Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

In January, we officially launched Sakai as our LMS , marking the end of a long process of choosing the right system and converting all our courses. LearnTrends: Microlearning. LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management. Unlike last year , this year I’m actually reviewing before the new year starts.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The Finnish Education System Rocks! LearnTrends (17). LearnTrends 2009 – Free Online Conference , September 21, 2009. LearnTrends 2009 , September 23, 2009. LearnTrends Innovation Awards , September 22, 2009. Instructional Designers need more tools than just writing! Free as in Freedom , September 5, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 25, 2009

I am delighted to report that recordings of the April Learntrends sessions are online. After all, April Learntrends was an experiment in socially-mediated learning in lieu of traditional presentation. This also reveals that learning is taking place in an emergent social landscape other than the formal education platform and system.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

“Systems retain their shape long after the context that gave rise to them has changed.&#. How can we create a system that changes as context changes? How do we deal with a system in flux? System can be changing faster than training can be developed. With our formal training, most of the time the goal is known.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Harold tells us: Anybody see a parallel here with instructional systems design or curriculum development? Free learning can come from groups like Work Literacy that provided a large online learning experience for free, or from LearnTrends that produces amazing content like LearnTrends 2009 for free.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009. The Learnosity system is designed for speaking, listening and learning via a mobile phone. The use of such simple technology eliminates any required technical support in the classroom, and make the system extremely easy to use for both teachers and students.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 5, 2010

They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. We’ve used Elluminate as our webinar system. I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). This conference has been run for a few years now and is tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

You can find more on this by going to the LearnTrends – SharePoint in Corporate Learning Recordings. for Marketing – Social Learning Experience The concept is probably easiest to understand by considering what HP did around their course on Web 2.0 for Marketing. for HP’s marketing efforts.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 2, 2009

One of the really cool things about eLearning Learning and Browse My Stuff is the ability of the system to determine hot topics or trends based on the content that is being brought together in topic hubs. Using the system, I found that the top hot topics in eLearning for 2009. LearnTrends. LearnTrends 2009 , October 17, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 6, 2009

Tony Karrer is orchestrating our next free LearnTrends event on these very questions. We’ll be joined by folks from the Instructional Systems Association. What’s the future of the learning business? Are content providers going the way of print newspapers? Are LMS vendors headed down the trail blazed by record stores?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using SharePoint as Project System for Training Organization Quite a few people talked about how they were using SharePoint as a collaborative tool to work on projects. Using SharePoint to Publish to Content to the Web Several training organizations were using SharePoint as a means of publishing web pages for public consumption.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Thoughts following April Learntrends. Y esterday, Learntrends hosted a series of online conversations on boosting the performance of organizations through learning. Networked organizations are reaping rewards for connecting people, know-how and ideas at an ever-faster pace. Look at Google and Cisco. Top Ten Tools.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. Each of these allowed me to fast forward my learning and share knowledge effectively.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

An Operating System for the Mind - Half an Hour , September 19, 2009. LearnTrends 2009 , September 23, 2009. LearnTrends 2009 , September 23, 2009. Featured Sources. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. The Awesomeness Manifesto - HarvardBusiness.org , September 16, 2009.

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Janet Clarey

MARCH 14, 2010

I came upon Groom’s post at first via a Skype conversation with my colleague Gary Woodill who was pointing me to a George Siemens re-post from 2006, A Review of Learning Management System Reviews , which George wrote while at the University of Manitoba. (He He re-posted it to maybe “give it a bit more of an existence.&# ).

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

MAY 3, 2009

LearnTrends and other efforts have been well received by the community but not without constructive feedback. Jay posts his own thoughts about April's LearnTrends event here. This may be a more appropriate system for facilitating semi-informal learning. With 140 character limits the conversation stays alive and fresh.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 2, 2010

Michael Allen tells about a futuristic, object-oriented authoring system. This year’s motley bunch included an assorted portfolio of designers; businesspeople, investors and MBA graduates; a tech systems architect who was also a former Navy Seal; and a tai chi master. LearnTrends faculty. Eileen Clegg explains Visual Learning.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2009

Xerox Learning, DDI, Forum Corporation, and hundreds of other “instructional systems companies” sprung up. The writing has been on the wall (or in blogs) for quite a while: Jay Cross and Harold Jarche in The Future of the Training Department The second half of the 20th Century was arguably the Golden Age of Training.

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Sticky Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Credit where credit is due, a great deal of this increase in awareness has come through my use of Twitter (especially #lrnchat ) and through a number of online social networks, such as Seth Godin's Triiibes , LearnTrends , Problogger and LinkedIn groups. It succeeded because of Viral Expansion Loops.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

LearnTrends 09 starts this coming Tuesday. Adkins discusses strategy development and implementation of learning and knowledge process engineering for driving successful communities. Our topic is convergence. It’s free and online. I wonder if many KM fans will join us. Related entries: Beer and blogs. DevLearn and KM World.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

That app sharing and slamming through big graphics can break the system. Know what the system does and doesn’t do well. Pre-load the slides. Don’t trust the stuff that works at night to work the next morning. Maybe) stick to asynch and only go live with small groups; large groups get one-to-man presentations.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This results in posts such as: LearnTrends - Sound - Best of eLearning Learning Design - Knowing Doing Gap - Best of eLearning Learning Camtasia - LMS - LCMS - Best of eLearning Learning August 2009 These posts are sent via email to people who have subscribed to the Best Of. Hence this post.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

After the LearnTrends conferences , I wait six weeks until I send out the evals. I raved about this drag-and-drop, intuitive authoring system last year, and it has only gotten better. It takes a while for the important lessons to emerge. In this case, I’ll recount what still seems important four days after DevLearn 2010.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. The LMS must die - Learning Conversations , August 15, 2010 The LMS (or Learning Management System) has been around for a while now. They write: The best KM systems succeeded at capturing and institutionalizing the knowledge of the firm. Force navigation. Eastern Time.

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Xyleme

DECEMBER 3, 2009

And as Charles demonstrated with the Thomson-Reuters Learning Exchange during his session at LearnTrends , social networks are becoming the de-facto performance support platform for SMEs to deliver targeted information. While many learning vendors have thrown their hat into the Web 2.0 Learn more about Dawn here.

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