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Received a very thought provoking question the other day in email and thought the concept was too good not to share, plus I’d like to get some feedback to see if I am on track. The paraphrased question:“Are there any estimation guidelines for determining the amount of client time required on an eLearning project. For […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →This upcoming Tuesday, I will be speaking close to home in State College PA…home of Penn State on the topic of “Why 3D Worlds for Learning?” It promises to be a lot of fun since many alumni from our program are working at Penn State in various departments and capacities. I look forward to seeing […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Story telling and instructional design have a lot in common and perhaps they are not thought of as having any overlap but they do. In e-learning we have instructional strategies, in a story we have a plot. In e-learning we have objectives, in a story we have a morale or an underlying theme or symbolism […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Having recently been invited to speak in Las Vegas (see Keynoting in Vegas–Not the same as headlining but…), I took some time to see a few shows and one of my favorites was the well known creative and innovative act know as the Blue Man Group. As the Blue Man Group’s web site describes; Blue […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Tomorrow is an exciting day for me, I will be keynoting the Inforum Conference in Las Vegas. Inforum is the conference of the software company, Infor. Infor is one of those “big software companies no one has ever heard about”…but you should check them out. Infor is the world’s third largest business software company. We […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Last night I am on Cammy Bean’s Learning Vision’s blog and I see that she has posted Zaid’s new list. It is called 27 Inspiring Women Edubloggers which was motivated by the backlash of the female edublogosphere against his original top 25 list which included mostly males which, sadly I was not one of them. […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →A new effort to create games for middle school students has recently been announced. Games for Learning Institute, a $3 million research effort at New York University that was publicly unveiled on Tuesday. The institute, a partnership between the Microsoft Corporation and six universities (N.Y.U., Columbia, the City University of New York, Dartmouth, Parsons the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Too often learning and development professionals (and practically everyone else) treats learning as an event. The assumption is that a person attends one class or takes one online course and SHAZAM, they instantly know everything they need to know about a topic, software application, new corporate policy or product. This is a lie. But we […]
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Leave a Comment (9) →A few years ago, I co-conducted a study to determine the training needs of the Logistics and Transportation (L&T)industry in Northeastern PA. What I found was an interesting list. Even with the recent climb in gas prices, I think these expressed needs are all current. Many of these needs cut across industries and even job […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here is a snippet of a discussion I overheard between a manager of instructional design and her supervisor. Customer: So what are you doing about getting this curriculum on-line? I want 100% on-line. Developer: This is a radical change and we need to think about the audiences’ needs to see if this is the best […]
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