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  • Learning Objective

    ... also made me realize that someone might come to this blog thinking that it's purpose was to help them learn. And that the core objective might be to help a "new learner."What's the learning objective associated with this blog? I hate to be so self serving, but the objective is really to help my personal learning. To a lesser extent the learning objective ... intent is first to support my learning (my personal learning objectives) - I don't really know you well enough to try ... Through the comments in Blog Learning (itself about learning through discussions on blogs) something hit me.

    eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - Comments

  • Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards

    ... that let's me create targeted interventions that I can compose together into an overall learning experience.Social Learning ObjectsOne of the most powerful capabilities is how easy it is to grab existing content and modify it for your purposes. This is something we've wanted to do for a long time in learning, but it's always been hard. I would claim that ... 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 - Comments

  • Learning Objectives, Performance Objectives and Business Needs

    This month's Big Question - Scope of Learning Responsibility? (see my posts: Learning Responsibility, Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape) has raised some interesting questions in my mind. It also just triggered something for me around Learning Objectives vs. Performance Objectives vs. Business ... me that if you define the scope of responsibility based on learning objectives you end up limiting yourself to focus only ... terms of learning objectives puts you in the box. To get outside the box, you need to have business needs ...

    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - Comments

  • Learning Object Tools

    A reader from another country has asked me about Learning Object Tools. I asked him to clarify what they meant and the response was:Learning Object Tools are those that allow you to create, edit and manage learning objects.There is also a bit of language barrier. I pointed them at the Wikipedia article - Learning Object. It cites quite a few repositories and briefly mentions "Burrokeet is an Open Source Software tool that assists in the creation of Learning Objects from ... at SCORM / SCOs.But it got me to thinking that I've really not looked at Learning Objects in quite a while - and I've ...

    eLearning Technology - Friday, February 22, 2008 - Comments

  • Looking Back at 2007

    ... are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content Management, etc. I'm really ... Predictions for Learning in 2008.Biggest challenges for 2007?I could answer this as the biggest challenges for Learning ... like? What is the form of informal learning?Still working on this, but my belief is that the picture is not going to be ... wasn't a place to hear about these solutions. That's a problem for me/us.What are your predictions for 2007?More learning ... of talent management and workforce productivity rather than innovating around the learning itself. However, ...

    eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - Comments

  • More on the Form of Informal

    I'm personally much more confident if I have a set of performance objectives that I can use to derive learning ... of informal learning. In his post, he questions a couple of things I've said in The Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?) and Informal Learning is Too Important to Leave to Chance.His full article is worth a read, but the crux is:nobody equates 'informal learning' with 'structure-free learning' (unfortunately a few people have talked about "free ... for learning)andWhat makes informal learning different from formal learning is not that it is formless, but rather, ...

    eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 2006 - Comments

  • LCB Question for December - Past Year, Present Challenges, Predictions

    ... range of topics. And if you are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content ... The Learning Circuits Blog Question for December has been posted. The questions this month are:What will you remember ... & Mash-upsWhat do you see as the biggest challenges for 2007?I could answer this as the biggest challenges for Learning ... learning?Why am I not finding more opportunities to create front-end tools?I am a big believer in the ability of web ... learning professionals are going to find themselves blogging.Discussion will emerge/increase around the next generation of ...

    eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 2006 - Comments

  • Is Gagne Relevant for eLearning Courseware Design?

    ... list of learning objectives (really trainerspeak). Give the plot away and remind them of how really boring this course ... embellish this. Note: I personally try to avoid putting the learning objectives straight into the course. The language of learning objectives and the language you use when interacting with a student is different.Okay, continuing the example ... learning guidanceEliciting performanceProviding feedbackAssessing performanceEnhancing retention and transfer to other ... Presenting the stimulusIs this a behaviourist I see before me?5 Providing learning guidanceWe've finally got to ...

    eLearning Technology - Monday, September 25, 2006 - Comments

  • Q&A - eLearning Standards Especially SCORM

    ... case for SCORM; overview of SCORM including kinds of SCORM learning objects, online or offline learning objects, and organizing and sequencing learning objects; organizing learning objects and SCOs; implementing SCORM-compliant learning ... Now that I posted about Better Questions for Learning Professionals, I've been receiving questions via email from a ... started:Is it mandatory to use SCORM while developing an E-learning Software?SCORM is as close as you get to Mandatory in the ... into this. Most of the time, it's to handle cross-domain issues, i.e., learning content is on different server ...

    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - Comments

  • Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning?

    ... favor of Wikis.Mashups we basically already use but in a different form. A reference hybrid embeds learning objects (e.g. ... I saw another post from Dave Boggs, Has The Blogging Trend Begun To Fade, Even Before It Ever Got Started In Corporate Training / e-Learning Environments? In this post, Dave unfortunately lumps together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together). However, I think the answer about adoption rates is going to be quite different for these things with Wikis and Mashups being adopted at a very high rate. RSS ...

    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 27, 2006 - Comments