Reflections on #Chat2lrn: New Skills for Changing Times. This past week’s #Chat2lrn topic was New Skills for Changing Times. It was a very interesting chat that asked a number of good questions about the future of the Learning and Performance field. Chat2lrn usually shares a blog post that sets up the discussion; you can find the pre-chat posting here. When reflecting on what I learned during a Twitter chat, I usually like to reexamine the questions that were asked to lead the discussion. Q1) Do you think L&D, is as @Cliveshepherd suggests, at a crossroads and why? Q2) Has your role changed and if so how? Q3) What new skills have you had to develop? Q4) Do you now see these as being key skills or are they just ‘nice to have’? I find the concept of being at a ‘crossroads’ very interesting. In hindsight, I’m not sure that’s it, because “keep making the wrong turn” implies we’re altering the course.
What’s somewhat different is there’s a growing realization that traditional L&D approaches do not move at the speed of business. Don’t get me wrong. » 5 Ways Tin Can API Revolutionizes eLearning. Do these sound familiar? “Brian watches a tutorial on how to fix a problem in Photoshop.” “Jane emails a co-worker in another building to solve a work issue.”
“Lionel completes level two of a mobile learning game on sales skills.” None of these experiences happened inside an eLearning course or classroom, yet they form a bigger picture of how we really learn at work… 90% informally and outside of traditional training. With the Tin Can API, all of these experiences can be tracked and accounted for. eLearning and training are entering a new age. Image describing Tin Can from the Rustici website. Tin Can API (or Experience API) is receiving a ton of buzz… and looks to make a big splash at DevLearn 2012 as the spec nears version 1.0. You get data like this – All this data is reported to an LRS – or learning record store. Informal learning activities are reported to the LRS. The LRS reports that data to the LMS... or multiple LMSs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Okay… you completed your instructor led course.
Untitled Player. SME Review Cycle – Scheduling Duration « Ileighanne's Blog. SME Review Cycle – Scheduling Duration Posted by ileighanne on April 30, 2012 · 7 Comments Recently I tried researching a question for instructional design project planning. After several different types of searches including trying the ERIC database through a student friend, I realized that there was no real research on this subject. I also realized that if I needed this information, someone else might need it too. I proceeded to research the information on my own – not using a defensible method of statistical sampling. ..but, there are plenty of IDs out there that need this information so I’m going to share it with anyone who finds my blog.
Topic 1 (There are more coming.): Scheduling Subject Matter Expert Review of Materials Duration Why did I need to know this? What is a legitimate amount of time to put on the project plan? Participants 72 respondents answered my survey. Results Now – what do I mean by duration? Answer: 71 of the 72 respondents answered the question. Like this: Kim Green Twitter | Kim Green Trending. 10 Tips for Getting Started in E-Learning. Do you remember your first E-Learning project? You know what I mean, the one that started it all? Some of you are sitting there reading this with a smile on your face as you laugh at the thought of stumbling your way through your first project. We’ve all been there. And that is what this post is all about. So, in an effort to ease the pain of new beginnings, I’ve put together a little list. One that I hope will help you on your journey as you get started in the crazy and often frustrating world of E-Learning.
This list certainly doesn’t cover everything – no mere blog post could, but its a great place to start and will hopefully give you a few new things to think about as you put together your own E-Learning new initiative. 10 Tips for Getting Started in E-Learning 1. You have to start somewhere, and the only way to learn is to do. 2. Before you start a new project you always need to have a plan in place. 3. If you run across something that you don’t understand, then find someone who does. The Big Mistake in Elearning. Allen Interactions | Custom e-Learning | Blended Learning.
Fall 2011 - (40) Who's in the Market for Learning: Individuals or Organizations? As part of the ongoing conversation on the future business models for learning with Tony Karrer, I mentioned in both my blog post and in a comment on Tony's blog that I think we're going to see a move away from companies and organizations to individuals as the consumers of learning products and services. Tony followed up by asking if I had anything to back up my thinking. Good question, so here's my train of thought.
Everyone agrees that work today is more complex, more knowledge-based and rapidly changing. There are a lot of arguments about how we're going to develop our workforce, but no one is arguing that there's a need for LESS learning. For the past 50 years or so, we saw companies taking responsibility for employee learning. But these conditions no longer exist in most industries. Another trend I see going on is the rise of contract/freelance workers. So how to improve worker skills if it isn't going to happen through employers? So what do you think? Authoring Tool Comparison – Updated! | E-Learning Uncovered | I Love Instructional Design.
Adobe Photoshop Secrets: Positioning objects in Adobe Captivate (let Captivate do math for you) | I Love Instructional Design. Feb 2012 Feature New Learning Analytics for a New Workplace - Free - ASTD | I Love Instructional Design. What Learning Designers (Still) Need to Learn Themselves: Q&A With Julie Dirksen. How do you design course material for optimal retention, attention, and engagement — at the same time juggling the needs of your “learners,” subject matter experts, and others?
It’s a daunting challenge, but one that instructional designer Julie Dirksen believes anyone can master with some clear-eyed guidance. Dirksen, whose new book, Design for How People Learn, is drawing raves in the learning community, spoke to The Daily Mindflash about what most instructional designers still need to learn themselves. What’s the one big mistake you see in e-learning design — and how do you think it can be solved? Julie Dirksen: I think that sometimes the conversation is too centered on technology or too much about implementation issues or process things.
It kind of spins on “how do we craft those experiences?” What other design rules are most important? One is considering the learner, what their situation is, and what the real barriers are to learning. Top 10 Articles of 2011. In reflection, 2011 has been a year where we celebrated the employee and cultivated business culture in the training industry.
Companies focused on creating and sustaining a positive work environment where employees feel valued and empowered. It’s been a “back to the basics” kind of year with trainers researching how people learn in order to effectively train and engage employees. With the unpredictable economy still looming, increasing employee retention and retaining talent has been a focus and concern this year; businesses have turned inward to refine company culture. Creativity and innovation has led this transformation with new technology and ideas. Trainers are becoming more creative with learning initiatives and employees are taking learning into their own hands. Here are the Top 10 articles of 2011 in terms of readership: Articles are also shared through the Training Industry Quarterly e-magazine , which publishes four times a year and mails to more than 40,000 subscribers.
What you should look for when doing a QA | Good To Great. Last week I set out the benefits of QA. But what does ‘QA’ mean? To many people, it is synonymous with ‘proof-reading’, but that’s a very simplistic view. QA stands for quality assurance, and that means quality in every respect. Let’s think about some non-learning examples. If you were QA-ing a newspaper article, the review would of course cover spelling and grammar. But it would also cover factual accuracy, tone of voice, sources for quotations and so on. You’d probably want to check the headline appropriately reflected the thrust of the article, and that any accompanying photographs made sense with the story.
If you were QA-ing a dining table, however, there’s no proof-reading required. So, when you’re QA-ing an e-learning course, what are you looking for? Textual: This covers spelling, punctuation and grammar, of course. So which of these three areas is most important when carrying out a QA? That’s a trick question, of course: none of them is more important than the others. Reviewing elearning examples. I recently wrote about elearning garbage, and in case I doubted my assessment, today’s task made my dilemma quite clear.
I was asked to be one of the judges for an elearning contest. Seven courses were identified as ‘finalists’, and my task was to review each and assign points in several categories. Only one was worthy of release, and only one other even made a passing grade. This is a problem. Let me get the good news out of the way first. On the other hand, there were the six other projects. The first problem is that most of them were information objectives. In too many cases, also, there was no context for the information; no reason how it connected to the real world. But wait, there’s more! Then, a myriad of individual little problems: bad audio in two, dull and dry writing pretty much across the board, even timing that of course meant you were either waiting on the program, or it was not waiting on you.
And these were finalists! How to Create a Learning Journal to Go with Your E-Learning Courses. In an earlier post we looked at how to combine elearning with an on-the-job mentoring program. I received a lot of questions about the learning journal. So in today’s post we’ll look at the basic structure of the learning journal and how you could use something like it to complement your elearning courses. The Value of a Learning Journal Before we look at how to set up the learning journal, let’s review where it adds value: Connects elearning to real world activities. The learning journal is used as a bridge between the learning that happens in the elearning course and what happens in the real work environment. Elearning courses let you compress a lot of the instruction and content which can save time during the training. Using a Learning Journal Here’s a rough breakdown of how I’ve used the learning journals in the past: Chunks.
Inside the Learning Journal There are a number of ways to design a learning journal that bridges the course content with the real world activities. Introduction. » Top Tools 2011 C4LPT. Kim Green: "RT @jsuzcampos: Questions. #mLearning. Overcoming Objections to eLearning by Judy Unrein. “In each case, if the method you’re trying to bring to the organization is suitable for the need, there will be a reason it’s suitable: there will be payoffs in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, scalability, consistency, or some combination of these.”
Did you know that eLearning is around 50 years old? Yes, you read that right. Teaching is one of the first uses that organizations found for computers: researchers at Stanford University experimented with using computers to teach children math and science back in the early 1960s. And yet, one of the situations I occasionally encounter is that, while one department may be starting an eLearning initiative, there is a strong resistance to this “new” model elsewhere within – or maybe throughout – the organization. Overcoming objections is an important part of making any eLearning initiative successful, and luckily, eLearning’s long history gives us plenty of knowledge of how to make our case.
Objection: eLearning is too expensive. All About Recording Microphones. Sharebar Even though audio is a critical aspect of multimedia learning, many of us don’t know how to choose a microphone for audio recording at work or in the field. That’s why I felt so fortunate to get introduced to John Tellin, who has been working with sound equipment for over 40 years. He kindly answered many of my questions about audio recording mics. I hope this interview answers some of your questions too. I added quite a few Editor’s Notes after the interview, realizing further explanation might be needed.
COACH: What is the most basic concept a beginner needs to understand when it comes to audio recording? On the other hand, if you mute the audio and watch the picture, you’ll usually become lost rather quickly. COACH: Can you categorize the types of recording mics multimedia and eLearning producers might use for voice over recordings and workplace interviews? COACH: So your advice is to stand very close to the recording mic? COACH: What’s the advantage of a unidirectional mic? Elearning! Magazine. Meet the New Digital Public Library of America. The Digital Public Library of America, an organization dedicated to building a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all, held its first plenary meeting in Washington DC this morning and announced $5 million in funding from the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund. "What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the DPLA could--if successful--accomplish for our era," Peter Baldwin, Chair of the Donor Board at the Arcadia Fund. The organization says it is founded on four key elements: open source code, linked meta-data, multi-media content and tools and services. What would a new world online be without a new public library? The Harvard-born organization is meeting today to discuss the best of almost 40 different submissions to a code sprint began this Summer. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, DPLA's parent organization, is live streaming and live tweeting today's plenary meeting here. Update: my CMALT portfolio #CMALT. From my work and continued reading/research around the topic and discipline of ‘Learning Technology’ I have come into contact with some wonderful people, and some even more amazing ideas. I’ve mentioned some of my work in previous blog posts, notably the following: So, if I started the process in 2009, why has it taken so long to get to where I am today?
There is no simple answer, there could be plenty of excuses, and a few reasons. Ultimately it has just been about time and motivation – by the time I have the motivation I have no time left, despite filling in my calendar with specific slots to dedicate to it. Something always comes up and needs attention first!
So, what am I doing? When I’ve finished my portfolio, and received notification I have had success with my CMALT application I will release the portfolio for everyone to view, and on my main CMALT page. @hopkinsdavid good luck with your cmalt portfolio! So Sue, how are you getting along? Show me the Progress Bar! InShare3 When playing an educational game, going through a course, or answering questions, it’s always desirable by the learners to be able to see a visual indication of their progress.
This helps them keep a reality check on how they are performing. The same holds true for learning interactivities and scenarios as well, where a progress bar can indicate whether the learner is headed in the right direction or not. So the good news is that we can create Progress Bars in Adobe Captivate courses… Yippee! There are a few steps that you need to follow and use some advanced actions and variables to do so. Ready? Now let’s get down to see how to create a progress bar for your courses: Want to try creating a progress bar and feel comfortable if the steps are listed… here you go!
1. A. B. C. 2. A. B. C. D. 3. A. B. C. D. 4. A. B. C. D. E. F. 5. A. 6. A. B. 7. That’s it! 487-Funny-Signs-30-Days. This Flash Player (Frash) Runs On iPad. Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources. #mLearning. Jamming with Lectora: NELUG Tips & Tricks | Trivantis.