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…
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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.…
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…
Why Storytelling Works – Summaries
The power of storytelling and narrative is very much felt in face-to-face communications. My concern, which I gladly reconciled, was that the transfer of narrative between telling and listening might be lost in Web 2.0, e-Learning and digital technologies. Stories…
Orlando Guild Articulate – Session on Stories and SBL
March 9-10, 2009, I will present on Stories and SBLs – how to engage eLearners. My presentation starts with the story of “Pursuit of Happines” as a stage to show the elements of stories and how they engage learners. Then…
Twitter – Six Million Users – Micro-Learning
Business Week, March 16 reports that Twitter is now on new phase in finding revenues – by AD searches. I hope they succeed. Trainers must ask, what makes “tweets” work? It is the micro-sharing, micro-instant news … really micro-learnings. This…
Stories & Scenarios in e-Learning 2.0
Web 2.0 and e-Learning 2.0 succeed partly through conversations and exchanges of stories and scenarios. Obama’s inauguration had millions of people each one with a unique story to tell. Imagine the conversations in blogs, twitters, photo-sharing, etc. Mind-bugling. Tony O’Driscol…
Learners Need to Learn Their Own Way – What we can learn from spaghetti sauce – Gladwell
Gary Van Antwerp was kind to share Malcolm Gladwell’s video. Per Gary, he can infer that learners need to learn their own way. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html Ray Jimenez, PhDhttp://www.vignettestraining.com/http://www.trainingpayback.com/ “Helping Learners Learn Their Way” “Helping Learners Apply Learning”
Information Overload, Interruptions in Flow – Reduce Productivity
In “3-Minute e-Learning” I focused on the need to present to learners content that is critical to their performance. This is necessary because of the frequent interruptions and preferences of learners to randomly move around whenever they are in online…
Over-rated – The Myth of Multitasking
Christine Rosen writes on The Myth of Multitasking, The New Atlantis, on the different studies debunking the idea that we learn best by multi-tasking. “Discussing his research on National Public Radio recently, Poldrack warned, “We have to be aware that…
My 30 Wacky Videos – Leveraging YouTube Videos & Embedding Ability
In the spirit of wackiness and rapid e-learning, I published a few of my “Wacky Videos” – done a year ago – in YouTube. This was a test. A few people sent emails asking for more. So I decided to…
Organizing Videos for Instant Learning and Sharing in e-Learning
A lot of e-Learning use videos. We can learn from how this site, WebbAlert, produces and delivers its video to make it viral. When applied in e-Learning, viral means easy to share, reference, subscribe, embed… in essence easy-to-use video libraries…
References for Desigining Rapid Webinars – GoToWebinar Presentations
Welcome to the GoToWebinar, Citrix Online presentation on Designing Rapid Webinars – December 5, 2007by Ray Jimenez, PhD>Download the PDF file. The book is a distillation of the process ofproducing 3-Minute e-Learning Other helpful references: 1. PowerPoint Presentation 2. Rapid…
References for ASTD Los Angeles Presentation
Welcome to the references for my ASTD Los Angeles Presentation on Learning Trends and How They Impact Training,Learning and Our CareersNovember 28, 2007; 4:30 pm Virtual Session The Future of Technology Theories of Learning Digital Natives Teaching Machines” – How…