• e-Learning 2.0: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfile

    Social Networking: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfileI have been fine-tuning a survey tool to gauge the TechnoProfile of the target learning audience in social learning, networking, collaboration and Learning 2.0 environments. I call it "Learner TechnoProfile." The survey design is based on my discoveries from social learning sessions, (ASTD handoout) client projects and my research "in helping learners apply their learning" or Micro-Learning Impacts in social ... make comments. In this case designing social learning content to appeal to this audience is the initial phase; ...

    Ray Jimenez - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - Comments
  • Lead the Charge?

    ... name with something like:Tony Karrer - Safety Training Design : eLearning TechnologyPosts So Far:The Learning Revolution ... have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0, long tail learning, etc. then ...Don't we ... do Knowledge Workers Need?Clark Quinn - Learnlets: Lead the Charge?Tony Karrer - eLearning Technology - ...

    Learning Circuits - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 10 comments
  • Firewall Problems and Solutions

    I would love to hear back from people on this as I received a question around firewall problems and solutions that I've not heard as much in the past couple of years. This blog reader provides eLearning content to a variety of customers from their hosted solution. Their solution uses a variety of technologies including: .wma files, JavaScript, Flash, HTML and downloadable PPT.Their issue is that they are running into customers who are tightening their firewall settings ... security systems designed to strip out potentially malicious code? Do Flash players cause any problems with ...

    eLearning Technology - Friday, June 27, 2008 - Comments
  • Rich Chart Live

    ... amp;amp;lt;!-- .style2 { text-align: center; } --> Rich Chart Live is a free online service which creates enjoyable and captivating charts with attractive visuals and interactivity. No software to download, nothing to install, all you need is any web browser that supports Flash, in Windows, Mac or Linux ...

    Jane Knight - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - Comments
  • Quick Wins

    ... organizational culture aspects to enterprise adoption of enterprise 2.0 / web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0. And I think it's easy to ... Wiki that has performance support materials that goes along with your eLearning on that new software applicationat first ... group. They are designed for quick wins.Mark - there's a reason that Andrew McAfee talks about these things ...

    eLearning Technology - Monday, June 23, 2008 - Comments
  • Spoon in the road

    ... education (post and comments): Instructional Design in Elearning We Need a Degree in Instructional Design Why We Need Good Instructional Design Translating Constructivism into Instructional Design: Potential and Limitations If You Believe It’s Broken - How Do You Change Our Industry/Models/etc? Significant Work Need to Help Instructional Designers ... the beginning of a long, long road (it’s a Ph.D. in Education/Instructional Design, Development, & Education).

    Janet Clarey - Friday, June 20, 2008 - Comments
  • IABTI Conference

    My colleagues and I recently submitted a paper/presentation for the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) Conference. This was their annual training and technology conference. We presented on some of the training programs we are working on, and we also gave a primer on trends in the learning field ...

  • Daily Bookmarks 06/17/2008

    Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Passion and Professional Development⬦ Online Mark Wagner on different philosophies for teaching, both face-to-face and online. From one of the assignments in PLS’ Facilitator Skills Training. tags: FST, teaching, profdev, passion, e-learni ...

    Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Comments
  • Objection #12: How Will You Measure That It Is Working?

    When anyone throws up Objection #12 you know that they don’t quite ‘get it’ yet.  And that is OK.  Your job is to help them get it.  Some times we hear “Right now we know when people have learned.  We have them take tests.  They fill out evaluations.  We can see in the LMS that they have taken a course ...

    Engaged Learning - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Comments
  • Daily Bookmarks 06/16/2008

    Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds Create tag clouds from plain text or delicious bookmark tags. Includes options to change the font, layout, and colors so you can make more interesting tag clouds than the typical options. tags: visualization, web2.0, ...

    Experiencing eLearning - Monday, June 16, 2008 - Comments
  • Innovations in eLearning - Final Thoughts

    ... needed. The line between librarians and instructional designers continues to fade.My early gut instinct that the more ... time for the designer. Because we've always done it this way and it requires less thought on our part. Ultimately ... to retain that information. Now the trick is convincing clients to let us design that way.Collaboration collaboration collaboration collaboration collaborationAnd I saw good examples of how to put that into practice in the design. Again ... there were at least a couple of sessions designed around the question "How do I get the audience participating in a ...

    In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - Comments
  • News and Updates

    Here is some news and updates that came across my desk this week: The Udutu Facebook LMS, which I mentioned in a previous posting is now live.  With the LMS, users can publish course material, control access, track "learner" progress, collect payment and see the results once users have completed a session -- all without ever leaving the Facebook site ...

    Jane Knight - Saturday, June 7, 2008 - Comments
  • Objection #5: How Do You Know its Accurate?

    Objection #5 is one of the most heard objections. Very famous. “If you let everyone post how do you know it is accurate? What if it is not and the receiver acts on it and something bad happens? It is certainly not as accurate as the training department getting information from the SMEs and delivering it to the employees ...

    Engaged Learning - Friday, June 6, 2008 - Comments
  • Cutting the pie

    ... and education have been largely designed on a one-way flow model (structure imposed by hierarchy). Hierarchies, unlike ... come home to me lately as I have been participated in the design of a series of face-to-face conference events for the eLearning Network (eLN). In the past, a typical eLN event (and for that matter most other conferences in Europe as well) would be designed according to the following proportions: By 'ideas' I mean presentations from gurus, experts and ... likely you go away with nothing. Of course, these proportions are as important in the design of training events ...

    Clive on Learning - Friday, June 6, 2008 - Comments
  • What The Font?! Identifying Fonts for eLearning Design

    As eLearning developers, most of us are not graphic designers by trade or by training. Many of us have academic or corporate backgrounds. We are, to put it bluntly, visual design noobs. Hacks. Poseurs. We think white socks are ... hire a real graphic designer for our eLearning development team, how are we supposed to create visually compelling ... it helpful to browse this “digital scrapbook” of tasteful design whenever I’m starting a new eLearning ... across a refreshingly (or annoyingly) honest blog about eLearning design called, oh, say, eQuixotic. And say you are ...

    eQuixotic - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 0 comments
  • Learning Gets a Second Life

    CALLS IT A COURSE!!!!)We put up with it - but IT NEVER WORKED!eLearning (as many are designed) - the coma without the ... games. Now more game design skills rather than straight instructional design skills.Level 3 - add multiplayer element to the game design skill.Killer ap #4 - Role play and collaboration- Cease fire islandKiller Ap - #5 Mixed ...

    In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Games, Gadgets and Gizmos for Knowledge Transfer

    ... using mobile - chunk carefully and short. Design carefully. + Can also text small pieces of info. + Gadget - think ... missing important information.----------------------QuestionsBridging creativity with design- Karl - look at ...

    In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Three tiers in the content pyramid

    ... organisation's management. Rapid development The lower tier would be 'good enough' digital content, designed to communicate ... , a podcast, a screen capture movie, a PowerPoint or a PDF. This content may be designed and developed in-house, by ... model, shown above, which he presented at a recent eLearning Network event on rapid e-learning, consists of a pyramid ... all serve different purposes and, as a result, adopt different production values. Professional designers should not ...

    Clive on Learning - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Second Life Training

    Training Designor you could also include your blog name with something like:Tony Karrer - Safety Training Design : eLearning TechnologyPosts so far (and read comments as well):Clark Quinn - Virtual WorldlySecond Life et alBill Brantley - Using Second Life for Online Classes50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second LifeMick Leyden - Can we possibly use Second Life?G-Cube - e-Learning and Second Life - How viable is it?Donald Clark - 10 reasons not to use Second Life in learningPeter Isackson -Second Life ...

    Learning Circuits - Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 20 comments
  • What's a Women's Blog Jam?

    It is not: A sweet fruit condiment favored by blogging women and often spread on toast Women slam dunking a basketball while blogging Women blogging about covering the Michael Jackson song, “Jam” Women rockers who blog about jam sessions One familiar definition of a jam is a simple social gathering and communal practice session [for music] ...

    Janet Clarey - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - Comments
  • Co-creation

    ... includes meta-learning, design principles, timing, and how humans tick: things that transcend individual cases. There ... eLearning for five years now. For me, it’s time to move on. That particularly squeaky wheel has been oiled enough. We ... there’s a real live teacher running the show. Last year, in an informal history of eLearning, I wrote: Learning ... charges, more closely resembling a haggis than a sophisticated network processor. eLearning came along at the right ...

    Internet Time - Friday, May 23, 2008 - Comments
  • Best of the Guild's Learning Solutions

    I've been browsing the recent publication from the eLearning Guild - a compilation of the best articles from the Learning Solutions e-magazine from the past five years (Pfeiffer, 2008). Obviously I was pleased to see an article of mine in there on the ways that blended learning can be designed to bridge the gap from formal to informal learning, but you can only spend so much time reading your own stuff before others start to worry. So, I dipped into all 22 articles. There's no theme here - other than e-learning of course - so you jump from The XML e-Learning Revolution to High ...

    Clive on Learning - Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - Comments
  • Telecommute Instructional Design Jobs

    ... instructional design companies that will let you work remotely to some degree or do most require you to be in office to interact ... ;instructional designer’ telecommute” returns over 18,000 hits, so there are things out there. You do have to hunt ... helpful. I’ve gotten jobs through both Monster and Careerbuilder, as well as the eLearning Guild’s job board ... advice would you give to someone looking for a telecommute instructional design job? Are there resources I should have ... out there in the world. What have your experiences been finding instructional design jobs where telecommuting is ...

    Experiencing eLearning - Sunday, May 18, 2008 - Comments
  • Brain Dump

    ... that has made an appearance is the mixed legacy of PowerPoint and other "rapid eLearning development tools."Karyn Romeis ... they think serves as "eLearning". (Can you tell I've been doing that a LOT this week?)Maybe I should make a poster and ... managerial folks I have run into in past jobs think "Rapid eLearning Development" is about making the ENTIRE instructional design cycle fast rather than just the Development (taking the design and making it real) piece. There is no design ...

    In the Middle of the Curve - Friday, May 16, 2008 - Comments
  • Rule #1: Respect the Learner

    ... learner. Learning Designers should:Respect the Learner's NeedsWe too often cram way too much content into eLearning ... Our Certificate in eLearning Management is based on principles of experiential learning. In other words, instead of just learning about eLearning, we have learners doing various facets of eLearning to demonstrate competency attainment. The last competency deliverable in our Engaging Your eLearners course is for learners to actually facilitate on online ... exercise on the topic of "What advice would you provide for a novice learning designer?" The topic really forced ...

    Breakthrough Learning - Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Comments
  • Rule #1: Respect the Learner

    ... learner. Learning Designers should:Respect the Learner's NeedsWe too often cram way too much content into eLearning ... Our Certificate in eLearning Management is based on principles of experiential learning. In other words, instead of just learning about eLearning, we have learners doing various facets of eLearning to demonstrate competency attainment. The last competency deliverable in our Engaging Your eLearners course is for learners to actually facilitate on online ... exercise on the topic of "What advice would you provide for a novice learning designer?" The topic really forced ...

    Breakthrough Learning - Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Comments
  • Rule #1: Respect the Learner

    ... learner. Learning Designers should:Respect the Learner's NeedsWe too often cram way too much content into eLearning ... Our Certificate in eLearning Management is based on principles of experiential learning. In other words, instead of just learning about eLearning, we have learners doing various facets of eLearning to demonstrate competency attainment. The last competency deliverable in our Engaging Your eLearners course is for learners to actually facilitate on online ... exercise on the topic of "What advice would you provide for a novice learning designer?" The topic really forced ...

    Breakthrough Learning - Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Comments
  • Rule #1: Respect the Learner

    ... learner. Learning Designers should:Respect the Learner's NeedsWe too often cram way too much content into eLearning ... Our Certificate in eLearning Management is based on principles of experiential learning. In other words, instead of just learning about eLearning, we have learners doing various facets of eLearning to demonstrate competency attainment. The last competency deliverable in our Engaging Your eLearners course is for learners to actually facilitate on online ... exercise on the topic of "What advice would you provide for a novice learning designer?" The topic really forced ...

    Breakthrough Learning - Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Comments
  • Rule #1: Respect the Learner

    ... learner. Learning Designers should:Respect the Learner's NeedsWe too often cram way too much content into eLearning ... Our Certificate in eLearning Management is based on principles of experiential learning. In other words, instead of just learning about eLearning, we have learners doing various facets of eLearning to demonstrate competency attainment. The last competency deliverable in our Engaging Your eLearners course is for learners to actually facilitate on online ... exercise on the topic of "What advice would you provide for a novice learning designer?" The topic really forced ...

    Breakthrough Learning - Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Comments
  • Rule #1: Respect the Learner

    ... learner. Learning Designers should:Respect the Learner's NeedsWe too often cram way too much content into eLearning ... Our Certificate in eLearning Management is based on principles of experiential learning. In other words, instead of just learning about eLearning, we have learners doing various facets of eLearning to demonstrate competency attainment. The last competency deliverable in our Engaging Your eLearners course is for learners to actually facilitate on online ... exercise on the topic of "What advice would you provide for a novice learning designer?" The topic really forced ...

    Breakthrough Learning - Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Comments
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