Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2007

They provide some fabulous (free) resources to the e-Learning community and have just been nominated the "Best New Kids on the Block" by the Brighton and Hove Business Awards. Although its geared towards "rapid e-Learning" efforts, these guidelines can be applied to any type of training. This months newsletter is no exception.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Ive been working as an instructional designer in the corporate training and e-learning field since the mid-1990s. For me, instructional design is about designing "engaging and effective" asynchronous learning experiences (web-based training programs). My learning has all been completely informal. Glad to help, Tex.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning. Learning content will be transformed for easier consumption. Learning leaders will be more focused on relevancy of information.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Join Kineos Mark Harrison for a free webinar on webinars: Building effective content for your online sessions. What’s Your Max Learning Strategy? Interview with Tony Karrer on Informal and Social. Its a Meta-Webinar!

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Learning Visions

JULY 13, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, July 13, 2009 Kineo Product Knowledge E-Learning Webinar Kineo will be holding a free webinar on creating effective product knowledge e-learning on July 16th, 2009. The learning has got to get to the point, quickly.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

In the Learning Portals that we create for our clients, we need to think about how we can ensure that updates are effectively tracked and recorded and that old versions of courses are properly archived. And thanks for sharing the link to your site -- always good to find out about more e-learning bloggers! Is that true?)

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Sunday, August 23, 2009 Kineo Webinar: Compliance Training Case Study Kineo will be holding a free webinar on developing cost-effective compliance training on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Join Kineo and Mary K. Schottmiller J.D,

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Bottom line on smile sheets: Favorable returns on smile sheets have little correlation with the overall value of the learning experience. Dr. Thalheimer talked about ways hes been trying to make smile sheets more effective so that they can be used to tell us something valuable about the learning experience.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 15, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Day 2: Welcome to Day 2 of Marks "Clear the Tabs" Blog-a-thon" | Main | How Well Does Your Company Learn? typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003

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Learning Visions

JULY 24, 2007

by Virginia Woolf Your life seems utterly bland and normal to the casual observer, but inside you are churning with a million tensions and worries. The company you surround yourself with may be shallow, but their effects upon your reality are tremendously deep. Youre not crazy, youre just a little unwell. United States License.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Monday, May 21, 2007 Learning Styles as Fortune Telling My research into understanding the role of learning styles in e-Learning continues. But in my quest for an informal M.Ed, Ive got to get into theory a bit, right? A Critique of Learning Styles American Educator (Fall 1999) American Federation of Teachers.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Definition of mLearning: "An activity that allows individuals to be more productive when consuming, interacting, or creating information, mediated through a compact digital portable device that the individual carries on a regular basis and has reliable connectivity and fits in a pocket or purse." Reusing your content in flexible ways.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

Monday, February 26, 2007 The Learning Show Thanks to Will Thalheimer for continuing to provide great learning resources. I just watched/listened to The Learning Show: Dont Forget Forgetting. A 26-minute presentation with just the right mix of theory, practical information and humor. Better to test decision making skills.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

this clearly effects how we should all be designing and building courses now. Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0, Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0, Art History e-Learning Nuggets Enough Web 2.0, Friday, February 16, 2007 eLearning Technology: What is eLearning 2.0? Where Are All the Women?

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Seeing The Invisible: How To Identify Early Indicators Of Gaps In Instructional Design And Training Effectiveness. Podcasting for E-Learning: Recording Audio - The E-Learning Curve , September 14, 2009. The Free e-Learning Page Hits 100 - MinuteBio , September 13, 2009. Thursday, September 24, 2009. Featured Sources.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I agree to the higher end of that range, and if so, then is that the percent of communication lost in online learning communities. Or is it substituted by other tools (how effective?)(web How simple and effective is that eyebrow raise? And how effective is that substitution? web cam or emoticons)? 8:37 AM Eric W said.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 15, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, March 15, 2007 Learning Mate Demo Im in search of good examples of cheap but effective e-Learning in the vein of the 21st century designer (web 2.0, ils, etc.). Games for Girls. This job ain't dead yet.

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Mark Oehlert

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Kindle.The Universal Textbook? » November 20, 2007 Dissertation: The Effective Integration of Digital Games and Learning Content by M.P.J. Main | Id like to pass along my latest addiction.say goodbye to free time. From the land of Huh?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 19, 2007

Here are a few things that I’ve tried in the last couple of years that I’ve pinched directly from my years in front of the Playstation: The use of music to change emotional state; to bypass conscious processing of information. The use of music in e-Learning? Whos really used music in e-Learning to good effect?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 4, 2007

Some key nuggets from the Sydney Herald article: It is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time. It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. It should be ditched." "It United States License.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 2, 2007

Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective 1,023 0:02:38 4 65 7. Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Second Life and Learning 616 0:01:45 4 7 10. eLearning Technology: Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Incredibly Cool!

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Learning Visions

APRIL 18, 2007

While they recognize that some of this info is useful for understanding ways to effectively present information, ".the Their main take-home point: For the classroom, what may seem to be redundant information in a presentation, may be necessary for students with different information processing preferences.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 15, 2007

Tom says, (By instructional design, I mean a design model that typically prescribes elements such as learning objectives, presentation of information, practice with feedback, and evaluation that ties back to the objectives. Theres nothing in ADDIE about learning objects or the presentation of information.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

Question of the Week -- Economy How has the economy affected your learning unit? 9% Hit us Hard 47% Hurt a little 41% Not much effect 3% Helped us MYTHS the Business Side Has about Learning Client asked him to develop a course for business side. To help improve on-the-job learning. Learners know how to learn.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 7, 2007

Learning Mate Demo Learning from Observation Rise Up and sing you e-Learning designers of the 2. Games for the Brain Super-Close Google Map Zooms Rock On with e-Learning from ZVEX Informal/DIY Learning: Montessori School for Adul. Check it out. Click on one of the pedals (theyre all hand painted, wow!)

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Learning Visions

MAY 15, 2007

Nice synthesis of many of the conversations that have been floating around about the role of SMEs and all these great content creation tools that empower non-programmers to create e-Learning, including this one here which had a good comment thread. Debunking the Learning Styles Myth Can we throw away e-Learning?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Congrats to Brent who managed to attend my session, participate in the back channel, and attend a session in Second Life at the same time. But right now, a distributed discussion is hard to effectively track. It is exactly that kind of JIT learning we are talking about. Supporting informal learning?

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Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

Posted by Cammy Bean at 1:31 PM Labels: e-learning guild , synchronous learning 11comments: Karl Kapp said. You can look to a wiki I have developed about Second Life and ProtoSphere to learn a little about how to use 3D synchronous tools. Read the report, view the data, buy their report! ) You are a fast typer.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Things might get a bit silly with all that snapping, but I bet its effective. How could you do that in an e-learning experience? Online courses provide ample opportunities to creatively and repeatedly introduce learners to concepts through the subtle, yet effective, use of graphics and/or audio. 8:34 AM Cammy Bean said.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In the past, Ive cut it down significantly, and sent it back to the writer/author hoping theyll learn a leaner writing style. Ive also tried to argue with clients about what makes effective learning. Dont just give in every time, learn, plan, and try to prevent it in the future 7:08 PM Tony Karrer said.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Learning News Microsoft just released Semblio , a new authoring tool Skype 4.0 much better video) Question of the Week -- Economy How has economy affected your Learning Unit? Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?) Who would observe this?

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Use multiple representations to provide the learner with multiple ways of accessing the information: visual or auditory. From the CFT vantage, multiple representations is not about providing the same information in a different format (the learning styles approach), but rather presenting different perspectives on that information.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training: Perspectives and Guidance for the Enlightened Trainer and Designing World-Class E-Learning : How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, And Columbia University Are Succeeding At E-Learning These have been very valuable to me in the way I think about how and where elearning can be most effective.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Lots of widgets on the site View other users who are logged in and talk to them Watch videos of CEO, corporate commercials If logged in behind Sun Firewall, see Tag Cloud and more links to internal information. Game Based Learning Finding more effective ways to teach about Sun and the business. United States License.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

e-Learning should be all neat and tied up in a nice wrapper with a Next button that moves you through a content checklist and a great assessment at the end. This may be why the concept of informal learning is such a hard sell. Sure experience is a great teacher but organizations are about efficiency and effectiveness.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 16, 2008

Ive forgotten most everything I learned the last knitting go-around. As I was struggling to figure out once more how to purl, I thought about the spacing effect and forgetting. These two resources came to mind: For more on the spacing effect, be sure to read this 2006 article by Lars Hyland: Less Learning More Often.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Examples and Samples of Game Design Documents - Kapp Notes , September 15, 2010 Here is a collection of several game design documents and information about game design documents. If we give people access to broadband, and they learn how to effectively use the new digital tools, how can we be sure they become digitally literate?

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