Upside Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Have been reading about the science of ‘ Complexity ’ recently, and find that many of the aspects described apply equally well to learning. Without doubt, learning is a process that is riddled with complexity – which might the reason we don’t understand it very well. How might ‘complexity’ as a scientific concept affect learning? Especially if you consider learning as a complex adaptive network that is driven by human desire for knowledge (learning) and sociability.

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Making Change

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Often we’re told, “Put this information into a course.” But what happens if we put the information into a job aid instead, and then design mini-scenarios that help learners use the job aid? This approach not only keeps boring blather out of our elearning, it can also make our activities more memorable. Here’s how it could work.

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Raptivity

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It’s been an exciting time for Raptivity users so far. But then, Raptivity has flexibility and this is certainly not the end. There is always room for improvement and innovation. And so…the new enhanced Raptivity 6.6, has all this and [.].

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Here is some information that I have discussed before but it is worth repeating, as interface and instructional designers, keep in mind this interactive, engaging interface design technique. Research indicates that a conversational style is much more effective for conveying content to learners than a more formal style. In the book, “e-Learning and the Science of Instruction,” Ruth Clark and co-author Richard Mayer report on a number of studies that reinforce the fact that conversational style is

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Continuing my series of key social learning resources, here is this week’s selection. 1- In Jane Bozarth’s Nuts and Bolts column for Learning Solutions Magazine, this month she provides an excerpt from the eLearning Guild’s Report, Social Media for Learning. After disentangling some of the terms in use, notably “social media”, “social learning”, “social technologies”, “social platforms”, etc, she writes: “Learning practit

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 11, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from a webinar today with Float Learning: Instructional Design for Mobile #id4mlearning. Advance apologies for typos or incoherence… Brought to us today by: Adam Bockler, Float Gary Woodill, Sr. Analyst at Float @gwoodill Jeff Tillet mLearning Strategist and Evangelist at Float (formerly ID at T-mobile) @mojotillett Chad Udell at Float @visualrinse www.floatlearning.com 18 month old company with focus on mobile.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2011

You do something great in a game, you get rewarded. In fact, you even get rewarded if you do something simple like bump into a gold coin. If you bump into it, you collect the coin and eventually you’ve bumped into or walked through enough gold coins to purchase something. Games provide incentives for doing what they want you to do. The search for gold coins, for example, encourages the player to explore the environment and learn more about the game-space in which they are playing.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Every now and again, I’m blown away by the imaginative apps I see in the iOS App Store, as did this one: Ghost Guitar. The app utilizes the iPhone or iPad 2’s front-facing camera to track your hands. You strum with your right hand and fret chords with the left. Quite a simple mechanic that has been exceedingly well-implemented. The use of augmented reality as an interface has mostly been gimmicky.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 13, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. I felt like a video star the other day. Well, at least in a tiny little way. I taught a class a few years ago on upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007. It was for a fairly large organization. The section of the class I taught had an attendance of about 40 people, and they had several more sessions scheduled. But I didn't teach them--at least not in person.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2011

When a product evolves from one generation to the next, many things get better - sometimes to a point where you find it hard to imagine how they had been before. I am having one of those moments with Raptivity right now. One recently implemented feature of Raptivity 6.6 has got me thinking. It is the Enhanced Element Collection Management functionality.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Recently, on one of my blog postings Design e-Learning Like a Game Developer: Provide Incentives for Good Work , I received a response related to the fact that “gamification” is the easy-way-out and that we need to be careful about extrinsic motivation, that I was not correct in my posting about the use of extrinsic motivation. To gain the full context, read the comments on the posting listed above and then come back and read this post.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 13, 2011

In my search for something to write about this month I stumbled upon an article in Wired magazine entitled “ Clive Thompson on Memory Engineering.” The gist of it is that a new service called 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo will summarize and e-mail your Foursquare “check-ins” from one year ago, resulting in, as Thompson calls it, “a curiously powerful daily jolt of reminiscence.”.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 12, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. In the image below, I've drawn two objects on a Captivate slide. Clearly the object on the left is much larger than the one on the right. I'd like both objects to be the same size. In fact, I'd like the smaller object to grow larger to match the size of the object at the left. While it might be tempting to delete the image on the right and simply duplicate the existing object, there is a little-used option in Captivate that I'd like to share.

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Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 13, 2011

One of the most valuable things that internet, e-learning and social media have brought us, is that you can learn what you want, how you want, where you want and with whom you want. Learning has shifted from push to pull. Not the teacher or the developer is in control but the learner is. I my view the (e)Learning community is still adapting to this new paradigm.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 12, 2011

We are at an interesting cross-roads in terms of educational game development, we really haven’t had engaging, imagination capturing titles like the golden years of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego or Oregon Trail” which were blockbuster educational games. We haven’t had a block buster learning game in quite some while.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 11, 2011

My first job out of college was designing and programming educational computer games. I had to do the TRS-80 Model I before I got to work on an Apple ][, but I finally bought a ][e, and sold it to my company shortly thereafter as I headed off to graduate school. I was a grad student in an HCI lab (with Donald Norman, who went on to become an Apple Fellow), and so I was very aware of the Macintosh (I'd coveted a Lisa before that), and bought a Mac II to write my PhD thesis on.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This is a guest post from Bernard Donkerbrook : The term you used in your last post , "deep listening", in context with employers (bosses mostly) connecting/communicating with employees on a personal level, made a big impact on me because this is such a compelling theme for me in working with clients or mentees at EQmentor.com. I understand that you are making a distinction between "deep listening" and "active listening".

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KnowledgeStar

OCTOBER 8, 2011

If you want someone to remember and forget keep on doing what you’ve always done as an teacher or professor or instructor. Talk about the WHAT and HOW of whatever you’re trying to get your students to learn. If you really want them to give you some of their precious brainspace to really know about [.].

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The annual CAC meeting where students present to industry professionals is just around the corner. It is that time a year again. Our annual Corporate Advisory Council Conference (CAC) where my instructional technology students and professionals in the field have an opportunity to interact and learn from each other. The students have been working all semester on a mock RFP for e-learning and at the CAC event, they present for 20 minutes and then answer 15 minutes of questions after they have writ

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was talking with a startup that has an existing audience and now want to provide a monthly subscription for access to training to this audience. They will only convert a portion of the audience to the new service. The learners will get access to webinars, recorded webinars, videos, and other online content that they will author separately. They don't really have a tech team, so going with a hosted solution that would live at a subdomain would be best, i.e., subscribers would go to: learn.compa

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had so much fun creating Australia’s Nobel Laureates , I decided to create another simple interactive learning object. This one’s called On the Money and it pays homage to the great people who feature on Australia’s currency: On the Money. Launch the learning object. Download the files. This time I used Adobe Captivate 5.5. I’m still getting used to it, but I see the residual rollover effects have been fixed.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 11, 2011

By Dean Hawkinson. System simulations, created using software such as Adobe Captivate, serve several purposes when used in eLearning. They are a great way to learn system navigation without using the actual system. You can create simulations in several different ways, depending on the type of interaction you are looking for in your course. Types of Simulations.

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KnowledgeStar

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I am always looking for new and potentially useful technologies that I might transfer to improve the learning experience. Here’s another I found today. Soundtracks for books … The questions, to which books or textbooks would you add a soundtrack to enhance the learning experience and further enable the learning process? Since I’ve never had [.].

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Association eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

'Training Industry, Inc. selected Digitec Interactive for inclusion in its Top 20 LMS Companies Watch List directory for the best-in-class Learning Management System, Knowledge Direct, for the 2nd consecutive year. This is a great honor and Digitec is very proud to be named an “up and coming leader in the learning portal market” by Training Industry, Inc.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had so much fun creating Australia’s Nobel Laureates , I decided to create another simple interactive learning object. This one’s called On the Money and it pays homage to the great people who feature on Australia’s currency: On the Money. Launch the learning object. Download the files. This time I used Adobe Captivate 5.5. I’m still getting used to it, but I see the residual rollover effects have been fixed.

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TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 9, 2011

It's that time again! Tune in on October 13 at 2pm EST here on the blog to watch the October episode of The Forge live and join our chat room (you may have to refresh your web browser at 2pm). We have an all-star line-up including: Tom Johnson -Technical Communicator and author of I'd Rather Be Writing (that's Tom pictured on the right). Dan Nunez is back.

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Our community has embraced social media with gusto, and in the last year this has presented some interesting challenges- for one, the number of forums and sites discussing Captivate related threads have multiplied. While this allowed our users to seek answers in the forum they felt most comfortable in, it also meant that you were [.].

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Playing Angry Birds earlier today made me realise afresh that one of the key strengths of games based learning is the freedom to fail. Games offer a psychologically safe environment within which to learn new things. There are no sanctions for failing - but there is the chance to try again and try again. As with real life, you don't always get it right, but you then have the option to learn from your mistakes, and improve your skills, or fail to learn, and make the same mistakes all over.

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