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... author of the award-winning eLearning Technology blog. Dr. Karrer earned both his M.S. and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of South California. He attended USC as a Tau Beta Fellow, awarded to the top 30 engineers in the United States, and was valedictorian for his class. Clients include: Credit Suisse, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Symbol Technologies and many others ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsSkimming Strategy
... evidence that they ever went back and actually read it.The authors of the study report: It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of "reading" are emerging as users "power browse" horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense. While Carr expresses concern about the impact that this has, I'm not quite so sure ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsDissertation Wiki
Karyn is asking for help via a post on her blog - So, how did you get started... and what difference has it made? Basically, it's about the use of Social Media by learning professionals. She is looking for first had experiences. I hope she's successful in finding them and publishing about them.She also made one comment that was very interesting:To the consternation of my rather conservative university, I am submitting the dissertation in the form of a wiki (although - strictly speaking - is it really a wiki if I don't open it up to the community to co-author, which of course I can't do ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, May 17, 2008 - CommentsSocial Learning Objects - Flash Cards
... a couple of interesting implications:Web-Based, Niche Authoring ToolsI've claimed for a while (see Authoring in ... age of desktop / installed heavy authoring tools are going to lose out to web-based authoring tools that focus on ... much more like Wiki Course Authoring.In other words, my expectation is to have many easy to use, niche authoring tools ... within these more narrow, web-based authoring services, it will be much easier to share content. And there are lots ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Applications in Learning
Authoring - You can control who is allowed to make changes. Initially, you can start where only your instructional designers ... the organization.Still, this is a somewhat uphill battle. Even Thomas Davenport, author of Thinking for a Living, has ... ownership of content is definitely an issue. Multiple authors - who owns at end. Not sure what else was ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsCorporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis
... look to eLearning approaches to lower distribution costs. They look to rapid authoring tools to lower production costs. For corporate learning functions to really impact the long tail, they will be forced to look at eLearning 2.0. John Hagel ⬠in the same post Paying Attention tells us: What we know at any point in time has diminishing value. Corporate learning is also facing the fact that anything they create and publish becomes out of date that much faster so effective production costs are increasing ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - CommentsSocial Network Operating System
... attend; in tagged Flickr photos of you with people you know; in your comments on their blog posts; and in jointly authored papers and presentations published online.This is a good definition of what we need from an open layer that allows a transportable, open social graph that we can leverage across various applications.This address a critical problem that we face right now that I described in Social Networking Entrepreneurial Opportunities on my SoCal CTO Blog ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 4, 2008 - CommentsRequest for Proposal (RFP) Samples
Based on my post LMS RFP, I've been asked several times if I knew where you could find samples of Request for Proposals (RFPs) for custom eLearning development, performance support tools, learning content management systems (LCMS), elearning authoring tools, etc. Today the question was for Microsoft Project. This wasn't something I could directly help the person, but I had the sense that people may be missing some key search tricks that would give them a list of reasonable results.The keys are:(filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc) - only show me actual documents in either of these formats.
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - CommentseLearning Authoring Tool
Looking back at my post about eLearning Authoring Tools - and particularly whether custom or off-the-shelf is the way to go, I've been interested in seeing the varied response. Paraphrasing justifications for custom eLearning Authoring ... developers.Paraphrasing reasons to use an off-the-shelf eLearning Authoring Tool approach:Finished projects built with custom eLearning Authoring Tools become almost impossible for the clients to modify and update.An eLearning authoring tool will ... expertise who knows the elearning authoring tools.Looking at other posts and comments suggest some things to ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 24, 2008 - CommentseLearning Course Development
... template created using HTML and JavaScript. They couldn't believe I wasn't using Lectora or another similar authoring ... it'll be just as easy to find somebody with HTML and JavaScript experience compared to Lectora or other authoring tools ... build them from scratch (ex. HTML, JavaScript, etc.)? Do you use an authoring tool for the whole course structure? I'm ... sometimes still do on some occasions, but generally it is better for everyone if you use an eLearning course authoring tool ... company and your clients to use an authoring tool.
eLearning Technology - Friday, January 18, 2008 - CommentsWiki Course Authoring
... using a Wiki for authoring...A Wiki should make course authoring extremely easy and even easier to make updates. It also ... provide additional functionality within the course. This is something I described a long time ago in: Authoring in ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - CommentsTest SCORM Courses with an LMS
I was just asked by someone about how they could test a course they were creating against a particular Learning Management System (LMS) (in this case Docent 6.5). This is something we run into fairly often. We are developing a SCORM or AICC compliant course either custom or using an authoring tool. And we run into the same tough situation each time:If ... . This is created using whatever authoring tool we will be using and it will contain no content. Rather, it simply allows us ... diagnose what issues there are. This can show you what works and doesn't work long before you author the ...
eLearning Technology - Sunday, January 13, 2008 - CommentsTen Predictions for eLearning 2008
... for things like breakout activities.Prediction #3 => Authoring Tools - Captivate and Articulate Will DominateIt rhymes and it's an easy prediction that these two tools will dominate authoring. Interestingly, they both were originally considered rapid authoring tools but now are becoming THE authoring tools. Some lower-end, PPT + Audio tools will do well ... authoring.Prediction #4 => Less Authoring - More Web PagesWhile we may want to use our authoring tools all the time, there's going ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - CommentsFacebook Enterprise Application
... authorized colleagues, update on status change and get general company news. Employees can freely use Facebook, with the WorkBook overlay, with no danger of information leaking outside the organization or access being granted to unauthorized personnel.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 20, 2007 - CommentsAha Moments in 2007
... eLearning 2.0 Make a Difference?Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-upsWow, what a great list from 2006, I'm glad I have that saved somewhere. ;)So how about in here's a random list of things from 2007:My 10 year old son edited Wikipedia - A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update and added value.Some people are really not getting the impact of different tools. Getting Value from LinkedIn, Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong!, Spending or Wasting Time on Web 2 ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - CommentseLearning Guild Research Reports
In my last post on Flash Quiz Tools, I mentioned how I had used the eLearning Guild Research to streamline my effort of find the right tools.This post is probably long overdue, but the use of the data from the guild has been a really great resource and has lead to posts such as:Flash Quiz ToolsLMS Satisfaction Features and BarriersCourse Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool SatisfactionSoftware Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools)LMS Team Size and Time I personally get the most value by having direct data access to the reports. That way I can slice and dice the reports as I ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - CommentsFlash Quiz Tools
... fields and customizable quizzes.Respondus StudyMate is a Windows authoring tool that lets you create numerous Flash-based activities and games using four simple templates. StudyMate provides an authoring environment that requires no experience with Flash programming, game design, or HTML. Questions and items can also be imported from MS Word, IMS QTI, Respondus, rich-text, and other formats. This makes it possible to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content. Other features include an Equation Editor, a spell checker, the ability to include image files and web links, and question/answer randomization ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - CommentsTop eLearning Posts
Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment 1,199 3 23 Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning ... , Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS 702 5 25 Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups 701 6 13 Articulate, Captivate, Dreamweaver and Lectora Tops in eLearning Authoring Tool ... 1 15 Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups 701 6 13 ROI and Metrics in eLearning ... Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction 1,155 8 6 eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat
... time reading about the newest simulation authoring tools or do you get more up to speed on some of these tools? It's a tough choice. But, someone in your organization should be looking at how these tools (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking) could be used by different people in the organization and helping to build work/learning skills.Some linkshttp://www.articulate.com/community/blogdemo/web2/engage.htmlhttp://www.commoncraft ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - CommentsLMS Selection Presentation Reformulated
LMS.Underestimating people required to operate an LMS.No clear governance after selection.Confusing content authoring selection and LMS selection.Not defining differentiating use cases.Not working with different constituents to capture differentiating use casesMissing the opportunity to set expectations while gathering requirements.Confusing an RFI and an RFP.Confusing critical requirements as compared to requirements that are somewhere on the important - nice-to-have scale ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, October 25, 2007 - CommentsLMS Selection Process
... process.Content authoring selection vs. LMS selection.Defining differentiating use cases.How to work with different constituents to capture differentiating use cases and how to use that as an opportunity to set expectations.Difference between an RFI and an RFP. When do an RFI? Ways to down select without an RFI?Making sure you understand a critical requirement as compared to a requirement that's somewhere on the important - nice-to-have scale ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, October 18, 2007 - CommentseLearning Startups - New Wave Coming
... start-ups that focus on authoring tools, virtual classroom, learning management, content, services. When you look back at 2000-2002, companies getting VC funding were folks like Outstart, Hyperwave, Infocast, Element K, Pathlore, Vuepoint, Knowledge Impact. Some of that is still happening with folks like Cornerstone getting $32M. But a lot of what you see today is consolidation among players in these areas.Today the startups in eLearning sit in smaller niches or by attacking tangential opportunities in eLearning ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, September 28, 2007 - CommentsLMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers
... same page. I was one of several authors who collaborated on the survey questions and wrote different sections of the report.The survey data itself I find to be pretty interesting and useful for some important aspects of selection. The survey asks demographic and company questions of all the participants so that you know things like the industry, size of company, number of learners, their role, etc. Then it asks questions such as satisfaction level, satisfaction with particular features, are you planning to replace, primary barriers, importance of features, etc ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - CommentsHe Had a Bad Day
... learning like its a product. Hey LMS CEO - you ever manage "a learning"? Hey authoring tool person - you ever make "a learning"? Can you send me one? So how about for pete's sake, we all agree to start indulging in some semantic accuracy. I was going to comment on his blog, but for some reason it required registration, but had not way to register. So, instead, I've pasted my comment here...Mark, wow. Are things okay? Is it that Oregon State is going to get beat up by Oregon this year in college football?I hate to tell you, but while you are technically correct that learning is an outcome of something else you can still sell "learning solutions" - solutions designed to achieve learning as an outcome ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - CommentsEnd of an Era - Authorware
Just saw an Adobe announcement that they plan to discontinue development of Authorware. Since it was the first multimedia authoring tool I ever used, it certainly is bringing back some memories of some pretty cool work (and headaches).Goodbye Authorware. Thanks for the memories.
eLearning Technology - Friday, September 7, 2007 - CommentsLearning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas
Use CasesGotcha #5 - Coupling Content Authoring with LMS SelectionGotcha #6 - Not Testing a LMSGotcha #7 - Failing to Ask a Critical Question or TwoGotcha #8 - Poor Contract NegotiationsGotcha #9 - Tripping on the ModelsGotcha #10 - CustomizationSo far it appears that Tracy's company has hit Gotchas 1, 4, and 6. Likely also several others.Tracy, keep up the reporting!
eLearning Technology - Thursday, September 6, 2007 - CommentsMac Authoring Tools - Help Needed
I was just asked a question and was a bit at a loss for a response. This organization predominantly has Macs and would like to use something like Articulate or Captivate to:"convert our existing Powerpoint trainings, include quizes, track responding, track time spent enaged, insert Quicktime movies and deploy via the web ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - CommentsHow Long Should an eLearning Course Be?
Interesting question posed in eLearn Magazine article: How Long Should an E-learning Course Be?Interestingly the author chooses to sidestep the question he poses and instead gives a direct answer to a different question (focusing on modules that are parts of a course):What is a good length for a module? Through countless hours of instructional design, field testing, and client feedback, I have found that 30 minutes is about the maximum, and less than 15 is too short. The exact number of minutes between 15 and 30 should be dictated by the depth and number of objectives in the learning ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - CommentsHow Wikipedia Works and Wikis in the Enterprise - HBS
Great article - How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) that looks at Andrew McAfee's experiences around the "Enterprise 2.0" article and Wikipedia's Articles for Deletion process. It's an interesting discussion of the net impact of Wikipedia's process - which can be frustrating, especially to casual users. At the same time, I've also had some very good experiences such as when my 10-year old son updated Wikipedia.At the bottom of the article, the author interviews Andrew about the use of Wikis in the enterprise. A couple of things jumped out at me:Sean Silverthorne: Is Wikipedia a good ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, July 23, 2007 - CommentsPimp My Course
In a comment on Podcasting has No Inherent Pedagogical Value - which has some interesting comments in it around technology and value - I was pointed to an interesting article in the Chronicle - Pimp My Course and Stephen Downes summary of some of the responses. It seems that no one is sure if the author is serious - but I worry that some people might actually think so, especially since it reminded me of conversations I had with fellow professors 15 years ago when I was ... interesting to me.Back to the Chronicle article. I'm still not sure how serious the author was ... which is maybe why ...
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