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Rapid E-learning: using the 80/20 rule to prioritize learning needs

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Today’s post concludes my short review of Kineo’s 80/20 approach to rapid learning content prioritization and development.Previously, I considered how the 80/20 Rule could be applied to e-learning, and suggested that Juran’s Axiom of “the vital few and the trivial many” meant that we could say 80 percent of learning results originate from 20 percent [...]

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Tags: 80:20 Rule · content development · disintermediation · knowledge worker · needs analysis · organizational development · rapid elearning · training needs

Rapid E-Learning and the 80/20 Rule

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments

My experience of the e-learning industry is that the best and most effective practitioners are always looking for even more efficient content development methodologies, media production technologies, and approaches to content distribution to enable them to design, develop and deliver content to learners.

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Tags: 80:20 Rule · content development · disintermediation · knowledge worker · needs analysis · organizational development · rapid elearning · training needs

Learning On-Demand: Report

July 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Bersin & Associates Principal Analyst Chris Howard has just sent me their recent report Integrating Learning into the Enterprise.
The document covers the following topics:

Planning & Strategy
Content Development
Learning Programs
Learning Technology
Analytics & Measurement
Talent Management
Leadership Development

Mr Howard would assert, and I would agree, that a transformation is taking place in organizations, and we are witnessing the emergence [...]

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Tags: bersin and associates · content development · eLearning Guild Report · just in time · learning on demand · learning technology

An Open Environment for E-Learning Course Development: Project Lifecycle 1

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Phase One: Requirements gathering - Developing the Instructional Design
In 1996, ISD guru David Merrill et alia asserted that there were indicators to demonstrate that educational instructional design (ISD) had gone awry:
Too much of the structure of educational technology is built upon the sand of relativism, rather than the rock of science. When winds of [...]

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Tags: ADDIE · I3D Model · ISD · content development · e-learning · instructional design · open e-learning environment

Open Environment E-learning 6: Microsoft Producer

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, the current version of this popular add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, is a freely available application that facilitates the capture, synchronisation, and publishing of audio, video, slides, and images. The primary reasons for choosing this application for content integration were it’s low learning curve for non-media experts, as well [...]

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Tags: Freemind · ISD · Microsoft Producer · content development · e-learning development · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · open e-learning environment · organizational development

Open Environment E-learning 4: Mind Mapping Tools

May 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Designing the structure of a syllabus, curriculum, or course is one of the key activities to be undertaken well to ensure the course meets the learners’ needs. A discussion about approaches to instructional design is beyond the remit of this series of posts on developing learning content in an Open Environment; I recommend Benjamin Bloom’s [...]

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Tags: Freemind · ISD · content development · e-learning development · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · open e-learning environment · organizational development

Open Environment E-learning 3: Productivity Tools

April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Having discussed two key components of this Open Environment for E-learning; an XML-based authoring and content-generation tool, and an image-manipulation application, today’s post will discuss an XML-based productivity suite - a word processor, spreadsheet application, and presentation tool called OpenOffice.org.
In my view, tools like DocBook XML/XXE are excellent primary content creation / generation applications; [...]

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Tags: ISD · OpenOffice.org · content development · e-learning development · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · open e-learning environment · organizational development

Open Environment E-learning 2: Image Manipulation

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The second open environment authoring tool highlighted in this series is a flexible image editing application called the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a freely distributed raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include:

creating graphics and logos
resizing and cropping photos
colour management
combining multiple images
removing unwanted [...]

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Tags: GIMP · ISD · content development · e-learning development · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · open e-learning environment · organizational development

Open Environment E-learning: XMLmind XML Editor

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

After the diversions of the last few days, I will now return to my discussion on developing e-learning content using an open environment. As discussed in a previous post, we can say that there are certain unresolved philosophical matters surrounding the notion of open environments; I will return to these presently. However, the gratis / [...]

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Tags: DocBook XML · ISD · XMLMind XML Editor · content development · e-learning development · e-learning industry · e-learning toolkit · open e-learning environment · organizational development

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: April Update

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s just over two months since I posted on Recession and the Challenge to E-learning. It’s a subject that I said I would monitoring as the “Credit Crunch” became a downturn, which may or may not lead to a recession.
As a reminder, at the time I suggested that the appropriate social and economic innovations required [...]

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Tags: content development · credit crunch · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning