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JULY 13, 2009

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. Keeping it short and focused: sales people who need product knowledge information work in challenging, fast paced and often noisy retail environments.

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AUGUST 20, 2007

For me, instructional design is about designing "engaging and effective" asynchronous learning experiences (web-based training programs). My learning has all been completely informal. Thanks for all the information so far Cammy! Some instructional designers have advanced degrees in instructional design, but many dont.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

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. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Template by Tina Chen.

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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. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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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. United States License. Youre not crazy, youre just a little unwell.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

But in my quest for an informal M.Ed, Ive got to get into theory a bit, right? The reason researchers roll their eyes at learning styles is the utter failure to find that assessing childrens learning and matching to instructional methods has any effect on their learning." Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Learning Visions

MARCH 15, 2007

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, Games for the Brain Super-Close Google Map Zooms Rock On with e-Learning from ZVEX Informal/DIY Learning: Montessori School for Adul. United States License. ils, etc.).

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Or is it substituted by other tools (how effective?)(web How simple and effective is that eyebrow raise? And how effective is that substitution? I felt this medium was very time effective bearing good results. web cam or emoticons)? I feel that great teachers are great communicators. you get their attention again.

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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. Whos really used music in e-Learning to good effect? United States License. Ill stop there.

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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. United States License. It should be ditched." "It

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

this clearly effects how we should all be designing and building courses now. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Friday, February 16, 2007 eLearning Technology: What is eLearning 2.0? Where Are All the Women? Pretesting: Why bother?

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JANUARY 23, 2009

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. Information presentation is sufficient as a training design. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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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. United States License.

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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

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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MARCH 7, 2007

Games for the Brain Super-Close Google Map Zooms Rock On with e-Learning from ZVEX Informal/DIY Learning: Montessori School for Adul. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Check it out. and then click demo video at the top. Games for Girls.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

A 26-minute presentation with just the right mix of theory, practical information and humor. Since learners are bound to forget, its best to cover the high priority information. Then put the other information into references, performance support and follow-up courses. ( Spacing Effect -- space our learning over time.

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Learning Visions

MAY 15, 2007

Clives 30-Minute Masters Wiki got a nice plug -- "Create a way to help your SME learn more about building effective e-learning courses. Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Ive also tried to argue with clients about what makes effective learning. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. In the past, Ive cut it down significantly, and sent it back to the writer/author hoping theyll learn a leaner writing style.

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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

MARCH 14, 2008

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

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

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?) You could go all out and separate the effects of training by using control groups. What are the simplest, most effective tool to measure learning? Thank you for such informative entry. Could be people.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

As I sift through this weeks reading assignments, Im trying to pick out how this learning theory effects my work as a creator (an instructional designer) of self-paced eLearning experiences for the corporate market. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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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

JANUARY 16, 2008

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. United States License. Based on a work at learningvisions.blogspot.com.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 9, 2009

responses in parens below) Hit us Hard (18%) Hurt a Little (50%) Not much effect (32?) If objectives worded general, they have very little effect. 47% of us said "some of the time" Which will be more effective at guiding learner atttention? United States License. Next event: Fri. Do you use focusing objectives?

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Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

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. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Read the report, view the data, buy their report! )

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

A rubric is a statement describing the quality of the learning outcome, or rather a way to evaluate the effectives of the teaching experience and the students comprehension or mastery. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 27, 2007

They have become adept at incorporating flash animations, pdfs, PowerPoint presentations, audio-visual material and any number of other techniques for getting training messages across to users in effective and imaginative ways. So the end game is transferring the knowledge in an easy and effective manner, and then following up in person.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 5, 2007

I also stumbled on this interview by Karl Kapp with Jane Bozarth over at e-Learning guru.com that had some good nuggets on basic instructional design and using low cost tools (like PowerPoint) to build effective e-Learning. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

To makes sure that clients get the most out of Rapid Create, or from any other authoring tool they may select, Epic also provides training and capability building to ensure internal teams are skilled-up in creating effective e-learning. Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

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. Sure experience is a great teacher but organizations are about efficiency and effectiveness. United States License. Forget about it. A PLE can be messy.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 30, 2009

As such, Ive seen the manager able to champion ideas and standards much more effectively than if there was a lack of degree or experience. The MBA is fine, but you have to have experience and education (formal, certification or informal) in learning theory and learning design. United States License. 1:23 PM Steve Sorden said.

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Learning Visions

JULY 31, 2009

For it to be successful, it has to satisfy the criterion of 'learning' as well as all the other niceties of commercial goods: functionality, cost effectiveness, design etc. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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Learning Visions

MAY 12, 2009

Weve taken this up before and many of us IDs know the strategies for using audio most effectively by now. " Alas, in my humble opinion, I think Americans are growing more and more accustomed to being "told" information, rather than having to read or research it. United States License. This has happened to me!)

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2008

He suggests a list of potential outcomes with check boxes , effectively allowing the learner to create his or her own objectives. Bottom line: By using very specific words and phrasing, learners can use learning objectives to guide their attention to the information in the learning material targeted by the learning objectives.

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