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Realistic Graphics and Learning: What’s most effective?

The eLearning Coach

Before you just place any old photo into an online course or informational web site, it’s a good idea to think about whether a realistic graphic is required. And if so, how much realism will be most effective? Less Information in Working Memory: Working memory has a limited capacity and is easily overloaded.

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Web 2.0 Tools, Networks and Community (Individuals vs. Collective)

Tony Karrer

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via social networking).

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eLearning Around The Web

The eLearning Coach

Whether yours are formal or informal, this list of online presentation applications from SitePoint might be useful to you. Arguments For Informal Learning. Jay Cross lays out some excellent reasons for organizations to incorporate informal learning into their overall training strategy in this article. Share this on Linkedin.

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Facebook Platform

Tony Karrer

Its privacy policies are questionable and it is giving out user information to applications willy-nilly. I also feel like Facebook is a bit creaky and as Thomas Vanderwal's recent post Facebook for Business or LinkedIn Gets More Valuable points out, as you use Facebook more and have more friends, it seems to get harder to use.

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Your Brain On 3D Learning

The eLearning Coach

Learning in a virtual world creates the visceral effect of being present in that environment. It connects the “visual and mental cues that make the recall and application of the learning&# more effective. Promotes Informal Learning. By now we’ve all heard that the majority of one’s learning occurs informally.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Knowledge Work Framework Tilde Effect Concept Worker Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Tool Set 2009 Search Better Memory Network Learning Information Radar Remote Collaboration Common eLearning 2.0 Review the post - Information Radar - and use the information there to set up your radar and start a new blog.

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Is this instructional design?

The eLearning Coach

Instructional design is the process of identifying the skills, knowledge, information and attitude gaps of a targeted audience and creating or selecting learning experiences that close this gap, based on instructional theory and best practices from the field. Communicate effectively in visual, oral and written form. Here’s mine.