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Blogs vs. Wikis

February 23, 2008
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As I continue with my collaborative experiment eCube, I am attempting to integrate and popularize the organization Wiki. I am finding working with Wiki much harder than working with a Blog. I find Wikis more complex and less user-friendly, which sort of defeats the purpose I guess. With my blog, I find I have more control over what I want, how I want the content to appear, and linking other content in my blog. Wiki seems to present me complex codes to create a meaningful page. While I guess once…

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eCube – An Experiment to Create a Collaborative Learning Environment

February 17, 2008
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Ray Sims recent blog post about motivation for technology adoption by end-users came in at an opportune time for me. Having blogged on my own for a while, I am now embarking on the journey of experiments. Inspired by the Bamboo Project, and challenged by the job of enhancing skills of a diverse and divergent (in more ways than one) large team of instructional designers and content developers, I have decided to experiment using Web 2.0 tools to bring in some convergence. And I need suggestions to make this succeed.We’ve…

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Instructional Design – Art or ADDIE

February 14, 2008
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Clive Shepherd makes a case for successive approximation in his recent blog post. Makes sense, after all, most learning professionals in the industry are arguing that ADDIE is not relevant today.I have always thought that as a method, the E looped back to A in ADDIE. Clive talks about how those who work in classroom could teach instructional designers a thing or two. But aren’t trainers implementing ADDIE model, except perhaps in quick succession? Isn’t putting together a quick and dirty design and then trying it out in the class…

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Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

February 10, 2008
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I first read about PLE in Viplav Baxi’s blog. Then I came across it again in a blog that I am currently following with great interest – Michele Martin’s The Bamboo Project. Michele’s blog has many posts about PLE and her blog and the Bamboo project make an interesting case study for using Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning. And of course my much revered blogger Tony Karrer has many posts on PLE. And with a little more research, I realize that I am about 6 months behind in discussions…

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Mobile Learning

February 6, 2008
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I was required to do some research on mobile learning. I am not particularly enthused by the idea of formal learning on mobile phones and don’t have much insight into mobile learning or the use of mobile devices in education. However some thoughts emerged after my digging around:Mobile phones will play a major role in social networking. They will be a key tool for social networking.Downloading songs, ring tones and wallpapers will be the main applications. Gaming on mobile phones is also increasing. Major content revenue from mobile phones will…

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eLearning Growth Areas and Client Satisfaction

February 2, 2008
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| Categories: Clients, customer satisfaction, customers, e-learning

I recently was responding to journalist questions about the elearning industry. While most answers could be found in innumerable industry reports, there were two that caught my attention. I would be interested in hearing more about these.Do you see demand for e-learning from any particular sectors in the economy?As a vendor organization, we have seen elearning clients grow in almost all sectors. Technology has been an all time favorite and demand for technology training has been consistent across the years. Other sectors are banking and finance, retail, engineering, and education,…

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Instructional Design – If, When and How Much?

February 1, 2008
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Learning Circuit's big question for Feb 2008 Instructional Design - If, When and How Much? seems relevant to the ongoing discussion we've been having in my blog.Starting with Death of the Instructional Designer and continuing in Instructional Designer Competencies.There are many related questions asked in Learning Circuit's big question and it will be interesting to see responses to those.

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Dump the Drone – Cathy Moore

January 30, 2008
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I would like to thank Cathy Moore for making Dump the Drone available on Slideshare. Many of the concepts are drilled into training programs at our organization but I just love the way she presents these ideas. Absolutetly great!!! | View | Upload your own

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Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs

January 28, 2008
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Communications coach Carmine Gallo breaks down the ace presenter's latest Macworld keynote. The result? A 10-part framework you can use to wow your own audience. Many of these principles could actually apply in creating an elearning course :-).Carmine Gallo, a business communications coach and Emmy-Award winning former TV journalist, is the author of Fire Them Up! and 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators. He writes his communications column every week.

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Instructional Designer Competencies

January 26, 2008
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My article Death of the Instructional Designer sparked off some interesting debate and provided some good points. In case you missed it, do view the comments posted for the article. The poll also showed that most readers believe that instructional designers do add value to content development projects. Tom Crawford makes some interesting points in Is Instructional Design Dead. He also lists some competencies he believes an instructional designer should have.Vaughan Waller argues that good instructional design is a crucial component of a successful learning program and always will be.…

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