... learners (aka Learners 2.0), and how they best learn. Part Two reports on interviews with eLearning Guild members on how ... these tools at a number of different levels, i.e. Reader (or passive consumer) Participant (or active contributor ... learning professionals and actually appeared as an article in elearning age magazine this month.   Since that time I have been ... Jose, California.  There is a Pre-Conference E-Learning 2.0 Symposium on 11 November, in which I will be present ...

Image via Wikipedia Last week I was catching up from being gone for a week.  But still, I was doing more stratigic activities rather than tactical.  I thought I would have LESS emails sent out.  Nope. Need… to… Focus… On Friday I did a webinar for the eLearning Guild as part of their Online Forum conference.  Although it was also “Talk like a pirate day,” I refrained (but the urge was there!).  There is some polishing up I need to do on ... book - you must.  But because of that, I will break up the presentation and create a number of posts. The 11 Verbs ...

Image via Wikipedia Last week I was catching up from being gone for a week.  But still, I was doing more stratigic activities rather than tactical.  I thought I would have LESS emails sent out.  Nope. Need… to… Focus… On Friday I did a webinar for the eLearning Guild as part of their Online Forum conference.  Although it was also “Talk like a pirate day,” I refrained (but the urge was there!).  There is some polishing up I need to do on ... book - you must.  But because of that, I will break up the presentation and create a number of posts. The 11 Verbs ...

So I think the eLearning 2.0 seminar that Brent Schlenker and I did in Chicago went off pretty well. We had like 35-40 people in the room, everyone stayed really engaged and Brent and I got some great feedback on how to do this presentation better next time. I'm thinking that I really want to develop some use cases (Developer, Learner, Designer, Manager) and use those as a schema for relating eLearning 2.0 activities to the enterprise. Sound good? Any done this already? Any other use cases to add? I will add that Brent did a great job and largely thanks to him, I am now ...

So I think the eLearning 2.0 seminar that Brent Schlenker and I did in Chicago went off pretty well. We had like 35-40 people in the room, everyone stayed really engaged and Brent and I got some great feedback on how to do this presentation better next time. I'm thinking that I really want to develop some use cases (Developer, Learner, Designer, Manager) and use those as a schema for relating eLearning 2.0 activities to the enterprise. Sound good? Any done this already? Any other use cases to add? I will add that Brent did a great job and largely thanks to him, I am now ...

Perhaps the most enjoyable session I attended at the eLearning Network's July showcase event was presented by Richard Middleton of Academy Internet. The title of the session was 'Fun & games - are they really necessary?', although a more accurate description would probably have been 'Fun & games - when are they necessary?' Richard argued that, in designing self-study e-learning, the amount of effort you should put into elaborate forms of interactivity (scenarios ... digital learning activities need to be. This helps the learner to fully engage with the content and be able to ...

As a reader of this blog you are a witness if not an active participant in the dramatic changes that we have seen over the last few years as a result of web 2.0 technologies. Increasingly everyone is a teacher as well as a learner; nobody knows everything and everyone knows something. As George Siemens pointed out in Knowing Knowledge:"Mass media and ... the design of a series of face-to-face conference events for the eLearning Network (eLN). In the past, a typical eLN event ... : By 'ideas' I mean presentations from gurus, experts and thought leaders, primarily abstract in nature. By 'examples' ...

... up with this briefing, have to actively engage. Don't know where the presenter is. Gotta keep up. This is a classroom ... - Focus on growth and expansion.Now - 73% students touched by elearning product. Much on Own InitiationContinuous ...

... work - Appalachian State built own program.Docs have some concerns about how to use it in eLearning. Big problem ... activities. Make them feel more connected, therefore reduce attrition. Cycle of community and collaboration. By having ... - ability to create sense of social presence. Who you are and how you present yourself in online environment (as a real person ... on facilitative role.Promote reflection and transformative learning experiences. The activities need to lead to ... as a collaborative activity. Wikis are great but you have to really work on setting the guidelines before students ...

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I am always on the lookout for new formats with which to convey ideas and encourage participation. Perhaps my keenest activity on this front is to experiment with the use of interviews, both within live events (face-to-face or online) and as a form of packaged content. Another idea that I had an opportunity to try out last week was the formal debate. The event was a one-day conference run by the eLearning Network on rapid e ... spoke for the motion and two against. Each pair had ten minutes to present their case. Each pair then had an ...

... design activities. The design activities ranged from synchronous activities to self-paced exploratory activities. The design activities included:Classroom EmulationRole PlayScavenger HuntsGuided ToursOperational ApplicationsCritical ... . I will actually be presenting a paper there on a project I'm working on. The inaugural meeting last November ...

Characters for Your E-Learning Scenarios - The Rapid eLearning Blog Tips on breaking apart and combining parts of clip art to ... -learning, graphics What You Really Need To Learn û SlideShare Stephen Downes presentation on 10 things “you really need to learn.” tags: learning, presentation, digitalliteracy, lifelonglearning, communication, patterns ... culture is. tags: collaboration, organizations, learning, networks, orgculture Middle School Science Mania Activities ...

Presentation: Analyze This: Is your elearning truly engagingPresenter: Ryan Sparks, Care2LearnHow we can use existing software to measure engagementGoogle Analytics (free)Google tool (cost) - dependent upon firewallBasis of Web Analytics- Tracks how people arrive at a website and what they do when they arrive- Bounce rate: percentage of single page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page + In courseware - will typically apply to ... ?- Activities require a minimum amount of time being completed?- What percentage are burning though the course?Content - ...

Presentation: Collaboration in a Multi-Department Training OrganizationPresenters: Bruce Baumgarten and Shane Verheyen ... move to SkillPort and start converting ILTs to eLearning. (Grrr...computer gets lonely without power......)This one is ... questions OK.SWOT Activity (my thoughts)- Strength (Internal) + Trainers starting to communicate with each other + A ... still very siloed + Roles in new environment not well defined.- Opportunity (External) + Lots of incoming eLearning ... around? I suspect for us, if we are going to build a community of practice it will be more around our LMS and eLearning ...

Top 10 Worst Captchas | John M Willis ESM Blog tags: humor, usability These are just awful Captchas–great examples of failures for usability. Clive on Learning: PowerPoint accessibility tags: accessibility, powerpoint Discussion of accessibility challenges in PowerPoint presentations with suggested solutions for each. eLearn: In Depth Tutorials - Designing and Developing E-learning Projects: A Three-Tiered Approach tags: e-learning, instructionaldesign ... flurry of activity around Diigo over the weekend, with links to a number of posts from educators exploring the ...

... activities.If presenters plan to include significant group breakout activities in their session, please require that they ... (I'm a big fan!), while not specifically related to eLearning, was energizing and highly entertaining.I would completely agree. Entertaining and not related to eLearning. I had my laptop out and was ready to blog about it. But I didn't ... to avoid presenting on the last day. And I generally leave before the last day. Normally, it's only half a day. And ... these trite group activities already?Whew, I barely dodged this bullet (and Chris attended that session). Thanks ...

... breakout group activities. Aaaarghhh! Why must conference presenters punish us like this? I didn’t fly all ... . The opening keynote by David Pogue (I’m a big fan!), while not specifically related to eLearning, was energizing ... event and he had to scramble to recreate his presentation in PowerPoint (ack!) on a borrowed Dell laptop (ack!). Once you’ve used Apple Keynote for presentations, you realize just how crude PowerPoint is in the visuals (and live ... % with his comment that 90% of eLearning should be thrown away. Amen, Dr. Allen. In fact, his bleak perspective on ...

... deliver tangible results. The top ten activities expected to have significant impact in 2008 (to view the charts go to the digital version, page 52): Ranking Activity Compared to Last Year 1 Competencies Same 2 ... eLearning Same 9 Succession Planning Same 10 Knowledge Management Up Three Do All Companies ... be present to accentuate the latter: first, internal trust reinforced by personal relationships, and, second, external ... growing, we must be equally committed to unlearning and stopping. Without actively letting go and moving along, where ...

... and offline.The conference sessions I present on eLearning 2.0 and the articles I write on various topics (e.g., Learning ... about the limited value of these publications for me and it's something that I mention at most presentations I ever do on eLearning 2.0. In particular, I say that since I've begun to shift my scanning behavior to blogs (scanning is how you ... most of the activities at conferences (see Better Conferences). In fact, my limited attention has made me into ...

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