- Informal Learning: Structuring a Blog
There is an interest question on the Learning Circuits blog that asks whether or not it is appropriate to write a book about informal learning. The argument goes “if informal learning is so important, why use a formal structure, like a book, to describe its value?” Just because learning … - Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Beyond iPoding
Click on the link if you’d rather listen to the podcast of this post, Beyond iPoding, you can find it here. (don’t need an iPod to listen, just your computer. Moving Beyond Music or Voice As with any new technology, at first there is unbridled enthusiasm or irrational exuberance quickly … - CAC Conference: Student Presentations
I teach a class called “Managing Multimedia Projects” in that class students are given an RFP for an e-learning based proposal and they have to develop a solution. This semester the idea came from an alumni, Chris Chappell who has created a site called MyBestDay.net. Four student teams are prese… - Blogcast from Bloomsburg: Blended Bliss
Next, Kate Wartchow from Performance Development Group presented Five Steps to Blended Bliss. She started with a discussion of what are the challenges designers faced when working with blended e-learning. Audienc members mentioned that learning is sometimes though of as either a “workshopR… - Yes, We Should Keep ADDIE, HPT and ISD Models
Here is my response to the Big Question at the Learning Circuit’s Blog. We need these models! In fact, we need these models now more than ever. The problem is that, as a profession, we are too eager to throw away the fundamental models on which our profession is based. We do this when: techn… - Learning Circuits Blog: How Do We Get Learning Professionals to Blog?
How do we get learning professionals to blog? This is the new question at the ASTD Learning Circuits’ blog. My thoughts: For the Pre-Learning Professional:As a professor of instructional technology…I have a leg up. I can have a direct impact on providing soon-to-be learning professionals with a… - Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Knowledge Transfer
Here are a few items that are discussed in my upcoming book Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools for Transfering Know-How from the Boomers to the Gamers by Pfeiffer in April 2007. Transfering know-how to the gamer (nex-ter, Gen-Y) generation. •Focus on using games to teach basic but essen… - Out and About: Guide-On-The-Side
On October 23-25, just a few weeks away, I will be serving at the Training Solutions 2006 Conference as what they call a “guide-on-the-side.” I will be meeting with a group of colleagues who are interested in exploring the concept of buying decisions and how to effectively make those dec… - Yes, All Learning Professional Should Blog.–At Least for Month
Yes, yes and yes. In my years as a professor of instructional design and as a consultant in the field I have seen too many learning professionals unaware of the technologies that can make learning events effective. Even worse, I have seen too many professionals aware of the technology but unaware of…
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