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    Guardian.co.uk: eLearning

  • Social workers get their own TV channel

    Anna Bawden
    27 Oct 2009 | 5:03 am
    One of the Social Work Taskforce's central preoccupations is how best to stimulate professionalism, confidence and morale among social workers. It's final report is due out this autumn. Now the Social Care Institute for Excellence launched Social Care TV, which it hopes will help tackle these issues, as well as provoke debate.While teachers have had their own TV channel for some while, this is the first time that social care has its own TV service. Available from SCIE's website, the programmes are aimed at social care staff, managers, commissioners and trainers.The real life stories and films…

  • Teaching Awards: Becta award for next generation learning

    Mira Katbamna
    26 Oct 2009 | 5:05 pm
    Dan Lea is no geek, yet he manages to get his class recording and blogging – and he makes it look easyThey've only known him a few weeks, but as far as six-year-olds Sapphire Roll and Naila Haque are concerned, their teacher, Dan Lea, is the business. "Mr Lea is the best teacher in the world," they tell me. "And he is funny!"As Naila and Sapphire discuss just why he is so funny (it's the dancing and singing, apparently) their thoughts are recorded on a video camera by two classmates. In the corner, four children are playing the Elf Tales maths computer game. And at the front of the room,…

  • 'Robot' computer to mark English essays

    Polly Curtis
    24 Sep 2009 | 4:08 pm
    • Exam board denies system will be extended to GCSEs• Union fears 'a disaster waiting to happen'The owner of one of England's three major exam boards is to introduce artificial intelligence-based automated marking of English exam essays in the UK from next month.Pearson, the American-based parent company of Edexcel, is to use computers to "read" and assess essays for international English tests in a move that has fuelled speculation that GCSEs and A-levels will be next.All three exam boards are now investing heavily in e-assessment but none has yet perfected a form of marking essays using…

  • Why e-assessment hasn't been quickly adopted

    20 Jul 2009 | 4:05 pm
    An expert says on-screen exams will soon be the norm. Don't hold your breath, says Warwick MansellKen Boston was bullish about the power of technology to transform the educational experience of millions of pupils. "On-screen assessment will shortly touch the life of every learner in this country," predicted Boston, at the time chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, in a speech at London's Royal Festival Hall, setting out his organisation's "blueprint" for the use of technology in exams.But that was back in 2004, and few experts would say that he has been proved right.

  • Obituary: Robin Mason

    5 Jul 2009 | 4:01 pm
    Advocate of e-learning in higher educationRobin Mason, who has died aged 63 from pneumonia as a secondary complication from a brain tumour, changed the face of distance education through her research at the Open University (OU) and her contribution to higher education policy documents. Coming to higher education later in life, Mason joined the Institute of Educational Technology at the OU in the early 1980s, and worked initially as a part-time project officer. When she embarked on her PhD on computer conferencing in 1985, her work became ground-breaking. She was attempting to link students by…
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  • Learn.com Named World's Best Enterprise Learning Management System...

    7 Nov 2009 | 2:15 am
    Learn.com Named World's Best Enterprise Learning Management System for an Unprecedented 4th Straight Year Learn.com wins Best Talent Management System & Best Learning Management System - Announcement came at today's Elearning! Summit hosted by Elearning! Magazine Sunrise, FL, November 07, 2009 -- -- Elearning! Magazine announced today that ...

  • Drexel University Online Honors Drexel Faculty

    7 Nov 2009 | 2:08 am
    The United States Distance Learning Association will celebrate National Distance Learning Week during the week of November 9-13, 2009.

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    7 Nov 2009 | 12:14 am
    Registration is now open for the Society of Interventional Radiology's "Image-guided Interventional Oncology Therapies" Webinar, which will provide the latest updates on percutaneous and transcatheter treatment of liver tumors, kidney tumor ablation and lung tumor ablation.

  • Learn.com Named World's Best Enterprise Learning Management System...

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Learn.com Named World's Best Enterprise Learning Management System for an Unprecedented 4th Straight Year Learn.com wins Best Talent Management System & Best Learning Management System - Announcement came at today's Elearning! Summit hosted by Elearning! Magazine SUNRISE, FL, November 07, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Elearning! Magazine announced ...

  • Silkweb Consulting and Development continues their initiatives to protect employees.

    6 Nov 2009 | 10:55 am
    They have also specialized in Health and Safety training as many occupations can be hazardous if ill prepared for the work and requirements.
 
 
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    About.com: Distance Learning

  • How to Get the Most from Free Online Classes

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:59 pm
    Whether you want to improve your programming skills, dance the Argentine Tango, or gain a French vocabulary, there are thousands of free online classes to choose from. So many options can make it difficult to choose a free online class and stick with the syllabus. But, there are a few strategies that can help. Check out this article for the basics on choosing a no-cost online couse and making the most of it. See Also: OpenCouseWare Basics Free Online Writing and Journalism Courses How to Get the Most from Free Online Classes originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Thursday,…

  • National Distance Learning Week is Coming Up

    31 Oct 2009 | 10:03 pm
    Mark your calendars. National Distance Learning Week, sponsored by the United States Distance Learning Association, will be held from November 9th through 13th. What happens during National Distance Learning Week? The organization explains: "During the week of November 9-13, schools, colleges, and other organizations will be showcasing their programs for current and prospective students. Additionally, the USDLA will be conducting a series of free webinars during NDLW, showcasing various types of distance learning providers." Interested in finding out more about online learning? Webinar…

  • 10 Facts About Online High School Diplomas

    31 Oct 2009 | 3:04 pm
    A growing number of students are earning online high school diplomas. Online high school diploma programs certainly offer convenience and flexibility. But, many families have concerns. How do these virtual programs compare to traditional schools? And, how do employers and colleges feel about online high school diplomas? Check out this article for ten must-know facts about online high school diplomas. See Also: How to Choose an Online High School 4 Types of Online High Schools 10 Facts About Online High School Diplomas originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Saturday, October…

  • Online High School Programs for Gifted Teens

    28 Oct 2009 | 5:35 pm
    Gifted teens often struggle in traditional high schools, bored by the workload and held back by the rest of the class. A growing number of academically talented teens are now enrolling in online high schools, designed especially for their needs. The assignments are challenging, the teachers are exceptional, and the diplomas look good on a college application. Check out this article for the inside scoop about gifted online high schools. See Also: How to Choose an Online High School 10 Myths About Online High Schools Online High School Programs for Gifted Teens originally appeared on About.com…

  • More Teachers Turn to iTunes University

    24 Oct 2009 | 7:36 pm
    A growing number of teachers are using the no-cost educational material on iTunes U to plan their courses. eSchool News reports: "iTunes University's role in higher education has changed from a platform for lecture videos to a source for homework, quiz, and lesson ideas for professors in search of new ways to teach old subjects... Students at some schools use iTunes daily to watch and review faculty lectures, but professors say the site also has become a critical source for lesson planning." iTunes U has certainly been an amazing resource for independent learners. Hopefully its growing…
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  • Research Areas in Distance Education: A Delphi Study

    This study had three purposes: Firstly, to develop a categorization of research areas in distance education; secondly, to identify the most important research areas in distance education; and thirdly, to identify the most neglected research areas in distance education. Based on a literature review and a Delphi study, three broad levels or perspectives with 15 research areas were derived to organize the body of knowledge in distance education. Prospective researchers can use the results to identify gaps and priority areas and to explore potential research directions.Read the Full Article

  • Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs

    The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students’ academic and demographic characteristics. A quantitative study was conducted to analyze the academic and demographic characteristics of newly admitted, matriculated degree-seeking students (N = 640) from Fall 2002 to Fall 2004 in the Master’s of Business Administration and Master’s in Communication Sciences and Disorders at a national research university in the southeastern United States. Demographic variables analyzed were…

  • Online Learner Authentication: Verifying the Identity of Online Users

    This paper addresses how one university has partnered with a corporation to work on the verification of online student identity and describes ongoing efforts to best verify online student identity. Through this collaboration, the university seeks to enhance the credibility of its online evaluation process by employing data forensic techniques commonly used by today’s financial services industry. Detail is presented on how user authentication strategies are being applied to verify remote learner identity during formal online performance appraisals. Additional details on how the existing…

  • An Exploratory Study into the Efficacy of Learning Objects

    Learning objects have quickly become a widely accepted approach to instructional technology, particularly in on-line and computer-based learning environments. While there is a substantial body of literature concerning learning objects, very little of it verifies their efficacy. This research investigated the effectiveness of learning objects by comparing learning outcomes using a learning object with outcomes using a traditional textbook-based method of instruction. Participants were 327 undergraduate college students at a traditional public four-year coed institution, a private four-year…

  • Assessing the relationship of student-instructor and student-student interaction to student learning and satisfaction in Web-based Online Learning Environment

    This study shows the importance of interaction to student learning within Web-based online learning programs. The population of this study was students enrolled in multiple academic disciplines at a private university in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. A Web-based research instrument was designed to assess students’ characteristics, their perceptions of learning, satisfaction, student-to-student interactions and student-to-instructor interactions. Regression analyses were employed to analyze the relationship of interaction variables with student learning and satisfaction.
 
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    The Rapid eLearning Blog

  • 3 Ways to Define Interactive Rapid E-Learning

    tom
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:21 am
    There’s a lot of debate about interactivity in elearning.  You have some people who think elearning is not valid unless it has a high level of interactivity.  Anything that’s not interactive is just a “boring click-and-read course.”  On the other hand, there are a lot of people who equate interactivity with nonsensical games.  So to them, any interactivity is just extra time and expense.  I’ve worked with clients who thought interactivity was adding a rollover or slick animations.  They’d “ooh” and “aah” over the dumbest things.  It was…

  • The Project Management Tip You Can’t Ignore

    tom
    27 Oct 2009 | 1:51 am
    Managing elearning projects requires good communication between the instructional designers and subject matter experts.  In most cases, this communication happens via email.  Thus, better email communication ultimately leads to better project management, which most likely means better elearning courses. At a recent ASTD conference, I ran into Mike Song, the author of The Hamster Revolution.  It’s a book on how to effectively manage emails.  Mike gave me a free copy which I skimmed through on the plane flight home. It’s a quick read and very practical, but I’ll have…

  • These PowerPoint Experts Can Make You a Star

    tom
    20 Oct 2009 | 1:35 am
    Sometimes we get so busy that we lose sight of the great resources available to us.  It’s not until you pull your head up from your desk and look around that you realize what’s available.  That’s why it’s important to be connected to other people who have similar interests or do similar work.  You’ll learn from them and have access to all sorts of information.  If you think about it, there’s really not much that you know (if anything) that you didn’t learn from someone else or because of someone else. Last week I was at PowerPoint Live 2009 in Atlanta where I…

  • How to Create Screencasts You Can Be Proud Of

    tom
    13 Oct 2009 | 1:54 am
    A few weeks ago we launched Screenr, a free screencasting application that is easy to use and great for quick tutorials and elearning courses.  I like it because it’s easy for me to quickly answer the many questions I get in the user community and through the blog.  Not only can I answer the questions quickly, but I now can share those same tips with other blog readers and members of the community. And it’s not just me doing the sharing.  There are many others also sharing their tips and tricks.  In fact, on the Word of Mouth blog, we compiled over 100 rapid elearning…

  • 15 Interesting Clip Art Styles for Your E-Learning Courses

    tom
    6 Oct 2009 | 1:29 am
    If you’re like many of us, you don’t have a lot of money to buy stock images or hire a graphics designer.  So that means you’re stuck using the free resources that come with PowerPoint.  In previous posts, I’ve discussed ways to ungroup your clip art and create your own clip art.  It only takes a few clicks to get from one image to the next. Even with those free resources available, it’s still time-consuming to find the right clip art to use.  So what I’m doing today is helping you get started by listing fifteen of my favorite clip art styles.  These are…
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    eLearning Technology

  • Trainer – Where to Now?

    Tony Karrer
    5 Nov 2009 | 6:18 am
    There has been really great response to both Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending? and this month's Big Question: Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning.  For both, lots of ideas that I never would have been able to provide on my own.  I may be pushing my luck, but I received another question that I thought was a good question. By way of background, this person is a teacher/trainer who is bright and has lots of great experience teaching and training different adults across different topics.  He's well versed in "advanced Teaching-Learning…

  • Microphones and Audio Information

    Tony Karrer
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:33 am
    I just saw a couple of comments on my post Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending? that were asking about quality differences between a Blue Snowball mic and SHURE mics. While I wouldn't know the specific answer to this off the top of my head, I thought I'd show what I do to find a pretty close answer and some people who I could easily ask.I start by going to eLearning Learning and then I search for something like audio which gets me quickly to a page that's a bunch of great posts and other items all about Audio in eLearning. The keywords on the left are highly related to audio as…

  • Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending?

    Tony Karrer
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:09 am
    I received a question today that I really wasn't sure how to answer and thought that lots of folks might have thoughts around this.  Here's the question: I have some extra budget money and I need to invest in software and hardware that will help me create cutting edge, top shelf eLearning programs. I already have these software programs: Articulate Suite '09 Adobe Master Suite CS3 (Not sure that I really need to upgrade to CS4) Camtasia & Snag It Are there any other must have software programs? It has to work with Articulate of course!  Free software is always nice but I don't…

  • Learning Power Laws

    Tony Karrer
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:50 am
    Great post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy where he discusses what Steve Balmer calls “the new normal”. Balmer talks about how a reset of economic expectations during the downturn has created an environment that is putting pressure on business to do more with less.  Some of the specifics of this transformation are captured in the following graphic: This is lines up really well with a lot of what I discuss in Business of Learning and Trends in Learning.  The primary shifts he talks about are: New resource constraints. Requiring that we…

  • Presentation Backchannel Multitasking

    Tony Karrer
    29 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am
    Some great responses to this month's big question New Presenter and Learner Methods and Skills.  I'm learning a lot from the posts.  A few random reactions and a few of the nuggets I've pulled out from the discussion. Caveats to Multitasking is Generally Bad for Work and Learning See my post on Multitasking for a summary of this.  Or better, take a look at Ken Allan - Binge Thinking.   Or Clive Shepherd's How should presenters address multitasking? simple statement: Multitasking is an illusion – we are simply not capable of doing it. But some caveats to this general…
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    eLearning Weekly

  • The Next Generation of Learning Management Systems

    B.J. Schone
    31 Oct 2009 | 3:45 pm
    A recent post by Clive Shepherd references an interesting activity done by the eLearning Network at their recent Next Generation Learning Management event. According to Clive’s post, the event was attended by a cross-section of members: private and public sector users, LMS and content vendors, consultants, and others. In the activity, participants identified requirements for learning management systems for the 21st century. (Great idea!) You can download a PDF containing the results of the activity. It’s worth checking out. I’ve written about the future of LMSs before (see…

  • Extreme Makeover Elearning Edition

    B.J. Schone
    22 Oct 2009 | 6:02 pm
    This article, by Eric Matas, is the third of a three part series on the Psychology of Elearning. (The first post is Cognitive Load vs. Load Time and the second post is Don’t Look at the Designer Behind the Curtain.) Eric is an Instructional Designer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Thanks, Eric!! I grew up in a colonial Tudor house built in the 1880s in Pelham, NY. It was a house with a front and back porch that ran the width of the house. By the time we moved in (in the 1980s), the back porch had been enclosed to create a family room. The family room was therefore long and…

  • Don’t Look at the Designer Behind the Curtain

    B.J. Schone
    15 Oct 2009 | 9:34 pm
    This article, by Eric Matas, is the second of a three part series on the Psychology of Elearning. (The first post is Cognitive Load vs. Load Time.) Eric is an Instructional Designer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Thanks, Eric!! Ah, yes, my title alludes to the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Revered and feared, he was just one trainer like you. He hid in his little cubicle but made magic for Dorothy and her fellow learners. Truly, though, most tricks—the bells and whistles of his wizardry—were simple. He made some smoke, fire, and thunder. The Wizard did most of his work with the…

  • Cognitive Load vs. Load Time

    B.J. Schone
    9 Oct 2009 | 9:02 am
    This article, by Eric Matas, is the first of a three part series on the Psychology of Elearning. Eric is an Instructional Designer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Thanks, Eric!! Designers love a little cognitive load theory. Any glimpse into the brains of learners sparks a trainer’s curiosity. It makes sense: if you want to influence brains with new knowledge, it helps to know how brains function best while learning. Cognitive psychology certainly aims to give trainers such a look inside the brain. Cognitive load theory inspires designers to influence various neural systems so…

  • I’m speaking at DevLearn 2009!

    B.J. Schone
    7 Oct 2009 | 10:00 pm
    Ok, I’ll admit it: I only wrote this blog post to show off my snazzy new DevLearn 2009 badge: But, since we’re here, I’ll go ahead and let you know that I’ll be presenting two sessions next month at DevLearn: A Case Study of Micro-Blogging for Learning at Qualcomm Exploring the Benefits of Using WordPress for Learning I will be co-presenting these sessions with John Polaschek, who also works at Qualcomm. Please drop by and say hello if you’re there! Update: I should mention that I have a beard now, so just imagine a hairier version of the picture above.
 
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  • Is Enterprise 2.0 a crock?

    Jay Cross
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:59 pm
    Yesterday I attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference, “the event that will make your company more agile.” First up was a Google presentation about Wave. Bare-bones Wave is a snooze; I haven’t been able to see many benefits. But customized Wave looks like a winner and that’s how I think Wave will be deployed. SAP demo’d a business process management application with collaborative charting; prototyping with their “analysis gadget” looked slick. ThoughtWorks showed project task assignments; the individual tracking and comments reminded me of what I’d…

  • Workshop: Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer

    Jay Cross
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:24 pm
    On Tuesday, November 10, Clark Quinn and I will be leading a workshop entitled Be the Future of Organizational Learning: Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer in San Jose. It’s an all-day event in the Atherton Room of the San Jose Fairmont. We have four seats left. For your $495, you get breakfast, lunch, refreshments, a certificate, and Clark & Jay. Such a deal. Organizational pressures are increasing: things move faster, resources decrease, and disruptive changes are more frequent. The ability to predict, develop, and equip people for their tasks is becoming less likely.

  • Seminar on Open Social Learning

    Jay Cross
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:10 am
    I am really looking forward to attending the VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning in Barcelona next month! To mark the end of the 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning UOC is offering an international platform for presenting OSL related research and practices, with an eye on mapping new trends in the field of open online education at all levels. We will discuss the theoretical foundations of collective knowledge production in social networks on the Internet (connectivism, collectivism, constructivism, Edupunks), present research and…

  • Berlin Learning Video Fest

    Jay Cross
    1 Nov 2009 | 12:16 am
    ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors, is the key annual networking event for the international e-learning and technology-supported learning and training industry, attracting and bringing together experts in the vanguard of technology-enhanced learning from around the world. This December, we’re hosting a Learning Video Festival. The web is chock full of delightful, generally free video resources. You can learn how to fold a t-shirt in two seconds or study History and Traditions of Design Activism here in…

  • Anatomy of an ISP meltdown

    Jay Cross
    26 Oct 2009 | 11:09 pm
    Ten days ago most of my websites disappeared from the web. My internet service provider (ISP), the ironically named DreamHost, was experiencing blackouts and mail delays. Now Internet Time Blog, Informal Learning Blog, jaycross.com, and related sites have migrated to Bluehost, the top recommendation from a cry for help on Twitter. Actually, my cyber-savvy sysop son made the move. Transferring ten years of accumulated posts on five blogs and six MySQL databases is beyond my abilities. Please forgive any weirdness from here in the next few days. Feedblitz has sent out a few spams from the…
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  • How to Improve American Education

    DB-RSS-B0T
    7 Nov 2009 | 3:45 am
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  • 300 teachers brought to US for 'virtual servitude'

    DB-RSS-B0T
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:40 am
    WASHINGTON D.C. – The FilAm community here voiced outrage and disbelief over reports that more than 300 Filipino teachers in Louisiana were brought to the U.S. under exploitative conditions. A USA Today report says about 300 Filipino teachers, who were More...

  • Education: A Lower Price Tag

    DB-RSS-B0T
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:40 am
    Already a subscriber? Registering with NationalJournal.com enables subscribers to view our up-to-the-minute analysis and unparalleled coverage of Congress, politics and policy in its entirety. If you would like to continue reading please click on the More...

  • Concierges and Marble Baths: For Some at Columbia, This Is Dorm Life

    DB-RSS-B0T
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:40 am
    Last year, when Columbia University tried to interest Ben Cox, then a first-year M.B.A. student, in its new apartment building in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, he scoffed. It was too far from the campus in Manhattan, he thought, and the unit was a More...

  • American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) Corporate Event Announceme...

    DB-RSS-B0T
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:24 pm
    Expected next investor conference call information: Conference Call Date: 11/5/2009 Conference Call Time (ET): 5:00 PM Conference Call URL: More...
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  • 10 Things to Consider Before Choosing an LMS

    mozealou
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am
    So you know you want an LMS.  Good. This article isn’t here to tell you why you need one, or why you should use one, this is a guide for anyone who already knows they want an LMS, just wants a guide for what to check for. Over the years I have spent many hours testing content and trying various different Learning Management Systems, and have even done some LMS (like) design work with Articulate Online.  Over that time period I have had the opportunity to learn a lot about what does work well, and what doesn’t work well in a lot of systems, so based on my knowledge on the…

  • What Troy McClure Can Teach You About Creating Awesome Screencasts

    mozealou
    29 Oct 2009 | 7:55 am
    Troy McClure has made some exceptional instructional films in his day. You might remember him from such educational films as The Half-Assed Guide to Foundation Repair and Alice’s Adventures through the Windshield Glass. So with all his instructional video experience, you might be wondering… What can Troy McClure teach me about creating awesome Screencasts? Let’s first watch this educational film from Troy McClure, Meat and You: Partners in Freedom: Eliminate confusion points and address common mistakes It is maddening watching a screencast when something confusing is shown,…

  • How Twitter Can Save Your Life in a Zombie Apocalypse #ZA

    mozealou
    16 Oct 2009 | 10:21 am
    Which are you: A zombie or a survivor? Thursday (10/08/09) was an unusually quiet day on the Twitter front, for almost 3 hours I didn’t get a single update from anyone I follow, and I normally get updates from the people I follow once every couple of minutes, so going 3 hours with no posts I naturally began to worry, and I began to wonder… Had a zombie apocalypse already devoured all the people I follow on Twitter? Zombie Survival Kit So I start to load my gun, and grab my sword when Twitter user @rhysatwork sends me a note telling me (via Twitter search) that Twitter was…

  • I donated to the victims of Ondoy, here is how you can too

    mozealou
    29 Sep 2009 | 1:51 pm
    I just made a small donation to the Philippine National Red Cross to help the over 300,000 people displaced by Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines.  If you are interested you can make a donation directly to the Philippine National Red Cross here. A couple of people who work for Articulate are currently displaced by Typhoon Ondoy, my thoughts go out to those folks and all those effected and we hope the floods clear up soon.

  • Upload and track an Articulate Quizmaker ‘09 Quiz in Dokeos

    mozealou
    22 Sep 2009 | 3:32 pm
    We (at Articulate) are working on developing some Screenr screencasts that show you how you can upload and track Articulate content in various Learning Management Systems.  I got a head start on the project by doing a screencast on tracking Quizmaker in Moodle a couple of weeks back.  In this screencast I am going to show you how you can upload and track Quizmaker ‘09 content in Dokeos. Dokeos is a Free Open Source LMS like Moodle.  Doesn’t contain nearly the feature set of Moodle, but it is a little simpler to use.  Enjoy the demo! View this screencast at Screenr
 
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  • Communities of Practice: Optimizing Internal Knowledge Sharing

    maish@elearningpost.com
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:59 pm
    Michael Hawley has written an article describing how ‘Communities of Practice’ or CoPs can save intranets from the findabilty problem. “The key to intranet success is to provide value to employees and give them a reason to visit the site repeatedly. One of the primary ways to achieve this is to connect employees with the people and groups with whom they need to collaborate. Workgroups, or communities of practice, provide the basis for a living, growing, vibrant space in which people can access the information they need, share best practices, and contribute to a shared knowledge base.”…

  • You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners

    maish@elearningpost.com
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:01 pm
    Amber Simmons writes about making websites 'learner-friendly'. "Most websites are not learner-friendly. Web creators might aim for beautiful, accessible, usable interfaces to house their smart, web-native content, but they don’t often have learners’ goals or needs in mind—if they even know what those needs are... As an industry, we haven’t done our best to make our content-rich websites suitable for learning and exploration. Learners require more from us than keywords and killer headlines. They need an environment that is narrative, interactive, and discoverable." You may also want to…

  • Anecdote Circles at High Speed

    maish@elearningpost.com
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:56 pm
    A great way to show a technique in action. Patrick Lambe speeds up a video of ‘Ancedote Circles’ and explains steps in the process.

  • Human behavior: the key to future tech developments

    maish@elearningpost.com
    1 Nov 2009 | 6:38 am
    CNN reports on the increasing awareness and demand for digital ethnography education. “As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs with new (or more often tweaked) products and services. In a world in which ever more people are using technology products on a daily basis, such skills are increasingly in demand.”

  • The PEP Talks videos

    maish@elearningpost.com
    26 Oct 2009 | 5:16 pm
    PEP stands for Passion, Experience, People. It's an event where experts share their passions with college students. Nice talks all around. From Chis Rockwell on Mind of Design to Jim Hendrickson on "choosing" vs. "following" your career path.
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    Harold Jarche

  • Friday’s Finds #25

    Harold Jarche
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:49 am
    Here’s what grabbed my attention on Twitter this past week. Networked Life means less command & control; but more self-control Euan Semple via @jclarey Confessions of a Learning Consultant: I have designed and delivered programs with no more than minimal impact on my client’s business. via @moehlert “Students who spend 8 yrs in grad school are being seriously over-trained for the jobs that are available.” Harvard Magazine [good debate in the comments] via @cammybean is a 2002 study at Sara Lee by Atos KPMG (link to translation from original Dutch) that 80% of…

  • Internet Time Alliance Podcast

    Harold Jarche
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:27 am
    My colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance and I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dawn Poulos for Xyleme Voices (a podcast library on the evolution of training). It was quite enjoyable and the technology worked very well. Dawn is a real professional and I would recommend getting involved in this series, which includes podcasts from Janet Clarey, Lars Hyland, Clive Shepherd and others. Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn & Jay Cross on Challenges and Misconceptions of Collaborative and Social Learning in the Workplace: Part 1 managing collaboration Part 2 CLO’s and…

  • The value of social media for learning

    Harold Jarche
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:45 pm
    The LCB Big Question this month is, “How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?” Here’s my answer, bringing together several threads I’ve been thinking about. 1. We live in a networked society. More of our work is being done within and between networks. In networks, there are no standard communication routes or protocols. Things get done in a much messier and uncontrolled fashion. You can’t impose a hierarchy and try to control all of the interactions and communications in a network. The network regards hierarchy as a…

  • Économie du savoir

    Harold Jarche
    1 Nov 2009 | 5:43 am
    Je participerai comme conférencier au forum sur l’économie du savoir à Edmundston, N-B, ce mardi le 3 novembre. Pendant une journée, les entrepreneurs, les gestionnaires ainsi que les intervenants de la région du Nord-Ouest, auront la chance de découvrir les différentes facettes du savoir. Les participants acquerront des outils et des connaissances en plus d’établir de nouveaux contacts d’affaires pendant cette journée. Ils auront la chance de rencontrer différents intervenants et entrepreneurs de la région qui offrent un service relié au savoir ainsi que de connaître…

  • Friday’s Finds #24

    Harold Jarche
    30 Oct 2009 | 2:00 am
    Here’s what caught my attention on Twitter this past week and some stuff left over from the week before: Quote of the Week: Ingmar Bergman likened aging to hiking up a mountain, “The longer one walks the more winded one becomes, but the view!” via @marciamarcia Food Sustainable Food Lab: accelerate the shift of sustainable food from niche to mainstream Lasagna gardening = my kind of gardening Food for Thought via @tonykarrer is an article on The Future of Knowledge Workers, or the aggregated insights of senior business professionals. I’m not sure how good any of us are…
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  • Learning Statistics from ASTD 2009 State of the Industry Report

    Karl Kapp
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:21 am
    ASTD, recently released their State of the Industry Report. Here are a few highlights.US organizations spent $134.07 billion on employee learning and development in 2008.$88.59 billion was spent on the internal learning function$45.48 billion was allocated to external servicesAverage annual expenditure per employee feel 3.8% from 2007 to $1,068The figure for learning expenditure as a percentage of payroll was 2.24% a small increase from 2007. The average number of employees per learning staff member was 253__Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and GadgetsRecommended Games and…

  • The Higher Educational Bubble Continues to Grow

    Karl Kapp
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am
    The definition of an economic bubble is, according to Wikipedia,  “trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values”.(Another way to describe it is: trade in products or assets with inflated values.) Universities and colleges have inflated values disproportionate to their value. A number of signs of the stock market bubble, technology bubble, and recent credit bubble point to the higher education bubble continuing to grow.Core Mission and Fundamentals are IgnoredA really insightful meme on this was written by Clark Aldrich called…

  • Recent Second Life Happenings: Going Corporate

    Karl Kapp
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am
    Some interesting things are going on with the folks over at Linden Labs, the developers of the virtual immersive environment of Second Life.Second Life is going corporate.First, they are sponsoring a contest called The 2010 Linden Prize. As described:The Linden Prize will award one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD for an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world. This annual award is intended to align with Linden Lab’s company mission, which is to connect all people to an…

  • Selling Social Media for Learning: ASTD Big Question

    Karl Kapp
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:07 pm
    This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?"Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization.Address a Business NeedThe most important element in communicating the value of Social Media is to solve a pressing business need. If you try to sell the use of social media as a technology play, it will not work. Address the need to share knowledge over distances or the value of timely information to sales tactics, don't focus on the technology. For example, if an organization is…

  • Audio in E-Learning

    Karl Kapp
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am
    Audio is a powerful and impactful tool, but it is often used incorrectly within e-learning courses. I recently had a discussion with Dan Bliton in his role at the Metro DC ASTD chapter about this topic, here is a small part of the interview.A common question is "Should we have audio in the e-learning module that exactly matches the text on the screen?" The general answer is no. It’s not that you can’t learn from audio and text, it is just that the learning is more productive if the two are separate (audio that enhances what is on the screen not repeats it word-for-word). I think tend to…
 
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  • How to Show Value

    kevindjones
    4 Nov 2009 | 7:52 am
    The BIG QUESTION for November is: How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization? My answer to this is surprisingly simple: Show value.  That’s right. Q: How do I show value? A: Show value. Use it yourself for business reasons within your organization.  There are enough free and tools out there that anyone can get started.  Use it and SHOW the value as you use it. This is THE BEST way I have found to get started.

  • Two New Terms: Digital Vagabond and Delinquents Explained

    kevindjones
    29 Oct 2009 | 6:01 am
    Yesterday I was in a meeting where two new terms surfaced. The first I came up with, the other a peer of mine created: Digital Vagabonds: This came up in a discussion about how many people don’t have a presence on specifically Facebook, but really this applies to anything online. That got me thinking – in rapid succession – about how we would never dream of not having a physical address. Where would our bills be mailed to? Where would grandma send the Christmas presents? How would the police know where to come when our child accidentally dials 911 (which has happened at our…

  • Announcing: The Social Media & Networking Challenge

    kevindjones
    27 Oct 2009 | 7:14 am
    On November 5th I am giving a presentation to NASA MSFC – a primer and introduction to using social media and networking.  As we start a major push toward using social media here, we want to make sure everyone is speaking the same language and is somewhat familiar with what it is and why we might use it. At the end I will give a challenge for those who want to learn more and get some hands-on experience without diving into a deep, unknown world alone.  The invitation is open to everyone. This challenge consists of 7 weeks of learning starting on Monday, November 9th.  Each week is a…

  • I Finally Get It – It’s Personalization, Not Publication in Social Media

    kevindjones
    21 Oct 2009 | 7:24 am
    photo credit: Lazurite Here is another ‘ah-ha’ moment for me.  Again, it was something that I always knew, but the importance of it became even more glaringly obvious. I was reading a ReadWriteWeb post from back in September on Personalization.  To make their point, they quote Ken Fromm as saying, “The Internet is shifting from discrete units of websites and Web pages to discrete units of information [...] organized in ways that are relevant and personal to each individual, using data gleaned from social graphs as well as recommendation and personalization services that…

  • Take Control by Losing It

    kevindjones
    19 Oct 2009 | 7:05 am
    Photo credit: db*photography One of the objections to social media / networking / learning is, “But we will lose control of the content!  They will be able to say anything they want to and that has so many implications.  What about personal information?  Or intellectual information going public?  What will legal say?  What if they say something that is not right?” Answer #1 is: How do you deal with it now when that happens? It is very much the same. Answer #2 is: Take control by losing it. It is true, by giving the people the power to create content within an organization and…
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  • 3 Good Things to Know About DevLearn09 #dl09

    Nicole
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:49 pm
    The excitement is building for one of the eLearning industry's biggest annual events DevLearn which kicks off next week in San Jose, California. The week begins with the Adobe Learning Summit on Monday, followed by Pre-conference Certificate Programs Tuesday, then DevLearn Wed/Thurs/Fri. I'll be there from Tuesday afternoon so please let me know if you'd like to meet up at some stage for a coffee and a chat, I'm really looking forward to meeting some fellow eLearning enthusiasts. If you can't make it along this year there are many ways you can keep on top of what's happening (even if you are…

  • Litmos eCommerce Releases EUR and CAD

    Nicole
    27 Oct 2009 | 8:01 pm
    The eCommerce features within Litmos offer learning professionals the opportunity to advertise and sell courses they create within our system. The features include a course listing page which automatically populates with eCommerce enabled courses, student self-sign up and payment processing which means it's as low-touch as you want it to be. For some time now we've supported price tags in multi-currency - GBP, USD, AUD and NZD. But just this week we have opened it up further with the addition of the euro (EUR) and the Canadian Dollar (CAD). This means you now have six different currencies to…

  • US eLearning Market Booming

    Nicole
    23 Oct 2009 | 3:10 pm
    A new report has just been released by Ambient Insight called "The US Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2009-2014 Forecast and Analysis.". The report forecasts expenditures for Self-paced eLearning products and online training services across 'eight customer buying segments: consumer; corporations and business; federal civilian and military government; state and local government, Pre K-12 academic; higher education; NGOs, non-profits, and associations; and Healthcare.' It also highlights areas of the market yet to adopt eLearning systems as Chief Research Officer Sam S.

  • Hunger to Learn: An Inspiring Story

    Nicole
    20 Oct 2009 | 2:23 pm
    I read something that has had a real impact on me and is definitely worth sharing, especially because it's centered around education and learning. The BBC are running a series called 'Hunger to Learn' that focuses on education in poor countries and consequently, some amazing initiatives that are being driven out of necessity by unlikely people worldwide.  Yesterday I was checking out Jane Hart's Delicious bookmark list and found a link to a BBC story about a 16 year old boy in a small West Bengal village, who has set up and become the headmaster of, a backyard 'school' of  800 poor…

  • Positive Learning through Online Games

    Nicole
    13 Oct 2009 | 8:53 pm
    We've recently become involved with an ambitious new initiative called the 'Life Game Project'. It's the brainchild of Warehouse CIO Owen McCall and has come about as a result of his desire to "develop life skills and positive lifestyle choices" in young New Zealanders, through the use of games technology. McCall has assembled a small group of companies and individuals based on their specific expertise, who now meet regularly to discuss and collaborate on all of the components needed to start this project moving and get educational life games out to children and youth in 'under-served'…
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  • Future of the social web

    gsiemens
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:53 pm
    Of course, the web is not social. Just like technology isn’t social. Or media isn’t social. We use these resources for social means, but that’s a function of use, not of the characteristics inherent in the web or media. We compress “social uses of the web” to social web for convenience sake. But we really don’t mean it like we say it. Anyway, in case you’re wondering what the social web will look like in the future, it’ll be about meaningful experiences: the past five years of Social Media evolution have focused on growth and adoption, but…

  • The age of the informavore

    gsiemens
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:43 pm
    A good name is often as good as (or better than) a good idea. The age of the informavore displays both provocative thinking and a memorable term. The video (about 30 min) is a loosely connected flow of thoughts on the impact of the web on humanity, information abundance, thinking outside of the human brain (i.e. network as a cognitive agent), and the lack of understanding most users have about the ideology of software. While we spend much time talking about change, the “becoming” aspect is overlooked. What are we becoming due to technology? Is it what we want to become? Which…

  • Openness and the Future of Education

    gsiemens
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:47 pm
    IRRODL just released a special issue on Openness and the Future of Education. Future of education is not an explicit focus in the articles, but can be anticipated as a result of the focus of the articles. Topics include: openess and textbooks, peer-to-peer learning, impact of openness, disaggregated future of higher education, and even an article reviewing CCK08 (the open course I taught with Stephen Downes last fall – the 2009 version is going strong as well). A strong issue – congrats to Terry Anderson, David Wiley, and John Hilton III. I keep returning to a question that is…

  • Can’t squeeze knowledge from a pixel

    gsiemens
    5 Nov 2009 | 6:38 pm
    Meaning is found in associations. It’s simple concept, but has substantial implications. To get an accurate picture of “something”, context first needs to be understood. This short video – can’t squeeze knowledge from a pixel – summarizes this point. An email address, for example, means very little unless we see it in a broader context and in light of associations formed between the address and other entities. Nothing new about that. However, information connectedness raises privacy and ethical concerns. Should my doctor know my credit rating? My driving…

  • Personal View of e-learning: Saudi Arabia

    gsiemens
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:40 pm
    I haven’t had the privilege of visiting Saudi Arabia. As a result, I particularly appreciated reading Tony Bates’ experiences of leading a series of workshops in his post: a personal view of e-learning. The limited adoption of technology in universities isn’t that unusual from my experience. A growing number of universities are more organized and structured in their online learning initiative, but many do so without strategic considerations. Technology use is driven at a grassroots level (which is fine, but for system-level implementation, some top down support and resources…
 
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  • How to steer your client away from an information dump

    Cathy Moore
    13 Oct 2009 | 3:54 pm
    For a quick overview of the Action Mapping process described in this interaction, see Be an elearning action hero. For in-depth help with applying this process to your own materials, check out the Elearning Blueprint. How I designed and built the scenario Some people avoid creating branching scenarios because they seem too complex. In case it’s helpful, here’s the approach I took. I kept track of the branching by writing the dialog and results in an informal flowchart. I used OmniGraffle for the flowchart, but you could use any tool that builds basic flow charts or just draw one…

  • Why you want to focus on actions, not learning objectives

    Cathy Moore
    4 Aug 2009 | 6:43 pm
    Pop quiz! 1. What do these people need to do? A. Put out the fire B. Describe the techniques used to extinguish a fire       2. What does this woman need to do to stay in business? A. Sell flowers B. Explain the principles of the flower-selling process       3. This young man wants you to give him money. Which objective are you more likely to fund? A. Build a home for a displaced family in Sudan B. Describe how to build a home for a displaced family in Sudan     Learning objectives are wimpy A typical learning objective focuses on what each person…

  • No time for design?

    Cathy Moore
    23 Jun 2009 | 10:32 am
    Do we still care about instructional design? This graph from Google Trends compares searches for “elearning” with searches for “instructional design.” At first, “elearning” followed “instructional design” in a sad slope downward. But in the last couple of years, “elearning” has perked up again, while its friend “instructional design” continues its descent into obscurity. Maybe fewer people are searching for “instructional design” because it’s no longer a new concept (”usability” suffered a…

  • Could animations hurt learning?

    Cathy Moore
    15 Jun 2009 | 2:17 pm
    A recent study suggests that the common habit of “building” information on a slide can interfere with learning. The researchers used Camtasia Studio to create two presentations on information security. The audio narration was the same in both presentations. The visuals were the same, too, except one presentation used an average of 3.4 animations per slide to make bullet points, words, or images enter at different times. The other animation had static slides—the information was simply there. After viewing the presentation, students answered a multiple-choice quiz. Students…

  • Four ways to move your learners from clueless to confident

    Cathy Moore
    13 May 2009 | 6:28 pm
    I climbed onto the tram, folded my ticket, and with some trepidation stuck it into an unmarked metal box. A happy ding announced my success. I did it! I correctly rode a tram in Amsterdam! Small victories like these make me love to travel. Every day I move from clueless to confident as I tackle questions like, “How do I peel and eat this hardboiled egg using only this tiny spoon?” I find the answers through experimentation and observation—there’s no one telling me what to do at every step. And as a result I love the learning I’ve done and want to learn more. How…
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    Informal Learning Blog

  • Podcast on Meta-Learning with Clark & Jay

    Jay Cross
    27 Oct 2009 | 2:10 pm
    Twenty minute prequel to Clark Quinn’s and my workshop on meta-learning the day before DevLearn in San Jose. m4v mov

  • If you’re new to informal learning…

    Jay Cross
    24 Oct 2009 | 4:49 pm
    What is informal learning and why should you care? Seven and a half minutes of a workshop on informal learning at National Australia Bank last year. If you’re an old hand, you already know this. If you’re new to the world of learning, you might just learn something.

  • Workshop on putting informal learning to work

    Jay Cross
    21 Oct 2009 | 11:09 am
    I’d leading a half-day workshop on how to implement informal learning the day before Online Educa in Berlin. For the main event, Charles Jennings and I are designing a two-day track titled Creating a New Era of Corporate Learning. Online Educa has grown to become the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate and public service sectors in education and training. Berlin is beautiful in early December. You should think about joining us! Content How to put social learning into practice. Learning no longer means just ‘training’; learning means problem solving,…

  • Power of informal learning in developing managers

    Jay Cross
    20 Oct 2009 | 11:46 pm
    Here’s a six-year old article on informal learning I discovered while Googling for material on learning transfer. If you’re still relying on formal training to develop managers, you might want to give this one a read. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency Michael D. Enos, Marijke Thamm Kehrhahn, Alexandra Bell HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY, vol. 14, no. 4, Winter 2003 Formal training occurs in the absence of action; learners are removed from the day-to-day work to engage in lectures, discussions, simulations, role plays, and other…

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    Jay Cross
    17 Oct 2009 | 4:40 pm
    Alltop. Just click it. It’s easy to roll your own.
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  • Online Learning Tool?: Next wave may sweep all aside - Adam Turner, the Age

    Ray
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:10 pm
    Every now and then, someone develops a new way of thinking about an old problem. Email has become so bogged down with spam and other problems that for many people it's all but useless. Attempts to make email more secure have struggled to make headway because the email system was never designed with such things in mind. The boffins at Google — well, actually Lars and Jens Rasmussen, who brought us Google Maps — asked "What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?" Their answer is Google Wave, a free service that has the potential to change the face of the internet.

  • Scotland Flu outbreak pupils to net online learning classes - Edingburgh Evening News

    Ray
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:05 pm
    School pupils are expected to turn to online learning this winter if the swine flu pandemic intensifies as predicted. Heriot-Watt University's online programme Scholar, which helps Scottish pupils studying for Highers and Advanced Highers, is already gearing up to accept a much greater volume of hits. Professor Phillip John, Dean of Science and Engineering at Heriot-Watt and executive chair of the Scholar forum, said: "The Scholar team is aware of the Scottish Government planning exercises concerned with school closures.

  • Online Learning Fast Becoming a Valued Tool in Papuan Universities - Jakarta Globe

    Ray
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:01 pm
    Distant learning over the Internet that has been developed with the standardized competence-based curriculum, is contributing to improvements in education quality, especially in universities in Papua, an expert says. “E-learning, or online study, makes use of electronic technology that facilitates the students and instructors in communicating with each other in an atmosphere unencumbered by protocols like class schedules,” Suaib Halim, a professor of informatics technology, said in Jayapura on Monday. “However, the programs used in e-learning should be based on national education…

  • Most College Students To Take Classes Online by 2014 - David Nagel, Campus Technology

    Ray
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:11 pm
    Nearly 12 million post-secondary students in the United States take some or all of their classes online right now. But this number will skyrocket to more than 22 million in the next five years, according to data released recently by research firm Ambient Insight. According to Ambient Insight Chief Research Officer Sam S. Adkins, already some 1.25 million students in higher education programs take all of their classes online, while another 10.65 take some of their classes online. The two groups are still outnumbered by students who take all of their courses in physical classrooms, which…

  • Swine Flu School Closings Drive Students to Online Learning and Tutoring

    Ray
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:04 pm
    As concerns over the Swine Flu virus continue to mount across the country, an increasing number of schools may opt to take matters into their own hands, sending kids home to wait out what they perceive will be the peak of the flu pandemic. The U.S. Department of Education recommends that some districts, schools, and states have some of the resources and capabilities for the distribution of instructional content via the Internet. Moreover, it urges the provision of audio-visual learning supports that can be made available on the Internet using online learning and other Learning Management…
 
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  • Join the Flat Classroom Workshop in India, 2010

    Julie Lindsay
    1 Nov 2009 | 10:16 pm
    The next Flat Classroom Workshop will be held in Mumbai next February at the ASB Unplugged Conference. If you are interested in joining us, classrooms globally are invited to apply to bring students. Read the details on the Flat Classroom Conference wiki and then fill in the online Registration form. Deadline is November 15th for applications.Why should you bother to bring students and educators to a 'Flat Classroom Workshop?'The recent success at the Flat Classroom Workshop in Hong Kong, blogged about me here and here and by Kim Cofino here, shows how a project-based action workshop is…

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    31 Oct 2009 | 11:30 pm
    Google Wave Use Cases: Educationtags: google, googlewave, education, web2.0, acrossmydeskOpen Office 4 Kids is good for adults, tootags: opensource, workflow_software, education, acrossmydeskPrintable Tournament Brackets Single & Double Elimination & Office Pools"Welcome to PrintYourBrackets.com, we provide free printable single and double elimination tournament brackets for any sport, game, or activity up to 64 teams. The brackets are available for printing in both blind draw and seeded formats."tags: online, printing, elimination, teams, acrossmydeskTEDxEDU BeijingOrganised by Western…

  • It's Snowing in Beijing!

    Julie Lindsay
    31 Oct 2009 | 7:05 pm
    For those globally who cannot see this blog post with embedded Flickr.com pics, the pics above have been uploaded directly to blogger.Early this morning we discovered it was snowing here in Beijing! Three hours later it is still snowing! We have been outside and done the usual snowball and snowman (sort of) fun, but now, while shoes and clothes are drying off we are watching from inside our warm house as the snow falls, the ground gets whiter and some trees lose their branches under the weight of the snow. How exciting......we have never lived in a snow city before, and after years in the…

  • Reflection on Flat Classroom Workshop HK: Part 2

    Julie Lindsay
    31 Oct 2009 | 3:56 pm
    (This is the second part of a 2-part blog series on the Flat Classroom Workshop held in Hong Kong, September 2009)The Flat Classroom Workshop was held as a strand of the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong, September 2009.This blog post attempts to discuss the SIGNIFICANCE of what we did in HK and attempts to reflect on where we got to from here.Part 1 of the series described what we did at the workshop and shares multimedia.Flat Classroom co-founders Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis ran a very successful Flat Classroom Conference in Qatar in January 2009. A short video documentary…

  • The World is Open: or is it Flat?

    Julie Lindsay
    29 Oct 2009 | 5:50 am
    Our keynote speaker for the Flat Classroom Project 2009-3 is Curtis Bonk, author of 'The World is Open'. We are delighted that Flat Classroom Projects are featured in this book and doubly delighted that Curtis agreed to present the keynote this session.So here is: Curt Bonk's Flat Classrooms Keynote: The World is Open: Introducing the Heroes, Gurus, and Revolutionaries of the Shared InternetStudents around the world participating in the Flat Classroom Project this time have contributed their thoughts and questions on the keynote via the Ning discussion forumFrom Miller at WHS, "In this video,…
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  • Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence, and the Future of Education

    Kim Cofino
    11 Oct 2009 | 5:40 am
    Cross-posted on the K12Online Conference blog I could not be more honored to be the pre-conference keynote speaker for this year’s K12 Online conference! I have been participating in this annual conference since its inception in 2006 and every year I am amazed at the quality of presentations shared by educators around the world. The opportunity to learn together over the course of the conference (and beyond) is one of the most inspiring and engaging experiences of the year for me. Of course, this year’s lineup is no different! When I was asked to keynote this year’s event, I…

  • How To Connect Your Students Globally

    Kim Cofino
    4 Oct 2009 | 4:21 am
    Cross-posted on the TechLearning Advisors Blog Two weeks after returning from the Flat Classroom Workshop in Hong Kong, I am still inspired and energized about what learning could (and should) look like. The key component for me was connecting students, both face to face and virtually, from a variety of backgrounds to work together to solve a common problem. Although we might not have the luxury of bringing together diverse groups of students every day, we certainly have the capability to connect them using technology. No matter what subject you teach, I truly believe adding a global…

  • Reflections on the Flat Classroom Workshop

    Kim Cofino
    27 Sep 2009 | 5:42 am
    Last weekend I had the honor of co-leading the Flat Classroom Workshop (pictures here) with Julie Lindsay at the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong. I have to admit that although I knew it would be amazing after everything I had heard about the Flat Classroom Conference in Doha earlier this year, I had no idea just how amazing the whole experience would turn out to be! Workshop Structure The flat classroom workshop is a 2.5-day project-based learning experience for both students and teachers. We had about 30 high-school students and 10 teachers participating face-to-face, and about…

  • Workshop ‘Till You Drop

    Kim Cofino
    13 Sep 2009 | 3:18 am
    Once again, this school year is shaping up to be my busiest yet! (Seriously, how is it even possible to be any busier?) In addition to moving into a slightly new role and continuing to teach courses for our SUNY Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy, I’m also very excited to be involved in a number of EARCOS weekend workshops around the Asia region. All of these workshops are open for registration now and we would absolutely love to have participants from schools all over the region (and beyond!). We’re just starting to promote them (with the exception of…

  • Difficult Conversations

    Kim Cofino
    6 Sep 2009 | 12:23 am
    One of the things I’m enjoying most about being on our coaching team here at ISB is the opportunity to openly share our challenges so that we can all work together to improve our practice. This week we had our first book club meeting to discuss the first chapter of Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives edited by Jim Knight. To facilitate our conversation, we followed the Final Word protocol. Each of us selected a particular section of the text which stood out during our reading, and following the protocol process, discussed what was so important about that statement in a round-robin…
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  • A Decade of Global Learning

    Chris
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:27 am
    I was browsing through some old files this week and I stumbled across this wonderful piece of video that brought back some great memories for me.  It’s just over 10 years old and is an interview with a group of students I taught back then, just after they had been awarded third place in the 1998 AT&T Virtual Classroom Contest. The Virtual Classroom Contest, for anyone that remembers it, was an amazing web-based global collaboration project that linked kids from across the world together. Over 300 schools took part each year, forming 100 teams made up of three different schools that…

  • The Value of Thinking Out Loud

    Chris
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:01 pm
    At the recent ULearn Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, I was asked (along with many other educators, I hasten to add!) to be part of the EdTalks series. Naturally, I was thrilled to have been asked and readily agreed, although I must admit that in the flurry of preparation for ULearn I really didn’t think about it very much until I got to Christchurch.  Sitting in the foyer of the Chistchurch Conference Centre, quite by accident, I bumped into Matt Tippen, one of the brains behind EdTalks, who said “Oh, so you’re Chris Betcher. Are you ready to record your…

  • Finding New Things to do with an IWB

    Chris
    27 Oct 2009 | 7:34 pm
    The following post was originally written as a reponse to a thread about interactive whiteboards on the www.iwbrevolution.com Ning.  One of the thread participants there made a statement about needing to see IWBs used in new ways. I’m interested (read desperate) to see the revolutionary value adding aspects. I have an IWB, I love using my IWB, but I need to grasp the ideas and strategies that move people to describe it as a ‘revolution’ in learning. Show me an idea that is actually new!!! While I appreciate where he’s coming from, I think the question is somewhat…

  • Getting an Ad-Free Ning

    Chris
    25 Oct 2009 | 7:32 pm
    Quite a few teachers at our school are starting to see the advantages that a Ning community can offer.  We have been using Nings this year with several classes, and I’m finding them a really good, really easy way to get teachers interacting with technology in ways they might not have done otherwise.  Ning provides a visually rich, yet secure, environment for students to collaborate and socialise in, with a range of tools that are both useful and fun to use.  Because Ning offers many of the same kinds of tools that Facebook offers – discussion, video, pictures, chat –…

  • iPhone – A Garden of Pure Ideology?

    Chris
    17 Oct 2009 | 3:42 pm
    There are moments when I really like my iPhone, yet others that frustrate the heck out of me.  I finally got one a couple of months ago when my carrier, 3 Mobile, finally got the iPhone, long after nearly every other Australian mobile telco.  This surprised me, since 3 Mobile were the first carrier to bring 3G services to the Australian marketplace about 8 years ago, so I was expecting that when the iPhone 3G was released in Australia that 3 Mobile would be one of the first to carry it.  Not so. Until the iPhone, I was a relatively happy user of a Nokia N95 8Gb. As phones go, the N95 was a…
 
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    In the Middle of the Curve

  • First Google Wave Commentary

    Wendy
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:52 am
    Sound advice from the nice folks at Funny Eye for the Corporate GuyThe picture has nothing to do with the thoughts below - but with the way my past few weeks have been going, it's a good reminder.---------------------------------------------My current thoughts on Google Wave - A Wave needs to be focused focused focused. I am finding the broader waves become very disorganized and hard to follow very quickly.- Start small, then go larger. The small group can create the initial format. New members then have something to play off of. Like chat rooms, large groups can get unwieldy very quickly.-…

  • Working around the LMS

    Wendy
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:34 am
    I was at a local learning/technology conference yesterday and one of my peers (who I'll keep anonymous) did a great presentation on some short, just-in-time videos/screencasts that her department had done. I thought one of the most interesting points she made was that at this time, they aren't bothering to put them in their LMS, because they're just interested in people getting the training (which they want to make as easy as possible)... they aren't interested in tracking it.We have done some similar projects and we have taken the same approach... the LMS just takes too much time for people…

  • Question 5 - Tell me about your LMS!

    Wendy
    28 Oct 2009 | 7:21 am
    How did you organize your groups? By department? By job description? Other criteria?I'm looking for ideas for our folder structure. If we get the structure right, we can get the reports right...or so I hope.The current plan is for us to organize folks by department and by whether or not they are managers. There is also talk about organizing by job description. We plan to use our Enterprise system (Banner) to help automate this process.We are taking any and all ideas.If I get permission, I will share what we came up with on these pages a few months (I hope) from now.BTW - thank you so much for…

  • Question 4 - Tell me about your LMS!

    Wendy
    26 Oct 2009 | 7:20 am
    What reports in your LMS do you find most valuable?Just curious. Again, please leave comments.

  • Keeping Momentum

    Wendy
    23 Oct 2009 | 5:30 am
    Sally (not her real name) is one of our stakeholders. She comes from another training group that happens to have the ear of the Executive VP. Since my last discussion with my Control freak, she has let herself be co-opted into our developing administrative group for this LMS. Much to the dismay of the control freak, I've given her administrative access too. So now, there are 3 of us.Hooray!-----------------------Our stakeholders meetings have bogged down. This has made us a bit concerned. Sally contacted me the other day:I really don't want to lose momentum. How can we get this out to the…
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  • eLearning Workshops

    5 Nov 2009 | 1:57 pm
    ITS-Educational Technology has developed an eLearning workshop to assist faculty with creating an online presence for their face-to-face courses. This online presence would be used to allow continuation of course work during an emergency situation where the campus may be quarantined or closed. During this session participants will need to bring their course materials (such as a syllabus, PowerPoint presentations, handouts) and will receive hands-on instruction on how to place those materials into an eLearning course. The goal of the workshop will be for each faculty member to leave the…

  • Faculty eLearning Survey

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:03 am
    Only 4 days remain for UNI faculty to complete the eLearning utilization survey. Take ten minutes of your time and assist educational technology support staff with measuring the effectiveness of the University’s learning management system. The survey is available through midnight Sunday in MyUNIverse and will provide useful information for improving students’ online learning experience, making vendor/product selections and budgetary decisions.

  • Grad College Brown Bag Lecture

    3 Nov 2009 | 7:17 am
    J. Ana Donaldson, associate professor of instructional technology, will present "Effectively Moving Courses Online: Get On the Bus or Be Left in the Dust," at noon, Wednesday, Nov. 11, in MSH 001. This presentation will provide faculty with guidelines for moving their courses online, with special focus on creating online communities using the Phases of Engagement Model (Conrad and Donaldson, 2004). Overviews of online rigor and instructor survival skills will be included and links to additional resources will be provided. Participant discussion and questions will be encouraged. Cookies and…

  • ITS-ET Brown Bag Lunch

    3 Nov 2009 | 7:05 am
    Attend "Technology in Large Enrollment Classes" from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11, in StudioIT 134 in the ITTC. Deb Giarusso and Lea Ann Shaddox will discuss technologies that can be used to help manage large lecture classrooms. Technologies discussed will include UNI eLearning (WebCT) and Classroom Capture. Bring your lunch.

  • eLearning System Maintenance

    30 Oct 2009 | 11:19 am
    The eLearning system will be shutdown beginning at 6:00 AM on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 for application server maintenance. Maintenance will be completed and service restored by 7:00 AM. The Blackboard/WebCT learning management and electronic portfolio applications will not be available during this period. This maintenance is necessary to apply patches to the application server operating system.
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  • Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - Individual Membership is now Free

    1 Nov 2009 | 5:53 pm
    Thanks to major funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Grant #H327D090001 and support of private donors, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic ® (RFB&D®) Individual Membership is now free to individuals with proper certification*. Member benefits include: FREE access to the nation's largest audiobook library of textbooks and literature titlesHuman-narrated audiobooks with descriptions of images, tables and graphsEasy-to-use online catalog24/7 online member services and phone supportVarious audiobook downloadable formats, including DAISY and…

  • Recording of Technology Supports for Writing Webinar is Now Available

    30 Oct 2009 | 8:10 am
    This past Wednesday, Joan Green and I held a webinar on technology supports for writing which was based on our new eBook, "Technology Supports for Writing" which we recently released. The 51 page eBook which is accessible with Adobe Acrobat Reader includes a great compilation of resources for anyone who needs to support students in the area of writing. Included in the ebook iare over 12 videos that are embedded that let you actually see how the software works. You can view the videos in full screen and get a sense first hand if you think that the program may have application for the students…

  • MindGenius 3 Released!

    24 Oct 2009 | 1:38 pm
    No sooner then I do a review of MindGenius 2.5, I find out that MindGenius Ldt., has just released MindGenius 3. When you first open MindGenius 3 you will see an who new look, complete with the adoption of the Fluid Ribbon Interface. MindGenius 3.0 is much more visually appealing to use but you should feel right at home with the common interface structure. MindGenius 3 kept many of the same conventions as in their previous version such as the Map Explorer and the Picture Gallery Viewer. MindGenius 3 has a clean and inviting look summoning you to jump in and use the program. If you are…

  • Today's Webspiration Training

    23 Oct 2009 | 12:03 pm
    Today I was called into a Middle School to do some training with teachers on Inspiration to help support a student with writing and reading comprehension difficulties. Last year I had done a comprehensive assistive technology evaluation and had made the recommendation to the Child Study Team that the student would benefit greatly from using Inspiration on a computer as a pre-writing strategy and to help him to better understand and retain information. When I went into the school today I decided to take a little different tact and worked with the teachers on getting them comfortable with…

  • Glance to the Rescue

    22 Oct 2009 | 6:43 pm
    While I have used Glance in the past to do webinars and to do screen sharing, I have never had the opportunity until yesterday to use it to remotely control someone's computer. One of my students called me on my cell phone and shared with me that she was having trouble doing APA formatting in Microsoft Word. I suggested that we do a session using Glance and that I would take control of her computer. I quickly shot off an email with the log-on link to her colelege email address and within seconds we were up and running. I was able to take control of her PC and show her how to use the Reference…
 
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  • Embracing Elearning: CIASTD Keynote

    Kristen
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:13 pm
    I had the chance today to take part in the Fall Conference of Central Indiana Chapter of ASTD. It was a fabulous event, and we were lucky to have David Anderson, Community Manager of Articulate, as the keynote. I took some notes and I thought this might be a good chance to share. Two fun facts: David can do some impressive work in Second Life.  He recreated the conference room in SL before the start of the 8:30 am keynote. He also has three pets: chickens. The chickens have their own blog. (I couldn’t find the chickens’  blog, but I did locate David’s take on Multimedia…

  • When you need to Tell not Teach–the eMag

    Leanne
    29 Oct 2009 | 1:18 pm
    How often do you find yourself with a request for “training” that is really more about sharing information? The ultimate goal isn’t training learners to DO anything; it’s about building awareness, providing details, or just communicating a message. Sometimes “Telling” is the goal, not “Teaching” and, believe me, both are needed and helpful, if packaged effectively. My colleagues and I have been thinking about the best way to “Tell” and we’ve developed a prototype of an eMagazine, or eMag, as an alternative to page-turner…

  • Using Competencies to Drive Performance

    Leanne.D
    26 Oct 2009 | 8:41 pm
    The bad news is that competency modeling is a time consuming endeavor – as a HR Director once said, “It always takes too long”. The good news is that once you’ve completed the research and developed the model you can leverage the data to improve performance in three ways. 1.    Recruiting: Good performance starts with the right hire. I think this is the most frequently ignored opportunity for applying well crafted competency models. Too often recruiters are working from a job description that hasn’t been updated for five years. Or, the candidate screening process is driven by a…

  • BLP Presentations at Annual CIASTD Conference

    Jennifer
    22 Oct 2009 | 8:50 am
    We’ll be presenting two breakout sessions at this year’s annual CIASTD conference. If you’re in the Indy area, I encourage you to register for the conference and plan on meeting us there! The sessions we’re presenting are: Better, Faster, Smarter: Using templates and management techniques to efficiently design and develop e-learning Tired of e-learning projects that take too long to design and develop? Feel like you’re reinventing the wheel each time you create a new course? Need help managing the expectations of subject-matter experts as well as course programmers…

  • Analyzing and Driving Performance - What Not to Do

    Jennifer
    20 Oct 2009 | 10:47 am
    As we focus on analyzing and driving performance this month, I thought I’d start a list: How to Ensure Your Bottom-Line Doesn’t Improve In other words, what shouldn’t we do when analyzing performance or choosing performance interventions? 1. Rely on self-reporting to determine needs. While self-reporting can be valid and should always be a consideration, the higher risk the topic, the less we should rely on it to make conclusions about the needs of our learners. For example, self-reporting “Do you like chocolate?” = reliable. Self-reporting “Did you eat a…
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  • Crap...! It's 3 o'clock in the morning...Somebody's in the house.

    mel
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:35 pm
       http://www.flickr.com/photos/grimages/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (Note: This qualifies as one of my occasional off-topic posts.) This is a true story... for some inexplicable reason, I faded awake at about 3:00 this morning. As I was dozing back to sleep, the sudden reflection of light caught my attention. I opened my eyes and could see light reflecting off the part of the wall along the top floor landing that I could see from bed. It took me a couple of seconds to realize that it wasn't reflecting from somewhere outside. Rather, I recognized it as light from the floor lamp in…

  • Free Social Media Listening Tools You Should Use. Part 2 - Search Results In RSS

    mel
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:19 pm
    Okay, if you weren't already optimizing your efficiency before with an RSS reader, then you should be now. That is, assuming you read--and followed--the instructions in my post yesterday about RSS. At the end of that post, I promised to show you how to automate your searches by adding keyword search results to your RSS.First Things FirstYou need an RSS feed reader set up. If this isn't the case, do so now. Read yesterday's post to find out how.  (Uh, no.  I wasn't trying for a rhyme just then.  It's one of those things.)Now that you have an RSS feed…

  • Free Social Media Listening Tools You Should Use. Part 1 - RSS

    mel
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:47 pm
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/cindy47452/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In my post a few days ago about Monitoring the Conversation, I mentioned the importance of Listening and promised my ASTD-OC friends that I'd post an article about some of the free automation tools I use to help me listen to online conversations. And it's here in the automation discussion that a related question sometimes comes up about whether or not it's ever a good idea to use bots or automation engines when engaging others in the social web. In a nutshell, yes. I said as much in an article I wrote this…

  • Nice Finds From the Week of October 25 to 31, 2009

    mel
    1 Nov 2009 | 11:39 am
    Here's my list of "nice finds" from last week.o Google Social Search. From Google Labs, this is an experimental feature that allows you to refine your search results to filter relevant public content from those in your social circle. o Pandora sharing and gifting integration. Last week TechCrunch reported on Pandora's move to open its music box up a bit more to social sharing. Now, you can not only listen to music according to what it learns about your musical preferences across 400 distinct musical characteristics, but now you can also share some of those results with…

  • Monitoring the Conversation

    mel
    27 Oct 2009 | 9:11 pm
    Yesterday, I summarized the Hubs-and-Spokes framework from Chapter 3 of The Social Media Report. Hubs-and-Spokes is a metaphor I used in our book to help think about the way we can share our values, interests, expertise and passions with those we establish relationships in other social networks. Part of that model showed blue bubbles as placeholders for activities related to listening.In Chapter 4, I talked about the importance of Monitoring the Conversation. As your relationships continue to grow, and the information you share through your blog resonates with more people--positively or…
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  • A challenge to the multitask assumption

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:58 am
    A few weeks ago I wrote on the Onlignment blog about The multitask assumption. By this I meant the assumption you can safely make with any webinar that a good proportion of the audience is multitasking - you know, checking emails, answering the phone, listening to music, finishing off a report, and so on. Well, on the basis of recent research, I think it's fair to challenge that assumption. Your webinar audience might think that they're multitasking, but they're not. Humans can't multitask, they can only switch from task to task, and they do this relatively poorly.Yes we can multitask as long…

  • The Big Question: How should presenters address multitasking?

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:58 am
    I’m just in time to tackle this month’s Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog. The question was prompted to some extent by my post Multitasking is now every presenter’s problem, in which I put forward the notion that it wasn’t just webinar presenters who had to deal with their audience multitasking, this was now rife at face-to-face events as well.There were some great responses to the Big Question – I particularly liked the concept of Binge Thinking suggested by Ken Allen. I’m not going to rework the arguments here, but I would like to clarify my own thoughts and…

  • The case against multi-tasking is building

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:58 am
    An article, The Myth of Multitasking, in this month’s Management Today magazine, adds to the backlash against the frenetic task switching that has become so common in the past few years, as more and more communication channels open up alongside new mobile technologies. See my posts A challenge to the multitasking assumption and The Big Question: How should presenters address multitasking? The article collects some fascinating opinions and data. Here are a few quotes to whet your appetite: "Multi-tasking might look impressive, but it's often just a muddle-headed displacement…

  • Digital learning content does not have to mean CBT

    3 Nov 2009 | 8:02 am
    I am becoming increasingly aware of the the need to make clear a distinction between the broad concept of digital learning content, in all its many varieties, and the much narrower idea of interactive tutorials of the traditional CBT (computer-based training) variety. In the former category I'd put the following: how-to guides slide shows, with or without narration podcasts videos software demos quizzes polls learning games visual aids I'd say that every l&d professional should have at least a basic level of competence in the design and development of digital learning content, at least…

  • The 21st century LMS

    27 Oct 2009 | 4:22 am
    On 25th September, the eLearning Network held their Next Generation Learning Management event. A cross-section of eLN members, private and public sector users, LMS and content vendors as well as consultants and others attended. All participants took part in an activity to identify what was required in an LMS that was fit for the 21st Century. The activity was carried out in World Cafe style, and the subject was covered from the perspective of learners, businesses, L&D departments and IT. The output of that activity is now available for download. The document is available on a Creative…
 
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    Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

  • The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

    Brent Schlenker
    1 Nov 2009 | 8:27 pm
    http://completewaveguide.com/Sent from my iPhoneDevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, CA

  • Preparing for DevLearn09 - Part 4 - FREE Consulting

    Brent Schlenker
    21 Oct 2009 | 12:54 pm
    ...or as we like to call it, DEMOFEST!  Getting feedback is critical to the success of any project.  So why not get over 1000 eLearning pros to review your latest project and give you the BEST feedback?  Sharing your work and learning from your peers is what DEMOFEST is all about.  No prizes.  No contest.  No fear of failure.  Its just you and your peers talking shop about YOUR project.  I can't think of any better feedback mechanism than this opportunity at DevLearn.  So, if you're registered or plan on registering then you should also dig up your latest project and fill out the…

  • Preparing for DevLearn - Part 3 - Don't forget!

    Brent Schlenker
    20 Oct 2009 | 11:57 am
    Don't forget!  Since we're in learning its important to start applying those memory strategies so YOU don't forget the important things for DevLearn.  Besides comfortable shoes, pants, etc, you should dress for chilly conference rooms.  And don't forget to get your dry-cleaning before you leave.  FEDEx got my Guild shirts too me just in the nick of time last year ;-) The most important thing is to clear your mind, and come prepared to ENGAGE!  This isn't a "sit around and listen" crowd.  So, be prepared to think, connect, play, and LEARN.Image Capture Device:…

  • Preparing for DevLearn - Part 2 - Get Social

    Brent Schlenker
    9 Oct 2009 | 4:04 pm
    In Part 1 of this little series we learned how important it is to get registered for the entire week of activities in order to get the most bang for your corporate buck:  Adobe Learning Summit on Monday, Certificate Programs on Tuesday, and DevLearn09 Wed-Fri.  In case you are just now realizing that you forgot to register, here is the link again. REGISTER NOW!Step 2: Join the Scene - Get SocialThe PEOPLE are the BEST thing about DevLearn...ALL the people.  Not just the keynotes, and other speakers, but YOU, the attendee, and over 1000 of your eLearning colleagues.  Instead of waiting…

  • Preparing for DevLearn09 - Part 1

    Brent Schlenker
    8 Oct 2009 | 9:57 am
    DevLearn09 (aka DL|09) is a little over 4 wks away.  Time is just flying by and the event will do the same if you are not prepared.  I've been to many events over the years, and one thing I've found is that the best experiences are well planned...with flexibility.  We've worked hard all year to program a crazy busy event with amazing speakers and awesome F2F networking and learning opportunities.  However, we can only do so much and then its up to you.  You must take control of your event experience.  That's what I hope my blog posts can help you do in the coming…
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  • UK diary #2 – Terry Freedman

    derek.wenmoth
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:38 pm
    I’ve just returned from a very enjoyable evening out with Terry Freedman (next to me) and his wife Elaine (far left) – along with my colleagues Ali Hughes and Richard Millwood from CORE. Terry and I have been corresponding for a few years now after connecting through our blogs (BTW Terry’s new blog is looking impressive!) Our meeting reminded me of the content of the research reported in my previous blog on social isolation and new technology, illustrating how, at least for me, the internet has provided an opportunity to extend my social network in ways I couldn’t have…

  • Social Isolation and New Technology

    derek.wenmoth
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:59 am
    Interesting report just out from PEW Internet – adding new perspectives on how the internet is affecting the development of relationships and social interaction. A widely-reported 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated, the size of their discussion networks has declined, and the diversity of those people with whom they discuss important matters has decreased. In particular, the study found that Americans have fewer close ties to those from their neighborhoods and from voluntary associations. This Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey…

  • The complete guide to Google Wave

    derek.wenmoth
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    I love the level of immediacy the internet enables! I’ve only just received my invitation to establish a Google Wave account (I know – a late comer compared with the real enthusiasts) and have yet to really explore what it offers – but here’s something that will really help I’m sure – a complete guide to Google Wave, an unofficial guide written by a community of contributors and edited by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. The entire volume is available to view online, and is being considered a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows…

  • UK update #1 – computers in exams

    derek.wenmoth
    3 Nov 2009 | 2:33 pm
    I’ve arrived safely in the UK and have been busy attending meetings with a range of people from different education agencies and in schools. A hot topic of discussion has been around achievement standards and how we measure student progress in schools. With that in mind, this morning I watched an intriguing piece on BBC TV discussing a project involving 14 colleges in Denmark that are piloting a new system of exams where students are allowed full access to the internet during their final exams. According to the article, in the exam, students can access any site they like, even Facebook,…

  • 20 years of tomorrow’s schools

    derek.wenmoth
    1 Nov 2009 | 7:24 am
    Last night I had the privilege of attending an event hosted by Cognition-Multiserv who are celebrating their 20 year anniversary as a company. Multiserv was established back in 1989 when Tomorrow’s Schools was implemented, and later set up Cognition Consulting to undertake work directly in schools here in NZ and internationally. To mark the 20 year anniversary, Cognition engaged several NZ educators to contribute a chapter each to a book that they launched at their dinner. The book, titled Tomorrow’s Schools 20 Years On, provides some useful insights into the successes and…
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  • INSET days – 7 reasons to scrap them

    Donald Clark
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:38 am
    Parents get pretty annoyed every time an ‘INSET’ day comes along. What other organisation simply closes shop and refuses to deal with all of its customers or clients five days a year? Imagine phoning up the school and saying, ‘Listen, my work is having a training evening next week, could you look after my kid for me, until I get home?’ Here’s seven reasons to scrap them: Organisations don’t throw customers out of the door for an entire day of trainingExtra cost/load on parents in terms of childcare is significantKids lose about a week of schooling a yearNo convincing research…

  • Gardner's 'Multiple Intelligences' seductive nonsense?

    Donald Clark
    1 Nov 2009 | 3:11 pm
    In Gardner’s 2003 paper in the American Educational Research Association, Multiple Intelligences after Twenty Years, he states, “I have come to realize that once one releases an idea – “meme” – into the world, one cannot completely control its behaviour – anymore than one can control those products of our genes we call children.” Absolutely. One of the problems with Gardner’s ‘Multiple Intelligences’ was its seductiveness. A teacher could simply say, everyone’s smart, we’re all just smart in different ways. There’s a truth in this, in terms of a narrowly academic…

  • BBC Bitesize - stupid, lazy GCSE questions

    Donald Clark
    29 Oct 2009 | 1:13 pm
    English GCSE RevisionTo Kill A MockingbirdHow were black people were treated in 1930s America?a) Treated like everyone elseb) Treated extremely badlyc) Treated for dry rot and rising dampWhat halfwit came up with this question and its dumb-assed third option? In what way is this really testing 15 year old GCSE students? It simply reduces the questions to a 50:50 chance of getting them right.Here's another...Why are we told about Jem's broken arm at the start of the novel when the attack does not occur until the end?a) To make us feel sorry for Jem.b) To create suspense.c) So that we know what…

  • Piaget – why teach this stuff?

    Donald Clark
    24 Oct 2009 | 9:30 am
    Asked my niece, who’s doing teacher training (B Ed), what she’s getting in psychology and the first name that comes up is ‘Piaget’. My heart sinks as there’s almost nothing left of his theories that is remotely useful to a new teacher. His four-stage theory of child development has been so completely wiped out by subsequent studies, that there’s nothing left. It’s merely an exercise in the history of science. What’s shocking is the way he’s still revered and taught in such courses. It’s like teaching Lamarck, not Darwin. Famous four-stages demolished His famous four stage…

  • Future is free

    Donald Clark
    23 Oct 2009 | 6:03 am
    Reading Chris Anderson’s book FREE – The Future of a Radical Price, makes one think that these powerful principles could be applied in education and training. Phase 1 – Free knowledge In fact, it already has. In 1991 the encyclopedia industry was worth an astonishing $1.2 billion, Britannica being the market leader with sales of $650 million. In 1993, Encarta was launched for $99 and in the same year Britannica laid off its door-to-door sales force. Within 3 years Britannica had dropped to $300 million and the overall encyclopedia market had shrunk to $600 million, of which Encarta had…
 
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  • Ross Mayfield and Robert Scoble talk about Socialtext and Enterprise 2.0 (via SocialText)

    mark oehlert
    30 Oct 2009 | 4:43 pm

  • Lessons from Leonsis - Not the Tech but the Culture

    mark oehlert
    28 Oct 2009 | 11:20 am
    Ted Leonsis, for those who don't know, is a guy who made big bucks at AOL and is now owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team (CAPS Let's Go CAPS!) Ted also writes his own blog -really he does - and recently he posted this piece. In this post, Ted (yes, I call him Ted) asks if it ever does any good to blame the media for your troubles. He concludes that it isn't. He talks a lot about what he thinks you should be doing if you're in a position to need to control your image in the media and while that's helpful - I really like the article for what its not explicitly…

  • Come be a Camp Counselor at Social Learning Camp

    mark oehlert
    26 Oct 2009 | 11:54 am
    So I totally forgot about this yesterday! I am doing this Social Learning Camp at DevLearn 2009. OK. So, developing the materials for it here, yadda yadda. Anyway, we are going to be running quick (40 min) sessions throughout the conference on a bunch of different topics (you can see the schedule at the link above). We also have some real superstars coming through like Jay Cross, Koreen Olbrish, Mark Sylvester, Robin Paoli and Aaron Silvers - to talk about a range of Social Learning topics. Here is the kicker though - I can talk believe me - those of you that know me, know I am not kidding.

  • ACME - Augmented Collaboration in Mixed Environments (wicked cool)

    mark oehlert
    25 Oct 2009 | 5:33 pm
    OK..so as you watch the video, imagine this smoothed out with telepresence-like fidelity. 

  • Social Networking Trends: ABC News

    mark oehlert
    25 Oct 2009 | 5:27 pm
    Social Networking Trends. ABC News interviews rep from Pew Internet Project. 
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  • eLearning Guild Authoring & Development Tools Research Report (2008)

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:16 am
    After my session at ISPI earlier this week, someone commented that what would have really been useful is a list of the top 10 authoring tools in the market.  During my presentation, I flashed up on the screen a list of the 122+ tools listed in the Brandon Hall database.  It was meant to be a bit tongue and cheek (breaking all rules for text font sizes!), just to show how big and overwhelming the marketplace really is. Then I went on to show about 12 tools in more detail – some of which would probably make it onto a top ten list (Flash, Captivate,  Articulate, and Lectora) –…

  • e-Learning Authoring Tools Crash Course -- Follow Up

    4 Nov 2009 | 10:05 am
    I had the great pleasure of speaking last night at the Massachusetts chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI).It was a lively conversation and a wonderful opportunity for me to meet some of my online colleagues from the twitter sphere (thanks for coming, y'all!) as well as connect with some new folks in the Boston e-learning community. Special thanks to Jean Marrapodi for inviting me to present.___________My topic: e-Learning Authoring Tools Crash Course: Deciding What Authoring Tools to Use and WhenIn preparation for the session, I had to take a crash course in…

  • Kineo e-Learning Development Survey

    2 Nov 2009 | 7:32 am
    We have already gotten over 100 responses to our survey. Take a few minutes to answer a few questions about e-learning development at your organization and you'll get a free Articulate skin! We'll be analyzing your responses over the coming weeks and let you know what trends and patterns we find.

  • Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios

    30 Oct 2009 | 9:22 am
    Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? You might find the right guy to play the role of the client in your story, but there’s only three shots of him and he looks like a goofball in one of them. So then do you go do a custom photo shoot? Maybe you have the time or the budget. But usually not. eLearning Art to the rescue! eLearning Art provides royalty free stock photos, images, and other assets to help you create some cool stuff in your own authoring tools. Character packs include models in up to 75 poses, giving you lots of choices. They are…

  • Kineo Audio Interview with Ellen Wagner "The Evolution of the LMS"

    27 Oct 2009 | 9:51 am
    I love my job. I get to talk to really interesting people in the eLearning community and then share it with all of you. Is it work if it's fun?Last week I got the chance to chat with Ellen Wagner about the eLearning Guild's LMS 2009 Report: The Evolution of the LMS: From Management to Learning. The big story? The growing impact of Moodle and open source on the maturing LMS market.Listen to my audio interview with Ellen Wagner over at the Kineo website.You may already know Ellen from her blog: eLearning Roadtrip. If not, I suggest you join her on her journey.
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  • Social and Semantic Web

    Clark
    4 Nov 2009 | 6:49 am
    Yesterday I attended the Social Web incubator Bar Camp of the W3C, focusing on issues in web support for social media.  It was a small group, overall, but an interesting group, including folks keen on issues like technical underpinnings (discussion of FOAF, RDF, etc), and folks with an interest in more applied topics like enterprise, health, and journalism. The issue on the table is what sorts of standards might be necessary or desirable to support social networking on the web in interoperable ways.  One statement that resonated was a comparison between the social web and social networks as…

  • Extremophiles & Organizational Agility

    Clark
    30 Oct 2009 | 11:29 am
    A number of years ago, I co-wrote a chapter with Eileen Clegg called The Agility Factor, that appeared in Marcia Conner & James Clawson’s excellent collection of organizational culture articles in the book Creating a Learning Culture. The focus of the book was on empowering organizations to be nimble in a context of increasing change. Eileen’s husband is a marine scientist studying deep sea vents and the creatures that live there.  In biology, organisms that can live in such extreme heat, or in bitter cold, or extreme salinity, etc., are known as extremophiles.  They have a…

  • Presenting in a networked age

    Clark
    30 Oct 2009 | 7:01 am
    The Learning Circuit’s Big Question this month has to do with the increasing prevalence of internet access during presentations.  The context is that during presentations it’s certainly possible that your audience is multi-tasking, and the question is; what are the implications?  In live presentations, the increasing prevalence of wi-fi or phone data means laptops and/or smartphones can be online, and in virtual ones there’s typically a number of other applications available at the same time. The audience can be doing things related to the presentation, like live-blogging…

  • Teacher preparation, and more

    Clark
    29 Oct 2009 | 10:02 am
    Karl Kapp wrote a post about Bill Gates’ latest move via the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.  In it, he notes the complexities that these announcements overlook.  Echoing his sentiments, I wrote a rather long comment that I decided to reproduce here (with some context in [square brackets]): Karl, this article backs up the point about the problems of a one-dimensional focus for incentives [cf teacher bonuses for test scores]. I’d suggest, that, worse, test scores aren’t measuring the important skills (cf Jonassen on relation between school problems and real world…

  • Mobile Learning

    Clark
    26 Oct 2009 | 8:01 am
    In addition to speaking on mobile design with David Metcal at the Mobile Learning Jam at DevLearn, and with Richard Clark on pragmatic mobile development, I’ve got a contract with Pfeiffer for a mobile learning book.  Yep, I’m writing another book.  Flat learning curve, eh? Seriously, I’m excited about the opportunity, because I’ve been on the stump for mobile for years, and think the market is right for mobile to finally contribute to organizational performance like I’ve believed since I wrote an article on the topic back in 2001.  Consequently, I’m…
 
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  • What I've Been Up To: Some Social Media Training Resources

    Michele Martin
    16 Oct 2009 | 4:19 am
    For the past few months, I've definitely been blogging less, in part because I've been doing training on social media for several clients. I thought it made sense to share some of what I've been working on, so here are some links. They owe much to the  WeAreMedia curriculum developed by the ever-wonderful Beth Kanter and the folks at NTEN. Introduction to Social Media--This webinar and wiki resource page gives an overview of key social media tools and how they are being used in workforce development and with young people, especially around school and careers. Creating a Social Media…

  • Borrowing from the Library to Support Workplace Learning

    Michele Martin
    1 Oct 2009 | 1:25 am
    Joyce Valenza is a librarian rockstar who also happens to be the head librarian at my daughter's high school. A recent post she wrote for the School Library Journal on strategies for teaching and using social media showed up in my Twitter feed the other day. It turns out there are were some cool ideas in it that I think would translate well to workplace learning. A couple of that jumped out at me. . . Moving Beyond One Trick Single Search Students aren't the only ones who need to use search engines to get their work done. Most cubicle dwellers these days need to sharpen their search skills…

  • It's Not the Tool That's Boring. It's You.

    Michele Martin
    28 Sep 2009 | 2:30 pm
    Great post from Sarah Horrigan on a training she did with University staff on using virtual learning environments (VLE's).  Apparently there were complaints prior to the session about VLEs being "boring," that Sarah decided to face head on, pointing out that it's not the VLE that's boring. It's what instructors do with it. I asked, 'How many of you put your lecture PowerPoints in the VLE?'. Lots of hands. 'How many of you provide anything more than your lecture notes? Anyone put any additional activities in there?'... no hands. I asked them what that might feel like for their students. Was…

  • Augmented Reality and the Future of Learning & Work

    Michele Martin
    22 Sep 2009 | 6:05 am
    A few weeks ago I was doing a social media training and a couple of participants started talking to me about "augmented reality" and how it was going to change learning and work. I'd never heard of the concept and actually had a hard time picturing what they meant, so I tucked it away as something to explore further when I had more time. Now, via this article from Jeremiah Owyang, I see why they were so excited. What Is Augmented Reality? The best definition I could find for augmented reality is that it's  "a combination of the real scene viewed by the user and a virtual scene generated by…

  • An "Admirable Use" Policy

    Michele Martin
    21 Sep 2009 | 6:46 am
    Will Richardson has an excellent post, Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do, Do, in which he muses on "acceptable use" policies of social media in schools and how restrictive and anti-learning they can be. Having spent the past several months working with clients on integrating social media into their organizations, this post really resonated with me. I'm finding that while a few places embrace social media as an exciting opportunity, many more are worried about defining and restricting every possible misuse of social media they can imagine. And I have to say that I'm consistently amazed at how…
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  • Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning

    Tony Karrer
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:55 am
    I've received various forms of the same question from different people over the past few years. The basic question is:How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?Which provides us this month's big question:Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning?Let me provide some flavor for this question straight from someone who asked me about this:My coworkers are Baby Boomers and Traditionals. When I mention blogs or any social networking they "poo-poo" me and say our workers should not use those tools because it will make them inefficient and not do…

  • New Presenter and Learner Methods and Skills

    Tony Karrer
    1 Oct 2009 | 8:06 am
    In response to my recent post Narrowing Gap between Face-to-Face and Online Presentations, the comments were really fantastic, but got the discussion going in a different direction - and it is clear that a comment box is way too small for this discussion.Both your face-to-face and your online audience is likely multitasking. They might be participating in chat / backchannel. They might be blogging. They might be taking notes. They might be checking and responding to email. They might be figuring out where to go to dinner.Clive Shepherd captured the problem as Multitasking is now every…

  • Working with Subject Matter Experts

    Tony Karrer
    1 Sep 2009 | 1:23 pm
    I want to thank Jeff Goldman - Minute Bio for his great response last month. He suggested that we focus the Big Question on specific issues and then suggested four questions.So, let's start with his first suggestion:Working effectively with subject matter expertsThere's a lot to this topic, and certainly it's an on-going challenge. Some specific questions that are raised in this area:What should all IDs know about working with a SME?What can you and can't you expect a SME to do?Does it work to have SMEs create rapid eLearning?How does social and informal learning impact how you engage with…

  • Feedback on the Big Question?

    Tony Karrer
    2 Aug 2009 | 7:16 am
    We are coming up on three years since the first Big Question - Should all Learning Professionals Blog? That's still a great topic and the content you can find there is pretty interesting. I still personally believe that blogging is a great self-directed learning tool. Ah, but I digress.I normally don't do a Big Question in August. This year, I'm just going to do something a little bit different.The goals of the Big Question are:Get different perspectives on topics that are of interest to workplace learning professionalsProvide input to Learning Circuits, T&D and other parts of ASTD on…

  • New Skills for Learning Professionals

    Tony Karrer
    1 Jul 2009 | 1:00 am
    This month's big question comes out of a discussion that I've been having in various forms over the past few years. In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?New Skills and Knowledge for Learning Professionals?I know that there's already quite a bit out there on this topic, so please point us to existing information on the topic.How to Respond:Option 1 - Put your thoughts in a comment below. Likely there can be some…
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  • Warmth and Competence. How our Learners Perceive...

    Will Thalheimer
    16 Oct 2009 | 1:05 pm
    If social cognition comes down to just two dimensions, Warmth and Competence, might our learners also rely on these two categories in deciding how much to engage in our learning interventions? AND, if so, do we need to ensure that all our learning events exude both warmth and competence?I got thinking about this while reading a review of Susan Fiske's keynote for the Association for Psychological Sciences. Susan Fiske, who was awarded the 2009 William James Fellow Award, is one of the world's leading social psychologists, often working with Shelley E. Taylor. As Jesse Erwin's…

  • Don't be such an Instructional Designer: Can we Communicate Better?

    Will Thalheimer
    16 Oct 2009 | 7:08 am
    Randy Olson has written a book to help scientists communicate better. He argues that scientists need to do a number of things to better connect with their audience--especially their lay audience (their non-scientific audience). That they need to take their complicated information and make it understandable to real people. Isn't that what we do as instructional designers? Yes, so maybe we have something to learn from his messages. You can check out a radio interview below. You can check out a blurb from his book below (scroll down when you get there).

  • Learning Styles Challenge -- Three-Year Update

    Will Thalheimer
    30 Sep 2009 | 6:45 am
    It has been over three years since I offered $1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate that utilizing learning styles improved learning outcomes. Click here for the original challenge. So far, no one has even come close. For all the talk about learning styles over the last 15 years, we might expect that I was at risk of quickly losing my money. Let me be clear, my argument is not that people don't have different learning styles, learning preferences, or learning skills. My argument is that for real-world instructional-development situations, learning styles is an ineffective and inefficient…

  • New Fonts Coming to the Web...

    Will Thalheimer
    14 Jul 2009 | 2:02 pm
    This article in Slate suggests that new fonts are coming to the web.This opens up new territory for web designers and perhaps e-learning designers as well. Many e-learning designers think of web design as the default design for e-learning. Maybe the new web will usher in a new era of e-learning design as well.One thing to watch out for: Do you or your team have the aesthetic training/empathy to know how to use fonts to set a mood, convey a meaning? Ahhh, something more to build.

  • Spacing Learning Events Over Time. Send me Your Examples.

    Will Thalheimer
    11 Jun 2009 | 8:05 am
    In 2006, I reviewed the research on the spacing effect and published a research-to-practice report, Spacing Learning Over Time: What the Research Says...Since then I have been buoyed by the enthusiastic response to that report and by the changes that it  engendered. More training and e-learning has been built using spacing and more and more learning software has been built that incorporates the spacing effect as an inherent part of its design. If I died today, I would at least know that I'd made a small difference in our field.Examples WantedI am working on an updated version of the…
 
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  • Online Sapiens Blog Personality Analysis

    emapey
    11 Oct 2009 | 8:06 pm
    I used Typealyzer to find my Online Sapiens blog personality. I analyzed the newest 10 pages of this blog. 80% of the results indicate that the author of this blog is of the type: INTJ – The Scientist The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it – often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be physically hesitant to try new things. The Scientists enjoy theoretical work that allows them to use their strong minds and bold…

  • CCK09 – Connectivists, Do We Need The Daily Newsletter?

    emapey
    1 Oct 2009 | 11:23 pm
    This is what happened last year in CCK08 when our instructor was missing to one of our sessions This year, The Daily CCK09 newsletter was not available to the course participants during 4 days. I wanted to know what other participants where feeling without The Daily so I started a thread in the Moodle forum, CCK09: The Daily is Down – What is the impact on the course? These were some comments in the thread: - James Neill – Thursday, 24 September 2009, 04:04 PM Daily Down? No problem in a world of network plasticity (aka neuroplasticity). What are we missing? Downes’…

  • Social Network Theory, the Dunbar Number, Connectors, Mavens, Persuaders, the Strong and Weak Ties and the Scale Free Networks

    emapey
    27 Sep 2009 | 12:25 pm
    The CCK09 assignment for this week was: “……in particular, share resources on networks that you encounter in your browsing this week.” CCK09 – Social Network Theory: - Introduction to Networks - The Dunbar Number - The Tipping Point – Connectors, Mavens and Persuaders - Granovetter – Strong and Weak Ties - Small World and Scale Free Networks - Popular Social Networks - My Twitter Social Network Introduction to Networks: Social Network Analysis Networks: Theory and Application — Open.Michigan via Benjamin Stewart orgnet.com – Social network analysis…

  • Why do I Appreciate so Much a Delicious Bookmark Sent to Me?

    emapey
    26 Sep 2009 | 11:35 pm
    When I receive a direct bookmark in my Delicious Inbox from someone in my Delicious network I feel honored because I know my fan was thinking about me. My fan knows which are the topics I am more interested in and has decided that the bookmark will be really useful to me. My fan wants to alert me and make sure I read the bookmark!! We are communicating with each other. I would like to give thanks to Laura Malita and Gabriela Grosseck who are my 2 Delicious fans who have sent to me (send) most bookmarks I have received, so far, directly in my Delicious Inbox I would also like also to give…

  • My PLE (Personal Learning Environment) for the CCK09 Connectivism Open Online Course

    emapey
    14 Sep 2009 | 8:27 am
    This is my start page, my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my list of aggregated resources for the CCK09 Connectivism open online course. It is a real example of a PLE, Personal Learning Environment. The Daily News: The Daily Moodle LMS: Course: CCK09 CCK09 Blog: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Participants (needs login): CCK09: Participants Elluminate: CCK09 Live Sessions Recordings: CCK09 Recordings I think that by using my PLE for the CCK09 open online course it is easy to follow the conversations, and make connections: Google Blog Search: cck09 – Google Blog Search…
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  • You Don’t Want to Miss Monday: Ultimate Resource Package

    David Leggett
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:03 am
    You like free stuff, right? Of course you do, you’re on Tutorial9. We know one thing for sure: You do not want to miss Monday, November 9th. Name Email Submit Hundreds of Freebies. 1 Download. 1 Week Only.Starting Monday, Tutorial9 is going to be giving away hundreds of freebies: Premium WordPress Themes, Icon Packs, Tumblr & Posterous Themes, and much more. We’re not just giving it to a few people. Nope… This is a package EVERYONE can download.We’re calling it “The Ultimate Resource Package for Web Designers”. It’s quite a mouthful, but…

  • 32 Beautiful Text Art Creations

    Grace Smith
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    Text isn’t just limited to language, it can be also used to create unique, unusual pieces of art. This roundup features a selection of creative imagery composed entirely with text.Inspirational Text ArtAll About handCreated in Illustrator, this demonstrates how text can be used to make the ordinary seem dynamic and unique.Mos Def Lyric PortraitA beautiful mix of style and various typefaces give this Lyrical portrait a multi-cultural vibe that really make it ‘pop’.Type IndustryAn exploration of the combination of type and engineering, with a lovely use of angles to anchor the…

  • Blogging: Secure Your Spot as the “Go-To” Blog

    Rob Bowen
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    With the popularity of blogging showing little waning, I decided that I would offer a bit of a tutorial on how to blog. Effectively, that is. Anyone can sit down in front of a keyboard and punch out a post of little to no import or community relevence, but it takes a bit more than that to blog effectively. There are millions of people blogging all across the vast sea of cyberspace, and many of them are doing it the right way to maintain their visibility among the masses. In fact, I posted about this very topic here at Tutorial 9 recently in, Key Elements to Blog Visibility. One of the main…

  • Creative Bookmarks: Best of October 2009

    Tim Smith
    2 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    There were so many quality links to share this month that this list could have gone on forever. So now, here’s the best of the best. This is Creative Bookmarks October.Quick Nav:Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow to Make a Creative Blog LayoutAn excellent tutorial on PSDTuts that shows you how to create a blog layout in Photoshop. Very easy to follow and the end result looks great!Design a Vintage Radio Icon in PhotoshopJurgis did a great job with this tutorial. It’s really easy to follow and…

  • Spooktacular Pumpkin Vector Pack (100 Free Vectors)

    Tina
    31 Oct 2009 | 3:17 pm
    This Free Vector Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.Here’s an unexpected Halloween Treat for the Tutorial9 Community! Tina from Artistic Frequency Studios decided to donate a HUGE set of 100 Spooky Pumpkin Vectors on Halloween Eve! It’s a bit last minute, but the pumpkins are perfect decorative pieces for this time of year!Thanks Tina! Download Vector Pack
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  • Tinkering, Playing, and Learning

    jonmott
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:07 pm
    John Seely Brown is visited the BYU Campus today and gave a compelling talk about Homo sapiens, Homo faber, and Homo ludens. Essentially, he argues that the formal education focuses almost exclusively on the Homo sapiens notion of “man as knowledge,” attempting to fill students with information and facts. This is gradually, in some quarters, giving way to Homo faber, or “man as maker,” students as creators of new knowledge and ideas represented in learning artifacts. But what Brown argues is almost completely missing is the notion of Homo ludens, or “man as…

  • Why Wave Won’t Replace the CMS

    jonmott
    15 Oct 2009 | 6:17 am
    Last week, Jeff Young added to the Wave hype with his frequently Tweeted and Re-Tweeted post “Could Google Wave Replace Course-Management Systems?” From what I’ve seen of Wave so far (I got my invite this week), I’d have to say, “No chance.” I have three reasons for making this conclusion: 1. Wave doesn’t replicate core CMS functionality. The CMS has become the dominant technology of choice for instructors in higher education because it allows them to easily create course websites which are automagically populated with the students enrolled in their…

  • Gaming, Social Learning & Authenticity

    jonmott
    29 Sep 2009 | 2:17 pm
    James Paul Gee argues that gaming, particularly role-playing gaming, is providing young people with precisely the skills they need to be effective and productive in our new mediated culture and highly networked workplaces. Gee’s positive view on the impact of gaming confirms what I’ve concluded about the video game “races” my son occasionally organizes in our basement. Gaming has the potential to bring people together in new, different, and socially healthy ways. My son’s game races consist of assembling a group of four or five friends, each with his own game…

  • WordPress iPhone App

    jonmott
    27 Sep 2009 | 1:15 pm
    Just discovered the free WordPress iPhone app. Great way to write short posts on the go. This post is mostly to see how it works … and to note that technology never ceases to amaze me. Why is it that with such amazing technological affordances available to us we haven’t significantly and demonstably improved learning???

  • Assessment as a Social Activity

    jonmott
    17 Sep 2009 | 1:26 pm
    I’ve been following the Washington State Harvesting Gradebook project for sometime and have been impressed with the intellectual rigor behind the project. That is clearly evidenced in this video overview of the project: The comments at the end of the video are particularly significant. The narrator concludes: At bottom, our research findings challenge many traditional assumptions. We are all understanding now that more than ever learning and assessment is or should be social. It benefits from the insight and diversity of broader engaged community. Expertise is distributed. It is not…
 
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  • Video: Social Media Presence for Emergency Response Agencies

    Greg Friese
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:04 pm
    Discussion about social networking, elearning, and social media for emergency responders that I had with Heather Caspi at the 2009 EMS Expo. During the video I discuss the two sessions I presented at EMS Expo – emerging trends in online education and use of social media for emergency response agencies. (find out more about my EMS Expo sessions and view a PDF of the lecture notes) For more videos and social media content from the 2009 EMS Expo visit EMSExpoLive.com. The EMS Expo social media team enhanced a live event with blogging, podcasts, streaming video, and video casts. For…

  • Announcement: NAEMSE Mini-Symposium for EMS Educators

    Greg Friese
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:02 am
    Interesting opportunity for EMS educators from the National Association of EMS Educators. Email from executive director Joann Freel. (view my posts for EMS educators from the 2009 NAEMSE Symposium in Orlando, Florida) “NAEMSE IS PRESENTING THE ASSOCIATION’S FIRST MINI-SYMPOSIUM. This symposium has been designed to become the model for NAEMSE to provide more educational opportunities nationwide at different times of the year! NAEMSE is reaching out to the EMS Educators who missed the chance to attend symposium in Orlando and for those who attended but were not able to attend certain…

  • Webinar Announcement: Using Games to Teach

    Greg Friese
    28 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am
    Join emergency response educators, Greg Friese and John Dillon, for a quick introduction on using games to teach and Audience Response Pads. There will be no preamble. Instead we will jump into how you can use games to teach core content. Participants will use virtual response pads during the Webinar as John demonstrates through interactive examples how games and audience response pads can help you know what your audience knows and how you can use that information. We will also show you how you can use a game to deliver information effectively to your audience while keeping them engaged in…

  • Free Elearning Won’t Help you Connect with EMS Professionals

    Greg Friese
    27 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am
    I am making final preparations for my two presentations at EMS Expo. During my presentation, Online Education Trends for Emergency Responders, I will dispel the myth of free for vendors, hospitals, and training providers to connect with EMS professionals. Sure free CE and free food is always welcome, but it does not build a tribe. Free does not build a long and collaborative connection. EMS professionals want to belong to a bigger movement, connect with other EMS professionals from near and far, interact directly with subject matter experts and EMS “celebrities,” and collaborate…

  • Viewing RapidCE Content

    Greg Friese
    23 Oct 2009 | 6:21 am
    EPS411 creates online continuing education lessons for EMTs and Paramedics. Most of those lessons are available for individuals and organizations at RapidCE.com. All lessons are narrated Flash movies with an audio sound track. For best results we recommend these technical guidelines for viewing the EPS411 lessons at RapidCE.com It is always recommend that you have the latest software updates for your computer. In order to check if your computer is up to date, go to the following URL www.windowsupdate.com. Please follow all onscreen instructions and install all updates for your version of…
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  • Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources

    Abhijit Kadle
    2 Nov 2009 | 4:09 am
    I’ve spent an inordinately long time writing a whitepaper on mobile learning trying to expound our thoughts about it and how it might be used in the workplace. I’ve been doing some research around it and I’ve documented some of the better links I’ve come across. Again, as with the links I posted about Games and Simulation, these aren’t categorized in any way nor does the order assume any significance. If you’re considering mobile learning in any shape or form, I’d suggest you give these a browse. One of the travails of my paper writing (still continues) was that good web…

  • Can Fun Help Change Behaviors?

    Amit Garg
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:53 pm
    Yes, we believe it can. Having fun is an experience that stays with you longer than any form of instruction. We advocate inclusion of games & fun interactions to achieve long term learning, and change of behaviors. Learning Games that pull learners to have fun (and learn while they have fun). This video below from the fun theory , an initiative of Volkswagen, shows just how fun could be effective in getting people to consider changing their habits Let’s use more fun activities in our learning courses as well. Related posts:What are Serious Games? A Follow-up PostPatterns at Play –…

  • Top 8 Reasons Why Training Providers Are Adopting eLearning

    Amit Garg
    29 Oct 2009 | 11:52 pm
    Earlier this month I blogged about why Training companies are adopting eLearning. There are reasons other than their clients demanding it. Reflecting on my interactions with Training Providers over the last couple of quarters, I’ve made a list of the top 8 reasons for them to adopt eLearning Client Demand: The provider’s clients have started demanding eLearning solutions (and training providers want to retain them). This is a pure survival and growth reason which I blogged about earlier. Undoubtedly, in the current economic situation there is a BIG push for training companies to move…

  • Multi-touch – Is it the Future of Human Computer Interaction?

    Abhijit Kadle
    27 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am
    We constantly come across interesting user interface technologies; Microsoft’s Natal was one I’ve written about before. There have been others pushing the limits of human computer interaction. However these technologies are a long way from maturing and being available to average developers and users. Also, they demand a completely new way of thinking about user interfaces. Such is not the case with haptic interfaces, which are now rapidly going mainstream and are available with a variety of devices, ranging from mobile phones, to tablet computers and ‘internet devices’. While these…

  • The Social Media and Mobile Computing Explosion

    Abhijit Kadle
    26 Oct 2009 | 1:57 am
    Interesting numbers about the Social media and mobile computing revolution, while we wont really vouch for the numbers, Gary goes to great lengths to provide sources and substantiation for the basis of his calculation. The rate of adoption of these technologies is phenomenal, and has cut across varied age-groups. Regardless of what aspect of learning you’re interested in, you can be sure that learners are using mobile technology and social media, are you ready for it? In the workplace, a successful learning strategy must necessarily include elements of social media/tools and mobile learning…
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  • FREE WEBINARS for National Distance Learning Week (Nov. 9 – 13, 2009)

    mkbnl
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:55 pm
    I wanted to follow-up on the earlier entry today, and I’ll post this with no more tag as there are a number of homeschooling, blended and K-12 sessions. National Distance Learning Week–November 9-13, 2009       What will you do for NDLW 2009?   Purpose: The purpose of National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) is to generate greater awareness and appreciation for distance [...]

  • National Distance Learning Week, Nov. 9 – 13, 2009

    mkbnl
    6 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pm
    This was posted to the iNACOL forums a few weeks back. Dear Colleagues: National Distance Learning Week 2009 is coming, and I wanted to take a moment to encourage your participation to promote and celebrate the tremendous growth and accomplishments occurring today in distance learning programs in your organization, on your campus and in your community. We [...]

  • NRCRES Conference: Increasing Rural 8th Graders’ Access to Algebra I: Is Online Education An Effective Alternative?

    mkbnl
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:01 am
    The final day of The National Research Center on Rural Education Support’s Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference (see program here). The breakout session today that focused upon K-12 distance education is: 8:00 – 9:45 Break-Out Session I Distance Education and Technology Chairs: Judith Meece and Matthew Irvin Discussant: Miles Bryant (UNL) Presenters: Wallace Hannum (UNC-CH) and Matthew Irvin [...]

  • NRCRES Conference: Enhancing Distance Education In Rural Schools

    mkbnl
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:43 am
    The final day of The National Research Center on Rural Education Support’s Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference (see program here). The breakout session today that focused upon K-12 distance education is: 8:00 – 9:45 Break-Out Session I Distance Education and Technology Chairs: Judith Meece and Matthew Irvin Discussant: Miles Bryant (UNL) Presenters: Wallace Hannum (UNC-CH) and Matthew Irvin [...]

  • NRCRES 2009: Supporting K-12 Students Online: Local schools, Virtual Schools, And Teacher Education

    mkbnl
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:20 am
    The final day of The National Research Center on Rural Education Support’s Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference (see program here). The breakout session today that focused upon K-12 distance education is: 8:00 – 9:45 Break-Out Session I Distance Education and Technology Chairs: Judith Meece and Matthew Irvin Discussant: Miles Bryant (UNL) Presenters: Wallace Hannum (UNC-CH) and Matthew Irvin [...]
 
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    The eLearning Coach

  • Are Your Online Tests Valid?

    You can't make it through a year of designing eLearning without having to write test questions at some point. If you don't have formal training in this area or if you forgot what you learned in that sleep-inducing Educational Statistics class, this article is for you. (Personally, I found my ...

  • Review: The Back of the Napkin

    eLearning is an abundantly visual medium. As a result, designers and developers who can think visually are able to envision the final product, conceive visuals for content and visualize how information fits together. The great news is that visual thinking can be developed. According to Dan Roam, author of The Back ...

  • User Interface Design For eLearning – Updated

    The computer user interface is that nebulous space where humans interact with the machine. Many people find this space frustrating because it's easy to get lost or because the system doesn't work as expected. As designers and developers, we can make sure our audiences have smooth interactions with our courses. After ...
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    The Distance Daily

  • What’s a Jobless Recovery?

    Get Degrees Staff
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:13 pm
    If you have been watching the headlines parade by in recent weeks you’d think the American economy has once again surfaced, sputtering for air. It’s been record days on Wall Street, a $1 billion quarter from Ford, as well as banks (B of A) and insurance companies (AIG) who took billions in federal subsidies recording impressive quarterly reports as well. If however, you’ve been looking for a job the recovery may seem as if it’s happening somewhere else. The lack of jobs did make it into the headlines today, with a report that October’s unemployment figure was at 10.2%. That’s the…

  • Gates Foundation Grants Target College Graduation Rates

    Get Degrees Staff
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:01 pm
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced $4 million in grants to the National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education and Families, and seven cities to boost college graduation rates by better coordinating the services that colleges, schools and communities provide to students. Reuters reports that, “Enrollment at the nation’s 1,200 community colleges is at an all-time high, yet two-thirds of those attending will not graduate within three years.” The grants will help cities and colleges in New York, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, and California dramatically…

  • University of Texas Announces New Bachelor’s Degree Completion Programs

    Get Degrees Staff
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:58 pm
    The University of Texas (UT) says that millions of Texans have started college, but never completed a bachelor’s degree. The census statistics appear to back UT’s analysis up: in 2000 29% of the population had some college credits but no degree, or had made it to the associate’s level but not beyond. Commuting to campus can be difficult when you’re working or raising a family, or both Beginning fall 2010, the University of Texas System will offer the Bachelor’s Accelerated Completion program – the BAC – a group of fully online bachelor degrees. Courses will run every six to…

  • University of Nebraska Celebrates 100 Years of Distance Learning

    Get Degrees Staff
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:48 pm
    In 1909 during the era of “correspondence schooling,” the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL) launched its first distance learning effort with some residents in the western reaches of the state. It would have taken a student from that area days to reach the campus on horseback. One hundred years later, students in Saudi Arabia can – and do – click to the Extended Education and Outreach web site in a matter of seconds. Recruiting coordinator Laura Wiese explained that the University’s availability to the state’s vast rural regions adopted new technology as it developed. With…

  • Tennessee Public Universities in Online Campus Collaboration

    Get Degrees Staff
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:48 am
    We are starting to see state university programs embrace online education technology and in the process, create some interesting academic options for their students. In Tennessee, total enrollment in distance education courses is growing an average of 30% each semester at the Tennessee Board of Regents’ six universities, 13 community colleges and 27 technology centers. The Board of Regents (TBR) has devised a program that gives students at all its campuses access to distance learning programs offered on any campus. The Campus Collaborative offers degrees and workforce training by…
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    EduTek n Social Media Advisor

  • Various Ways of Engaging Students

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    29 Oct 2009 | 8:28 am
    In my earlier blog titled ‘Is Blended Learning the Future of Educational Scenario?’ I had mentioned that instruction offered through blended mode enhances learning. It is not enough that technology is utilized for offering instruction. The instruction must be designed in such a manner that enhances recall, application and retention of knowledge that has been imparted.    I am reminded of a famous Chinese Proverb, that says,   “Tell me, and I’ll forget Show me, and I may remember, Involve me, and I’ll understand.”    It is true one hundred percent.

  • Social Media n Learning

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    15 Oct 2009 | 9:18 am
    Let me first explain what ‘Social Media’ is and then explore the possibilities of using them for enhancing learning.   Social Media represents the online tools that enable anyone to interact in one-one, one-many and many-many conversational format deviating from typical one-way broadcasting options offered by media. The real-time, borderless interaction offered to participants provide an opportunity to make use of 3Cs Collaboration, Community, Communication effectively to enhance learning and pave way for innovation.   Various Social Media Tools for Learning are:  …

  • Role of Organic Twitter Optimization in Determining Twitter Grades

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    5 Oct 2009 | 9:53 am
    Let me first introduce the factors that play an important role in determining Twitter Grades (TG). They are:   Power  Reach Authority of a twitter account   Or in other words, TG determines the quality of tweets sent by you and the influence of them upon others.    The following factors play a crucial role as Twitter Algorithm take note of these things;   Follower / Following ratio – The greater the value better it will be for Twitter Grades (TG). Power of Followers – If more people with high TG follow you the better it will be. Tweets – Here all the…

  • Social Media Marketing 4 Business Owners

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    29 Sep 2009 | 1:15 pm
    Before stressing the importance of Social Media Marketing (SMM), let me just explain in a simple manner, what Social Media actually is, and later on try to explain the SMM.   Social Media represents the online tools that enable you to interact in one-one, one-many and many-many conversational format deviating from usual one-way broadcasting options offered by media. The real-time, borderless interaction offered to participants provide an opportunity to establish a brand for individual / company.   Often times I have come across people asking whether SMM has replaced Internet…

  • Calculate Your Digital Relevant Presence Using Online ID Calculator

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    23 Sep 2009 | 7:12 am
    Hi, I would like to share with you one very important tool, that enables you to determine your online relevant presence. The tool is nothing but Online ID Calculator.The determination of Online ID using this tool is very simple. Type the following URL in the browser and you’ll be taken to the webpage shown below. http://www.onlineidcalculator.com/index.php Type your name and email id and click begin.  Now you’ll be taken to another page and will be asked to answer 7 questions. The questions asked by the tool are so professional and objective, it really projects the true result…
 
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