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Get some solid ideas/techniques from Techsmith’s 2012 ScreenChamps Awards

On 12/17/2012, in corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, design, digital learning, education technology, elearning, engagement / engaging students, graphics, instructional design, marketing/social marketing, multimedia, online learning, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, quality, tools, training / L&D, user experience (UX), by Daniel Christian

ScreenChampsAwards-Techsmith2012

 

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Description:

Enter up to three (3) screencast videos. Videos will be assigned a category based on the information you provide (so please be as detailed as possible!). Categories are: Education (videos with a focus on teaching and/or schools, at any level); Tutorial/Training (videos with a focus on training or tutorial content); Sales and Marketing (videos made to sell or persuade); and Wildcard (videos that don’t fit in the previous categories).

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Lynda.com: Some of their most popular, timely, and innovative courses of 2012

On 12/13/2012, in animation, digital audio, digital photography, digital video, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), photography, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, tools, training / L&D, web design and production, by Daniel Christian

From Lynda.com:
Our content team reviewed the list of more than 370 courses we published this year to create a retrospective of some of our most popular, timely, and innovative courses of 2012. If you missed these courses the first time, be sure to check them out now!

 

3D + animation

audio

business

design

developer

photography

video

web

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I wonder…will the corporate world start offering their own MOOCs/assessments? [Christian]

On 12/10/2012, in 21st century, career development, computer science, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Citing IT skills shortage, IBM wants to expand presence at universities — from wiredacademic.com

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

“We want to be the scale up partner of choice for these universities,” said Jim Sporher, head of IBM’s university programs. “We want to make sure they have access to technology and understand our strategy.”  He also sees massive open online courses (MOOCs) as a mega-trend and will be considering ways for IBM to be part of the MOOC trend in the future, particularly as many of the MOOC providers such as Udacity and Coursera offer classes in computer science.

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As a big blue-chip progenitor of the tech industry, IBM is worth listening to in many regards. For one, corporate computing trends often filter down into the education space. The corporate world often has the money to purchase and deploy game-changing technologies. IBM sees that it also works the other way too, where computing at the university level creates new businesses and ideas that move up into the corporate realm.

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From DSC:
I wonder…will the corporations develop their own MOOCs?  Their own digital “playlists” and associated exams? (i.e. that someone needs to go through and pass in order to work for them…show me what you can do.)  Hmmm…

Also see:

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McKinsey and Company -- Education to Employment -- An executive summary

 

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2012 Training Industry Report

On 12/07/2012, in career development, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, professional development, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

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“The Internet of Things Ceiling” — A concept for our future Smart Classrooms by Daniel Christian

On 12/04/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, Asia, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, entrepreneurship, experimentation, face-to-face, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), online media, participation, play, productivity / tips and tricks, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, workplace, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:

I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate a BYOD/BYOT into the Smart Classroom.  That is, how can students’ devices seamlessly communicate with the main displays around the classroom? How can they quickly display a blog posting or a Google doc for example…or play a song they wrote, etc.  So I was excited to wake up this morning with the following concept/idea:

 

The Internet of Things Ceiling -- A concept for our future Smart Classrooms by Daniel Christian in December 2012

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The Internet of Things Ceiling -- concept by Daniel Christian - December 2012

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Other features/thoughts:

  • Line of sight communications — students must be in the room to display something up on the main displays
  • Information travels many ways:  From large multitouch displays/walls to students’ devices and vice versa; so a professor could hit “Save” in order to send his/her annotations to all of the students’ devices (allowing them to be more cognitively present — vs madly writing down what the professor is writing)
  • The Smart Classroom’s infrastructure becomes like a multi-thredded processor — instantaneously and simultaneously handling a far greater amount of data — going in multiple directions
  • What’s an interesting idea here is for discipline-specific, cloud-based storage mechanisms for students who want to contribute their pieces of content to their schools repositories of content
  • This topic reminds me of a graphic I created a while back, re: The “Chalkboard” of the Future:

 

 

 

So…what if the 4 screen’s on Julong’s Ultra-IPBOARD were coming from 4 different sources? Perhaps:

  1. One from a publisher’s cloud-based content repository
  2. Another from a stream of content originating from a student’s iPad
  3. Another from a stream of content originating from the Smart Classroom’s PC or Mac
  4. …and the last source originating from a student’s smartphone?

 

Demo for Ultra-IPBOARD

 

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Thanks LORD for the teachers, professors, and trainers out there!

On 11/21/2012, in adjunct faculty, art, career development, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, faculty, hearts -- matters of the heart, relationships, student-related, teachers, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

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The training world is changing [Jarche]

On 11/13/2012, in Canada, change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, lifelong learning, social learning / networks, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

The training world is changing — from Harold Jarche

Excerpt:

Open online courses, talent management, social collaboration: The training world is changing. Traditional training structures, based on institutions, programs, courses and classes, are under pressure. One of the biggest changes we are seeing in online training is that the content-delivery model is being replaced by social and collaborative frameworks.

Here are just some of things happening now that trainers should be prepared to tackle in the new year:

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Reflections on “ADDIE must die!” by Grebow

On 10/23/2012, in communities of practice, corporate universities / corporate training, innovation, instructional design, reinvent, staying relevant, training / L&D, Uncategorized, by Daniel Christian

ADDIE must die! — from knowledgestarblog.wordpress.com by David Grebow

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What’s Missing?
As I read over this list, I kept missing some simple questions. Here are just a few:

  • What is the real problem and will it still be a problem by the time we [are] finished with the training program?
  • Does this help produce a learning experience that is social?
  • Will the program enable a community of learners who can be in contact after the program?
  • What is the best solution? Are we taking ALL the ways people can learn into account?
  • Does the solution really call for a training program? Would other approaches work as well if not better?
  • Will a passing test score mean people really learned how-to do something?
  • Does the solution relate directly to my business goals?
  • How can I measure the results?  Improved performance? Faster time-to-performance? More sales? More successful innovation?

Using ADDIE the answer was more often than not a resounding “NO”.

There’s another model for learning that asks more appropriate questions, and works for Enterprise 2.0 programs.

I’ll cover it in Part Two: The Better Learning Model

 

From DSC:
David brings up some excellent points in his 10/17/12 posting above. 

What gets me here is why, after having just graduated w/ my Masters in Instructional Design for Online Learning in June 2011, was ADDIE the most predominantly taught Instructional Design (ID) model throughout the entire program?  What the (*@%^^?   How long does it take to get new thinking/new models into our education-related programs? (Sebastian Thrun asked a similar question in his recent keynote address at the 18th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference on Online Learning:  “Why haven’t Colleges of Education contacted him about what’s working with Udacity!?!”  Why did 170 of his face-to-face students opt to take his more game-like online-based course?)

Phrases popping into my mind:

  • Streams of content
  • Communities of practice
  • Communities of inquiry
  • Real-time, training on demand
  • Informal learning
  • Staying relevant
  • Reinventing ourselves
  • Engagement

 

 

 

 

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Learning in a Social Organization (LISO): a clickable guide [Hart]

On 09/20/2012, in collaboration, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, formal learning, informal learning, learning, learning ecosystem, social learning / networks, training / L&D, UK, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Learning in a Social Organization (LISO): a clickable guide — from  by Jane Hart

From DSC:
A great picture of a dynamic, active, practical, constantly-changing, learning ecosystem:

 

Learning in a SocialOrganization (LISO) -- from Jane Hart - September 2012

 

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YouTube.com’s Creator Hub

On 07/17/2012, in digital audio, digital video, Google, professional development, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

http://www.youtube.com/yt/creators/

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Survey shows people take training as infrequently as they go to a conference; but they learn continuously in other ways [Hart]

On 05/16/2012, in formal learning, informal learning, social learning / networks, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Survey shows people take training as infrequently as they go to a conference; but they learn continuously in other ways — from Learning in the Social Workplace by Jane Hart

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Although there are probably few surprises in the responses to the four main questions themselves, it is when you view the amalgamated results that you can see the bigger picture.

Addendum on 5/17/12 from Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie – May 9, 2012 | #722 – Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.

Results of Learning Directions Pulse Survey

* 33% of organizations reported they are SHRINKING the use of face-to-face classrooms.
* Greatest planned growth in learning activity mode is in the use of Webinars.
* Strongest interest in change and updates was in Leadership Development.
* While 40% show a strong interest in Social Learning – only 20.1% plan a growing utilization with a strong piloting base.
* Mobile and Tablet Device use for Learning is being piloted by 30.1%

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Only 14% think that company training is an essential way for them to learn in the workplace [Hart]

On 04/17/2012, in corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, instructional design, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), social learning / networks, training / L&D, UK, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Only 14% think that company training is an essential way for them to learn in the workplace — from Learning in the Social Workplace by Jane Hart

Excerpt:

That was one of the findings of my recent anonymous survey on how people learn best in the workplace, and even I was surprised by the results.  But I think the biggest take-away from my survey is that we can no longer assume we know how people like to learn in the workplace nor how we think people should learn. So in this blog post, I want to share the data from my survey, some of my thoughts about the results, and the importance of undertaking your own survey.

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Checklist: transforming corporate learning [Cross]

On 03/08/2012, in change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, strategy, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

Checklist: transforming corporate learning — from Internet Time Blog by Jay Cross

Excerpt:

If you don’t get this, it will get you.

Experience has taught us that making over a training department into a business learning function requires these activities:

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iPads for all: One sales team’s story [Murphy]

On 02/01/2012, in business, corporate / business world, tablets, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

iPads for all: One sales team’s story — from InformationWeek.com by Chris Murphy
Level 3 just gave iPads to its entire North American sales team, and IT packed them with apps customized to their jobs.

 

— I originally saw this at
Brent Schlenker’s blog –> elearndev.blogspot.com

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No more business as usual [Cross]

On 01/12/2012, in change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, leadership, learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, love of learning, reinvent, staying relevant, strategy, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

No more business as usual — from internettime.com by Jay Cross

Excerpts (emphasis DSC):

Business is changing, and the learning function must change along with it.

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Learning is no longer optional
Continuous improvement and delighting customers require a culture of pervasive learning. We’re not talking classes and workshops here. Creating a new order of business requires learning ecologies — what we’ve been calling Workscapes — that make it simple and enjoyable for people to learn what they need to get the job done. Companies that fail to learn will wither and die.

As all business becomes social business, L&D professionals face a momentous choice. They can remain Chief Training Officers and instructors who get novices up to speed, deliver events required by compliance, and run in-house schools. These folks will be increasingly out of step with the times.

Or they can become business leaders who shape learning cultures, social networks, collaborative practices, information flows, federated content management, just-in-time performance support, customer feedback mechanisms, and structures for continuous improvement.

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