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  • Daily Bookmarks 09/26/2008
    Online Teaching/Learning Quotations Collection of quotes related to online teaching and learning tags: quoteable, teaching, learning, e-learning Clive on Learning: Who re-uses learning objects? A pragmatic view of reusable learning objects. It’s a nice idea on paper, as Clive says, but the reality isn’t generally as clean as the theory. He sees the object-oriented approach to instructional design to overall be beneficial though. tags: learningobjects, instructionaldesign And of course, it is difficult to create good content that is free of context, certainly not content ...
    Experiencing eLearning - Friday, September 26, 2008 - Comments
  • Who re-uses learning objects?
    Norman Lamont is frustrated again. This time, in Re-use Revisted, he wonders whether the idea that learning objects can ... there ever finds they can re-use their learning objects. Good question. The idea behind the concept of learning objects ... student groups. Learning objects could be aggregated to form complete courses of study, whether intelligently, by learning content management systems, by teachers or by learners themselves. To make this possible, learning objects had to be ... audiences. But, looking back over my own use of learning objects in the past ten years, I can see many more pluses ...
    Clive on Learning - Friday, September 26, 2008 - Comments
  • Social Learning
    Learning and Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards that each use different models. Still, it's obvious that lots of ... 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 shows ... . When the light bulb finally went on for me, I thought back to when I was teaching. The absolute best learning opportunity ... just wasn't possible at any other time. And, they learned tremendously from each other.The promise of GrockIt ...
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - Comments
  • Social Learning
    Learning and Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards that each use different models. Still, it's obvious that lots of ... 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 shows ... . When the light bulb finally went on for me, I thought back to when I was teaching. The absolute best learning opportunity ... just wasn't possible at any other time. And, they learned tremendously from each other.The promise of GrockIt ...
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - Comments
  • To-learn list?
    ... knowledge worker, learning is my work. I applaud any effort to improve the process of learning. Listing learning objective ... Do you have a to-learn list? A to-learn list is like a curriculum. It presupposes foreknowledge of what we need to ... need to know. Hence, we’d better get good at meta-learning: learning to learn. Beyond that, the democratization of work requires that we be not only our own teachers, but our own instructional designers. I have dozens of to-learn ... and lead more fulfilling lives. What guides me is not so much ticking off items on a to-learn list as becoming ...
    Internet Time - Monday, September 8, 2008 - Comments
  • The role of T&D in the 21st Century: itâ¬"s about the method
    ... needs by communicating ‘learning objectives’ and creating activities around those objectives? Using a ... providing mechanisms for feedback and by communicating their ‘learnings’ to those that focus on performance indicators and their impact on business results. I think that’s what most people in workplace learning roles do now ... experimental kitchen learning activity, the cook still does what the cook does best but with structure and context. It’s about the method. The L&D role is to provide the best method for learning through support and feedback, ...
    Janet Clarey - Tuesday, September 2, 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
    ... 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 transfer the learning to their working practice." "The less motivated a learner is to learn the content, the ...
    Clive on Learning - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Leading Learning and New Skills
    ... ourselves to go from Learning Objectives to Performance Objectives and Business Needs.Kimberly McCollum in The networked ... This month on the Learning Circuits Blog - I asked some very leading questionsIf we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0, long tail learning, etc. then ...Don't we have to conclude that learning professionals must be literate in these things?If so, then what should learning professionals do to become literate?Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies?Shouldn't they be starting ...
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - Comments
  • Leading Learning and New Skills
    ... ourselves to go from Learning Objectives to Performance Objectives and Business Needs.Kimberly McCollum in The networked ... This month on the Learning Circuits Blog - I asked some very leading questionsIf we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0, long tail learning, etc. then ...Don't we have to conclude that learning professionals must be literate in these things?If so, then what should learning professionals do to become literate?Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies?Shouldn't they be starting ...
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - Comments
  • A Must Watch: Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects by David A Wiley
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    e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - Comments
  • Focus on Action in eLearning Design
    My job involves coaching and mentoring a great many instructional designers - both within our own eLearning development projects and as a service for many of our clients. One of the biggest challenges I face in this regard is getting designers to get to the essence of a training challenge and cut out all extraneous content that detracts from the main learning objectives. Less is indeed more when we can get from A to B in a short, straight line. I recently came across an ... on required actions to reach that goal, we can provide a great deal more focus to our learning design and avoid ...
    Breakthrough Learning - Monday, July 14, 2008 - Comments
  • The argument for blended learning
    ... complex and multi-faceted: You are much less likely to blend if all your learning objectives are of a single class ... Following on from my posting last week, So what is blended learning?, which attempted to define a workable definition for blended learning, I have been trying to clarify in my own mind whether the issue is of any real importance. Is blended learning useful and, if so, in what circumstances? The argument for blended learning is really very simple. Each of the most common approaches to learning and development has its own extensive array of advantages and disadvantages.
    Clive on Learning - Friday, July 11, 2008 - Comments
  • Training, Innovation, Learning Landscape, Interviews, Outsourcing, & Education
    ... the well-known learning curve, I developed a conceptual model that maps Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Objectives to learner ... Learning, Training & Development - Defend Thyselves! - Elliott Masie in HR Management We have an obligation to create an environment where they can learn the skills they need to succeed and we have a critical need to create (and measure ... happens when people use things in unexpected ways, or come up against intractable problems. We learn from tolerated failure, without the world is sterile and dies. Systems that eliminate failure, eliminate innovation. The Learning ...
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Monday, June 9, 2008 - Comments
  • more Sid
    ... huh, game desigers care about UI...diff climes equal diff racial types...barbarian villages now have resources...I keep thinking how much attention has been paid to what kind of experience is bring created for the gamer/learner. "get your mind churning about the possibilities"...multiple paths to victory...can there be multiple paths to the same learning objective?
    e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Learning Gets a Second Life
    2-3 minute bursts- Don't have to start with "Learning Objectives" Think in terms of marketing.- "Training people are soooo literal"- Have the story drive home the objectives as part of setup.Get coaches, see how it all plays out ... Learning Gets a Second LifePresenter: Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt GroupDigital natives spend more time playing video ... inconvenience.Learning no longer top-down, expert knows all. (Web 1.0).- Emerging approach where we all learn from everyone ... environment. The other to develop the learning activities!- There is still not a good handbook.- Still nascent.Level ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Keynote Day 2
    ... can do this for an artificial world, why can't we do this in the real world adapted to learning>Objectives- Open to all ... Welcome - Brigadier Gen Sanford Holman (Skip)The Mashup of Virtual Worlds and Learning - Henry Kelly, President ... learning becoming impt. joint training venue. Going to advance across DoD.- Good training impt for National Security ... ultimately change the structure of the institutions.The Challenge- Increase in what must be learned - for everyone- Increase in the number and diversity of people needing to learn- Highly constrained resourcesTHIS CAN'T BE DONE ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Light, Agile and Flexible
    Object Notation- Will replace XML- Representation of data in Javascript Object Notation. Put data in script, ready to go.- Solves the cross-domain scripting problem. Think about the learning object problem - how do you make the learning object work on the learning management system if the learning object is hosted elsewhere.- Tag hack - create html page, in ... out. + Support interactivity - objects not cumulative, created by interaction with each other (emergence knowledge) ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Daily Bookmarks 05/31/2008
    SCORM in 5 minutes or less, with pictures! Brief intro to SCORM, explaining how the LMS and learning object talk to each other tags: scorm, e-learning Free SCORM Technical Resources - Ostyn Consulting Technical information, tools, and white papers for SCORM. Less technical information is available on another page. tags: scorm, e-learning, ...
    Experiencing eLearning - Saturday, May 31, 2008 - Comments