Subscribe to FeedLong Tail Learning - Size and Shape
... anything that an organization's people would want to learn about for their jobs. I'm not limiting that to the "traditional means" training topics, but I do limit that to things that are job-related, which is why I think the tail has a limit.I'm thinking that the scope of the demands from our learners are finite and still within the means of a training department (with the help blending training programs and of the social knowledge of the company properly harnessed), rather than ... Beth Griese - posted a response Is Learning 2.0 a long tail? to my post Corporate Learning Long Tail and ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 25, 2008 - CommentsSafety Training Design
... eLearning I think careful planning is required, especially for self-paced courses. For classroom training, and maybe ... really horrible safety training eLearning in the world today. ... Some interesting discussions are going on in the Big Question for February The Learning Circuits Blog: Instructional ... - the design of safety training. This includes topics like driver safety, defensive driving, following rules, workplace ... of these messages.The reality is that much of the training on these kinds of topics is rather boring and mundane ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 14, 2008 - CommentsFree Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations
I'm helping George Siemens to organize a free, online conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations, Nov. 15 - 20, 2007. The conference will be held fully online (with live presentations and asynchronous discussions). There's an exceptional group of speakers/discussion leaders including:David SnowdenJay CrossRebecca StromeyerRichard StraubClark ... newsletter to get updates.In fact, part of the fun of the conference is that it will be a blend of a traditional conference ... an exciting opportunity to discuss current trends and innovations in corporate training environments around the ...
eLearning Technology - Sunday, October 7, 2007 - CommentsLMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers
... reporting, and measurement Content delivery Assessment and testing Asynchronous e-Learning Blended learning Standards ... OutStart Evolution LMS OutStart 2 8.40 Moodle Moodle 6 8.33 Oracle iLearning Oracle 4 8.25 TopClass e-Learning Suite WBT ... Learn.com 5 7.18 WBT Manager Integrity eLearning 1 6.90 Articulate Online Articulate 1 6.60 Saba Learning Suite Saba 9 � ... Systems, LTD 1 5.90 Cornerstone OnDemand En.. Cornerstone OnDemand 4 5.80 Training PartnerTM Learning.. GeoMetrix Data Systems ... .. Learnframe, Inc. 1 2.50 TM SIGAL® Technomedia Training Inc 1 2.30 Enterprise Knowledge Asse.. Generation 21 Learning ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - CommentsBlended Learning
Posts related to Blended Learning:No Informal Learning and Blended Learning Mix - CLO Panel SurprisesBlended Learning Dead? - Huh?Blended learning - no shape, theory, methodology or best practice?Shift in Blended Learning - Example of Melding of Training and ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsInformal Learning
Posts on the topic of Informal Learning:Formalizing and Investing in Informal LearningNo Informal Learning and Blended Learning Mix - CLO Panel SurprisesAction on Informal Learning - Leads to Great QuestionsNumbers and Informal LearningThe Real Challenge around Informal LearningMore on the Form of InformalThe Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?)Informal Learning and Learning Management SystemsInformal Learning - Let's Get Real - Part IIInformal Learning - Harold Tells Us Where To Put It - Now WhatInformal Learning - Let's Get RealElves, Measuring Results and ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsHot Topics in Training
... see: Blended Learning Dead?It's interesting that interactive / interactivity is dropping. Normally topics like "Adding ... % training 43 50 49 -1 -2% learning 102 73 71 -2 -3% flash 3 7 6 -1 -14 ... Last year, I did Hot Topics in Training - A Crude (but mildly interesting) Analysis where I analyzed the topics at Training 2005 and Training 2006 to determine what topics were emerging and fading. As a speaker and someone expected to ... topics in Training 2007.One of the reasons I choose the Training conference is that it's not as leading edge ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, May 4, 2007 - CommentsNo Informal Learning and Blended Learning Mix - CLO Panel Surprises
... blended learning solutions would be changing (and suggested that they might have to be shorter and available as reference) - they seemed to agree, BUT, within the context of a training, course, courseware kind of model. It was remarkable ... panelists seemed to focused on finding ways to support informal learning in the organization. EMC owns Documentum (a big ... organization. Marc pressed him a bit and it seemed that the CLO defined himself in terms of training solutions so these ... wasn't only the CLO from EMC. Clearly, each of the CLOs saw themselves primarily as providers of formal learning ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - CommentsBrandon Hall Researchers Blogging - Implications?
I just saw that several of the Brandon Hall researchers have started blogs: Tom Werner - example post - Why Learning Professionals Shouldn't Just Focus on Learning Tim Sosbe - example post - Pop Quiz: What Do Learning Leaders Care About? Janet Clarey - example post - Why blended learning is not BS Gary Woodill First, let me say that I applaud this move, but it's a bit of a curious development to me... Does this indicate that that Brandon Hall Network is not going to be the ... list each other. Others list lists similar to mine: Top Ten eLearning Blogs. Again, if they are primarily thinking ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - CommentsThe Big Question for November - Future of ISD / ADDIE / HPT?
November's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog has been posted. The question this month is:Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?To me, this is one of the most important questions facing us today. If you look at the shift between eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 - and particularly ... ?Increase the Breadth and Improve Your Understanding of New Models / ToolsWe need to learn when and how to use eLearning 1.0, eLearning 1.3, eLearning 2.0 and other types of solutions.Become Meta-learning ExpertsWe need to learn how to learn ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 6, 2006 - CommentsBlended Learning Dead? - Huh?
... folks who visited firms in the US, the general sense was:"Blended Learning is still in the literature, but not discussed seriously"Wow, really? If you are talking corporate learning, then almost everything is Blended Learning these days. The only thing I can surmise is either:a. The definition of Blended Learning was a very limited definition of face-to-face ... use a blended learning approach. Next question.If you look at my Learning Design in a NutShell, the outcome of the learning design is a blend. Today, these blends are more and more interesting.I can't imagine what they were saying.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - CommentsLearning Design in a Nut Shell
... practices.However, all of this assumes that I'm in the Top-Down, Intentional mode (see eLearning 2.0: Informal Learning ... . But, I'm not convinced that this really works - see:eLearning Technology: Informal Learning - Let's Get Real - Part ... I've recently updated my mental model of how I go about Learning Design, so I thought I'd share.These days is that we have such a big mix of different delivery models, tools, etc. and such different kinds of blends that emerge that it's difficult to feel comfortable and confident with what tools to use in what situation.In fact, the Art of Learning ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - CommentsBetter Questions for Learning Professionals
At training and/or eLearning conferences where this question was asked of the attendees, the common kinds of responses ... blends that might work?Does interactivity make a difference in terms of learning? What does the research actually show? Is ... If you've been reading my blog, you know that I often discuss Personal Learning:Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning ProfessionalsTools and Strategies for Personal LearningMore Effective Conferences for Learning ProfessionalsA big part of what I've come to realize that the barrier to us moving beyond being The Worst Learners ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, July 17, 2006 - CommentsThinking Outside the Training Box
... learning mode) or immediately.Office hours - After the launch of the training, hold regularly scheduled virtual meetings ... Great post by Dave Lee - The Learning Circuits Blog: We're #3! We're #3! - that really should have been titled something along the lines of - looking at Customer Service and IT Help Desk for inspiration in training. When you look at Dave's list of things that these two organizations do, you begin to see solutions that don't look like training and instead look like help (with maybe a little training embedded when appropriate). This is the kind of solution we've been using ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, July 10, 2006 - CommentsView of eLearning Development Approaches - Ease vs. Power
Based on some discussions around What is Rapid eLearning? and Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids, I've realized that one of the mental models I use can be roughly summarized by the following picture: where ... robust, complex learning solutions. Many learning applications do not require more powerful tools, thus, the Reference Hybrids that I discussed previously is a blend of low-cost solutions with point solutions when higher power is needed.I ... come through search, I thought I'd include the text here so it can be found: Custom Coding, Flash, DHTMLRapid eLearning ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - CommentsBlended learning - no shape, theory, methodology or best practice?
A good post by Donald Clark - Blended learning - a sugar coated pill where he suggests that Blended learning is code for coping with a change in the model. While we've been doing blends for years, certainly the use of the term and the composition of the blends is changing. One example of that I discuss in: Start with Courseware or With the Other Stuff?As we see the shape of things begin to change, I'm concerned as is Donald when he tells us the term "blended learning" has "no defined shape, theory, methodology or best practice."Is this then similar to Informal Learning is Too Important ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - CommentsLeading with an LMS - Harmful to Your Health (or Skipping Stages in Bersin's Four Stage Model)
... implementationStage 2: Expansion - Blended learning, rapid e-learning, greater use of LMS, custom coursesStage 3: Integration and Alignment - Governance, HR integration, performance managementStage 4: Learning on Demand - LCMS, performance ... I recently was piling through my stack of magazines and ran across an article in Training & Development Magazine that reference "the stages of eLearning" from a Josh Bersin report. Unfortunately, the article is only available to ASTD ... people make. You don't need an LMS to do eLearning. And if you are early on, chances are that going after an LMS can be ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 6, 2006 - CommentsShift in Blended Learning - Example of Melding of Training and Support
In a previous post Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids, I talked about the shift from Courseware towards other kinds of Blended Learning solutions with a greater emphasis in information sources.As an example from the software training world, what we are seeing more an more is a melding of Training and Support materials. In other words, our blended learning model often used to look like:now it looks like:Note: the midpoint represents the launch ... integrated with training and used prior to actual system launch. The training materials are also seamlessly integrated ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 25, 2006 - CommentsPoint Solutions vs. Suites and Composition
One of the more interesting back-stories in Blended Learning / eLearning 2.0 is the classic question of point-solutions ... to be a central part of what we are doing even beyond composing together blended learning. See my post: eLearning ... LAMS in their FAQ is interesting:LAMS is focussed on a very specific aspect of e-learning - sequences of learning ... shot of a workflow defined:LAMS allows the specification of a blended learning sequence via a workflow diagram. Very ... to compose together a variety of intervention types into a Blended Learning solution. The LAMS approach is good to ...
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