Archive for the year 2006

Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Virtual NBC

Posted on 28. Dec, 2006 by .

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I wish you Happy Holidays and a great New Year. Hope you and yours have a great holiday season no matter where in the world you are located or how you celebrate. Also wishing you a happy holiday is the US television station, NBC. NBC set up and conducted a “get together” in Second Life [...]

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Definition: Cognitivism

Posted on 28. Dec, 2006 by .

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In the 1980s, several theories of learning that concentrated on studying learning as an internal function of the brain and as a social process…as opposed to overt actions and stimulas-response began to gain popularity and momentum. These theories and the study of how computers processed information all converged and led to the creation of a [...]

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Learning about Avatars

Posted on 22. Dec, 2006 by .

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Here is a great article from the eLearning Guild on avatars. If you are not familiar with the potential of avatars for e-learning check out this article by Raj Sheth titled Avatar Technology: Giving a Face to the e-Learning Interface. The article does a great job of defining avatars and describing the different types of [...]

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Out and About: Interview with Marc Rosenberg

Posted on 22. Dec, 2006 by .

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Here is an interview I did with my colleague Marc Rosenberg author of two influential books in the field of learning and e-learning for the web site e-learningguru.com. I worked with Marc at the 2005 EduNeering Knowledge Summit a private event for EduNeering clients. I really enjoyed working with him and jumped at the chance [...]

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Avatars for Learning

Posted on 22. Dec, 2006 by .

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A great deal of research is being undertaken in the area of avatars…you know, the lifelike animated people that inhabit Second Life and other online worlds. One person doing work in this area is Amy L. Baylor at Floridia State University. She is the founder of The Center for Research of Innovative Technologies for Learning [...]

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Design: Behaviorism Has It’s Place

Posted on 21. Dec, 2006 by .

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Stephen Downes in his response to my post titled Definitions: ABCD Objectives writes It remains puzzling that so much of the instructional design community remains rooted in behaviorism – this more than 30 years after the theory was abandoned everywhere else I am not sure behaviorism has been abandoned everywhere else. In fact, I think [...]

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Wake up Karl, the Meme has you

Posted on 21. Dec, 2006 by .

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Ok, so I have been tagged in a blog exercise called a “Meme” which is much like a chain letter…always fun before computers, loved handwriting fourteen letters to avoid my impending doom or bring about incredible luck…the idea of this meme is to write 5 things that you may not know about me and then [...]

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Design: Webinar Presentation of E-Learning Instructional Strategies

Posted on 20. Dec, 2006 by .

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One of the most important elements of designing effective instruction is to use the right instructional strategies. Here is a recording of a Webinar I conducted for Adobe on the topic of instructional design strategies, it is called Six Effective E-Learning Design Strategies. Take some time to look at the examples and think how you [...]

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Check Out BrainPOP

Posted on 19. Dec, 2006 by .

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There is a lot going on in terms of educating kids through the Internet, this same enthusiasm will be coming to an online training classes design for employees in the near future. As these “gamers” enter the workforce, they will want educational opportunities in the same vain as their educational games with which they are [...]

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Definitions: ABCD Objectives

Posted on 19. Dec, 2006 by .

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Here is how to create an effective Learning Objective. A learning objective simply states the behavior orknowledge change you would like to see from a learner. An objective is the final outcome desired from a learning event. Objectives need to be stated in a manner that is easily understood and measured by the designers and [...]

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