Faster and Six minute nap may boost memory. Here's yet another study supporting the need for sleep to consolidate a new experience. To sleep, perchance to remember (Nice title, not mine but a similar Shakespearian steal as Learning As You Like It) Neuroscientists at Geneva University.
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Learning Visions
AUGUST 4, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, August 04, 2008 Back to Work Monday was my first day back to work after almost three months. I put in a nice five hour effort, appearing on site at our new office space. Citrus colored walls, big windows that let the sun pour in. Not too bad. So.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 2, 2008
I personally think delicious is a great tool and I often describe it's use in presentations and workshops. It recently went through an upgrade that improved the look and performance. However, it interestingly left out a lot of what I said was missing in my post - Yahoo MyWeb better than del.icio.us, rollyo, et.al. for Personal and Group Learning from March 16, 2006.
Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 25, 2008
Ruminations of a Learning Professional: Call a Spade a Shovel - but make sure you describe! One learning professional asks if the title “instructional designer&# is perhaps not the most accurate description for what we do, especially with learning 2.0 and increases in learner control. tags: instructionaldesign , career , web2.0 , learning2.0. Is the term Instructional Designer a dead description, title, category or classification?
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 27, 2008
I'd like to get help identifying examples of videos and screencasts that show different styles. I'm hoping people can help me collect some of these. As background. I've been discussing with several people recently how they can create small (5 minute) screencasts or videos that teach something very briefly. As part of these discussions, we always talk about how we would want the pieces to have some kind of nice style to them.
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Kapp Notes
AUGUST 27, 2008
Recently, someone sent me some questions about the field of e-learning and I thought I'd answer them here and give everyone a chance to provide input as well. 1) How is e-Learning Evolving? I think it is evolving along four paths. The first is a "quick and dirty" path. This is e-learning that needs to be done quickly, has information that is not permanent and that needs to be provided to as many people as possible as quickly as possible.
Lars is Learning
AUGUST 2, 2008
In the last post, HDL cholesterol levels appear to have a positive effect on memory recall (or at least arrest its decline). On a similar dietary theme: Scientists Find Blueberries Reverse Age Related Memory Deficits Researchers (from the Schools of Food Biosciences and Psychology in Reading and the Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter).
Learning Visions
AUGUST 4, 2008
Monday was my first day back to work after almost three months. I put in a nice five hour effort, appearing on site at our new office space. Citrus colored walls, big windows that let the sun pour in. Not too bad. So. What have I been doing all that time? Enjoying the best summer vacation/maternity leave of my life. My husband is a stay-at-home-dad, so we had the benefit of two parents home all summer with the kids.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 7, 2008
I'm taking a vacation shortly and it's doubtful that I'll post during that time. I'll see you all in a few weeks.
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Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 22, 2008
Voicethread 4 Education » home. Wiki collection of resources and examples for using Voicethread for education purposes. Also includes some best practices and professional development examples. tags: wiki , education , tools , voicethread , audio , k-12 , highered , profdev.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 27, 2008
Wow, what a great presentation / video from Michael Wesch and the author of The Machine is Us presenting to the Library of Congress. It's an hour long, so make sure you give yourself time.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 26, 2008
An alumni of our program in Instructional Technology recently sent me this rant and I just had to post it. I believe the alumni (let's call her J) is refering to the following post in her rant: We Need a Degree in Instructional Design I recently stumbled upon an exchange on your blog where you were rebutting someone's suggestion that formal or professional credentials aren't necessary in order to be an effective ISDer.
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