E-Learning Provocateur
MARCH 16, 2009
Instructivism is dead. Gone are the days of an authoritarian teacher transmitting pre-defined information to passive students. In the 1990s, constructivism heralded a new dawn in instructional design, turbo-charged by the rise of Web 2.0. Students morphed into participants , empowered to seek new knowledge and understanding for themselves, in the context of their own unique, individual experiences.
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
MARCH 4, 2009
For the third time I was going through all my resources- files and bookmarks to find online icebreakers. I thought I'd do myself (and you) a favour by listing the most interesting ones. 10 online icebreakers (the picture relates to number 10!): 1. Two Lies and A Truth. Ask participants to list three interesting things about themselves. (I own two iguanas; I once shook hands with Tom Cruise; and I love to waterski.
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Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 25, 2009
We’re looking for a good subject matter expert for a specific course we’re planning to develop. Prior experience developing online courses is not a requirement for this job. From our Director: I am looking for an expert in Response to Intervention to work with an instructional designer to create an online graduate course for in-service teachers.
Upside Learning
MARCH 26, 2009
It’s everywhere – these varied conversations about learning games and the spending of millions of dollars to further the state of art in learning games. I’ve been on a similar tack; however, it’s quite obvious that most training departments don’t have the millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars that are required for sophisticated learning game development nor do they have the many months it can take to develop a full-fledged game.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 31, 2009
As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable. Upgrades are difficult and cumbersome.
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Making Change
MARCH 30, 2009
You lurch awake at 2 AM, thinking, “What if the client asks where I put sub-policy 12.5B? Did I cover it? Where?&#. At the start of an elearning project, your client will often give you more information than will be useful. Some of it will go into your elearning material, some will go into job aids, and some will get cut. Here’s one way to track what happens to your client’s favorite content. 1.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
MARCH 26, 2009
What are Interaction Models? An interaction model is a template which one can easily change (customize) to create interactivity. With interaction models at hand, you don't have to build interactivity from scratch. For example, a crossword puzzle where you can put new words and clues easily, to create an entirely new crossword, is an interaction model.
Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 11, 2009
Two weeks ago, I posted a poll that asked How Do You Learn About Accessibility? The poll is still open, so you can still vote, but I wanted to share the results so far. This is an extremely small sample size, so please don’t consider this scientific research. I had 76 votes total but that counts the number of votes, not people. If you checked three choices, that’s three votes.
Upside Learning
MARCH 26, 2009
This month’s Big Question from the Learning Circuits blog asks: If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? …. One could consider the topic from a sci-fi viewpoint; learning modules à la MATRIX – like Trinity asking Tank to run the training program for a B-212 helicopter.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 16, 2009
The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization? Are there training departments? What are they doing?
Lars is Learning
MARCH 20, 2009
Here's an article I've written for publication covering the benefits learning technology offers in bringing new employees up to speed. Your comments are welcome, especially on the ideas around making use of the pre-joining period. = E-induction: Save time, reduce costs and improve quality with e-learning While the headlines are dominated by job losses and uncertainty, it's easy to forget.
Making Change
MARCH 3, 2009
My latest project, the Elearning Blueprint , is now available and ready to help you save the world from boring elearning. The blueprint is an interactive job aid that helps anyone design lean, lively elearning. It can be used by one person or an entire team—including subject matter experts. And because it’s based on Action Mapping , the blueprint helps you create materials that improve business performance.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 31, 2009
Screen capture from Scratch an MIT project that involves a simple to great game design software. Here is an interesting article that discusses how the creation of video games can be an excellend tool for teaching students. The article Computer games as liberal arts? provides some interesting insights into how creating games can teach a number of subjects.
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Clark Quinn
MARCH 29, 2009
In my last post , I referenced John Seely Brown’s mention of dispositions, and I think it’s worthwhile to try to represent and discuss his point here, as it’s relevant to social learning, organizational culture, and success, topics I’ve mentioned in the past. In The Power of Dispositions , JSB & Douglas Thomas (Ubiquity) argue that we need more than skills for 21st century education.
Upside Learning
MARCH 30, 2009
Microsoft Surface was formally launched and is now available in 12 countries. A school in the UK used it for a day; here’s what they did with it: Such technology opens up a paradigm of interaction that been under-utilized in learning. Surface will probably be the first in a long line of products that include software and hardware for touch and gestures.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 24, 2009
I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents). They currently don't have any kind of solution.
eLearning Cyclops
MARCH 26, 2009
On retrospect, my best, most well received courses did NOT contain next buttons. These were courses well designed for the self directed, adult learner. And I believe by not including those dastardly, rotten next buttons it ensured that I consciously designed a very engaging course that kept the learner wanting to participate. These stinking next buttons are just holding us back.
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Learning Visions
MARCH 25, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Instructional Designers Survey My friend Robin is working on his Masters Degree in Instructional Design at the University of Massachusetts. For his thesis, hes thinking about tools and processes to better support the ID process.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 30, 2009
Recently, I spoke with a reporter from The Vancouver Sun about the future of the music industry and digital music. I have written before on the topic in my post New Music Distribution Model: Video Games. The music industry is still struggling with creating a new revenue model and how to handle the disaggregation of content. I told the reporter: "I think they (CDs) will go the way of 8-tracks,” he said.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 28, 2009
As part of the continual rethink about what I offer and to who (e.g. training department rethinks to managers, directors, VPs; experience design reviews/refines to learning teams), my thoughts on learning experience design took a leap. I’ve argued that the skills in Engaging Learning (my book) are the ones that are critical for Pine & Gilmore’s next step beyond their experience economy , the transformative experience economy.
Lars is Learning
MARCH 23, 2009
Here’s a thought piece covering the use and value of e-learning in the travel sector – this one made the cover story of e.learning age magazine. Again, would welcome your comments. == Harnessing technology to build trust and improve customer care remains a priority for the travel sector. There is no doubt that the travel industry is in a state a flux.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 6, 2009
A little more than a year ago, I published a post Touch Typing - Cursive Writing - Why? that asked why they would spend so much time teaching my kids cursive writing and not teaching them touch typing. The comment that I just received on this post was great and I couldn't let it be buried. I am as perplexed as you why many schools do not see the need for students to learn how to touch-type.
eLearning Cyclops
MARCH 24, 2009
Yesterday, I presented an overview of e-learning for an audience of classroom trainers and training managers. Among the many things I covered, I included an exercise where they identified advantages and disadvantages of e-learning. I thought I would share the results. Keep in mind, these are classroom trainers that are open to e-learning and the use of technology in training, but they are not the choir.
Learning Visions
MARCH 25, 2009
My friend Robin is working on his Master's Degree in Instructional Design at the University of Massachusetts. For his thesis, he's thinking about tools and processes to better support the ID process. He's come up with a couple of surveys to help him gather more grist for his mill. Can you help him out? There are two surveys: Tools Survey for IDs (closed questions) About You -- the Instructional Designer (open-ended questions, essay format) Thanks!
Kapp Notes
MARCH 28, 2009
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate it enough to travel to see the Prime Minister of Ireland and hear about the Irish Learning Alliance. Unfortunately, I didn't get to go to Ireland, instead I traveled with some friends up to New York to visit with the Irish Learning Alliance. Tom, Michelle & Dave take a break from at the ILA learning session.(taken with my iPhone) In addition to hanging out on the train and in New York with a great group of folks who are really doing some forward thinking about on
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Clark Quinn
MARCH 26, 2009
I’ve affiliated with the Learning Irregulars , (&# committed to making the world a better place by accelerating innovation in organizational learning. We are open, inquisitive, non-profit, impatient, and feisty&# ) As our first public outing, we held a meeting this week. The approach we’re taking for now is that we conduct activities, like meetings, webinars, and the like, asking interesting and important questions, making them public and collecting artifacts including pictures, ref
Moodle Journal
MARCH 19, 2009
If like many of us you are intrigued by the uptake and attitudes toward social networking then you may well find this latest set of survey results from Masie worth looking at. From my initial scan it seems that some applications and approaches are bucking the popularist trend. Comments welcome.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 3, 2009
Last week I did a webinar with Mark Sylvester of Intronetworks - Tapping the Social Grid. There's a recording available here. The crux of the talk was: Why being able to tap into the social grid is important for concept workers. A few of the tools and methods I use to tap into the social grid. Unfortunately, chat was not enabled during the session, but they did have the ability for attendees to ask questions.
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