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During the next three days, we are having our Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) meeting at Bloomsburg University. It is a unique opportunity for corporate professionals in the learning and e-learning field to mix and mingle with pre-professionals in the field, Master’s students who are studying to become instructional designers. We are going to blogcast this […]
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Leave a Comment (10) →There are many times in many industries when acronyms are used as if they were “real” words and everyone assumes everyone else knows what they mean. Soon, no one even remembers what the acronym stands for. This posting is to define the term ADDIE. ADDIE is an acronym for the process of designing and developing […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →We had a beautiful audio track for the online module but only a handful of the learners in the field had speakers…so, basically no one could hear the audio. –Training Director of Large Fortune 500 Company Unfortunately this situation, and hundreds like it occur every day because the “Analysis” step of the ADDIE model is […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Want to visit the future of the web? We already saw the 3B.net example. Now is time to check out Second Life. It is a social networking site that allows you to be an avatar and roam around a virtual world created by its residents. Here is an article from the www.money.com web site that […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The other day, I had an opportunity to speak to some folks involved with various training functions at regional banking institution. I spoke about new learning technologies such as blogs and casual games. The meeting was with people in Rhode Island, PA and at various other locations so we used a video conference call to […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here is a bit of interesting technology. It is a 3-Dimensional browser. You create a 3D space (called a village) and then you get a person (avatar) to walk through the space looking at “billboards” of all the web sites you have choosen. So you “walk around” looking at your chosen web sites each day […]
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Leave a Comment (5) →CNN.com has an interesting article titled Report: Number of students taking online courses rises The article indicates that one in six students enrolled in higher education took at least one online course this fall. In fact, 850,000 more students were enrolled in online courses this fall than last fall–an increase of 40% Also, the same […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here are a number of links to sites that contain calculators for determining the ROI of e-learning. Sometimes it is e-learning vs. stand up training and sometimes not. Some required an email to obtain and some do not. If you know of any others, please inform me and I will add to the list. E-Learning […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →The international software thinktank Gartner, Inc. has made the following statement about game-based learning in one of their recent reports (March 2006) Games can reduce the time to competency and increase the depth of competency. Students can play a game repeatedly and learn from their mistakes. When designed properly, a game will enable students to […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →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: technology […]
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