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  • Social Learning
    ... learning is something that I believe has big time value.A long time ago I posted about Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add ... Learning and Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards that each use different models. Still, it's obvious that lots of ... this more appealing.There's also a difference here in terms of who authors the content. Most of the social learning ... provided their content into the system so that the students could study through a social learning experience. Two thoughts ... that this was an incredibly bad presentation. Industrial model learning -> social learning. Then a demo that just ...
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - Comments
  • Social Learning
    ... learning is something that I believe has big time value.A long time ago I posted about Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add ... Learning and Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards that each use different models. Still, it's obvious that lots of ... this more appealing.There's also a difference here in terms of who authors the content. Most of the social learning ... provided their content into the system so that the students could study through a social learning experience. Two thoughts ... that this was an incredibly bad presentation. Industrial model learning -> social learning. Then a demo that just ...
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - Comments
  • Starting Authoring Tool
    ... computer skills) would be to:1. Choose a specific course, content, audience, learning objectives, etc. Even if you ... to apply my experience designing courses for online learning; however I've searched and don't know where to begin to actually learn how to use the LMS and course design software available. I came across your blog and thought you might be ... doing.Second, I'm not 100% clear if the question is about creating good online learning experiences that include a blend of online learning techniques. For example, are you looking at becoming good at doing online sessions? If so, ...
    eLearning Technology - Monday, August 25, 2008 - Comments
  • Starting Authoring Tool
    ... computer skills) would be to:1. Choose a specific course, content, audience, learning objectives, etc. Even if you ... to apply my experience designing courses for online learning; however I've searched and don't know where to begin to actually learn how to use the LMS and course design software available. I came across your blog and thought you might be ... doing.Second, I'm not 100% clear if the question is about creating good online learning experiences that include a blend of online learning techniques. For example, are you looking at becoming good at doing online sessions? If so, ...
    eLearning Technology - Monday, August 25, 2008 - Comments
  • The treatment matrix
    Insider's Guide to Authoring Digital Learning, available on Academy Internet's website. To take another quote from the ... the nature of the learning objectives; however, there are some good ideas here and Richard's approach emphasises once ... designing self-study e-learning, the amount of effort you should put into elaborate forms of interactivity (scenarios ... behaviour change that is required (ie, that the learner needs to put the learning into actual practice), the richer the digital learning activities need to be. This helps the learner to fully engage with the content and be able to ...
    Clive on Learning - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - Comments
  • How Can Learning Be Reusable If It Was Never Usable to Begin With?
    ... matter), has bought into the Reusable Learning Object (RLO) concept with reckless abandon, implementing a Learning Content ... this: if the goal is learning content that’s so generic it can easily be grafted seamlessly from one course into ... interchangeable nature of the content that causes the problem. It’s also the authoring tool itself. Because a tool ... facilitates creativity or innovation. You know, the things that actually make learning intriguing and enjoyable. Read the ... you can’t create compelling eLearning using this type of authoring tool. I will argue, however, that this type ...
    eQuixotic - Friday, May 9, 2008 - Comments
  • Social 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 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 ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Online authoring tools not so novel
    ... online rapid e-learning authoring environments come onto the market and the reason I claimed that this prediction was on target was because of the announcements by established authoring tool vendors of two very promising new online products ... rapid e-learning authoring environment was an idea that "... would have been revolutionary a few years ago, but which ... (for creating learning objects, right), but later Acce-lerator. It was my happy experiences back then in designing content ... products, authoring or otherwise. I can only comment on those products that I happen to encounter for one reason or another ...
    Clive on Learning - Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - Comments
  • Creativity Should Precede Technique
    ... e.g. authoring tools, learning management systems, content management systems, learning objects, etc.), and not ... ; learning to animate matters."eLearning Context: "A common question is, "What authoring tool or learning management system ... got to do with eLearning you ask?I think eLearning professionals can learn from the approach used in the animation ... service of the art of learning, not the other way around."Pixar: "What Pixar looks for first and foremost in animators (is ... first and foremost in eLearning designers (is that) we want you to be able to bring the learning to life, independent ...
    Breakthrough Learning - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - Comments
  • The big question: choosing tools
    The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools ... hand how easy it was to work with others to share assets and learning objects and to work together on creating and ... ) and even listed my own top ten tools, authoring or otherwise, in a subsequent post. Nevertheless, I believe I should ... course, is that it depends on what you are trying to create. If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after, including the ... alternative, try EXE.Of course, if it isn't an e-learning tutorial you're after, then:for simple HTML content I'd ...
    Clive on Learning - Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 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 ... glutton for more of this, take a look at:Does eLearning 2.0 Make a Difference?Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & 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 ...
    eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 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 ... extension of what we are already used to doing. See: Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups.
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 27, 2006 - Comments
  • Building an Internal Simulation Capacity
    ... any educational simulation. Evaluation criteria include: learning objectives, cost, ease of deployment.measuring ... Organization that want to build an internal simulation deployment capability should first learn from the best practices of other departments developing new competencies:Developing New Organizational Competencies, 101New projects often require skills that do not exist within a business unit, creating a gap that needs to be filled across the project's life ... programming skill to need.dedicated tool, branching story - Scenariation - Moodlededicated tool, game based model - authoring ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Monday, May 15, 2006 - Comments
  • Beware the 'everybody's doing it' argument
    ... second example was an article by Sami Nurmi and Tomi Jaakkola entitled Problems Underlying the Learning Object Approach. Here I was told that "... only by using learning objects according to the principles of contemporary learning theories can their promises be fulfilled." The authors assure me that: "The reductionist views of teaching and learning underlying the prevailing learning object approach are strongly conflicting with the current theories of learning (e.g. ... for the design of learning objects should be pushing against an open door. Not any more. I've gone off the idea after ...
    Clive on Learning - Friday, January 27, 2006 - Comments
  • What Does the "A" in KSA Really Mean?
    ... two different meanings. They distinguish between instructional objective and learning outcomes. (pp. 155-157 ... . They reflect the educational and training goals of the designers and are derived from the learning objectives. And when ... the attainment of specified knowledge, skills, and attitudes -- thus, learning, is the purpose around which the system is to grow." He then goes on to propose that learning is the nucleus of a training or educational system rather than ... list the learning levels for attitude: Receiving, Responding, Valuing (Judgment), Competence, and Innovation (p.
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Sunday, February 6, 2005 - Comments
  • e-Learning: In Search of a Better Definition
    ... modularizing and handling the following: Different kinds of content and learning objects (including both electronic and non ... ! The author misses the mark on this one as a major part of "e-learning" is of course "learning." However, there are two ... One of the first definitions for e-learning is ASTD's, who define it as covering a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. It includes the ... (electronic learning) as e-learning. On the other hand, Marc Rosenberg confines it to the internet in his book, e-Learning ...
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Monday, November 8, 2004 - Comments