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Kapp Notes: Comparing 2D and 3D Synchronous Learning
Online Training for Online Faculty
Will at Work Learning: FREE Research Report on Feedback
21 points from research on feedback summarized, plus a downloadable free report with all the details. Feedback is generally good for learners and should tell them the right answers, plus maybe why it's right. Lots of insight about what kinds of feedback to use or how to use feedback depending on the results you're aiming for.
<li>Immediate feedback prevents subsequent confusion and limits the likelihood for continued inappropriate retrieval practice.</li>
<li>Delayed feedback creates a beneficial spacing effect.</li>
<li>When in doubt about the timing of feedback, you can (a) give immediate feedback and then a subsequent delayed retrieval opportunity, (b) delay feedback slightly, and/or (c) just be sure to give some kind of feedback.</li>
<li>Feedback should usually be provided before learners get another chance to retrieve incorrectly again.</li>
CCK08: How to Profit off of Open Source, Or at least pay the Bills « Bradleyshoebottom’s Weblog
Building on ideas from Stephen Downes on different models for sustainable open source work, this provides specific examples of how open source could benefit a complex industry like telecommunications and benefit that corporate environment.
Now how do you make this open source and still pay the bills. One way would be to make the training content truly open like MIT. To recover costs, the manufacture or the training provider could charge for certification exam, access to mentors, discussion groups, and access the training equipment. So if certification credentials are import to the customer, then this model works.
or example, I have already explained how the customer can build dynamic content around their features, but a customer could also using Wiki-like features, go in and upload their system schematics, photos, maps, or IP addresses and then have the content repository publish a unique document for the requestor. The automotive industry is already moving in this direction creating unique user manuals for each customer based on the features selected at the time of purchase.
My Top 25 blogs for 2008 | The E-learning Curve at Edublogs
Michael Hanley has collected his list of top 25 blogs, related to e-learning, learning, training, and education. I'm on the list, and I recognize most of the names here, but there are some blogs that are new to me.
BeyondE Learning
Free e-book in three parts: "Beyond E-Training," "Beyond the Classroom," and "Beyond Learning." Includes case studies and examples of how organizations are doing more with e-learning than traditional classroom training.
Introduction (Selling Sleep Disorder Relief)
Project-based learning example with a webquest for sales training. Created by Joe Deegan, permission OK so can be modified/reused by others
Adventures in Second Life - 2009 - ASTD
How IBM is using Second Life for training to help learners grasp concepts that are hard to teach in other formats. One example given is a large model of a data flow so participants could walk through the same pathways that data would follow.
eLearn: Best Practices - Sound Your Best in Virtual Trainings
Tips for using your voice effectively in webinars or for recording audio for e-learning
eLearn: Best Practices - Tips for Effective Webinars
Practical tips for webinars, mostly logistic issues that you might not think about if you're not used to presenting online
NCVER - E-learning in Australia and Korea: Learning from practice
Lengthy study from 2005 comparing how e-learning is used in Australia and Korea, finding some similar concerns. Like most other studies, this one has found that e-learning "cannnot on its own guarantee successful learning outcomes for students. The way in which the teacher and the learner utilise the technology continues to be important."
How Long Does it Take to Create Learning?
Bryan Chapman's updated research survey results on how long it takes to develop ILT and e-learning
Calendar of Learning Events
Dave Ferguson's spreadsheet of training and learning conferences, sorted by event date or due dates for proposals
Scenarios, Stories and Micro eLearning: "How to Ask for a Raise" Scenario Plus 10 Reasons Why Scenarios Work
Nice summary of the benefits of scenario-based learning
Social Media for Training
Review of Bozarth's Social Media for Training plus responses to common misconceptions about social media and social learning
Keeping Participants' Attention In Global Virtual Classrooms - Learning Circuits - ASTD
Activity ideas for virtual instructor-led training
Definitely Not One-Size-Fits-All: Learning and Development Job Titles — TheWorkSocial
A large list of job titles in the L&D world. This might be helpful for people job searching to have some other phrases and terms to look for.
Updated list 2014: http://theworksocial.com/blog/2014/4/25/learning-and-development-job-titles-2014
How storytelling in training changes people. 5 elements of an effective story. | Training x Design
5 elements of a story structure: a beginning, middle, and end; a main character; the main character faces a challenge, the main character struggles, and the main character changes.
eLearning Wiki
Wiki by Kevin Wilcoxon with lengthy articles on learning and training. Categories are foundations, teaching online, course development, and the future (including references to the Serious e-Learning Manifesto). Currently everything is written by Kevin but you can sign up to contribute.
Top 7 Benefits of Scenario-Based Training Infographic - e-Learning Infographicse-Learning Infographics
This is an infoposter rather than a true infographic, but it's a nice visual list of benefits of scenario-based training
The 8 Best Free Moodle Plugins for Corporate Trainers - Capterra Blog
Customized reporting, integration with WebEx or Adobe Connect, gamification, Tin Can, and more.
Brian’s Must-Read Books | Train Like A Champion
Books on e-learning, visual design, training evaluation, learning research, presentation skills and change management. A brief summary is included for each book listed.
Learning at the Speed of Life
CSAP review
Secrets of Star Training Consultants | Training Magazine
Preliminary findings from Saul Carliner and John Murray's research and interviews with "star consultants" in the field of learning
<p>Participants also indicated the types of assignment they feel are inappropriate for them. Most of the assignments refused could be characterized as “conventional.” Several participants specifically mentioned that they distance themselves from training about products and software to focus on more strategic projects.</p>
<p>One participant avoids “order-taker projects.” </p>
Nuts and Bolts: What's the Reality? by Jane Bozarth : Learning Solutions Magazine
Examples of why it's important to find out what really happens in classroom training before you convert it to online. What's in the PowerPoints usually doesn't cover everything that really happens in a live classroom.
The Benefits of Scenario Based Training
Scenario-based training better reflects real-life decision making
<p>There is no linear path into what they are subjected. The situations are complex. They often fail and they learn by reflection, becoming much better at the judgements they make next time, even though next time the environment and the scenarios presented are different.</p>
<p>After completing a few exercises, they build their own view of the patterns that are evident and are able to move into a new scenario with confidence even if the environment and scenario is radically different.</p>
<p>Learning on reflection before plunging into the next scenario helps to build the patterns in the participants’ minds that are the evidence that they have learnt.</p>
<p>Quizzes based on scenarios with a, “What would you do next?”, question builds quick and fun repetition into the training programme, helping transfer from short term memory to long term memory.</p>
Scenario based training headquarters: Cathy Moore
Cathy Moore's collected resources on scenario-based learning
100 e-Learning Books Every Instructional Designer Should Read
A large collection of books on instructional design, elearning, teaching, training, blended learning, scenario-based learning, etc.
What Do You Know: About Brain Science and Adult Learning
When people claim they are designing learning based on "neuroscience" or "brain science," be skeptical. Sometimes it's real cognitive psychology research mislabeled as neuroscience. Sometimes it's fake research.
Cognitive science has to do with the mind and mental processes, such as thinking, learning, and problem solving at the human (or other organism) level.<em> </em>Neuroscience has to do with the biology of the nervous system, including how the brain works, at the anatomical level such as neurons.
Bottom line: When you hear claims about <em>neuro</em> or <em>brain</em> related to training, you should ask: Is it cognitive science or is it made up?