Tony Karrer
JANUARY 2, 2009
Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. He has generously allowed me to republish here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. His notes on the list. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, check the specific conference website.
eLearning Cyclops
JANUARY 29, 2009
How well does Gagne’s Nine Events of Learning fit in e-learning? I think it is a good fit, but in full disclosure, I do not always use all events or in the intended order. If you are not familiar with Gagne, here is a quick overview. The following are examples of how I believe we can incorporate each event, although I have taken some interpretive liberties with each event.
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Kapp Notes
JANUARY 30, 2009
As learning professionals, we are familiar with Donald Kirkpatrick and his four Levels of Evaluation.If you need to get up to speed, you can read an interview with him here. However, Level 1 Evaluations which measure initial learner reaction to instruction are typically boring checklists or Likert-type scales which are painful to complete and don't provide much more information than how was the room temperature or donuts.
Learning Visions
JANUARY 23, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, January 23, 2009 Learning Myths with Dr. Will Thalheimer Another lunchtime webinosh with Dr. Will Thalheimer. The topic today: Myths the business side has about learning. But first, the news. Learning News Inaugural oath flub. Justice Roberts tried to administer the oath from memory.
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Clark Quinn
JANUARY 22, 2009
Yesterday, while I was posting on how words could be transcended by presentation, there was an ongoing twitfest on words that have become overused and, consequently, meaningless. It started when Jane Bozarth asked what ‘instructionally sound’ meant, then Cammy Bean chimed in with ‘rich’, Steve Sorden added ‘robust’, and it went downhill from there.
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Tony Karrer
JANUARY 21, 2009
For people new to the concepts of social media and reviewing their tool set, is Twitter a good choice as a tool? Introduction to Twitter for Learning Here are some good initial starting points that discuss Twitter for Learning - Twitter for Learning Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool Twitter Collaboration Stories Quick Start Guide to Twitter Twitter Newbies Guide 10 reasons why Twitter will help improve your already existing networks Newbie's guide to Twitter Twitter is Not for People New to
Lars is Learning
JANUARY 25, 2009
Here's an article published in Learning Technologies magazine this week. I wrote it some time back (old world printing deadlines) failing to fully forward plan for some events, like Obama moving from Elect to Active president status last week. But I'd welcome your comments on what you think mission critical e-learning means to your organisation or the organisations you work with.
Kapp Notes
JANUARY 28, 2009
One of the great things about what I do is getting to meet and work with really thoughtful and creative people and the other day, I got a chance to brainstorm with a group of great people on the topic of Virtual World Implementations. The group included Clark Aldrich (who I have worked with quite frequently lately.its been great), Susan Hendrich (who I knew from her blog and virtual interactions and finally got to meet face-to-face), Eilif Trondsen , Director SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
Learning Visions
JANUARY 14, 2009
Last night, Dr. John Curry interviewed me for his Introduction to Instructional Design class. I was one of four instructional designers that John interviewed and the only non-degreed one in the bunch. John asked each of us a series of questions: how we came to the instructional design field, what our current day-to-day jobs as instructional designers are like, what skills we feel are important for instructional designers, and what we feels the future of the field will be.
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From the Coleface
JANUARY 29, 2009
Just a shameless plug to say that I will be speaking at the Institute of Assocation Managers conference on 12 Feb 2009. IofAM is the professional association for professional associations…at last, an answer to one of those many infinite regress questions like “who audits the auditors?” I will have the chance to expand on the points made in 9 ways to design better conferences and add in a certain extra je ne sais quoi.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 28, 2009
Old Site. I’ve been busy updating my website. The previous version was done by hand in an old version of Adobe’s DreamWeaver , and while it was very light and minimal, it wasn’t very ‘elegant’ For instance, I’d had one problem that really bugged me, hadn’t been able to fix (though recently I managed to beat it into submission).
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 26, 2009
Last year I laid out in January my Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008. In my post, 2008 2009 - written in December 2008, I looked at how well I did in those predictions, and my results were pretty good, not perfect. So, let's try it again this year. #1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics.
eLearning Cyclops
JANUARY 25, 2009
With turbulent times, shrinking training budgets, and a level of uncertainty, more e-learning professionals are searching for new opportunities. So, what are the best sites to search for an e-learning job? Here are the sites I have found most helpful: e-Learning Guild - You can search jobs posted on their site and you can post your resume there too.
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Kapp Notes
JANUARY 29, 2009
Using a virtual world or metaverse for training is not as science-fiction as it sounds. A metaverse or virtual world is simply the natural extension and convergence of several technologies currently used for online learning. The first software element that makes up a virtual world is a synchronous learning tool similar to WebEx or Adobe Connect or Saba’s Centra.
Learning Visions
JANUARY 30, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, January 30, 2009 Do Instructional Design Degrees Get "Wasted"? In my recent post Instructional Design - Whats in a Name? the usual controversy erupted. ID student commented: My problem with the industry is that the degree in instructional design is required of management. which is pretty stupid.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
JANUARY 22, 2009
When someone is addressing a group, a yawn serves two purposes. One, it tells the speaker - the rare one who cares to notice it - that someone is bored. Two, it produces more yawns, which in turn tell the speaker. well, you get the picture. I was fortunate to be part of the innovation process that led to YawnBuster, and in this post I'll try to capture some of it.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 23, 2009
I was pointed by Harold Jarche to Dave Snowden talking about the coming age and the characteristics of what it will take. He documents a shift from mechanistic to systematic, and posits that the coming age is chaotic, requiring a new approach. Dave terms this ‘ praxis ‘, a continual cycle of experimenting on the basis of theory and reflecting, rather than pre-determined approaches.
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Tony Karrer
JANUARY 5, 2009
I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning. I'm hoping to address questions such as: How do you create a personal tool set or Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for yourself? What should be in your tool set? What are the most important methods to adopt in addition to the tools?
eLearning Cyclops
JANUARY 22, 2009
Video can be a great compliment to e-learning courses. Here are a few ways you can use video in your courses: Vignettes of experts providing advice/tips as it relates to the course's content. I will usually place the video in a box in the corner with a play button. Once the user reads the content they can then "hear from as expert." FYI: I want the video to add to the content, not overshadow it.
Kapp Notes
JANUARY 27, 2009
Here are some interesting statistics about learning. Of course, the data was collected before the great finanical meltdown but still interesting data According to ASTD, an organization of professional learning and development practiioners: ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent $134.39 billion on employee learning and development in 2007. This amount reflects direct learning expenditures such as the learning function’s staff salaries, administrative learning costs, and non-salary delivery
Learning Visions
JANUARY 30, 2009
In my recent post Instructional Design - What's in a Name? the usual controversy erupted. ID student commented: My problem with the industry is that the degree in instructional design is required of management. which is pretty stupid. My (educational) background is in Management of technology (MBA/IT). I've seen jobs that require a MA/MEd/MS in ID even though those individuals in those jobs don't design instruction.
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Lars is Learning
JANUARY 22, 2009
Back in March last year I posted on how we'd soon be able to pop a pill to get smarter. Well it seems that the current semi-illicit practice will go mainstream if AstraZeneca and Epix Pharmaceuticals get there way. As reported in the Telegraph, medicine designed originally to help treat Alzheimer's disease could be adapted and licensed for sale in a weaker form within the next few years: Steven.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 21, 2009
Monday was the US celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday, and on Tuesday was the inauguration of the first African American president of the United States. That’s an awesome juxtaposition; that’s change , baby! I not only found it wonderful, but informative. As background, I was highly trained to write in a very logical progression, choosing careful vocabulary, and in an objective manner.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 13, 2009
For many of the roles and projects you will be involved in, part of what you need to be able to do is to put yourself in a continuous learning mode. You need information radar that continuously scans for new, quality information that you should be aware of. And certainly, you have to be able to quickly commit it to your metamemory. Information Addiction Let me start this topic with a word of caution.
eLearning Cyclops
JANUARY 20, 2009
We often see estimated completion times in the introduction of e-learning courses. How are these estimates actually derived? I am sure many are educated guesses or estimates simply based on the number of pages and word count on each page. Bad idea, whether the course is a simple page-turner or not. Here are variables NOT accounted for in such approaches: Interactivity within the course (games, simulations, questions and feedback, etc.).
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Kapp Notes
JANUARY 26, 2009
Articles like Second Life's death knell tell of the lack of interest in virtual worlds with a recant of the death of Google's Lively and the pulling of the Reuters Second Life in world reporter. But, to mis-quote Mark Twain, The rumors of their death have been greatly exaggerated. According to Virtual Worlds Management, a leading virtual worlds trade media company, over $594 million was invested in 63 virtual worlds related companies in 2008.
Learning Visions
JANUARY 27, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Are You an Order Taker? When you design learning interventions, are you trying to create better learning or are you just taking the customers order and delivering what they asked for? Will Thalheimer, in the follow-up notes to his brown bag on Learning Myths , writes: "Many of us have been trying for decades to make changes, but I think also that many of us are just doing o
E-Learning Provocateur
JANUARY 15, 2009
Different people have different learning styles , so it’s important that we apply this fact to our delivery models. An excellent illustration of this concept is provided by The Unteachables , a BBC documentary currently showing in Australia on the ABC. Tags: learning styles documentary TV.
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