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Second Life is not a teaching tool

The Learning Circuits

Every week or so I hear about a company looking to Second Life as a teaching environment. First, I have to say that Second Life is a great Web 2.0/massively I respect the ability of people to make money in Second Life. I respect the ability of people to "hang" in Second Life.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning

Learning Visions

Intention gives you metrics and measurement. You will lose the battle if try to come up with metrics around totally informal learning. What are the metrics? Amount of time to move info through a salesforce – maybe the metric is time). Given our problem, the metrics, the stakeholders – how are we gonna do it?

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The Learning Side of Sears

CLO Magazine

At Sears, Segno is the name of the learning and performance management system Nguyen and his team built to support the company’s metrics-driven roles and promote a culture of continuous learning. Nguyen wouldn’t mind carrying this spirit with him into a second life in the Arizona community where he spent his adolescence.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Building Measurement into Our Training-Development Process

Learning Visions

What are the relevant metrics? Get sign-off from all stakeholders on behavior change goals, resourcing responsibilities, metrics. If program is about improving customer service -- then ask customers. How do you quantify self-reports when theres no business metric? What other support mechanisms, systems, etc. It depends.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

The role of the learning leader is shifting from being a program manager to a solution architect. Success metrics for learning will be based on content access, views, involvement and downloads. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Elliott Masie Learners as designers. Training department staffing will grow by a modest 2%.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Wills New Taxonomy for Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

They are used by evaluation designers to develop metrics and assessments. Learning objectives are used to tell the learner whats in the course. They are used by instructional designers to guide the design of the learning. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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Come Together

Jay Cross

Software such as Second Life allows executives — in avatar form — to give presentations to one another in virtual boardrooms. Every participant in the career advisor program has at least one mentor. Online team rooms keep the lights on as projects move around the world, passed from one team to the next.