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Suggested topic: Leader support of learning transfer
Q1: Leader support of learning transfer… Fact or fiction?
Q2: How does leadership style impact support of learning transfer?
Q3: What barriers do you encounter when working with leaders to support learning transfer?
Q4: What can we do as trainers to make it easy for leaders to support learning transfer?
How about a lrnchat about design and creativity? Questions could include:
– Is creative design part of instructional design? Is creativity important to you when you are designing eLearning?
– Is instructional design an art, craft or science?
– What are the design guidelines you use when creating eLearning (not the analysis, or technology or evaluation, but the actual design)?
– What role does visual design play in instructional design? Do IDs need visual design skills?
– What inspires you (design-wise) from other fields?
– What are examples you’ve seen of great creativity in eLearning?
– What are examples you’ve seen of great design in eLearning?
Another idea/topic:
Learning – Do you Remember? Where are you going?
Q1 What your favorite app for learning development currently? Over the past 5-10 years? Why?
Q2 Do you feel your web based delivery of content has improved over the past 3, 5, 10 years? Why?
Q3 What new technology are you most excited about implementing in the next 3, 6, 12 months?
Q4 What was your favorite learning project you worked on? Was it successful? Why?
How do you start a new e-learning project?
Q1 Where do you begin when you are approached with an idea or need?
Q2 How do you educate your client on what’s possible?
Q3 How do you manage and update clients during the production process?
Q4 How do you handle those last minute changes?
Q5 What’s your favorite part of the production?
Q6 Do you do any follow-up or analysis to expand or extend the project?
Curation vs. Creation – Questions created and/or inspired by @britz, @audioswhite, @kellygarber, @kwooleyy, and @weisblatt
1. What makes someone a successful Content Curator? How is this measured?
2. How is content curation similar and/or different than content creation?
3. How has this age of information changed the scope of curating content for learning?
4. What stage in the design process does curation happen?
5. What is the difference between content curation and content scraping? (ethics?)
Thanks Jane!
#lrnChat Idea: I strongly believe that the term “blended Learning” now not only incorporates ILT with WBT but ILT/WBT/SoMe. I’d like to know how others are using this technology to further the their learning strategies, increase learning performance overall, and enhance the learning environment.
Theme: Using SoMe in your learning courses
1) What projects/courses are you working on that incorporate some element of SoMe?
2) How are you using the SoMe to gauge overall performance or success of your project/course?
3) What barriers did you have in making that program happen?
4) Do you have any quick wins to brag about?
5) Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?
6) How did implementing this project change the way you think about learning?
7) What steps are you taking to integrate SoMe into more of your learning courses?
8) What results did you experience that encouraged you to add more SoMe to your learning courses?
twitter – @stipton
Thanks, Shannon. I just passed these on to the other moderators. Watch for them sometime in the next while. Appreciate it–
Hi, I teach in several different environments — universities and organizations — and when I teach an online course I like to have some live meetings. One university uses Wimba Live Classroom and the other has no tool and is just getting into some hybrid and online learning. The Live Classroom lets the students and I talk (audio and type), share a computer screen, view a powerpoint, and write on a whiteboard. It also has break out rooms so that students can work in teams for a time and then report back to the full group. The university (and workplaces) without any tool who now want me to teach online are unwilling to purchase a tool such as Live Classroom. I don’t believe I can be as effective without any live interaction.
I’d love to hear from others on these questions:
What other tools are available? Any info on cost?
How do you feel about teaching with no live interaction?
Sorry the question is so long — not sure how to post it in lrnchat.
Thanks,
Illysa
Ilsa, I’m not sure this is a whole lrnchat topic but I strongly suggest checking out the InSync Training Facebook group. There are lots of resources there including formal product comparisons and anecdotal reports from users. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=102783275422
Best,
Jane
Sorry—typing too fast. Of course I meant “Illysa”.
There is much debate about the blend of different learning methodologies from purely Anagogical to Pedagogical, from Social and informal to Instructor lead and formal. Any reasonable assessment will doubtless conclude that a blend is required to get the best out of the learner and the content dependent on context, content, the demographic (Or audience) and the desired outcome for the commissioning party.
To this end I would very much like to get peoples feedback on what they think the right blend is in their environments.
I would suggest that an appropriately worded question might be:
“Where do you see the balance between social, informal learning and formal instructor lead training in your environment?”
Happy for you to change the exact wording but if you could keep the gist I think it would be useful for all.
Regards,
Ed.
Well, as a future English teacher I think the social learning style is key and for me would be the primary ingredient if you will in the blend of methodologies. Informal learning would follow closely since I feel it is important to get students to bring in their own experiences from outside the classroom and compliment and mesh what they learn in a formal setting with what they’ve learned and experienced elsewhere. Teaching students how to make connections to the real world is the rudimentary element of teaching them critical thinking skills, in my view. Then they need to grasp the importance of communication skills and how the one cannot work without the other. So I see both of these as, more or less equally, being the chief, though by no means sole, learning styles that I think educators ought to implement more rigorously in their classrooms.
What criteria is useful for evaluation of rapid e-learning tools?
We keep hearing/talking/reading about learning organizations and workplace learning.
In this context, there are some questions I have. If we could have a #lrnchat session on these, it would be wonderful.
1. Who are learning consultants?
2. What are some of the functions/tasks of a learning consultant?
3. How much of these involve change management?
4. Are there any tools/metrics/defined processes one can use to enable an organization transition to a learning organization/to effectively function as a learning consultant?
5. What would a business seek in a learning consultant?
6. How are they different from business analysts?
How can we spark behavioral (and not just attitudinal) change? Technology may change quickly, but a richer knowledge of fundamental human behavior will always be helpful.
Help…. I need a fun teambuilding exercise for three physician group employees coming together (no more than 2-3 hours long).
What are your must read traditional learning-focused magazines? CLO? T&D? TM? What’s the prognosis for this channel?
I would like contribute question(s) on evaluating learners which may or may not include: 1) performance in a real or simulated situation 2) evaluation when rules or practice limit or prohibit a formal testing/grading 3) evaluation in different modalities (e-learning, ILT, one-on-one or small group coaching (OJT) sessions IOW – How do I push to know we are at a L2 or L3 when time/space/rules/environment may limit evaluation strategies
How important is social engagement and rapport for virtual teams and remote learners? Does Tuckman’s 1960s model of “Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing” relate to the digital world, and if so, how?
Would like a lrnchat on Evaluation — what are the barriers to good evaluation, what are people doing now, anybody seen good technology solutions to support it, can SoMe support evaluation? All sorts of stuff…
Providing conventional&standardized content, LMSorLCMS launched, that supports 1)credited progress tracking and 2)sustainment/access by topic.
oops URL: http://twitter.com/bobATatsc
How do internal organizational networks (Social Media) impact the performance of the organization and also individual performance? Any thoughts would be much appreciated!!
I’d love a lrnchat about your fantasy LMS — what would it do? How would it work? (Q1 could be what sucks about current LMSs – wouldn’t *that* be a field day).
OK…I’ll throw another one out there. I just read this and thought it would be a good topic to discuss with the group. Let me know what you think.
The Age of the Informavore – http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2009/11/06/the-age-of-the-informavore/
*The term informavore characterizes an organism that consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food.
Article it referenced – http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/schirrmacher09/schirrmacher09_index.html.
Questions could actually come from the end of the first blog post (if we could do that – maybe with permission from elearnspace blog 🙂 –
What are we becoming due to technology?
Is it what we want to become?
Which parts should we be resisting? Or, for that matter, what have you resisted recently?
Would love to discuss ePortfolios. What tools are people using? Are they important as part of PLE? How are they being used professionally and academically? How are Web2.0 technologies impacting ePortfolios?
Does anyone here have some sharable case studies of “crowdsourcing” training courses or modules? I’m thinking about experimenting with this but would love to hear of any real world examples. Or maybe I’m just crazy.
Steve – r.e. Crowdsourcing training – I go to my marketing/PR folks and see what they’re up to with social media. Training on this topic to your learners can be lessons learned from your company’s best practice. I ask them to screencast what they’re doing that’s working, then add it as a video to my online course. Makes for great content I don’t have to recreate…
Q1. What are the ways you’v seen social media being used to drive individual and organizational learning?
Q2. What are some examples? (what and how used; I.e. *Using Twitter in sales training for Lead Gen*-
Q3. What is your opinion on their effectiveness?
I am curious to what happens after attending a #lrnchat session.
I propose a question:
What does one do after attending a lively #lrnchat session?
What emotional and cognitive “sparks” lead you to learning a new skill?
Would there be a chance of talking about….FriendFeed (I know Twitter shivers 🙂
FF seems like a good dovetail to Twitter, and may actually not be a bad tool for enterprise (perhaps a proprietary version). Yammer & Twitter are great for short bursts of ideas, etc. but go only so far when it comes to focus and deeper collaboration and expansion of ideas.
Be interested if anyone would find a convo helpful.
Phil
If we chat about the usefulness of Twitter…I’m curious about if people think it’s all about collecting followers. After yesterday’s UK Gov’t announcement that staff can/should start using it. Local news shows started talking about how to sign up and get people to follow you. I find facebook is sometimes nothing more than “I have more friends than you”. I’m hoping twitter doesn’t go that way as well. For me, I follow quality (mostly) not quantity.
What was the value of E-Learning 10yrs ago that’s still valuable today?
I’ve been thinking of doing some research into the effectiveness of different multimedia when creating learning agents (video, animation, illustrations, photos, sound or none). Anyone know of any existing research I should review or have any other suggestions of types of media to experiment with?
Or, for that matter, good/bad examples to view…
Oops, twitter name in the URL field now. 😉
How to best incorporate “reverse mentoring” into a training program
Two questions:
1) How do you performance management data to drive learning?
2) How do you measure SoMe’s impact on the business?
Change Management. It’s clearly an important part of many business strategies and corporate decision making processes, but how do we as learning professionals institute our own change management strategies when making major modifications to the learning landscape. Example: You’re a WLP implementing a new LMS. You hope that it is accepted and utilized for it’s strengths. Your worst fear: The entire company will revolt. How do you use the principles of change management to control your message and make the change a positive one?
Social learning as performance support – how can SoMe help people/groups attain and maintain peak performance?
Have you considered switching around the days you hold the chat? For the last several weeks and for the forseeable future, I am busy every Thursday evening, but have (some) other evenings free. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would love to take part but cannot because Thursday doesn’t fit my schedule.
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We haven’t considered holding on another night (at least at this point), but we are considering an earlier-in-the-US-day, evening for other parts of the world #lrnchat sometime this summer. I’m actively looking for a few additional facilitators to help with both the evening chat and the trial morning chat. If you’re interested in helping out, please let me know.
How are you integrating/have integrated twitter in designing instructional/learning systems? If you’ve already done so, what were the key learnings? What were the benefits? What would you do differently?
I am a new ID professional. Striving to become more efficient in my work. Would like to know some of best practices that have helped you in this endeavor. Thank you.
Marlie, our last chat covered all sorts of ID insights as we talked about what skills someone needs to be successful as a workplace learning professional. In the event this question doesn’t come up again soon, you might enjoy reading through that transcript.
With the new administration pushing Web 2.0 in the government, do any of you see Web 2.0 products being used to push out training reinforcement as follow-up to ILT or online modules? How would one measure the effectiveness?
http://twitter.com/kasey428
Questions from a Twitter-shy co-worker:
1. “what apps/methods do people use for storyboarding e-learning?”
2. This is may seem like a strange question, but here goes: “what do you find are best practices for working with authoring tools w/o having an instructional background?”
3. “what is necessary to bridge the gap between learned instructional theory and constructing coherent storyboards?” This is the best approximation I could make of her question – she was much more nuanced.
Are there any BIG innovations in the learning field, and if not, why not?
I’d like to know what everyone is reading. Doesn’t need to be education-related, but I’d like to hear what you’re learning from the book.
I think the #lrncht audience might get something out these books I’ve read recently. Easier to answer this here than on Twitter, so here goes.
BRAIN RULES, by John Medina, offers tips for engaging people (the rules), underlying science, and insights. Some practices are already used by many ID practitioners. Garr Reynolds (of Presentation Zen fame) summarizes points nicely for presenters here: http://bit.ly/KEABr
NUDGE, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Insights into choice architecture and responsibility. Begs questions: When is training is a nudge? What responsibility to we have as learning designers? How can we use choice architecture to shape experiences and gather more accurate feedback?
PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely. Quick read along the lines of other behavioral economics books (Outliers, Blink, etc.). Better understanding the irrational nature of people and our decision-making processes is key to designing more effective learning experiences.
So many books!! I posted a summary of my top 6 so far for the year on my blog, http://www.stickylearning.com.au.
Briefly though, Slideology, In Pursuit of Elegant Solutions, Twitter Power, a fine line, Outliers, The Element, A Whole New Mind…….
I try to read outside straight learning books to get different ideas on learning. Marketing, communication, social media, design plus other areas! It’s important to keep Amazon busy!
What are the required competencies for workplace learning professionals? Thinking internal versus independent.
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From the moderator: Great question from Don. It was addressed at length in #lrnchat 8.
My employer is actively seeking input as to which conferences/webinars we would like to attend this fiscal year and next – any recommendations?
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From the moderator: Great question from Craig. It was addressed in #lrnchat 7.
I would love to hear some thoughts on positive change management and communication strategies used when branding the corporate learning organization. We’ve talked about winning favor with c-level executives. What about the all-important learners?
I am interested to know what people’s thoughts are from CLO Magazine – Mobile Learning article – do you believe that mobile learning is best suited for refresher type training as claimed by the article’s author?
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From the moderator: We began to address this question in #lrnchat 7 but it was so popular Mobile Learning may become the theme for a full chat in the future.