Subscribe to FeedSo what is blended learning?
... example, discussion, role play, group assignments, multi-player games; Large community, for example, lecture, presentation, Q&A. It seems to me that, if you want to enhance the effectiveness of a learning intervention, then you are more likely to blend the social context than you are the medium. If the learning requirement is multi-faceted - perhaps it has elements of underlying knowledge, skill building, attitudinal change and application to the job - then it is hard to see how a single social context will be ideal throughout ...
Clive on Learning - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - Commentse-Learning 2.0: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfile
... networking context. I also used the ideas presented by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff Growndswell, (2008). My goal is to ... (s)You can choose more than one answer.As a participant or learner in classroom sessions:[ ] Listen mostly to presenter ... , watching presentations[ ] Learn well by watching videos[ ] Learn well by reading hand-outs[ ] Actively participate in discussions[ ] Actively involve in games and exercises[ ] Actively involve in simulation[ ] Ask questions of presenters and ... freely in discussions[ ] Share freely your comments on trainer presentations or ideas[ ] Get together with ...
Ray Jimenez - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - CommentsOpen Engineering Research
The norm for engineering R&D is to keep information 100% secret. Jean-Claude Bradley, who teaches at Drexel University, thinks differently ... and openly. Before you reject this idea as "hogwash", you should review this information: Open Notebook Science Jon Udell podcast interview of Professor Bradley(or) Presentation & commentary by Professor Bradley (via Flash) You may wish to link to Jean-Claude Bradley's blog / podcast site. Here are a few open source success stories. Do you need to have more than one mind set?
Dawn of the Un-book
... heavily in them. Books are not the ideal way to present subjects that change rapidly. Before I'm accused of calling for the death of books, permit me to say that works of art are timeless. Books such as Moby Dick, The Little Engine That Could, Catcher in the Rye, and David Copperfield are unbeatable. These novels and stories are whole unto themselves. That's not the case for most nonfiction. Wake-up call to the publishing industry: Why don't you produce books that are current? Where are the pictures and maps? Why is the text all one size and color? Why don't you provide updates on the Web? Why does it take a year to turn out a book? Why do most books come out as if one size fits all? Why don't you encourage conversation with authors? How long do you expect to remain in business if you continue to act like fossils? The publishing industry hardly has changed at all since the first paperback was printed in Venice ...
Internet Time - Monday, June 30, 2008 - CommentsZoho
Zoho has just announced significant updates to Zoho Show, its presentation application. Here are some of the new features: Export to PPT, PPS, PDF, ODP 11 new languages Picasa and flickr integration Personal groups and contacts support Embed enhancements Remote presentations The update follows on the heels of recent updates to Zoho Writer and Zoho Sheet.Zoho Suite[Zoho is ranked 36= on our Top 100 Tools for Learning. You can read the comments from those who selected it as one of their Top 10 Tools here] ...
Jane Knight - Friday, June 27, 2008 - Comments2 online clocks
Here are 2 online clocks that I stumbled upon recently: Analogy is "a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a hybrid format. It presents an everyday object with a fresh twist" By Jesson YipThe Human Clock below is by Billy Chasen.Do you know of any others? If so, please leave details in the ...
Jane Knight - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - CommentsInstruction eLearning 2.0 and Quality
... presentations and in client organizations. It's not at all the reality that goes along with most eLearning 2.0 implementations.If you are going to worry about something, worry about lack of participation. Worry about lack of skills. The quality issue is a lot of hot air.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - CommentsInformation Overload, Interruptions in Flow - Reduce Productivity
In "3-Minute e-Learning" I focused on the need to present to learners content that is critical to their performance. This is necessary because of the frequent interruptions and preferences of learners to randomly move around whenever they are in online learning.Email Dashboard focuses on the problems and solutions to information overload, interruptions, and related issues. (Information Overload - WikiPedia).An interesting quote from Bryan Dollery:"Flow takes time to achieve, and it is fragile. If a programmer's flow is interrupted it can take a large amount of time for her to regain the ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - CommentsRich 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. Import your data from a spreadsheet, export your chart as a Flash animation, as a PowerPoint presentation or embed directly to your blog or website by just copy & pasting HTML.Rich Chart ...
Jane Knight - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - CommentsIABTI 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.One of the more remarkable things was a simple question asked by my colleague. Presenting to a room of about 100 people, she asked who had ... presentation to :-)My biggest realization is that sometimes it is imperative that we get out and brief these concepts ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - CommentsPowerPoint to Teach Composition
Rachel just posted a question via a comment on the post Background Reading - Use of PowerPoint:I need help with a Powerpoint possible use. I teach freshman composition at a university to non-native speakers of English. They often come to me for extra help in their other classes. However, they ALWAYS need help creating PowerPoint presentations for their other classes of subjects such as economics, nutrition, statistics, travel & Tourism...etc. I spend time teaching and explaining "transitions", custom animations"...etc. I thought, as I am helping them so much, is there any information ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/18/2008
... writing for all those other things a lot easier. The idea is to take the stuff you do for private audiences and to present it (as much as you can) to public audiences.
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - CommentsHuman Capital Measurement, ADDIE, Nick Carr, Performance, & Education
... the belief that the interests of instructional design and learning analytics work at cross purposes, I present the case for analysis-analytics collaboration for the benefit of the learner. Hear me out, ye learned jury of courseware sponsors and learners, before you passeth judgment ... Circling the wagons against Nick Carr - c/net What is it about Nick Carr, a very bright guy, that inspires the not-so-bright guys to bring out the knives? Criticism of his recent Atlantic piece has ranged from the predictably ungenerous to the downright bitchy ...
Big Dog, Little Dog - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - CommentsMosaic Meme
I’ve participated in a couple of memes in the past. Most I avoid but this is kind of fun and interesting in that it involves visualization. This one comes from a friend with a blog that is NSFW (hence is not listed here on this corporate, professional, all-biz blog : ) This is a meme where you build a mosaic collage by answering questions using images ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - CommentsRevolution in Workplace Learning
... known expert Dr. Tony Karrer to Greater Cincinnati to present a fun, engaging, fast-paced workshop that will allow you ... human performance, he is a sought-after presenter on eLearning 2.0 and it's implications on workplace learning. He ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsOMG...There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!!
OK at least now we have an explanation for what has been going on in all of organizations. We have thoroughly been infiltrated by spies who have read and are following this manual. Seriously. This is a manual from 1944 that taught spies how to sabotage everything from railways to organizations. It came to light as part of a presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Intellipedia. Wanna hear the crazy part? I have excerpted the portion of the manual below that explains how to disrupt and destroy the internal workings of organizations. Tell me that many of these don't read ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Saturday, June 14, 2008 - CommentsObjection #9: They Aren't Technical
Objection #9 I have heard too many times: “No one will use it. They don’t know how. This is totally foreign to them. They aren’t techies.” Answer: The great thing about Web 2.0 tools it that you don’t have to really ‘get it’ technically. They are made to be SIMPLE. That is a key. It is not the technical piece that holds people back from using it. It is the cultural. That is the much more important piece. I could spend hours talking about how the cultural aspect will get in the way and how to avoid it (in fact, I have as a presenter ...
Engaged Learning - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - CommentsDoing what comes naturally
In some contexts, communication seems easy and natural: When listening to a speaker making a live presentation, whether that's face-to-face or online, through web conferencing or a webcast. When delivering a presentation yourself ... other hand, in some contexts I find the communication feels really awkward: When delivering a presentation using web conferencing. When recording a presentation on your own for use as a narrated PowerPoint or as a podcast. In the case of the former (presentation in a web conferencing environment), what freaks me out is the complete lack ...
Clive on Learning - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - CommentsMicro-Elements (Things) in Social Learning - From the ASTD International Conference
We have 100,000 members, and we want to jump on board and use Web 2.0 for Learning.""Top management directed me to see how we can launch Social Networking and Learning to 45,000 of our employees."These are comments I received during my presentation at the ASTD ICE. I see a pattern, which is both good and bad. There is a misunderstanding about Web 2.0 and Learning 2.0. Many learning leaders tend to focus on the "big stuff" and "big results" and rolling out big ... helping businesses, I struggled with these issues. I summarized these at the ASTD ICE presentation. Please download the ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsEduPunk? Please tell me this is the start and not the end
... and innovative presentations that we'll earnestly present at the relevant conferences and maybe some of us will even publish a thing or two on the topic. Fab. Here is what I fear will not happen. The old, tired, damaging curriculum of ISD which is built on some post-WW II factory production model and is decidedly NOT a design process/model, will continue to be dominant and will continue to be used to crank out more graduates who will dutifully move out into the public and private sectors and who will dutifully pick up where their peers have left off, worrying about templates and screen captures and Likert scales and nothing important will change ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsWikis for Improving Productivity
I’m liveblogging the webinar Growing in a Down Market with PBwiki. My comments are in italics. Presenter: Teo Mayes, CTO RMC Vanguard They used UStream for the audio, in addition to the typical phone line. I know I’m a little late to the party, but this is actually the first time I’ve used UStream. So far, so good! RMC Vanguard is a mortgage company–able to do major increases in their business even with the economy not good for mortgage companies ... photos. Other multimedia is possible, but they aren’t really using that yet. Drawback for video presentations ...
Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsGroundswell Insights - WhyTrainers Often Say, "It Does Not Work"
... example, if the learners tend to be more o an audience, providing Podcasts, videos, and ability to read small presentations may appeal more. Whereas micro-games and exercises may appeal more to actors. And for creators the Wiki and Blog may have more high value.The thought I gathered from Groundswell is this: learners may express themselves depending on what is comfortable for them. The popular tools like Wiki and Blogs may not always be the best ...
Ray Jimenez - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsiBreadCrumbs
... iBreadCrumbs is a Social Network for Researchers to Share Recorded URLs, Track Websites, Review Notes Online, and Encourage Online Collaborative Research. iBreadCrumbs.com is a recording toolbar for your web browser. iBreadCrumbs.com records all the web pages you visit while you research. Save, review, and share your research with friends or colleagues. iBreadCrumbs allows students, researchers, and professors to organize the world's data into narrow research "breadcrumbs" or click-streams.Take a look at the video presentation below: ...
Jane Knight - Monday, June 9, 2008 - CommentsTopic Diversity
... recently those videos have become more and more theoretical. I ran across a video on the topic of making a good presentation that was great. But, I still have this nagging worry that I would miss out if you didn't have keynotes on random, related topics. Am I just being an Infovore and shouldn't worry about it? Should I be seeking new information sources that will bring in random but related topics?Where do you get this ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, June 7, 2008 - CommentsConference Balance
Just read a great post by Clive Shepherd - Cutting the Pie - where he discusses what the appropriate balance is at conferences. As you know creating Better Conferences is something that very much interests me. Check out that post, the poll results and the discussion for lots of ideas on how to make conferences better. But Clive's major point is that at today's conferences the mix is:His definitions are:ideas - presentations from gurus, experts and thought leaders, primarily abstract in nature. examples - case studies from users, sharing successes and lessons learned.
eLearning Technology - Friday, June 6, 2008 - CommentsCutting the pie
... would be designed according to the following proportions: By 'ideas' I mean presentations from gurus, experts and thought leaders, primarily abstract in nature. By 'examples' I mean case studies from users, sharing successes and lessons learned. By 'participation' I mean opportunities for attendees to interact with each other to explore the ideas, share their own experiences and make contacts that can take follow-up after the event ...
Clive on Learning - Friday, June 6, 2008 - CommentsHelp, I Cant' Stop Learning!
Help, I Can't Stop Learning!Presenter: Sid MeierSo they managed to find the appropriate cable so they can display an XBox 360 on the projector.And as they finish setup - the high schoolers brought in to enjoy this part of the conference ... improving.- The improvement path is motivatingDeveloping more skills is a powerful part of the appeal.Gotta present in a way ... to it.Keep the level of the presentation as high as possible.- Make visuals interesting and colorful.Each civilization ... .- Don't present a ton of ideas at once in beginning, you will lose them.The clearer we can present the information as ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsExample of Learning on the Fly
I have been watching the GMU Events staff during this conference. I'm impressed.Examples:There were some issues with showing people and items on camera and having us able to see them. Day 2 adaptation - followspot on the presenter with the speaker stand to the side.Lunch took forever to get yesterday. Day 2 adaptation - 2 lines outside of the dining area, drinks right inside. Lines moved much much faster.One of the senior event folks wanted to turn on the followspot (these items require some warmup time). He gracefully asked the gentleman standing in the way to sit down, explaining ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsEvidence that I was there
Guess which one I am.....Karl and Mark also have other pictures of the event on their blogs.BTW - here is the link to Stephen's presentation with the chat in the background.
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsStephen Downes, Storms and the Karl Kapp Instant Session
So yesterday at the Innovations in e-Learning Conference was kind of interesting. First - and it really is hard to take good notes and a conference that is being put on by your own organization - always something to do right? - Stephen Downes did his typically great presentation with the added twist of having an audience back channel running on the screen behind him. Brave man that Canadian. You can read the transcript here and some of it is hysterical. Also had a great experience yesterday when Karl Kapp, of Games, Gadgets and Gizmos fame, and I were just standing around talking, ...
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