Tonia A. Dousay
Scholar | Educator | Leader
Monthly Archives: September 2007
And now for something completely different
We learn by curiosity. We learn by being inquisitive. We learn by working with other people. We learn through experimentation. Through much of Jay’s improv, he said the one thing that still resonates with me from Monday…It’s not about the technology. It is a tool. It should not dictate the way we do things. It…
Learning Gets a Second Life
The Digital Native – 12.5h/week playing games and only 9.8h/week watching television. As the gaming levels off, 66% of trendsetters have their own networking page. Why are people in Second Life? Make friends, make money, make love. Race cars, fly airplanes, hold meetings, exchange ideas, engage in combat, attend live concerts, and more. — It…
Simulations for Instructor Led Training
WebEx has taken the simulation and married it to instructor-led training. The Problem: Previous problems resulted in only one or few learners experiencing practical exercises. The Solution: Host a simulation on a website and use “Share Web Content” feature for all users to interact with inside the web conferencing software. When designing these simulations, consider…
Cell Casting
Cell phones have become an essential piece of equipment to most people. mLearning is many things to many people, though. Pure Learning (questionable) Data Collection (probable) Performance Support (probable) Reinforcement (probable) Reference (likely) Possibilities (decreasing down the list in complexity and cost): Rich Media (Flash lite, Pod/Vodcasts & streaming video)* Courseware (learning + interactive assessments)^…
Wal*Mart University
Initial thought: The Wal*Mart cheer is quite scary. As a former Wal*Mart employee I laughed. As the daughter of a current Wal*Mart employee, I feel sorry for my mother. I’m sure she’s a really nice person, but she comes across as the “crazy cat lady” who’s living in a different reality from the rest of…
Changing the Way We Design Courses
Roger Mundel is with udutu. The presentation is online. Trends Are you leading or following? Where is learning headed? Will “eLearing” just be “learning”? How soon could that happen? Thinking back five years, technology has come a long way in terms of accessibility. These advancements have changed the way we go about learning and communicating. Thinking…
Everything You Know About Simulations is Wrong
Rich Mesch, Phil Sueper, and Phil Charron are with Performance Development Group (based in Philadelphia). They all contribute to the Learning Simulations blog. Simulation is not a discipline. It is growing and morphing. Many don’t understand what it does. It’s a rule of opposites; people think it does what it doesn’t and doesn’t what it does. Audience…
Attendee Comments
During lunch, I had the opportunity to visit with a number of other attendees. Between those conversations and the few I had yesterday evening, there seems to be three main complaints… The user network is unstable. (I would agree wholeheartedly; the network, in a word, sucks.) They encouraged us to bring laptops, yet there are…
Rapid Development using Open Source Technology
Reuben is with edCetra Training out of Toronto. All too often, we find ourselves attempting to manipulate files from proprietary vendors. Rapid authoring…high quality eLearning courses in record time. Or is it? “Tools are not skills. Word processors don’t turn bad writers into good ones.” Take a little time to provide the skills. Rapid eLearning…
Nine Deadly Sins of Instructional Design
Dave Goodman is with SoftAssist in Philadelphia. His goal isn’t necessarily to share with us what we’re doing wrong, but those common habits we all do without realize that could be done differently or better. Hey You! — Do you capture the learner’s attention right at the beginning? Or is it just another boring welcome…