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04 Dec 09
Kapp Notes: Accidental Instructional Designers May Want to Just Say No
Karl Kapp revisits the value of instructional design degrees, arguing that people who accidentally find themselves in the field should decline to develop learning until they've been trained. Karl also identifies what he feels is the most important skill instructional designers should have.
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So, to me, the most important skill an instructional designer can have is being able to apply instructional strategies. To know when to use a mnemonic and when to use an analogy. When to model the behavior to be learned and when to provide a check list. When Constructivism is a good theorietical underpinning for a topic and when a Cognitivism-based approach is necessary.
Instructional designers add value by serving as catalyst who accelerate the process of learning for individuals.
03 Dec 09
Talent Management - Fielding Objections to Telecommuting
Common objections to telecommuting and how to respond to them. Good answers, but I wish citations were given rather than just "Statistics show..." or "Recent surveys have shown..." If you used these arguments, you'd need to do some additional research to back up the claims.
02 Dec 09
Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There? | Practical eCommerce
Some US stats on disabilities that affect web accessibility. Links to UN, UK, and Australian stats are also included.
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The most commonly discussed disabilities affecting website accessibility are sight and hearing impairments. These specific impairments encompass 6.8 percent of the population age 15 years and older – and climb to encompass 21.3 percent of the population when you look specifically at the population over 65, according to the 2005 report. Eight-point-two percent of this same population is listed as having difficulty grasping objects– which affects the use of a mouse.
30 Nov 09
Two Ways to Reclaim Your Feeds from FeedBurner
Get rid of Feedburner's link pollution--make URLs in your feed show up as your real URLs
26 Nov 09
Presenting with live slides – OER, literacies, libraries and the future preso @ Dave’s Educational Blog
Dave Cormier explains how he "presented" at a webinar using "live slides": thought-provoking questions on slides with lots of space for participants to use the whiteboard. I'm not sure this is really "presenting" though; it's more moderating a discussion. But it sounds much more engaging than the usual presentations.
25 Nov 09
Why you want to use scenarios in your elearning » Making Change
A great slideshow showing (not just explaining!) the value of scenarios to change behavior in e-learning
Learning Visions: Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09
Notes on a DevLearn session on how people got into instructional design and what they feel are the important skills. Out of 25+ IDs, only 2 had advanced degrees in ID.
24 Nov 09
Bunchberry & Fern: Learning Styles: fable-ous and tragic
Long post on learning styles, the controversies, and why we keep talking about them even when the research isn't solid
My conversation with academics
A 2007 post from the Learning Circuits blog about different views of the value of theories, research, and results in academia and corporate environments. Definitely takes the anti-academic POV. I like Mitch Owen's response in the comments: "Effective work is always blended.. theory and application.. "
20 Nov 09
Big Dog, Little Dog: Designing for Agile Learning
Part of a series on agile learning design. This post focuses on 4 lenses for design: performance centered, guru, learner-centered, and system. These lenses are then mapped to the complexity of the design environment and sources of information in those different environments. Lots of graphics to reinforce how different approaches fit different environments.
19 Nov 09
Learntrends 2009 Sessions Live Blogging « Online Sapiens
Collected links to live blogging posts from LearnTrends (including mine)--nice to have all of them together in one place
18 Nov 09
Harold Jarche » PKM Overview
Resources from Harold's LearnTrends session on sense-making with personal knowledge management
Problem-Based Learning and Scenario-Based Training: Operations & Tactics at Officer.com
Comparison of problem-based learning and scenario-based learning, where problem-based learning is text-based case studies and scenario-based learning is interactive, dynamic, and time-limited.
e-Learning: What’s Hot and What’s Not? « Performance X Design
Overview of current trends in e-learning. According to this post, what's hot is social media, informal learning, simulations & scenario-based learning, virtual worlds, rapid learning, mobile learning, open source, and performance support.
Cognitive Load Theory: Failure? « EdTechDev
Explanation of cognitive load theory and the problems with it, both conceptual and methodological. Lots of sources to dig into deeper if you want more research on this issue.
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Numerous contradictions of cognitive load theory’s predictions have been found, but with germane cognitive load, they can still be explained away. de Jong does not use this term (unfalsifiable) but instead states that germane cognitive load is a post-hoc explanation with no theoretical basis: “there seems to be no grounds for asserting that processes that lead to (correct) schema acquisition will impose a higher cognitive load than learning processes that do not lead to (correct) schemas” (2009).
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2. Poor external validity of lab-based studies. Moreno doesn’t touch on something in the de Jong article – the fact that most cognitive load (and multimedia learning) studies are conducted in labs that “includes participants who have no specific interest in learning the domain involved and who are also given a very short study time” (de Jong, 2009), often only a few minutes. Quite a number of findings from these studies have not held up as strongly when tested in classrooms or real-world scenarios, or have even reversed (such as the modality effect, but see this refutation and this other example of a reverse effect).
17 Nov 09
open thinking » 90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
A collection of videos related to technology and media literacy, sorted in categories like "Conversation Starters," "Influence of Media on Society," and "Social Networks & Identity."
About e-Learning | Online Degrees | Online Colleges | Online Distance Education
Info on colleges offering ed tech and instructional design degrees
12 Nov 09
A Toolkit to Develop E-Learning in an Open (XML) Environment | E-Learning Curve Blog
Series of posts on open source tools (plus some free proprietary ones) for developing e-learning. The focus is on developing in a truly open environment using XML, so this isn't about exporting to Flash (although some of the tools do).
Learning Visions: Ruth Clark: Evidence Based E-Learning #dl09 #dl09-104
Cammy Bean's live blogged notes from DevLearn with Ruth Clark. Lots of this is the multimedia principles I've read before (and maybe don't always apply in authentic learning environments, but that's another story). The research on animations vs stills was new to me though.
05 Nov 09
Mr. Higgins’ Blog » Blog Archive » ClustrMaps as Student Motivation
A great description from a teacher of how his students are motivated by the ClustrMap on his class website, including how it inspires them to look up places on Google Earth
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