Instructional Design Instructional design: Testing application, not just knowledge It’s easy and tempting to write activities that test whether learners know something. How can we make learners use their knowledge as well? You might be familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy. Its current form identifies six categories of intellectual performance, from remembering to creating. To make the taxonomy easier to apply, I grabbed my Unsubtle Machete of Oversimplification and in a few whacks reduced the categories to just two: Know activities ask learners to retrieve and maybe categorize or explain information.Use activities ask learners to apply information to realistic situations. Often, a “use” activity includes a test of whether the learner “knows” something — you get two activities in one! Example Your learners create widgets. Know activity: Drag the term to its definition — drag “transmogrify” to “modify a widget so it will function at high altitudes” Use activity: Your client wants to use their widget at 2800 meters above sea level. Have I been too brutal to Bloom? Photo by SOGKnives
Marketing Your LMS Internally | TOPYX Learning Management System Many people believe that once they have implemented their LMS/LCMS that everyone will come running to use the system. Nothing could be farther than the truth. Worse they assume that if it is “mandatory” everyone is going to access it because it is required. Thus creating a marketing strategy while you are working on/implementing your LMS is essential to build an audience and expand for future growth. Creating your marketing strategy Realize that it needs to be multi-pronged and not just one approachIdentify your audiences you need to reach – can be by department, job role, entire company, etc. – You will craft a giant message and campaign, but also create mini campaigns for maximum effectIdentify what channels of distribution you are going to use to get the messages out – will it be e-mail, the intranet (if you have one), a newsletter, flyers going to different sites (if applicable), word of mouth via ILT, social media, or a combination of these channels? E-Mail E-Mail Reality Are great.
How to Start a Successful Training Company (Part 3) « Absorb LMS Blog This is the final post in a three-part series. Part one was an introduction to selling learning content to individuals and organizations. Part two examined the most important learning management system requirements to support the sale of training. I’m writing this post on a flight to Seattle where Mike Owens, co-founder of Blatant Media, and I will be meeting with the great team at Adobe to help them plan out their learning management system (LMS) strategy. A dozen years ago, help systems were all the rage, largely because enterprise software was rarely easy to use. Apart from relying on your gut reaction, how do you evaluate usability in enterprise software? Basic usability: Each feature is an island onto itself. Absorb LMS and Absorb SMARTLAB provide something similar (minus the little paper clip person.) Usability through automation: The application contains the ability to automate common tasks so that they do not need to be manually repeated. Automation creates scalability.
Overcoming Objections to eLearning by Judy Unrein “In each case, if the method you’re trying to bring to the organization is suitable for the need, there will be a reason it’s suitable: there will be payoffs in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, scalability, consistency, or some combination of these.” Did you know that eLearning is around 50 years old? Yes, you read that right. Teaching is one of the first uses that organizations found for computers: researchers at Stanford University experimented with using computers to teach children math and science back in the early 1960s. And yet, one of the situations I occasionally encounter is that, while one department may be starting an eLearning initiative, there is a strong resistance to this “new” model elsewhere within – or maybe throughout – the organization. Overcoming objections is an important part of making any eLearning initiative successful, and luckily, eLearning’s long history gives us plenty of knowledge of how to make our case. Objection: eLearning is too expensive
Google запускает OpenClass LMS | Дистанционный обучатель Уследить за развитием всех продуктов Google сегодня практически невозможно. Каждый месяц эта корпорация выпускает десятки обновлений и запускает новые сервисы. Так cлучилось и в прошедшем месяце. За информационным шумом вокруг обновлений интерфейса популярных продуктов от Google и популяризации Google Plus практически совсем без внимания остался новый продукт, нацеленный на рынок образования и обучения, – Google OpenClass. На рынке “Систем управления обучением” (LMS) доминируют дорогостоящие комплексные решения, типа BlackBoard, и open-source продукты, которые бесплатны, но имеют сложный процесс установки и настройки, типа Moodle. Зачем нам OpenClass? Родителей новорожденного мы представили, давайте теперь поговорим о самом продукте. Кто-то из вас может спросить: “А как же бесплатный Moodle?!”. Pearson c Google пошли другим путем и, чтобы не создавать дополнительных задач учебным завадениям, решили держать всю серверную часть у себя. Социальная составляющая проекта (Social Learning)
Best Online Productivity Tools for 2012 Sharebar There are so many online services, platforms, applications and tools, it can be difficult to wade through it all. So I’ve updated an older list of productivity tools for the coming year. Tools that help us become more efficient, organized and productive are important. Why Online? When all of your important stuff is available online, you can access it from anywhere. With most of these tools you don’t have to download or install anything. Backing up your work online keeps you productive because they say to save everything in three places. Mozy is often recommended as the backup tool of choice. Dropbox has an understated and simply intuitive interface. Bookmarking and clipping the web keep you productive because you don’t have to do a deep search all around the web for that article you saw two months ago. When you use an online tool like Delicious to bookmark websites or specific pages, you always have those important bookmarks with you. Zoho is pretty impressive.
Kemp design model This article or section is a stub. A stub is an entry that did not yet receive substantial attention from editors, and as such does not yet contain enough information to be considered a real article. In other words, it is a short or insufficient piece of information and requires additions. 1 Definition The Jerold Kemp instructional design method and model defines nine different components of an instructional design and at the same time adopts a continous implementation/evaluation model. Kemp adopts a wide view, the oval shape of his model conveys that the design and development process is a continuous cycle that requires constant planning, design, development and assessment to insure effective instruction. The model is particularly useful for developing instructional programs that blend technology, pedagogy and content to deliver effective, inclusive (reliable) and efficient learning. 2 The model Identify instructional problems, and specify goals for designing an instructional program.
ADDIE: Анализ(Analysis) И так идем все по порядку... - Оценка потребностейОсновной целью проведения оценки потребностей, является определение, какая проблема есть основной для обучения. Выявление такой проблемы необходимо для установки целей и задач.Ниже - несколько вопросов которые помогут определить основные элементы, необходимые для этого.* Какие конкретные навыки и знания должен приобрести учащийся?* Этот курс замена или дополнение к существующим курсам?* Как часто будет изменять содержание курс?* Можно ли научить нужных навыков он-лайн? - Анализ аудиторииИнформация полученная здесь помогает адаптировать курс для учащихся конкретного типа. - Анализ содержанияЗдесь осуществляется первоначальный анализ содержания поэтому нужно выяснить:* В каком виде можно преподносить материалы? - Структурный анализОсновываясь на информации, собранной на предыдущих шагах, можно уже сосредоточится на структуре обучения.Некоторые из вопросов, которые нужно задать на этом шаге:* Какой должна быть структура курса будет?
ADKAR Change Management Model Overview - Change Management Learning Center Overview This tutorial presents an overview of the ADKAR model for change management. ADKAR is a goal-oriented change management model that allows change management teams to focus their activities on specific business results. For example, Awareness of the business reasons for change is a goal of early communications related to a business change. The goals or outcomes defined by ADKAR are sequential and cumulative. As a manager, you can use this model to identify gaps in your change management process and to provide effective coaching for your employees. diagnose employee resistance to change help employees transition through the change process create a successful action plan for personal and professional advancement during change develop a change management plan for your employees The ADKAR model has the ability to identify why changes are not working and help you take the necessary steps to make the change successful. Business dimension of change People dimension of change Exercise 1.
Best of the Best: Content Authoring Tools While traditionally best of the best are announced in December, I decided why wait. I mean it is not like something is going to change in just a few weeks for any such product. Before I get to the list, people always want to know how do I decide what constitutes the best of the best. Here are my criteria Innovation – if the product doesn’t offer some innovative features, then they are stale. An additional note There is never any pay for play here – even my vendor clients are aware that they may not win best of the best.Never quid pro quo Updated Content Authoring Tool Directory Identifies the best of the best and now identifies vendors who offer a reader discount when you purchase their product. Content Authoring Tools Directory Lastly, they are ranked. #1 – means #1, etc. And now, without further adieu.. The Ten Best Course Authoring Tools #10 Aura Interactive – SH! #9 – ReadyGo! The version you want is the Pro version which comes with Corel Paint Shop Pro, Qarbon Viewlet builder. a. b. c.