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  • Is the case study method of instruction due for an overhaul?
    ... fire for being self-contained documents that describe a protagonist facing a decision with a set of packaged data available ... instructional situation. Give a kid a hammer…. Cases are a crappy way to learn a something like the basics of ... crib sheets on topics like finance and marketing management. Most of my learning came from working on cases with my ... forward with the paper. Think of the hours youâ¬"d save if business documents included the outline! The outline enables ... others to learn how they think about things. Cases on wikis would expand in utility as students built on one ...
    Internet Time - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - Comments
  • Why #1: Focusing on People (Part 1)
    Photo from Flickr by Thomas Hawk WHY #1: Social Learning FOCUSES on People. What this means could be different for ... Streisand starts singing in my head.) This is what it means to me. First, social learning focuses on people rather than ... job.  Instead of being a presenter we need to become a true facilitator of learning no matter what the mode.  It is a ... help them exchange ideas and learn from each other.  We facilitate conversation, share resources, share information. Second ... content.  For example, if you go out on a public drive at your company, you can learn a lot.  But how do you find it ...
    Engaged Learning - Friday, October 3, 2008 - Comments
  • IiL08 - Keynote, Peter Orton
    The Innovations in Learning Conference (IiL08) is underway! Gary Woodill introduced the traditional handshake at the ... , cognitive overload, the work of Richard Mayer, etc. The stuff that really matters. On learning research, he says: Learning designers must be informed by evidence-based finding. He points to the primary use of the VHR - to watch home movies ... and uninformed use of technology for learning - PowerPoint - and shows a cartoon “I need someone well versed in the art of torture - do you know any PowerPoint?” Implications. (it’s not a text document) So he wonders ...
    Janet Clarey - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - Comments
  • IiL08 - Keynote, Peter Orton
    The Innovations in Learning Conference (IiL08) is underway! Gary Woodill introduced the traditional handshake at the ... , cognitive overload, the work of Richard Mayer, etc. The stuff that really matters. On learning research, he says: Learning designers must be informed by evidence-based finding. He points to the primary use of the VHR - to watch home movies ... and uninformed use of technology for learning - PowerPoint - and shows a cartoon “I need someone well versed in the art of torture - do you know any PowerPoint?” Implications. (it’s not a text document) So he wonders ...
    Janet Clarey - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - Comments
  • CoverItLive - Repost (Updated, Searchable, Neat)
    ... presented how important it is to keep trying, learning and staying on top of new tools. Even a little knowledge of how ... :27Starting:Best to create a folder on your desk top first to save the Wink documents into.Then open the application ...
    Discovery Through eLearning - Monday, September 22, 2008 - Comments
  • CoverItLive - Repost (Updated, Searchable, Neat)
    ... presented how important it is to keep trying, learning and staying on top of new tools. Even a little knowledge of how ... :27Starting:Best to create a folder on your desk top first to save the Wink documents into.Then open the application ...
    Discovery Through eLearning - Monday, September 22, 2008 - Comments
  • Google-Assisted â¬SSearchâ¬ý Learning⬦but pls donâ¬"t say â¬Saccording to Googleâ¬ý
    ... actually sick of Google. Although it is a huge part of my personal learning and work environment I’m just well, blah ... some would argue that a Google search is not â¬Üreal learning,â¬" search (and other) tools from Google appear to have ... makes it worthy of consideration for supporting workplace learning. George Chinnery (2008) described some of the pedagogical ... Chinneryâ¬"s article as it appearing in Language, Learning & Technology. Google as an Informative Tool: using a ... learning, Google has Language Tools. Instructors wishing to control search activities for learning can use Google Coop ...
    Janet Clarey - Thursday, September 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Google-Assisted â¬SSearchâ¬ý Learning⬦but pls donâ¬"t say â¬Saccording to Googleâ¬ý
    ... actually sick of Google. Although it is a huge part of my personal learning and work environment I’m just well, blah ... some would argue that a Google search is not â¬Üreal learning,â¬" search (and other) tools from Google appear to have ... makes it worthy of consideration for supporting workplace learning. George Chinnery (2008) described some of the pedagogical ... Chinneryâ¬"s article as it appearing in Language, Learning & Technology. Google as an Informative Tool: using a ... learning, Google has Language Tools. Instructors wishing to control search activities for learning can use Google Coop ...
    Janet Clarey - Thursday, September 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Eliminating Email? Not Quite, but I am Going to Try
    8217;s to get my attention with a particular discussion or wiki document, they should add my username to the tags.  My ... 10 different emails. Discussions / documents focus on one topic. Emails can branch out into other topics not related to ... , again, it turns into a pro. Now - why?  We can learn and share information more easily this way.  Natually, much of ...
    Engaged Learning - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Eliminating Email? Not Quite, but I am Going to Try
    8217;s to get my attention with a particular discussion or wiki document, they should add my username to the tags.  My ... 10 different emails. Discussions / documents focus on one topic. Emails can branch out into other topics not related to ... , again, it turns into a pro. Now - why?  We can learn and share information more easily this way.  Natually, much of ...
    Engaged Learning - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Eliminating Email? Not Quite, but I am Going to Try
    8217;s to get my attention with a particular discussion or wiki document, they should add my username to the tags.  My ... 10 different emails. Discussions / documents focus on one topic. Emails can branch out into other topics not related to ... , again, it turns into a pro. Now - why?  We can learn and share information more easily this way.  Natually, much of ...
    Engaged Learning - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Understanding Learning Styles Research
    ... ideas from the second document. Consistency, Reliability, and Validity Much of the learning styles research is weak ... Too many people have been talking about learning styles research lately for me to try to cite them all here. Many have commented on the Learning Styles Don’t Exist video, for example. Via Karyn Romeis and Stephen Downes, I found two lengthy reviews of learning styles research: Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning Should we be using learning styles? What research has to say to practice These are two related reports with some shared content. The first is ...
    Experiencing eLearning - Monday, September 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Three e-learning project management tools
    ... my several hours of working through an extensive task list was as good a feeling as organizing five e-learning courses in ... management for e-learning. Every single instructional designer has to be a project manager. Most of us were self-taught ... -learning project management you can try. MJI TeamWorks project management, collaboration, scheduling, team collaboration, resource management, project accounting, time/expensing reporting, and document management. Basecamp - collaboration tool ... and collaboration tool developed to simplify e-learning project management. This software lets you track issues, ...
    Janet Clarey - Sunday, August 17, 2008 - Comments
  • Things Worth Reading
    ... documents and doctrine. As previously mentioned the Iraq war showed the power of fragmented, experience based blogging ... to how they would apply the information in the real world, the better the learning experience. Quiz questions are ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - Comments
  • The treatment matrix
    ... 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 transfer the learning to their working practice." "The less motivated a learner is to learn the content, the more rich media needs to be used to engage and motivate them to keep learning." Both quotes come, by the way, from a ...
    Clive on Learning - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - Comments
  • KallOut
    What is KallOut?KallOut is the first application to bring "selection-based search" to any web page, email, presentation, document, spreadsheet or PDF. Unlike other search methods that are trapped inside the browser, KallOut serves up content from the most popular sites on the web inside floating information palettes). Using only your mouse, you can now avoid the disruption of launching a browser and let KallOut bring you the best the web has to offer.How do you use KallOut?KallOut is designed to seamlessly integrate into the everyday tools you already use. There is NO learning curve.
    Jane Knight - Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - Comments
  • [Quotable] NetNewsWire, JotSpot, Git, Google, old Texas sayings, etc. - (37signals)
    ... nbsp; In high school I learned T-Maker a word processing system that required that you know tags to format the document. I would have 20 years experience in it now had they just not made a better word processor.  Learn to learn. ... learn and not just know a single technology. This is true for everyone now.  I've seen this, employees clinging ...
    Learning and Technology - Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - Comments