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Entries from July 2008

Rapid E-learning Authoring Tool - PowerManual Demo

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

You may recall this post where I discussed a new Rapid E-Learning authoring tool I was beta-testing for a friend.
If, like me, you’ve spent extended periods of time creating manuals from other media formats, you’ll appreciate the hard work and, to be honest, tedium involved in generating, formatting, proofing, and finally producing documentation to accompany [...]

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Tags: authoring tools · content authoring · e-learning · rapid elearning · utilities

Rapid E-learning Authoring Tool - PowerManual Demo

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

You may recall this post where I discussed a new Rapid E-Learning authoring tool I was beta-testing for a friend.
If, like me, you’ve spent extended periods of time creating manuals from other media formats, you’ll appreciate the hard work and, to be honest, tedium involved in generating, formatting, proofing, and finally producing documentation to accompany [...]

[Read more]

Tags: authoring tools · content authoring · e-learning · rapid elearning · utilities

Mobile E-Learning Channels - More on the ELG report

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

In my last post on this topic I outlined some of the key findings from the E-Learning Guild 360 Report on Mobile Learning. Today I’m going to discuss the context for mobile learning (m-learning) in a little more detail.
Now read on…
Dr. Conrad Gottfredson, head of the Performance Support Lab & Seminar at the [...]

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Tags: content delivery · definition of e-learning · learning channel · m-learning

Mobile E-Learning Channels - More on the ELG report

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

In my last post on this topic I outlined some of the key findings from the E-Learning Guild 360 Report on Mobile Learning. Today I’m going to discuss the context for so-called m-learning in a little more detail.
Now read on…
Dr. Conrad Gottfredson, head of the Performance Support Lab & Seminar at the Masie [...]

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Tags: content delivery · definition of e-learning · learning channel · m-learning

The Mobile Segment of the Learning Marketspace - new report

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

A few months ago, I received an e-mail from a correspondent about my view on opinion might be on
mobile learning (m-learning) and mobile device adoption as an e-learning delivery mechanism in the future (video lectures, e-book reading, short message texting).

With the emergence of so-called ’smart’ mobile devices including the BlackBerry and the iPhone, the [...]

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Tags: content delivery · definition of e-learning · definition of learning · learning channel · m-learning

The Mobile Segment of the Learning Marketspace - new report

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

A few months ago, I received an e-mail from a correspondent about my view on opinion might be on
mobile learning (m-learning) and mobile device adoption as an e-learning delivery mechanism in the future (video lectures, e-book reading, short message texting).

With the emergence of so-called ’smart’ mobile devices including the BlackBerry and the iPhone, the [...]

[Read more]

Tags: content delivery · definition of e-learning · definition of learning · learning channel · m-learning

Learning - the Zeigarnik effect

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s an unusual but potentially very useful instructional strategy, one that takes advantage of peoples’ need for resolution or for closure. The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Russian psychologies Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon in the late 1920’s after her professor, Gestalt psychologist Kurt [...]

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Tags: Zeigarnik effect · conditions of learning · events of instruction · gestalt psychology · learning theory · theory of instruction

Learning - the Zeigarnik effect

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s an unusual but potentially very useful instructional strategy, one that takes advantage of peoples’ need for resolution or for closure. The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Russian psychologies Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon in the late 1920’s after her professor, Gestalt psychologist Kurt [...]

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Tags: Zeigarnik effect · conditions of learning · events of instruction · gestalt psychology · learning theory · theory of instruction

Pale Blue Dot

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

This image of Earth taken from Mars’ orbit represents my theme today.
While doing some house-keeping on my YouTube Favourites recently I re-discovered again an except from Carl Sagan’s work Pale Blue Dot.
Rediscovered again? Are we going all Sam Beckett here? (No. Not Quantum [...]

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Tags: Carl Sagan · Cosmos · Jonassen · Pale Blue Dot · mindtools · semantics

Pale Blue Dot

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

This image of Earth taken from Mars’ orbit represents my theme today.
While doing some house-keeping on my YouTube Favourites recently I re-discovered again an except from Carl Sagan’s work Pale Blue Dot.
Rediscovered again? Are we going all Sam Beckett here? (No. Not Quantum [...]

[Read more]

Tags: Carl Sagan · Cosmos · Jonassen · Pale Blue Dot · mindtools · semantics