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What does it take to be wise? It has to be more than knowledge, it has to be more than just experience, it is more than just training, but all those things are required as a foundation for wisdom. Then you need to add insight, creativity, looking at things through the right lense and a […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Standing in a virtual book store requesting input on “Learning in 3D” book. Tony O’Driscoll and I have teamed up with Pfeiffer and are writing a book tentatively titled Learning in 3D which will discuss how to create and deliver effective learning through virtual worlds including implementation, design and evaluation. My questions to you are: […]
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Leave a Comment (7) →Having grown up in the Pittsburgh area during the Steelers first run at four Super Bowls, I am a born and breed Steeler’s fan. Loved seeing the team get number six! So why are the Steelers so successful and what can Learning and Development professionals learn from the Steelers. First, one of the things that […]
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Leave a Comment (11) →As learning professionals, we are familiar with Donald Kirkpatrick and his four Levels of Evaluation.If you need to get up to speed, you can read an interview with him here. However, Level 1 Evaluations which measure initial learner reaction to instruction are typically boring checklists or Likert-type scales which are painful to complete and don’t […]
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Leave a Comment (6) →Using a virtual world or metaverse for training is not as science-fiction as it sounds. A metaverse or virtual world is simply the natural extension and convergence of several technologies currently used for online learning. The first software element that makes up a virtual world is a synchronous learning tool similar to WebEx or Adobe […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →One of the great things about what I do is getting to meet and work with really thoughtful and creative people and the other day, I got a chance to brainstorm with a group of great people on the topic of Virtual World Implementations. The group included Clark Aldrich (who I have worked with quite […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Here are some interesting statistics about learning. Of course, the data was collected before the great finanical meltdown but still interesting data According to ASTD, an organization of professional learning and development practiioners: ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent $134.39 billion on employee learning and development in 2007. This amount reflects direct learning expenditures such […]
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Leave a Comment (5) →Articles like Second Life’s death knell tell of the lack of interest in virtual worlds with a recant of the death of Google’s Lively and the pulling of the Reuters Second Life in world reporter. But, to mis-quote Mark Twain, The rumors of their death have been greatly exaggerated. According to Virtual Worlds Management, a […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Sectera Edge and all its functions. The new President of the United States is a self-confessed techno-savvy person who loves his Blackberry and until recently, rumors where he was going to have to give it up and that he would be using a Sectera Edge. The Edge is a high-tech, spy-resistent phone with buttons to […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Every year Lisa Neal Gualtieri of eLearn Magazine asks for e-learning predictions about the upcoming year. You can read the predictions in Predictions for 2009 and for the past few years Stephen Downes over at his Half an Hour blog grades the predictions. It really raises the stakes of the predictions but is a great […]
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