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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Me: Im an instructional designer. Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). billbrandon had this comment on Twitter: I usually just tell em Im a writer. So what I tell people is my job is similar to that of a film director who directs a movie or an ad maker who visualizes commercial ads.

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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

Most of the content is presented as static web pages that tell how to perform particular tasks, but some of the pages contain embedded Captivate movies to demonstrate or simulate use of the system. Im looking for the Why? Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids - eLearning Technology , May 25, 2006 sales.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

Its like the opening credits of a movie. When clients insist on the objectives list, Clive includes an opening scene to spice things up. Belatedly, Im thinking that there are relatively easy ways to enable learners to have cake or to eat it as they see fit. Not sure if any company has try to innovate on this.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: This job aint dead yet.

Learning Visions

At least, this is what Im told. And as long as companies still pay for it we are all sittin pretty making some coin crankin out the Captivate movies sippin a cold pint. These folks are described to us by their managers as wanting to do their jobs and then go home and crack a few beers. Although that describes most of us, right?)

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Disruptive technology: Restaurants vs. Frozen Foods Movie Theaters vs. Blockbuster Wired Phones vs. Cell phones F2F Training vs. Online Training A lot of current online training is not disruptive, still incremental. Any LMS needs to have open-standards (not just open source) so you can take your content to another source.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Who Gets to Be Called an Instructional Designer?

Learning Visions

Just because a film professor has a graduate degree doesnt mean he/she can make a great movie. Im with you all. A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content

Mark Oehlert

previous rants on this topic ) Until I get some explanations though, Im pretty well amazed at the academics involved in this scheme. Im feeling stupid here because I just dont freaking get it! Want to know where EduPunk can make a dent thatll matter in terms of budgets, openness of research and so on?

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