The purpose of Micro-learning is to provide short, snappy and provocative stories to help learners reflect on a real-life situation or provoke social learning conversations in discussion rooms, Twitters, Blogs, etc. Full-scale scenarios are elaborate scenarios with multiple branching while…
Author: Ray Jimenez, PhD
Think Artichoke eLearning, Understand Learner’s Instincts
Last July 23, 2009, I had an opportunity to be a panel member of the online event “The Future of the Business of Learning” sponsored by Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation. It was an insightful event featuring thought leaders Tony…
Be vulnerable – An authentic way to tell a story
What stories help other people? Be vulnerable. Share what you have overcome. Stories appeal when they are about personal circumstances. Real, honest, and from the heart. Short video by Nancy Duarte. Ray Jimenez, PhDhttp://www.vignettestraining.com/http://www.trainingpayback.com/ “Helping Learners Learn Their Way” “Helping…
eLearning Reusables – Need Beta Participants
Fisherman Quiz – eLearning Reusable / Work in Progress June 13, 2009 Everything, well at least 95% in the Flash is reusable in XML, images, audio, swf, etc. The engine is encrypted. This allows non-techie to have a good looking…
Tweets – So near, yet distant
The Arts Elevate Knowledge and Learning – More Visualization Tools
Thanks to Tweets from @russeltarr, I saw work of Jonathan Harris is phenomenal in helping us visualize the world, massive, bit, world around us. These two tools merge art with rapid access to learning. I call this mapping and visualization…
Is there Catharsis in Web. 2.0? “I am hungry for love”
Is there Catharsis in Web 2.0? I am in search for something in Web 2.0. The end is clear to me: How to find cathartic or closure like experience with the aid of Web 2.0. My background is in organizational…
Visualization Tool – Enables Learners to Think Through
Visualization and mapping in Web 2.0 continues to provide e-learning designers and developers a window into what is possible to simplify and enhance the learners’ experience. Visualization tools help learners map out in sketches, helping them get a bird’s eye…
Learning Spaces: Now is the future
Provocative learning spaces – By David Hopkins (Thanks to Tweet of Tony Karrer http://www.elearninglearning.com/) How the future is now happening in learning Ray Jimenez, PhDhttp://www.vignettestraining.com/http://www.simplifiedeLearning.com/ “Helping Learners Learn Their Way” “Helping Learners Apply Learning”
Assess yourself — Would you qualify as a Social Learning Specialist or Leader?
In November 29, 2007, I wrote in my blog the new jobs and careers in Social Learning. I have been seeing growth in eLearning and training professionals wanting more training and skills in Social Learning. One of the most challenging…
Ray’s Wacky Video – Blur Between Learning and Applying
Are you emphasizing learning or applying? There is a blur and the more you focus your investment in applying the better your returns will be. And learners learn better. Salient points of the video * Blur Between Learning and Applying…
Does your e-Learning Program carry junk?
How many times have you moved houses over the years? Have you wondered why it is so difficult to rid of old junk? As our homes shrink in space, we rent “storage space” – mostly for unnecessary, costly, emotional junk.…
Pluses and Minuses of Twittering
Micro-Learning and Sharing is the foundation of my researchon 3-Minute e-Learning. The ability to learn quickly, instantlyand conveniently. And Twitter pushes the learning to really beat the smallest level. Jakob Nielsen believes Twitters are good for updates on specificinformation, like…
FREE: Millionaire Game – How to create the iPhone touch, look and feel in your e-Learning? Use e-Learning Reusables.
Steve Jobs with the iPhone and Pixar made us aware on how high quality aesthetics, stories and friendliness in functions make our lives easier and more gratifying. Now, why is it so difficult to raise the standards of our e-Learning…
A story that comes from the heart – Manny Pacquiao
Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao knocked out Ricky Hatton in round 2 last May 2, 2009 at MGM Las Vegas. 12,000 Brits travelled to Las Vegas and got disappointed.http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dwyre3-2009may03,0,1983219.column A week before the fight, my family visited Manny at his residence in…