November 2010
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Social Media in Learning: Giving Up Control.
There’s a lot of buzz around social media: Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Wikis, Flickr, the list of tools is seemingly endless and growing all the time. So how do you integrate these tools into your employees’ or students’ learning? Nick Shackleton-Jones argues that most organizations go about this exactly backwards. They launch social media tools and expect learners to use...
October 2010
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Does Your Training Deserve to Live?
So, does it? Does it deserve to exist in order to fix a problem? In many cases the answer is ‘no’. Let’s list some problems that training can’t fix, identify why training used to ‘fix’ them anyway, and what a better method of choosing a solution might be. Organizations frequently use training as a ‘super solution’ to eliminate performance gaps. However, performance gaps frequently have one or...
September 2010
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Crafting Better Learning Goals and Learning... →
In my line of work I see a lot of learning goals and learning objectives. Many of the latter are in need of work. They’ve been crafted by people who are experts in their fields, which is usually not course design. To help those folks out, I’ve written a short article on putting together better learning goals and learning objectives.
August 2010
7 posts
SumTotal Articles →
I’ve spent a significant amount of time administering SumTotal, in particular setting up (“architecting”) course structures for both eLearning and in class learning activities. I’m good at it now, but the learning curve would have been less steep had I known about the articles written by Terrabia Consulting. They are less technical than the ‘official’...
PowerPoint to PNG add in →
If you work in PowerPoint alot, you may find this free add in to be of use. It allows you to select elements on a slide, turn them into a PNG and automatically paste it back into the orginal slide. This allows you to manipulate the PNG either within PowerPoint in or dedicated graphics programs. If you use Articulate, you’ll love this.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
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PowerPoint Gets No Love
PowerPoint doesn’t get a lot of love. It is reviled for overuse and misuse. But it’s still the guilty secret of legions of course designers. Why is this?
It has a wide, installed base; if you’ve got MS Office, you’ve got PowerPoint
Lots of people know how to use it (whether it’s used well is a separate issue)
It makes a pretty handy poor man’s graphic...
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Blooms Digital Taxonomy applied to Web 2.0
soulkonekshen:
Blooms Digital Taxonomy: Web2 / elearning skills for each level http://bit.ly/brx8Be (via @marynabadenhors) #edbrunei
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We're done here.
Too many LMS implementations are treated as an event, not a process. Hence the feeling of ‘We’re done here’ when the system finally goes live.
No. You are not done. You won’t ever be done.
An LMS implementation represents a fundamentally different way of deploying, tracking and administering training. A well thought out change management is needed. A...
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Mindmap - E-learning and Web 2.0 tools for schools →
enzosilva:
Great, visual collection of useful social media resources for eLearning.
Forseng Consulting Website →
The Forseng Consulting Website.
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eLearning and Bloom's Taxonomy
eLearning is not appropriate for everything. It is more useful for the lower end of Bloom’s cognitive outcomes:
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Compehension
Knowledge
Application, comprehension, and knowledge outcomes lend themselves well to the kinds of learning objectives at which eLearning excels:
List, define …
Describe, identify …
Complete, classify...
“Education over the internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-mail...”
– John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems
