My job involves coaching and mentoring a great many instructional designers - both within our own eLearning development ... learning objectives. Less is indeed more when we can get from A to B in a short, straight line. I recently came across an excellent technique called "action mapping" that I will start using to help focus eLearning on intended outcomes based on desired actions. Cathy Moore, in her very informative blog (Ideas for Lively eLearning), lays out succinctly how action mapping can work in this slideshow: SlideShare"> | View | Upload your own Moore advocates an approach to eLearning ...

My organization, like many large organizations (and many if not most eLearning development professionals, for that matter), has bought into the Reusable Learning Object (RLO) concept with reckless abandon, implementing a Learning Content ... a horrifically cumbersome environment in which to develop, but, from my experience, it churns out the most banal eLearning imaginable. Personally, I avoid developing in it at all costs. And when I find myself in the pitiable role of the ... eLearning that’s good? As a learner, I choose good, thank you very much. And as an eLearning developer, I ...

... eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups and Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development) that the ... is Learning's Long Tail and Attention Crisis, Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape, eLearning 2.0.Just so I'm fair to ... 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 ...

... with Wikis, and more (Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development)I found myself no longer ... 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 ... revolution going on in eLearning similar to 1996 when I saw that web-delivery of tools, content, etc. would grow to ... memory of 2006 comes from a comment made during a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed ...