Sat.Oct 23, 2010 - Fri.Oct 29, 2010

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Instructional Design Malpractice

Breakthrough eLearning

I recently came across an interesting online conversational podcast with Clark Quinn (Quinnovation) and Cammy Bean (Kineo) on the topic of "instructional design malpractice." Of course there is no such crime on the books, but perhaps there should be. The upshot of the admittedly tongue-in-cheek conversation was that there is too much boring eLearning out there that is overly long, overly detailed, and just not focused on what counts - namely, changing behaviour.

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

The final list of top 100 tools for learning for 2010 is now out on Jane Hart’s website. I understand this list is more inclined towards tools that learning professionals use for their own learning as opposed to those used for creating learning programs or training sessions. I see great gains made by some of the tools while I have not even experienced them as yet.

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Bob Mosher on Informal Learning and Performance Support

Learning Visions

Informal Learning: Are We Missing a HUGE Opportunity? with Bob Mosher of Learning Guide Solutions, presented by Massachusetts Chapter of ISPI and sponsored by Kineo. This real-live event happened October 21 in Westford, MA. These are my notes, taken live during the workshop – mostly my transcription, no editorializing. I have not gone back and cleaned things up, so apologies in advance for any incoherence… _ Bob Mosher, LearningGuide Solutions This workshop would be better as a series of 15 minu

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Text-to-Speech Examples

Tony Karrer

In response to the latest post in the series on Text-to-Speech (TTS): Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech , Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course , Text-to-Speech eLearning Tools - Integrated Products , Text-to-Speech vs Human Narration for eLearning , and Using Punctuation and Mark-Up Language to Increase Text-to-Speech Quality.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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6 Techniques that Stimulate Recall in eLearning

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. If you’re familiar with Gagne’s nine events of instruction , you know that one of the early steps in the instructional design model involves stimulating recall of learners’ prior knowledge. Typically, this step is listed after gaining attention and stating the training’s objectives. Why stimulate prior knowledge toward the beginning of an eLearning lesson?

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ITA and DevLearn!

Clark Quinn

I’m excited to say that all the Internet Time Alliance (Jay, Jane, Harold, Charles, & myself) are all going to be at DevLearn this year. I’m excited because I’m looking forward to having us all together, given that normally Jane & Charles are in the UK, Harold’s hangs out above the east coast of Baja Canada, and Jay and I populate the west coast.

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Presence Pedagogy: Needs Some More Dimensions

Kapp Notes

The other day, I discovered an interesting article, Presence Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in a 3D Virtual Immersive World , which describes an educational approach for conducting a learning event in a virtual immersive environment. Flying around in VirtualU: Sense of space is important in virtual learning environments. As the abstract to the article indicates: Presence Pedagogy is a way of teaching and learning that is grounded in social constructivist theory.

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Adobe Captivate 5: Shhh! The Password Is.

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. A simple-to-use but often overlooked Publish Setting is the ability to assign a password to published Captivate projects. Once a password has been assigned, the eLearning lesson will not begin to play until the correct password has been entered by the eLearning student. To assign a password to a project, open a project and choose File > Publish Settings.

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The Mobile Learning Edge – A Quick Book Review

Upside Learning

A few weeks back we received Gary Woodill’s latest book ‘The Mobile Learning Edge’ ; after a few weeks of hanging around on my desk, I’ve found the time to read it. Let me dive straight in and make some comments about it. This is perhaps the first book I’m reading that looks at mobile learning from more than just a pedagogical perspective, it has a definite business focus.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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The role of the university?

Clark Quinn

Unhappy in many ways with the current status of education, particularly here in the US, I’ve been thinking a lot about what would make sense. What’s the role of K12, and then what’s the role of a university? Some thoughts recently coalesced that I thought I’d put out and see what reaction I get. The issue, to me, covers several things.

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Discussing 3D Learning Archetypes

Kapp Notes

A few months ago, Tony O’Driscoll and I teamed up with Daniel Bliton and Charles Gluck for a discussion of some of the topics of Learning in 3D, here are the videos. And the second: If you liked the videos, check out the book: Tags: 3D worlds 3D worlds lrn3d Avatar virtual immersive environment.

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Adobe Builds Rome in a Day

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Jackie Dove of Macworld.com introduces you to Project Rome , a new all-in-one content creation and publishing application targeted to consumers, small businesses, and educators. According to Dove, "This product lets users produce printed, electronic, and Web-based documents featuring integrated graphics, photos, text, video, audio, animation, and interactivity.

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The eLearning Coach

Learning Visions

Connie Malamed's blog is one of my favorites. She writes thoughtful, well-researched articles on Instructional Design, using words like "cognition". She's also written a great book on Visual Design. If you're not reading The eLearning Coac h yet, please add it right now to your list!

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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eLearning and an Aging Workforce

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. It seems like every major news outlet runs the occasional story about how the United States workforce is aging. Between baby boomers approaching retirement and retirees reentering the workforce to supplement their income, statistics from a variety of sources indicate that a large proportion of our workforce is 50+. So what does this mean for eLearning?

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Moving Games Forward

Kapp Notes

Here is an interesting whitepaper called Moving Learning Games Forward: Obstacles, Opportunities and Openness written by Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, and Katie Salen with contributions by Jason Haas, Jennifer Groff and Dan Roy and right out of the Education Arcade. You really need to read the entire paper but here is one highlight which is near and dear to my heart–Barriers to widespread use of games in education.

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My 1-liners from TEDxCanberra 2010

E-Learning Provocateur

I was lucky enough to attend the inaugural TEDxCanberra last weekend. Whenever I attend an important event like this, I like to distill it into a series of 1-liners that gives any unlucky non-attendees a bite sized synopsis. So here goes… BTW, I’ll add the video links as soon as they’re ready… so be back soon! Dawn O’Neil kicked off with a jolting exposé of the sorry state of suicide prevention in Australia, a country that does so well in the face of other crises.

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Microsoft Word: Customize the Status Bar

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. When you are using Track Changes in MS Word, sometimes you need to turn the tracking off for a second to make some minor correction "off the record" and then quickly turn the tracking back on. But after a trip to the Home tab, or the Insert tab, or elsewhere to make an untracked correction, you have to return to the Review tab to turn Track Changes back on.  Now if you are a Track Changes guru, you have probably memorized the keyboard shortcut: Control-Shift-E.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Coaching to Learn; Learning to Coach

The Performance Improvement Blog

Do you want employees to learn? Do you want them to transfer that learning to the workplace and apply that learning to achieve business goals? Then develop manager-employee relationships that are supportive of learning. This isn't a nice-to-have; this is a must-have. From all we know about learning in the workplace it is clear that managers and employees must be allied around learning.

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“Seeding” Social Media for Engagement

Kapp Notes

The other day someone emailed me with a question of how to get social media usage going in an organization. Here are a few suggestions, First, I often “seed&# the use of a social networking tool with a basic question like “What do you think [this tool] can do for us?&# or if the group is more concrete in their thinking (like engineers) I use the question “What problem will [this tool] solve for us?

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Co-Curation

Clark Quinn

In a presentation yesterday by Dr. Deborah Everhart , talking about Web 2.0 and the future of teaching and learning at Berkeley’s new Center of Next Generation of Teaching and Learning , she used the familiar mechanism of transitions from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. One of the transitions she described, from Buying to Self-Publishing sparked a thought.

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Acrobat: X-citing News!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by David R. Mankin     There's something exciting in the Adobe world, and it's about to hit the shelves of your favorite software store. Adobe recently announced the pending release of the Acrobat X family of software. There are some really exciting changes and improvements over Acrobat 9. The most noticeable will be Acrobat X's user interface.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Facts are a bitch

E-Learning Provocateur

I was going to blog next about my favourite talk at TEDxCanberra , but before I do that I just want to share my musing for today. This morning I posted the following question to Twitter: What do you think of Parrashoot as the name of a local photography competition in Parramatta? The word play is genius, no? Now, for those of you who don’t know, Parramatta is the cosmopolitan sister city of Sydney, approximately 23 kilometres (14 miles) west of the Harbour Bridge.

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See What Adobe has Been Doing With HTML5

eLearning Cyclops

As my readers may remember from my past posts, I believe it will be quite a while before HTML5 becomes a practical means of delivering e-learning or a viable threat to Flash. However, Adobe has begun prototyping a tool for creating animation in HTML5. Still a long way to go, but a good start. The video preview from Adobe TV is below. [link].

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Conversational Tone in eLearning?

eLearning Brothers

1st, 2nd, or 3rd person? Which style of writing better “connects&# with the learner? I’ve worked on a lot of courses and this question comes up quite often. Some organizations want to be formal and think that a conversational tone is unprofessional. My thought has always been that self-directed learning is a “personal&# activity. It’s just between the computer and the learner.

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Cartoon: “The millennials are testing much better since we changed true/false to like/dislike.”

Mindflash

Cartoonist Mark Anderson shares the personal anecdote behind today’s cartoon: I’m not a last minute kind of guy. I check and update my calendar regularly, I never miss a deadline, and I usually arrive just a minute or two early wherever I go. But sometimes you have to wait until the very end for a great cartoon. It’s happened to me a few times; I write a cartoon, sketch it, ink it, and then it hits me — it’s not very good.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 10/24/2010 Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning As an e-Learning developer I had to invest a lot of time to find images for my e-Learning projects. I am sure that the most of us work with tight budgets and limited resources.

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Adobe's Project Rome

eLearning Cyclops

Project Rome is the latest coming out of Adobe Max. Project Rome is available for download as a free preview. There is also a Project Rome for Education. Project Rome can be used to produce a variety things including publications, presentations, websites and even animation. The outputs include PDF, SWF, JPG, PNG, SVG, FXG or web files. I downloaded the Air application, but it can also be used as a web-based service.

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The Forge plus Storyboarding and Scripting with Ellen de Vries

TechSmith Camtasia

It's that time again! Episode 3 of The Forge is coming up next Thursday, November 4 at 2pm EST. We'll have a very special guest joining us, Daniel Park from dappertext. He wrote the book about Camtasia Studio and has trained people to screencast around the world. To tide you over until the next show, check out this interview that Matt Pierce, our Customer Engagement Manager (and The Forge host) did with Ellen de Vries from Brighton, UK.