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  • Bottom-up Learning, Design, & Learning
    ... appropriate knowledge and skills. Is Google Making Our E-Learning Stupid? - The Rapid eLearning Blog Instructional ... Employees Learn in 2008 - The MASIE Cente Employees today are learning how to do their jobs very differently! e ... learning to other tasks remains poor. Here, the authors present evidence for transfer from training on a demanding ... Click picture for Flickr view. Bottom-up learning - e.learning age Bottom-up learning occurs because employees want ... that they bring to the elearning course. Design courses to accommodate these power browsing habits. If you ...
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - Comments
  • Agile e-learning
    Jones of the BBC. The pyramid shows how high-end e-content can integrate with rapid content and user-generated content within an overall strategy working from both the bottom up and the top down: At the eLearning Network's July Showcase, a presentation I attended by Nicola Foster of Information Transfer, made me question whether the boundaries between the three tiers of the pyramid are all that distinct. Nicola's proposition was that, while rapid content development had its ... not the fastest of the e-learning that survives, not the flashiest, but the most agile." ...
    Clive on Learning - Friday, August 8, 2008 - Comments
  • The treatment matrix
    ... the need for behaviour change is low and learner motivation is high, some really simple rapid e-learning materials will ... Perhaps the most enjoyable session I attended at the eLearning Network's July showcase event was presented by Richard ... 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 ...
    Clive on Learning - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Myths about online learning
    ... applied to corporate e-learning. [blue is mine] Myth: Videocasting lectures/presentations works. [As part of a blended ... Kuhlmann’s excellent (as always) post several weeks ago, here’s why rapid e-learning is so darn cool, about ... rapid e-learning).In Tom’s post and in the comments (in addition to my ‘who you callin’ a pundit ... ’s post, how long does it take to create learning provides some comparison ratios between ILT and various levels of e ... -and-paste e-learning. I can go to Amazon.com and order a book and read it. Or I can order a recorded book and ...
    Janet Clarey - Monday, August 4, 2008 - Comments
  • ignite 4 professional
    ... createweb based training rapid elearning training CDs shareable knowledge online skill tests interactives everything ignite® 4 standard doesfeaturestable of contents, chapters and lessons capture from screen import (powerpoint, images, video, sounds, flash) voice over or webcam recording closed captioning multiple presentation modes (lecture, interactive) quiz creator (unlimited question) multiple publish formats (html, swf, scorm, email) multiple printed formats (doc, pdf, ...
    Jane Knight - Monday, July 21, 2008 - Comments
  • Adobe Presenter 7 still a Breeze to use
    I've got the new Adobe Presenter 7 on a month's trial and have spent the past hour giving it a thorough working over. I'm interested in this sort of PowerPoint-based tool both for myself, because I like to package up my presentations with audio for web delivery, but also because I meet so many trainers who want to produce some simple e-content for themselves and want the process to be as simple as possible. Presenter 7 installs as a PowerPoint add-on (including the 07 ... rapid development tools need to be like if teachers and trainers are going to do it for themselves.
    Clive on Learning - Saturday, July 19, 2008 - Comments
  • Three tiers in the content pyramid
    ... model, shown above, which he presented at a recent eLearning Network event on rapid e-learning, consists of a pyramid ... Back in December I posted about what I predicted would become e-learning's two tiers. To remind you: High end The top tier would be e-learning that delivers something special, something that can't be achieved easily other ways. This ... specialists. You would expect e-learning content at this higher level to include a degree of intelligence or ... , high end content is almost always going to be a top-down learning intervention, created at the initiative of ...
    Clive on Learning - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Debating the value of debates
    ... try out last week was the formal debate. The event was a one-day conference run by the eLearning Network on rapid e-learning. The debate ran for one hour in the afternoon and worked like this: A motion was proposed, in this case 'that rapid e-learning represents as much a threat to the e-learning community as it does an opportunity'. Two speakers spoke for the motion and two against. Each pair had ten minutes to present their case. Each pair then had an additional ... , well the audience voted pretty convincingly against the motion - rapid e-learning does pose some risks, but they  ...
    Clive on Learning - Thursday, May 29, 2008 - Comments
  • Content creation skills are widespread
    I presented yesterday in London at the conference of the Learning and Skills Group on the subject of rapid e-content creation. As part of my session I asked the group to rate their proficiency in each of these skills: Using a digital camera Editing photos Using a camcorder Editing movies Writing textual content Laying out textual content Creating graphics Building presentations Recording audio Editing audio The rating scale was as follows: Five stars - professional Four stars - enthusiast Three stars - improver Two stars - beginner One ...
    Clive on Learning - Thursday, May 1, 2008 - Comments
  • 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
    Steve Jobs Can Teach You About Designing E-Learning - The Rapid eLearning Blog 67. The Social Affordances of the ... CONNECT 7. eLearn: Opinions Good short article on characteristics of 2.0 collaboration 8. e-learning 2.0 ... and E-Learning, Part II. 18. E-Performance Essentials: ELearning and Social Software An interesting article - Early e ... Article E-learning 2.0 37. eLearn: Best Practices - What do you mean when you say usability? 38. Minds on Fire: Open ... :: Ageless Learner 88. eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning ...
    eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - Comments
  • Daily Bookmarks 04/22/2008
    Characters for Your E-Learning Scenarios - The Rapid eLearning Blog Tips on breaking apart and combining parts of clip art to create appropriate characters for e-learning, even if you aren’t artistic enough to draw them yourself. tags: e-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 “Learning how to learn is learning how to create patterns in our mind rather than merely acquiring them.” ...
    Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Comments
  • Whatever happened to inductive learning?
    ... how it works! The trouble is, inductive learning doesn't seem to have been what the developers had in mind when they designed the latest generation of  rapid e-learning authoring tools. Over the past few days, I've been testing out a ... When it comes to writing interactive learning materials, I've always preferred a particular approach and have used this almost without thinking for the past twenty years. Rather than 'tell and test', where you present information and then ... will stick. Either way, Justin will never know, because there's no tracking. Pick another option.] Create a short e ...
    Clive on Learning - Thursday, March 20, 2008 - Comments
  • eLearning Can Be Smart AND Good Looking!
    Tom Kuhlmann has an excellent post on the importance of visual design in eLearning (my personal driving philosophy and the reason for the eQuixotic blog) on his Rapid E-Learning Blog. Tom rightly points out the importance of visual ... first screen of an eLearning course if it’s going to be a course I’ll enjoy or despise because I can immediately ... presentation look good. I disagree with that general premise, based on my definition of “overboard” and ... design - in fact, they are often its very antithesis. And I don’t agree that “rapid development” ...
    eQuixotic - Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - Comments
  • Page turners? Yes please.
    I must confess to being more than a little baffled by the aversion of the e-learning community to the concept of a page ... so many online learning materials, and the idea of progressing through these in sequence makes a lot of sense when there's a logical flow to the learning strategy and when exploration isn't a critical element, as it would be with a branching ... . Take Designing Presentations by Mike de Palma, just one of a host of online publications at issuu.com. No way is this boring, no way is this a limited learning offering. What about the lack of interactivity? Now I'd be the first to ...
    Clive on Learning - Thursday, February 21, 2008 - Comments
  • Flash Quiz Tools
    ... including editable mouse movements, text captions, and scored click boxes. Add e-learning interactions like data-entry ... and survey types.Rapid Intake Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio creates interactive Flash-based AICC or SCORM-conformant e-learning courseware. Quickly create Flash-based e-learning courses, quizzes, and tests. Add an integrated glossary ... track your results with your standards based Learning Management System as Quizmaker output is SCORM and AICC ... possible to generate three activities that can be used with iPods, PSP players and other portable devices.OnDemand Presenter ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - Comments
  • Top eLearning Posts
    Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment 1,199 3 23 Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning ... Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools 1,140 9 43 eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD OC 972 ... 754 3 40 Rapid eLearning Tools 4,337 11 35 Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A ... Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction 1,155 8 6 eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD OC ... is eLearning 2.0? 6,890 16 152 Rapid eLearning Tools 4,337 11 35 First Time ...
    eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - Comments