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The Malofiej-awards 2002: Award Categories
The Malofiej-awards 2002 (Spain): Award CategoriesFor all you infographic fans out there, this is a treat you don't want to miss. Although the infographics are in Spanish, a lot can be learnt about the art of conveying complex information visually. Visual instructional design?
Thanks Flazoom
infographics, instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Macromedia: Using Macromedia Flash MX learning interactions
Macromedia: Using Macromedia Flash MX learning interactionsMacromedia Flash MX learning interactions help you create interactive online instructional courses that run in Flash. Each individual Flash learning interaction can send tracking information to a server-side learning management system (LMS) that complies with the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC) protocol. Additionally, the quiz templates track cumulative results from a sequence of interactions and can pass them along to the LMS using an enhanced data tracking functionality that conforms to either AICC or Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) standards.
instructional design, interaction Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 21, 2002
New Book: How People Learn:Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
New Book: How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and SchoolA fundamental tenet of modern learning theory is that different kinds of learning goals require different approaches to instruction; new goals for education require changes in opportunities to learn. The design of learning environments is linked to issues that are especially important in the processes of learning, transfer, and competent performance. Those processes, in turn, are affected by the degree to which learning environments are student centered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered.
[via Webword]
instructional design, school Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 16, 2002
elearning Magazine: Find Jobs, Track Industry Health on the Internet
elearning Magazine: Find Jobs, Track Industry Health on the InternetStudying job listings can provide insights on the types of jobs being created within the e-learning segment:
* 30 to 40 percent of all jobs are contract positions for project teams
* The two biggest job categories in e-learning are instructional design and sales/marketing
* More than 70 percent of the open jobs from e-learning suppliers and vendors are sales jobs.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 09, 2002
Fast Company: How to SMASH Your Strategy
Fast Company: How to SMASH Your StrategyIBM is breaking down strategy and implementation into smaller pieces, letting each component know the goals, monitor its own performance, and do some problem solving. At IBM, this merger of strategy and implementation became known as "SMASH": simple, many, self-healing. The most effective computers would be made of many small, interchangeable components with the ability to monitor their own performance and solve problems as they arise rather than wait for instructions from the central processor: headquarters. Biology was IBM's inspiration. A hangnail doesn't prevent you from typing; the flu doesn't prevent you from walking. Similarly, a small software or hardware problem shouldn't bring computing to a halt.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 07, 2002
Online Learning Magazine: SCORM: Clarity or Calamity?
Online Learning Magazine: SCORM: Clarity or Calamity?"As long as we are working in the plumbing and infrastructure domain, it's really not the right time for us instructional design-types to object. It would be like an interior designer walking up to a new home with only the foundation and pipes running into the concrete and saying, 'This is not adequate!' That would be ridiculous, because the building infrastructure is not ready to support interior design work at that stage. So where I get concerned is the next step. The interoperability that existing specifications promote is just plumbing, and the specifications don't care about the quality of what goes into the pipes. It could be spring water, or it could be sewage."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 02, 2002
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks: July 2002 Issue
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks: July 2002 Issue- via SiT
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Learning Circuits: A Field Guide to Learning Objects
Learning Circuits: A Field Guide to Learning ObjectsLearning Object. Modular building block. Chunk. Reusable information object. Nugget. Whatever. The list goes on. But what is a learning object, exactly. More important, how and when should they be used? Learning Circuits in collaboration with SmartForce breakdown the types of learning objects--instruction, collaboration, practice, and assessment--that are currently developed by most e-learning suppliers.
[Note: pdf file, 480kb]
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 11, 2002
Allison Rossett: Just elarning jargon?
Allison Rossett: Just elarning jargon?What are knowledge management? Blended learning? Performance support? Instructional design? And what do they have to do elearning and performance improvement?
[Web site is based on Allison Rossett's 2002 ASTD Elearning Handbook]
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 11, 2002
USDLA Journal: A Model for Blended Learning
USDLA Journal: A Model for Blended LearningBut why do so many blended learning initiatives turn into frustrating boondoggles, consuming far more time and money than anyone anticipated? The answer -- just as with most troubled initiatives -- can be found in poor planning (i.e., instructional design), the bitter fruits of which often appear during the implementation of training, or long after substantial amounts of time, money and enthusiasm have been expended.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, July 08, 2002
Apple Guide Complete: Designing and Developing Onscreen Assistance
Apple Guide Complete: Designing and Developing Onscreen AssistanceWith Apple Guide, you can produce guide files that actually lead users, step by step, through complex tasks and concepts. If you want to provide task-oriented, context-specific instructions, Apple Guide gives you the ease and flexibility to do so. You'll learn about the complete cycle of designing, scripting, and coding guide files in these four parts of the book...
[via InfoDesign]
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, July 08, 2002
eLearn Magazine: Do You Really Need Reusability?
eLearn Magazine: Do You Really Need Reusability?For one thing, it's hard to design reusable learning objects. That means you need more skilled (i.e., higher paid) instructional designers who will probably take more time (and therefore more money) to make your e-learning reusable. So there is an actual dollar cost for reusability. Second, in order to make content reusable, instructional designers have to give up a number of useful techniques that they would otherwise employ to deliver the best learning experience possible.
instructional design, usability Add tag Permalink | Friday, July 05, 2002
Brooke Broadbent: Sample chapter
Brooke Broadbent's book: ABC's of e-learning: Rewards & Risks (sample chapter, pdf, 193k)Generally, e-learners appreciate the convenience, choice, and flexibility
that e-learning offers. Instructional designers value the standardized frame-work
and flexibility of e-learning media. Instructors think e-learning is convenient;
they applaud the ease of record keeping and the reduced travel that
are part of the e-learning revolution. Managers like the idea of automated,
consistent assessment information and the reduced costs that e-learning can
bring to an organization. Let
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 03, 2002
Korea Herald: Knowledge management sweeping Korea’s corporate landscape
Korea Herald: KM sweeping Korea's corporate landscapeThere are also cultural reasons. Korean people, though not all, tend to prefer intuition and unwritten know-how to detailed manuals and boring instructions. And working for info-tech ventures does not necessarily mean that all the employees are familiar with the nuts and bolts of knowledge management.
Such problems have long been identified and top managers have vigorously set up incentives aimed at persuading employees to post their knowledge in the database. Special bonuses, prizes and other motivating items have been offered to those who are willing to share what they know with co-workers.
instructional design, knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, June 28, 2002
e-JIST: Research in Online Learning Community
e-JIST: Research in Online Learning CommunityOnline learning community has been considered as one of the most important learning concepts in technology-based instructions. Yet online learning community has not been well-defined or well-examined. The social learning process has been suggested as the fundamental factor to examine in an online learning community to ensure online participants and the community will grow and evolve in terms of their knowledge acquisition. Four basic elements and four theoretical constructs in online learning community suggest an ideal theoretical framework for future research. The purpose of this paper is to examine current literature and current research concerning online learning community, to discuss the impacts of online learning communities on human learning, and to propose a theoretical construct for future development of online learning communities.
instructional design, community, research Add tag Permalink | Friday, June 14, 2002
Syllabus Magazine: Planning and Implementing Instructional Video
Syllabus Magazine: Planning and Implementing Instructional VideoSince its first experiments with instructional video in 1995, Duquesne University has gained significant experience in producing and delivering video for multimedia, video conferencing, and Web-based courses. Here, three campus technology leaders examine the evolution of instructional video at Duquesne and explain how a collaborative planning process
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Training Magazine: Perfect Learner: An
Training Magazine: Perfect Learner: An Expert Debate on Learning StylesFor more than a quarter century, learning style theory has knocked on the door of corporate training offices offering itself as a credible alternative to one-size-fits-all instruction. Now that technology has given us the means to deliver truly individualized learning, it begs the question: Is it time to let learning styles come in?
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 23, 2002
E-learning Magazine: Is E-learning Floundering?
E-learning Magazine: Is E-learning Floundering?Is e-learning as we know it a failure? According to Forrester Research, 70 percent of those who start an e-learning course never complete it... As Bill Horton, author of "Evaluating E-learning" and winner of several international awards points out, "E-learning doesn't change anything about how human beings learn." E-learning is failing because the instructional design principles currently used to develop the majority of e-learning courses are wrong.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Distance Educator: Robert Gagne Dies
Distance Educator: Robert Gagne Dies at Age 85 It is with deep sadness that we report the passing of Robert Mills Gagne, one of the most influential scholars in instructional design.instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 03, 2002
CBS MarketWatch: Online graduate degrees
CBS MarketWatch: Online graduate degreesOnline graduate students may pay as much -- or more -- for traditional instruction, compared to online campuses. Still, full-time workers are finding Web-based programs make career advancement easier and, in many cases, achievable.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 29, 2002