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eLearning Technology - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsePerformance
I just listened to Clark Quinn's presentation at ASTD LA (eLearning Strategy Presentation)which is available online. Clark and I have discussed before the challenges with naming in our world and I was happy to see that he adopted the terminology of eLearning -> ePerformance.I've talked about ePerformance before in EPSS and ePerformance as well as in a series of articles in Learning Circuits:ePerformance EssentialsePerformance at Work: Self-Service Action and Development PlanningePerformance at Work: eFollowUpClark's take on ePerformance looks to have a similar definition. I like the way ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 29, 2008 - CommentsBusiness Value of eLearning - Elevator Pitches Needed
... of eLearning across the organization?And from his post, its clear he's not unsophisticated around it. Jay Cross will ... development initiatives are actually going to grow their business, not send it into a Hindenburg-like crash and burn.I really ... business value of eLearning?In other words, what's your elevator pitch?
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
... elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications. 34. How Students Develop Online Learning Skills ... My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No ... . 4. eLearn magazine: Feature Article Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E ... CONNECT 7. eLearn: Opinions Good short article on characteristics of 2.0 collaboration 8. e-learning 2.0 ... ) 11. eLearn: Case Studies - The Reluctant Online Professor 12. Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsBlog Learning
... thoughts and someone comes in to correct me or redirect my thinking. Take a look at:eLearning Design and Development Training CourseBad Course on Instructional DesignI started with a kind of inquiry and found myself realizing that one of the citations I gave was an example of a badly designed course teaching about instructional design.But one of the best kinds of examples comes out of discussions such as in the following:Life is an Open Book TestLife is Mostly an Open Book Test I originally posted a thought ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 21, 2008 - CommentsBad Course on Instructional Design
I just posted about eLearning Design and Development Training Course listing two examples of courses that talked about instructional design for eLearning. Whoops. I should have looked more closely.The course from MyUdutu ( http://publish.myudutu.com/published/courses/140/Course867/v2007_5_9_15_41_...)may talk about it, but it is a classic example of what not to do in eLearning. So while it talks about Instructional Design - it hardly is something to review.As Chris pointed out in a comment and I talked about in Audio Narration vs. On-Screen Textyou should never have voice-over that's ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentseLearning Design and Development Training Course
Someone on LinkedIn asked: Can anyone recommend a really good e-learning design/development training course?This is for a colleague who is new to instructional design & development so something that covers the basics at an introductory level would be best. Thanks!The responses pointed me to a couple of resources I hadn't seen before:MyUdutuA simple ... /courses/140/Course867/v2007_5_9_15_41_...RPIAn introduction to instructional design and course development and guidance on selecting the right design and development tools.http://www.rpi.edu/coursedevelopers/DesigningInstruction/DI_index.htmI know that I've ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsSocial Learning Objects - Flash Cards
... eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups and Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development) that the ... is Learning's Long Tail and Attention Crisis, Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape, eLearning 2.0.Just so I'm fair ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - CommentsFight in the Blogosphere - Finally
It's Friday afternoon for me, I went to Bloglines to read some posts. And, I was happy to see some entertainment for a change. I apologize to those of you who feel this is serious stuff, this Friday afternoon, I'm not feeling that serious... With that preface...I've got to say that in comparison to other worlds of blogging, all us folks in the learning and development world seem rather civilized - possibly verging on boring. Sure, once in a while Stephen Downes will call ... ! : eLearning Technology). Luckily Davenport writes a blog, but either doesn't respond to other bloggers or doesn't ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 7, 2008 - CommentsSafety Training Design
15 minutes or less) eLearning pieces that focus on reminding, reinforcing and on likely bad habits. Content around ... eLearning I think careful planning is required, especially for self-paced courses. For classroom training, and maybe ... design? Yep, you need course developers not instructional designers. In the past year I've spent a lot of time working on ... really horrible safety training eLearning in the world today.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 14, 2008 - CommentsDeath of Magazines - Broader Deeper Coverage
... eLearning 2.0. In particular, I say that since I've begun to shift my scanning behavior to blogs (scanning is how you ... and offline.The conference sessions I present on eLearning 2.0 and the articles I write on various topics (e.g., Learning ... also relates to the same issues we face as developers of training. We currently focus on large audiences. We ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 11, 2008 - CommentseLearning Attention Spans
Dennis Coxe posted Let me tell you about...Excuse me, what were you saying? about an article: The Post-Literate Era: Planning Around Short Attention Spans. The article is more or less summarized in the following graphic:Dennis' point is that this points us to designing eLearning that is shorter and to the point.The advent of shorter attention spans that successful learning events need to engage the learner, but I think this concept has often been given lip service while the focus of most learning is on how to save dollars by using software that will allow rapid development of ...
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 ... something like custom eLearning development, you want all of those terms, so you just add them at the end.If you string ... RFP SearcheLearning RFP SearchCustom eLearning Development SearchClick one of the above examples, and modify with ...
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 ... ).Most eLearning tools do not promote the creation of effective courses, do not promote web standards, and do not promote accessibility; they merely make cookie-cutter course development easier for technically inexperienced course developers.Paraphrasing reasons to use an off-the-shelf eLearning Authoring Tool approach:Finished projects built with ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 24, 2008 - CommentseLearning Course Development
BJ Schone asks a good question in his post - How do you build eLearning courses?I have built our courses using a custom ... please. I have a background in web development, so it was very easy for me to lean in this direction, too. And I think ... . But that's just my opinion - I could be wrong. So, here's my question: How do you build your eLearning courses? Do you ... anxious to hear your response!A long time ago we used to build our courses / eLearning from scratch as well, and we sometimes still do on some occasions, but generally it is better for everyone if you use an eLearning course authoring ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, January 18, 2008 - CommentsLearning Systems
... simplify the terminology, ending up with performance support, performance, development, and learning. The "e" obscures the ... is a learning system (or learning) vs. something is eLearning, it conjures very distinct ideas of what I'm talking about ... . But my challenge is this:What do you envision when I talk about "Learning" or "Learning System" or "eLearning" as compared ... performance. If I call it eLearning, you have some very particular kinds of solutions in mind. And they likely are ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - CommentsEPSS and ePerformance
So, for some time, we have added "ecoaching" to our "elearning" offering, to describe our electronic support options ... has taken such a firm grasp as elearning, to describe what we think is a real value-add for our clients.This is a ... as well. And the answer is that there is not a well known term to describe kinds of eLearning solutions that are not typical courseware. I talked about definitions of eLearning a while ago and the basic conclusion I came to is that when ... -Service Action and Development PlanningePerformance at Work: eFollowUpThe core definitions provided were: ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
... to find really good on-shore development talent. Especially since I'm spoiled by a really great, really nice, fun group of developers.We were very fortunate. I found several very high quality developers at several levels in 2007. Still ... of our current developers and finding people who match up makes it tough.Deciding if I should be speaking more or less ... learners.Find Lots of Examples of eLearning 2.0I've already started to identify some of the initial eLearning 2.0 kinds ... , starter examples of solutions that don't fit within classic eLearning, eReference type solutions.This is probably ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentsBest eLearning Blog
The winners of the Edublog awards were announced and I'm happy to report that this blog won for Best eLearning / Corporate Education. I want to thank each of you who voted in support of this blog. Sincerely, thank you!They've offered an opportunity to submit an "acceptance" but honestly, I'm a bit at a loss on what I should put in an acceptance.I definitely want to thank everyone who I've had conversations with over the past two years while writing this blog. The ... which I work. For this reason, I would recommend any other learning and development professionals out there with a ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 10, 2007 - CommentsVizThink and Visual Thinking and Learning - Still Not Sure
... including being director of eLearning at Root Learning and working for Masie organizing events. He is now CEO of Vizthink ... eLearning. I asked Tom to help fill me in and so we've had a little dialog on it. I thought it would be worth sharing a ... , even storyboards can be complex to create, hard to update, and even harder to develop from. Visual thinking offers opportunities to streamline that development process especially during the review and approval stages. Very rarely will ... wonderful diagrams that people can create from your concepts (see Marilyn Martin's picture of my eLearning 2.0 ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, December 7, 2007 - CommentsAha Moments in 2007
Future of Application and eLearning Development)I found myself no longer recommending the use of RoboInfo or other ... a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis, Blogs and were embarking on Second Life. Someone ... eLearning 2.0 Make a Difference?Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-upsWow, what a great list from 2006, I'm ... Tools?,But the good news is that it appears that more and more people are getting it (More eLearning Bloggers, Facebook Fridays and I'm definitely Pushing Harder Now and we need to adopt the attitude - eLearning 2.0 - Just Go Do It.We are ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - CommentsFlash Quiz Tools
... provides the ability to develop robust multi media content allowing you to easily incorporate both conceptual and ... and survey types.Rapid Intake Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio creates interactive Flash-based AICC or ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - CommentsROI and Metrics in eLearning
I'm working on an article around the use of ROI and metrics in eLearning. I did a quick search for resources and ... setting. This level of evaluation will increase the visibility of learning and development efforts, because successful ... Course Development: What Does It Cost? Does it cost less to design and develop online teaching and learning today than it ... future? The costs of developing online programs are siDetermining Training Return-on-Investment (ROI) - Strategies to ... gains in productivityMetrics Recently, functional managers have begun using eLearning to meet business ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - CommentsLearning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes)
My article in Training + Development Magazine was just published - Learning and Networking with a Blog. You must launch the reader and then go to page 20 to find the article.Unfortunately, a couple of things got cut between the final edits from T+D and when it was published. So here are two associated pieces of content that are the article's "deleted ... can be found at: http://www.articulate.com/blog/the-19-best-elearning-blogs/ http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/02/top-ten-elearning-blogs.html Then you will want to sign up on a blogging system such as Blogger, and begin ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, September 4, 2007 - CommentseLearning or e-Learning vs. learning
... point to various sources on the same topic and consider what they have to say...eLearning or Learning? - More to ItIs it e-Learning or eLearning?E-Learning: Will We One Day Lose the E?Is the Term 'eLearning' Going to Become Extinct?The end of ... search for "drop the e" elearning and you'll get 74 results, but there are literally thousands more out there. Including ... the concept of e-learning was being slowly re-habilitated in the Learning and Development profession, the term itself ... fine. And these certainly are delivery based terms.Donald also discusses that eLearning is associated with ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, July 13, 2007 - CommentsPersonal Learning Knowledge Work Environment
EnvironmentReaching Nirvana in my Personal Learning EnvironmentPersonal Learning Environments - the future of eLearning?Personal ... pretty big gaps at the moment - but I hope to develop it further over the next year. Central to my PLE is the people I ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - CommentseLearning Tools
Posts on eLearning Tools:What is Rapid eLearning?eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and MoreeLearning Course Authoring Tool Satisfaction - MoreAuthoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-upsUse of Wikis as Compared to Other ToolsCaptivate and Articulate for Interactive Slide-Based PresentationsShift in eLearning Solutions from Pure Courseware towards Reference HybridsDirection of eLearning Solutions - Emergence or Big SystemFuture Platforms for eLearning SolutionsView of eLearning Development Software - Ease vs. PowerPoint Solutions vs. Suites and Composition in eLearning ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentseLearning Solutions
Posts on eLearning Solutions:What is Rapid eLearning?Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-upsShift in eLearning Solutions from Pure Courseware towards Reference HybridsDirection of eLearning Solutions - Emergence or Big SystemFuture Platforms for eLearning SolutionsView of eLearning Development Software - Ease vs. PowerPoint Solutions vs. Suites and Composition in eLearning SolutionsRapid eLearning ToolsVirtual Classroom Instruction - ResourcesSoftware Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsPowerPoint - More Questions
Okay, I'm going to blame this on Karl Kapp, because in response to the LCB Big Question - PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? - Karl created a presentation and a blog post that inspired me to revisit a presentation I recently gave and try to improve it using some of his suggestions (and a few others that I've recently read).The presentation is aimed at folks who manage or are hands-on in the development of eLearning and it's designed to introduce them to eLearning ... sometimes even give a sense of how much time I'll spend on each. Not unlike what we do at the start of an eLearning course ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 10, 2007 - CommentsHot Topics in Training
... eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 this would be downnotable dropping topics: games, simulations, knowledge, interactive and ... Interactivity to your eLearning" are sure to pack the room. I wonder if the steady increase in rapid and the decrease ... % leadership 2 5 4 -1 -20% authoring 4 4 3 -1 -25% development 10 11 8 ...
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