Learning Technologies Green Room

Kineo and learndirect business have got together to produce the Learning Technologies Green Room, where you will find all sorts of e-learning people involved with this year’s Learning Technology conference busy finishing their PowerPoint slides and generally fretting about what they can say that’s different to last year.

Why Dissecting an E-Learning Course Will Improve Your Skills

design when working with PowerPoint.
Get over the PowerPoint stigma.  A screen’s a screen.  No one cares if what they see was built in PowerPoint or Flash.  All they care about is what it looks like and if it works.  Besides, when you build something in PowerPoint and you publish it with your rapid elearning software, it becomes Flash.  So instead of using Flash to build a SWF, you’re using PowerPoint to build. .  Think content.
You’re building an elearning course and not a presentation.  Even though you might be using PowerPoint to build both types of products, when you build an elearning course you need to think. .

While PowerPoint’s interface is different, you want to think of each slide as a layer of information.

Rob Barton: Reducing Extraneous Cognitive Load by Accounting for Individual Differences

We have people who have never used PowerPoint before, and they come in and spend 3 hours putting together a 6 slide presentation, learning as they go. I pulled some stats, and on all the MS Office tests, people who spend over an hour average 10 points lower.The important thing, I think, is tracking student behavior so we can use that information in making sure were doing all we can to help them learn.

Best Practices for Administrative Evaluation of Online Faculty

course home page (where she notes only text with a white background); then to the lecture notes (same format); then to the PowerPoint slides (mostly text with a few pictures); and finally to the class threaded discussions, where she notes that Butter seems to be somewhat AWOL. His postings appear only once in eight or ten postings.

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Jobs, Training, Rapid eLearning, Inhibitory Skills, & Learning

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Anyone that has worked in a large corporate environment is more than likely familiar with the boring Voice-Over-PowerPoint sexual harassment training that is out there. This is a horrible example of rapid eLearning! … Granted, there are a few good examples of rapid eLearning, but the majority of people using these tools don’t have the first clue about quality/engaging eLearning.

And from Lee Graham:
PROS:

Fast time to market.

i-Clickr

Do you give PowerPoint presentations and would like to use your iPhone/iPod Touch as your remote clicker! Then you’ll love this!Features include:
Complete control of your PowerPoint slides
including animations.
Help you track your presentation time.
Make and show annotations directly on your iPhone/iPod
(Windows only).
Alert you with silent buzz before your
time runs out.
View your slides and your slide notes
on your handset.
Support all versions of
PowerPoint from Office XP to the latest PowerPoint 2007 on
Windows.

Bee Docs Timeline 3D On Sale Now!

Unless, you know, you work for Industrial Light & Magic or something.

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

Even Barack Obama is using Scribd to upload his public documents and upcoming plan.Embed PowerPoint PresentationsWhile the popular choice is Slideshare, you should also consider. your main site.

What is the TRUE cost Rapid eLearning?

Anyone that has worked in a large corporate environment is more than likely familiar with the boring Voice-Over-PowerPoint sexual harassment training that is out there. This is a horrible example of rapid eLearning!
Rapid eLearning is training that can be designed, developed and distributed quickly. Tony Karrer on his blog eLearning Technology says it is, “rapid creation of courseware by people who are less experienced with courseware development particularly subject matter experts” and he is completely right on the money.
Most organizations turn to rapid eLearning to quickly fill a need for training or replacing classroom instruction.

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