Present by Michael Wesch
Friday, 25 March, 2011
Thursday, 24 March, 2011
Eight Ways you Can Build Better Quizzes with Articulate Quizmaker #LS2011
Presented by Jeanette Brooks
resonate: Presenting Visual Storeis that Transform Learners and Audiences - #LS2011
General Session - Nancy Duarte
Wednesday, 23 March, 2011
Brain Rules for Learning - Keynote notes #LS2011
Presented by Dr. John Medina
Tweets from others at session will be embedded into this feed as well.
Tweets from others at session will be embedded into this feed as well.
Tuesday, 22 March, 2011
Schedule of Topics to be Covered Wednesday at #LS2011
These may change as the day goes on tomorrow, but this is my inital line up.
Monday, 21 March, 2011
Learning Solutions 2011 - Prepping for the big event
I'm super excited to be heading to the Learning Solutions 2011 conference being held in Orlando. My week has begun with an impromptu social chat in the lobby with some great leaders in the industry including Brent Schlenker, Mark Oehlert, Jane Bozarth and Judy
So my line up for what I am planning to attend is still up in the air a bit. There are so many great sessions, but here is what I'm leaning towards:
Tuesday I'll be attending the Certificate Program - "Gamification: Using Game Mechanics to Create Engaging e-Learning"
Wednesday's plan is to start the day with either Mobile Learning or ID for Learners with a Very Short Attention Span.
Then onto the keynote - Brain Rules for Learning by Dr. John Medina
Following this I'm planning on moving into the expo to look around, network, check out the master classes and connect with the people at Articulate.
The Afternoon is set for me to attend
Thursday is less specific. I start the day off not knowing where to begin. I'm draw to 3 different Morning Buzz sessions:
Then my plan continues with Eight Ways You Can Build Better Quizzes with Articulate Quizmaker, followed by How to Create Decision Making Scenarios on Any Budget.
Next I'll be deciding between:
Once again, during these sessions (above) I'd like to tray to get to any or all of these ones that are running in other areas:
Exciting and exhausting all at the same time.
So my line up for what I am planning to attend is still up in the air a bit. There are so many great sessions, but here is what I'm leaning towards:
Tuesday I'll be attending the Certificate Program - "Gamification: Using Game Mechanics to Create Engaging e-Learning"
Wednesday's plan is to start the day with either Mobile Learning or ID for Learners with a Very Short Attention Span.
Then onto the keynote - Brain Rules for Learning by Dr. John Medina
Following this I'm planning on moving into the expo to look around, network, check out the master classes and connect with the people at Articulate.
The Afternoon is set for me to attend
- Creating Engaging Learning Designs
- Social Learning without the Technology
- Lessons Learned from 200 Rapid eLearning Gurus
Thursday is less specific. I start the day off not knowing where to begin. I'm draw to 3 different Morning Buzz sessions:
- Free Tools to Develop eLearning
- Instructional Design Ruts
Then my plan continues with Eight Ways You Can Build Better Quizzes with Articulate Quizmaker, followed by How to Create Decision Making Scenarios on Any Budget.
Next I'll be deciding between:
- Elearning Project Management Principles and Practices
- Finding and Using OER
- Your Brain on Graphics
Once again, during these sessions (above) I'd like to tray to get to any or all of these ones that are running in other areas:
- Working with SMEs
- Understanding Media Types
- HTML 5 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know to Get Started
- Size Matters - What can you really show on a mobile device screen
- The Art of Storyboarding
Exciting and exhausting all at the same time.
Wednesday, 16 March, 2011
Notes from Openness in Education - #CCK11 online discussion
Presenter:
Zaid Ali Alsagoff: Sharing to Connect, Interact and Learn
(Slide deck for today available on his site)
There are 6 Creative Commons licenses now. http://creativecommons.org/licenses
Cris2B: Open PhD concept -- http://openphd.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/the-open-phd-what-a-concept/
OER - Starting Points
- OpenCourseWare Consortium
- Free Online Univserity Courses - http://www.einztein.com/
- Andreas Link: : Open content licensing for educators #OCL4Ed: http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Homewww.youtube.com/edu (university youtube sites)
- Cindy Jennings: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
- Video lectures from top scholars http://academicearth.com
- Moderator (Stephen Downes): http://www1.teachertube.com/
- TED Talks - http://www.ted.com/
- www.apple.com/education/itunes-u (not open to all countries)
- Moderator (George Siemens): http://www.thersa.org/
- Moderator (George Siemens): here's a link to RSA animate videos: http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/
- Collection List - on presenter's blog (link above)
Stephen Downes
George Siemes
David Wiley
Stian Haklev
Monday, 14 March, 2011
Instructional Designers Becoming Education Agents - #CCK11
PAPER 2
As a recent career change has placed me onto the path of an elearning instructional designer (ID) I find it difficult to know whether the role has changed or not for those that may have been doing it for more than 5 years.
Personally, I don’t believe the role itself is changing; however the techniques and tools to accomplish the role are ever changing. One description of an ID is that “…it is similar to that of a film maker. The only difference is that a film maker directs the movie and the Instructional Designer directs the e-learning course.”1 This is a great description in that, we as ID’s often gather in the information that will be placed into the course, whether by ourselves or from subject matter experts and the decide on the best method in how to deliver it to the learners. We direct how the material and resources to the learners.
As the format of CCK11 has shown though, IDs need to find new ways to deliver the material to the learners. It can no longer be just a “push” effort to the learner. Better engagement by the learners, increased interest, and retention all stems from allowing the learners to seek out much of the information on their own.
In order to do this we can no long just create an elearning course and expect the person to sit down and click through some screens and activities to a desired end. We need to utilize more of the tools that our learners are using daily to connect with their peer networks. We need to find ways to allow the learners to use these tools, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. to access, manage and seek out information about the given topic being taught.
Our learners are becoming more and more accustom to these “immediate response” tools and are demanding the same in the delivery of their learning. “We have to stop thinking about “training” and start designing for learning. We need to people to learn quick increments.”2
It is not uncommon for those that are shopping for a vacation will spend days or weeks, sometimes even months, searching and research for the “just oh so perfect vacation. This is because they want the best price, but even more so because they truly do want the best experience. As IDs we too should keep this in mind. Our learners want the best experience they can achieve as well in their learning endeavors.
Dreaming along these lines and the “what could it be” path, I envision IDs to become more like travel agents or perhaps more like travel brochures. We will be Education Agents. Given a topic we will offer several different avenues that the learner can look at, explore and research on their own. We will let them shop through the various brochures on the topic that we have available. Much like suggested readings, video posts, images, graphics that are typical in a course. However, unlike travel agents we will encourage that they shop around. We will ask them to compare notes from other “brochures”. We will want our learners to “share the buys and deals” that they uncover and we will encourage them to share these other brochures of information with other learners in the class.
By increasing their engagement and allowing them the freedom to seek out the information that matters to them, still based on a particular topic, we will in turn be helping our learners by increasing their interest and retention.
1 Rupa Rajagopalan . (February 28, 2007). The Role of an Instructional Designer. In One-Stop Resource for Instructional Designing. Retrieved march 10, 2011, from http://writersgateway.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/the-role-of-an-instructional-designer/.
2 Sharon Boller. (July 2010). SlideShare. In Training Trends 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2011, from http://www.slideshare.net/SharonBoller/training-trends-2010.
As a recent career change has placed me onto the path of an elearning instructional designer (ID) I find it difficult to know whether the role has changed or not for those that may have been doing it for more than 5 years.
Personally, I don’t believe the role itself is changing; however the techniques and tools to accomplish the role are ever changing. One description of an ID is that “…it is similar to that of a film maker. The only difference is that a film maker directs the movie and the Instructional Designer directs the e-learning course.”1 This is a great description in that, we as ID’s often gather in the information that will be placed into the course, whether by ourselves or from subject matter experts and the decide on the best method in how to deliver it to the learners. We direct how the material and resources to the learners.
As the format of CCK11 has shown though, IDs need to find new ways to deliver the material to the learners. It can no longer be just a “push” effort to the learner. Better engagement by the learners, increased interest, and retention all stems from allowing the learners to seek out much of the information on their own.
In order to do this we can no long just create an elearning course and expect the person to sit down and click through some screens and activities to a desired end. We need to utilize more of the tools that our learners are using daily to connect with their peer networks. We need to find ways to allow the learners to use these tools, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. to access, manage and seek out information about the given topic being taught.
Our learners are becoming more and more accustom to these “immediate response” tools and are demanding the same in the delivery of their learning. “We have to stop thinking about “training” and start designing for learning. We need to people to learn quick increments.”2
It is not uncommon for those that are shopping for a vacation will spend days or weeks, sometimes even months, searching and research for the “just oh so perfect vacation. This is because they want the best price, but even more so because they truly do want the best experience. As IDs we too should keep this in mind. Our learners want the best experience they can achieve as well in their learning endeavors.
Dreaming along these lines and the “what could it be” path, I envision IDs to become more like travel agents or perhaps more like travel brochures. We will be Education Agents. Given a topic we will offer several different avenues that the learner can look at, explore and research on their own. We will let them shop through the various brochures on the topic that we have available. Much like suggested readings, video posts, images, graphics that are typical in a course. However, unlike travel agents we will encourage that they shop around. We will ask them to compare notes from other “brochures”. We will want our learners to “share the buys and deals” that they uncover and we will encourage them to share these other brochures of information with other learners in the class.
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By increasing their engagement and allowing them the freedom to seek out the information that matters to them, still based on a particular topic, we will in turn be helping our learners by increasing their interest and retention.
1 Rupa Rajagopalan . (February 28, 2007). The Role of an Instructional Designer. In One-Stop Resource for Instructional Designing. Retrieved march 10, 2011, from http://writersgateway.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/the-role-of-an-instructional-designer/.
2 Sharon Boller. (July 2010). SlideShare. In Training Trends 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2011, from http://www.slideshare.net/SharonBoller/training-trends-2010.
Friday, 11 March, 2011
Tuesday, 8 March, 2011
Designing mLearning: Magic - with Clark Quinn
Presented by The eLearning Guild.
The first 30 minutes of this session will live blogged, then I have to go present at our organization's orientation. The remainder will be covered by those tweeting about the session.
The first 30 minutes of this session will live blogged, then I have to go present at our organization's orientation. The remainder will be covered by those tweeting about the session.
Wednesday, 2 March, 2011
Our LMS....Don't Get Me Wrong About it.
So this was interesting. Today someone at a partner organization contacted me to get my impressions of Moodle verses the system I am currently using. Apparently some of my posts from months and actually years past may have given the impression that I completely dislike my LMS. That is not true. Who doesn't dislike there LMS a little. However, overall it's not that bad. Sure there are some things I would like to see differently on it. An upgrade next week may do just that. The meeting I have with the CEO of the company may bring along even greater changes. I'm excited that he likes to get together at least once a year to discuss potential changes that we can make to the system. How many LMS CEO's come to you, in person and ask "So what can we do better?"
So just to clarify some of my earlier postings, please ensure if you refer back to them, that you take the date of the posting into context. This was a long journey for us and that was mostly because we started from the bare minimum to the elabourite system it is now. Also, if anyone every wants more clarification about any point I've made about our LMS implementation, feel free to contact me directly and I will give you the honest truth. I'll hold nothing back and let you know the good, bad and ugly of implementing an LMS and going from a paper world to an electronic one.
Here are some thoughts on my old postings (a letter to my CIO):
The blog indeed has been a place for me, personally, to capture, vent and share my experiences with an LMS and its implementation in general. A great deal of the items mentioned stem from the initial implementation of the system. As you know, when we first got on board with the system it was not even close to the system we have now.
The close working relationship I have had with the vendor, my tech support there and even the CEO is one of the strongest points for the system. As for my blog, if one is to put in “LMS” to search for items that I have posted I am happy to make some clarifications.
If there are any other points within the blog that anyone would like clarification about, I am more than happy to expand on them and give a personal account.
Comments, feedback and discussions that I have had with other elearning professionals, using other LMS have enlightened me to know that no one system is perfect. Neither is any one vendor. My issues of the past, present and future with the system are not uncommon. The fact that I have a support team that will fix any issue in a timely manner, is willing to and implements suggestions for improvements virtually every time I give them, is a company and LMS that I am happy to back up.
So just to clarify some of my earlier postings, please ensure if you refer back to them, that you take the date of the posting into context. This was a long journey for us and that was mostly because we started from the bare minimum to the elabourite system it is now. Also, if anyone every wants more clarification about any point I've made about our LMS implementation, feel free to contact me directly and I will give you the honest truth. I'll hold nothing back and let you know the good, bad and ugly of implementing an LMS and going from a paper world to an electronic one.
Here are some thoughts on my old postings (a letter to my CIO):
The blog indeed has been a place for me, personally, to capture, vent and share my experiences with an LMS and its implementation in general. A great deal of the items mentioned stem from the initial implementation of the system. As you know, when we first got on board with the system it was not even close to the system we have now.
The close working relationship I have had with the vendor, my tech support there and even the CEO is one of the strongest points for the system. As for my blog, if one is to put in “LMS” to search for items that I have posted I am happy to make some clarifications.
- October 21, 2010 – is a about how I would have started implement the system and in fact start the entire project differently. This was a lessons learned post that other’s might find interesting if they were starting from where we started. This was more about getting staff on board and not the system itself.
- September 16, 2010 – Is about our core curriculum roll out and some of the issues regarding staff completion.
- August 31, 2010 – similar to above, including “After some time with the system now live and working more with the vendor most of these issues have now been resolved and any further issues seem to be more user error than anything.”
- Dec. 10, 2009 – upgrade was install and some issues were present. My tech support and I have a perfect reporting system for this and I have actually shared this document with several other elearning professionals around North America. It is an Excel document, but the process works perfectly and any issues like these do get repaired quickly.
- Sept. 28, 2009 – about creating tutorials online (an info posting only)
- Sept. 23, 2009 – the launch of the LMS – this is more of a complaint by me that not as many people were as excited about the launch as I was….hence the later posting in Oct. 2010 of lessons learned.
If there are any other points within the blog that anyone would like clarification about, I am more than happy to expand on them and give a personal account.
Comments, feedback and discussions that I have had with other elearning professionals, using other LMS have enlightened me to know that no one system is perfect. Neither is any one vendor. My issues of the past, present and future with the system are not uncommon. The fact that I have a support team that will fix any issue in a timely manner, is willing to and implements suggestions for improvements virtually every time I give them, is a company and LMS that I am happy to back up.
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