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Since starting work in the LMS field I have found that my perspective on the industry has changed immensely. Most of the solutions that I see are a good start, and have a strong foundation in being prepared for the future of Elearning, such as; they adapt to new standards, they leave the software relatively open, and they make themselves viable to multiple infrastructure. What I don't see are

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Ok, it's been long enough. Things to accomlpish today and tomorrow on this Blog. Task 1: Who are the major players in the following arenas? Content LMS Cutting Edge Technology Private Educational (secondary, collegiate) International Learning Organic Learning Autonmous Computing Project "Learn Bret Learn" starts today.

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I have acquired so many skills over the past month that it is becomming more evident to me everyday what knowledge management is and consequently should be. It is rather strange to be working in the learning industry and doing your job and at the same time critiquing methodologies of both your company and your industry. I feel someting great coming to apex soon. I feel my original idea really

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I threw in "New in Elearning" in google and got this page. Ironically enough it is a little dated. It has some decent things to say about the importance of human interaction with any learning system. Think to yourself about what aspect of the human interaction causes a system to be stronger and what about them causes a system to be weaker. Stronger - Human deduction and reasoning allows for

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I took a little break but am back. The hiatus served me well and I now found myself working in the industry that I love most. Where I work can't really be divulged but it's a great place and I have been tracking it for years. Anyway...this blog gets a ton of hits off of google for all kinds of elearning stuff...mostly things spelled wrong. But I plan on focusing a lot more on the fundamentals to

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Emotion and Learning Gord just posted something on emotion and learning. He references an article that outlines basic faults in most educaitonal deliveries. "E-learning that simply throws cold, hard facts at the learner's feet is fighting an uphill battle. We are biologically primed to identify with stories, not facts I used to buy into the whole story telling theory about learning. I do

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Business Objects Business Objectsi s a company that sells Enterprise solutions to the market. They have this really cool thing called dashboards. A dashboard manager is basically a: Dashboard Manager enables you to deploy dashboards and scorecards that highlight business metrics that are critical to organizational strategy. This visibility helps users focus their efforts on initiatives that have

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#1 I have no idea how this happened but I got the #1 slot (well today anyway) for "Knowledge Blog". There has been a lot of search results popping this thing up. Cheers. I feel guilty now about not writing in here for the past week. I'll get poppin back tomorrow. I've just been programming like a nutso. C++ and me...well...we are fighting and his big brother C# keeps showing up to laugh at me...

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Technological Issues Towards Knowledge-powered Organizations By: George A. Vouros Right away the name of the paper grabs me. But as I delved into it it just seemed to be a lot more of the same old terminology thrown around. A lot of theories about theories that sound like they are being copied right out of someone else's book. The ideas of technology and education, or KM, obviously go hand and

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Next Post The next post here will be on Thursday. Thanks!

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Why Three heads are better than one (How to create a now-it-all company)

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If You Wanna Be a Playa I was just informed that there are open meetings for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. They are held in DC too, just across the pond. Now for those of you who don't know, these are the guys who sit in a room and think stuff up. Seriously, some of them work in vaults. But more importantly, these are the guys who either build up a technology or shoot one

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In Response to Mike I don't think that's necessarily true ("People using new technology should be followed and emulated because they know where the future is going to be"). So many early adopters try everything... I agree that the "future is already here" in the sense that you can certainly find people doing and using the "next shit" far in advance of the masses, but I guess I want to know how

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Ronald Holmes Blog R.C. Holmes has started a blog. Take patience in knowing that he is not a web professional and his formatting may be a little off. I will do my best to help him as the days go by. I can assure you that the visit is well worth the time.

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#99 Transcends the Ice Here is an article called "Following the Puck". It opens with the Great on talking about why he was so successful.Legend has it that when Wayne Gretsky was asked why he was so successful as a hockey player he responded by saying that he always tried to skate to where the puck was going to be, not to where it was. By this rationale we can plan our success, not only

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Bahhh (Like a Sheep) There are some interesting posts I have been reading today on the idea of group collaboration. Most of them outline the positive role they take when they incur a small initiative or broad issue. For example "What are some things the school should be teaching?" or "What should be done about the new technical staff' lack of ROI?". But when hardcore down-the-line decision (i.e.

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H2O Big Mike recommended that I check this out. It's a program called H2O. They are attempting to change the way people comment via rotisserie system.Rotisserie implements an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that traditional threaded messaging systems cannot. In contrast to the completely asynchronous, broadcast-to-broadcast mode of

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More Unanswers I have been scouting around again today on the RSS feeds and have now noticed the surge of "blogging being used in education" posts. So I got all excited to hear some really good ideas. Today's comments about using weblogs for electronic portfolios are absolutely timely for me. This afternoon, I'm to meet with the director of our M.A.T. program for elementary teachers, and with an

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Have you been to Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society? They have a project they have been working on for a while now called H20. I came across it last year. Check it out, I have a feeling it'll be of interest to you. I don't have time, right now, to get into the guts of it.

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I came across this interesting RSS feed which has lead me on a research filled day trying to track down products using blogging to solve business initiatives. This was the original post. It speaks about the problems with a product called K-Blogger.K-collector provides a topic-based overview of different weblog posts. Fine, but Waypath does it better, indexing all blogs and not only small fracture

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Bret's last post got me thinking about institutional memory loss and the frustration it has caused me both as an employee who has left an organization and as one that was left behind. Knowledge loss is most evident at times when employees are leaving or joining new organizations. Anyone who has ever tried to train a new employee, only to realize that the information they need to accurately

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Knowledge modeling for the preservation of institutional memory This is another article off of Emerald. John W. Coffey and Robert R. Hoffman wrote this one. I'm also a big fan of this article because it sites R.C. Holmes twice. This article presents a description of an iterative approach to the elicitation and representation of organizational knowledge called PreSERVe, which stands for prepare

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D'you Know What I Mean? And here come the Brits with their revelation of wanting to jump on the elearing bandwagon. I don't know whether Canada started doing things up there first or not but they definitely have a better network of colleges doing then we do in the old USA. But now come the Brits lead by this company www.learndirect.co.uk. Nothing they really say on their website is overwhelming

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Knowledge workers: exploring the link among performance rating, pay and motivational aspects An article I got off of Emerald. I think their offer for free stuff is over but I managed to procure about 40 articles. So I'm stripping them apart and here's what I got off of this one. It was written by Alan D. Smith and William T. Rupp.Employees that have a sense of belonging and purpose tend to be

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Amazon Strikes Again I know this is about 3 weeks old but I just found out abot it today. This is an editorial piece talking about Amazon's ability to search within a book. I wonder what technology they used to be able to XML all the books up. Or whether or not they even did XML. I'll dig a little deeper. Apparently they don't use technology to enter the text. It's all users doing the data

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Children Plagiarizing Quote "Children need to be given exposure to the responsibilities of being content providers from an early age. They are traditionally just consumers of information, churning out content for an audience of two - themselves and their teacher. One they are given a real audience and purpose for their own work that extends beyond the classroom walls, then we will see the concept

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Learning Quote This quote about the difference in teaching and learning, or it should have said how teaching and learning are related, is from this website"The alternative view sees learning as part of an inevitably unfinished, but continuous process that goes on throughout life. Each event, circumstance, or interaction is not discrete. Rather, each is assimilated or appropriated in terms of

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Maryland Homeland Security Strategy: A Business Case For all my Maryland people, here is another letter drafted by R.C. Holmes to Governor Ehrlich about how to address homeland security. Since MD's pipeline is so important to D.C. we found our state at the forefront of any new initiative coming down the Homeland expressway. Here are some excerpts: Knowledge processes and performance management

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Amen! Dusk and Dawn has always been straight up and sort of opinionated about his Elearning theories. So I always look forward to going to his sight for some related angst when it comes to figuring things out. He echoes (writes an introduction to) my sediments found below in "Ask Yourself". The effectiveness of your learning product is inversely proportional to your ability to make a living I.e.

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RSS Tutorial This is a blog post professing to make RSS easy to use. We'll see tomorrow as I will probably move this blog over to Movable Type or either purchase the RSS XML feeds from Blogger that can be enabled on my server. I had 51 unique IP's today. I had no idea. I have to beef some stuff up. Most of them came from Canada though. I guess they saw that I was linking to them. Cheers fellas!

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Learning About Learning Objects This is a nice little site, that seems to be on the ball when it comes to educating people on Learning Objects. The site is pretty chopped up and thrown together. But I like the basis of it. Here's the quick take on it: For the purposes of this forum Learning Objects are defined as self-contained, digital resources that can be re-used to support learning. Going

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Ask Yourself When are they going to make it so that people can manipulate the entire system? I read these entire things online about LOMS and SCORMS and find out slowly over the days that this stuff isn't fun and I grow weary of reading the same things written by the same people who are chasing a single acorn around a tree that could yield millions of acorns. Nobody wants to interact with

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Economic Development and Security of the United States Of America Here is a proposal to the Homeland Security office by R.C. Holmes about how Enterprise Architecture (EA) will play a pivotal role in the future of Homeland Security and how businesses interacts with the Gov't. In case you were wondering, this ties directly into Elearning, as that seems to be the breeding ground for most of the

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Sweet You see a lot of guys out there who dangle the carrot out there for you to read their stuff and they want to charge you 99.95 for the real deal article that they have saved all the good nuggets for. Well this site, Emerald, which I have been to a ton of times on wild goose chases only to find myself a paypal payment away from reading some good stuff, has opened up their vault for one week

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E-Learning Trends 2003 Elearning Circuits has released their year end survey results. A ton of pie charts and line graphs. It's pretty thrilling. Some of the stats are pretty funny but most of them revolve around budgets and numbers and how big the company is etc... It's sort of informative if you want to find out how much Innitec spent on their CBT program last year. They could have done

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT: CRISIS IN HUMAN CAPITAL by R.C. Holmes Another dating back to '01. In here he writes about the human capital crisis that was presented to the President when he took office. The Senate is on target when it assesses human capital direction. "Human capital is an asset whose value can be enhanced by investment. An organization's human capital approach must support: 1)

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From the Files of R.C. Holmes Written in May 2001 the article entitled "BROOKINGS TASK FORCE REPORT: UNSEEN WEALTH" talks about the Knowledge Economy and it's inability to supply machines with humans equipped with the ability to run them. We face an economic eclipse of sobering magnitude. Intangible assets now outweigh capital assets. BTF elucidates, "We lack a reliable business model,

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Wetware I've been seeing this piece of Jargon thrown around a lot lately. The jargon dictionary defines it as. wetware - [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software. "Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers." 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a computer system, as opposed to the

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"Blended Learning gains approval" This article comes from the RSS feed Online Learning Update. It talks about the acceptance of blended learning. This sparked a quote that I jus saw from that diatribe below. Blended Learning does not work. How could it? If snake oil does not work, how could bottling it in a variety of different containers increase its effectiveness? Look at the messaging of any

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Learning Object Search? Apparently this is a "big" step forward in the learning object community. Needless to say, I'm a little disappointed. I did three searches and then threw my keyboard across the room and paced for a while. I figured to try it out with the following objective. I'm a web developer and my boss wants us to be able to send mail via our website which runs ASP and IIS. I

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We're Selling Snake Oil I got this from Gord over at ELearning Eclectic. It's a link to a diatribe about how the eLearning industry doesn't work and the vehicles that are being created attract more money than learners and do a better job of capitalizing on a fad rather than training people to perform at a higher level. He has some gripping stats. Here are some quotes and my young thoughts on

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Cleaning House For about two weeks now I have been checking on the educational "portals" out there on a daily and mostly hourly basis. Unfortunately, most of the stories are just copied from website to the next and very few have comments. Most of them just pay accolades to someone else's work without really adding their own take on it. I may have to totally alter my researching approach.

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Gaming and Education A repository of information from Vanderbilt. It also has a nice little tie into (at the bottom of the page...no anchors) the video game a student used to play as a boy and how it helped him understand geometry. It should go a step further and explain how it would've been used to solve real world problems and not just how to pass high school geometry.

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FOAF "The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do. " Basically they are taking XML and making it easier for spiders to make heads ro tales of basic info. INfo like name, purpose, subject, date...etc... Feel free to make your own here. It also has directions for

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Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE) This is a group of Canadian universities, where most of the work is being done, publicized work anyway. It's a group of 17 universities combining efforts to solve educational problems. The key innovation in CLOE is the creation of a virtual market economy for engaging multimedia to support online learning. Each institution will develop multimedia

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Wallop Here is a link to some screen shots of Wallop and a small article summarizing it. All of these projects look at how to make use of metadata and organize information around clusters, Cheng says. "We've also been influenced by the Longhorn team's thinking around how programming databases influences end-user experiences," she says. I remember reading way back when about XML being used in

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K-LOGS Ok, so now that Wallop is out and the term blog was heard on Conan last night. Everyone wants a piece of the blog initiative. It's not just the people using blogs anymore that are screaming for their inclusiveness when it comes to KM and learning. CTO's and VP's are now starting to perk up more and understand the overwhelming power of the blog. "Knowledge blogs help encourage brain

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Go To MIT For Free This is MIT's free online repository of info. Is a publication of MIT course materials Does not require any registration Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity Does not provide access to MIT faculty Even though it doesn't have anything real in depth, yet. I imagine other institutions will emulate this and build on it. Plus it lets you know what the

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All Bloggers Are Educators It's like a big giant world of people who want to teach in some way. They all sit around and want to inform about what is good or what is bad. They want to tell us what to do or what not to do. They do this directly by actually pinpointing the topics of interest or by writing self-reflective pieces that allow people to make a judgment based on what is being written and

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The one about, well hell, I don't know what its about actually. It started with what we were saying about how Amazon is useful as a research tool to find out about music. Basically, I guess the idea I'm getting at is that all the tools and methods ordinary people have for dealing with technology right now could yield up some important clues and trends about what direction technology education

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Nice Elearning RSS Feed This is a great feed with the most updates I have seen. It's quite windy in most of these blogs. I.E. there are no comments and sometimes people don't update for days. Even the sites that look like they put a lot of time into and appear to have a great big infostructure behind it. But this is one is real good.

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Yet Another Possible List to Be Aware of "Look for those situations where people are doing a mindless task manually or where they have created a workaround". That came from Dusk and Dawn.I'm sure we have all had this idea. But have we ever really sat down and tracked it? I haven't done it...i'll be back with some stuff later. Feel free to put in what you got.

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In Response to Tim Personally I think you take a huge offense to anything Gov't oriented. If you would simply take the technology and the ideas that they are actually attempting to cultivate (enterprise architecture, using knowledge as the ultimate weapon, having intense media (video games) as the sought after delivery tool) I think you would find that their ideas are good ones that we can use

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068333426497093572003-11-08T18:17:00.000-05:002003-11-08T18:17:04.396-05:00

John Paul Gee ""What Video Games have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy" I started reading this a little while ago because it came so highly recommended. I have to admit it has spawned some interesting theories of my own thus far: Make sure to show the learner defines the arena (semiotic domain) they will be playing in. It reinforces one of my most key points, that language and

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068325700328321482003-11-08T16:08:00.000-05:002003-11-08T16:32:19.913-05:00

Easy To Read Article Here's a nice easy to read article about SCORM's and why they are important. Most of the articles I see out there are just way too technical. This one seems to be a lot simpler. If you have been reading this blog you will also notice a lot of the same names being mentioned and quoted. It also mentions, in detail, some of the companies that were smart enough to adhere to

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068247142093797132003-11-07T18:19:00.000-05:002003-11-07T18:19:00.093-05:00

From a book called "Growing up digital" (although much of the rest of this book sucks, unfortunately) "I believe strongly that what I teach has nothing to do with technology. I think it is essential that my students have access to technology. But I say to them, you are learning a way of thinking, problem solving, and planning 90% of which occurs in your head and in your creativity. You are

tim bouchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068245797231127312003-11-07T17:56:00.000-05:002003-11-07T17:56:54.610-05:00

Educating Myself This is a nice overview of RSS. This is the most exciting new blog I found all day. It talks about the Government's plans to use blogging and RSS to chime in with it's initiatives and architecture. It's great info. We need to get on this mission somehow.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068244515047604322003-11-07T17:35:00.000-05:002003-11-07T17:46:58.650-05:00

Something Isn't Right I see a ton of people out there. A ton of "experts" with blogs throwing around more questions than answers. I'm seeing a scary, but possibly good trend, of insecurity and lack of clarity. I think the answers are simpler than people think they are. I think you need to look at Skillsnet (I know that site needs some work) and the DoD and see what some of the better directions

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068238100960566542003-11-07T15:48:00.000-05:002003-11-07T15:48:18.583-05:00

So How Do We Climb Without Innovation? The following comments stem from this article. The article states that: "One of the easiest ways to make your numbers look better is to cut back on "non-essential" items. Training and development can be axed. So can programs that give executives -- or any workers -- new ideas, new techniques, new tactics and new approaches to winning in the workplace. Once

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068233488262248852003-11-07T14:31:00.000-05:002003-11-07T15:41:22.933-05:00

Majordomo IEEE has this great interactive email thing. It programs via your content. It's really awesome. It feels 80's but it makes sense and seems so robotic and automatic. Just send a mail to majordomo@majordomo.ieee.org and put "subscribe LTSC-LOM " in the body(not the subject). Wait for your mail to arrive and then party with it.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068233009142950832003-11-07T14:23:00.000-05:002003-11-07T15:38:03.560-05:00

By R.C.Holmes I'm sitting here going through some old disks that my Dad had laying around. I came across a whole bunch of small papers and proposals that he wrote about Enterprise Arhtiecture, KM and eLearning. Here's some excerpts: "Homeland Security bespeaks historic complexity. Thousands of institutions and millions of people must interwork. A myriad of work teams must learn to manage

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068232014161752252003-11-07T14:06:00.000-05:002003-11-07T14:07:31.176-05:00

What's a DREL More Acronym Definitions for you:"Digital Rights Expression Languages (DREL) is a formal language for expressing conditions and permissions for the use of digital resources. DREL expressions reference resources, actors and actions and define who may do what under which conditions and by what authority. DREL expressions can be carried as part of a metadata instance associated

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068231506707570192003-11-07T13:58:00.000-05:002003-11-07T15:40:35.073-05:00

Billy: But Mom I Don't Want to Play With IEEE Mom: Well Everyone Else Does and So Do You Billy: But He's No Fun and Makes me Curse A Lot So most of my mornig has been spent looking through some other blogs and researching some companies. But then I hit the big IEEE wall. Our friends are back and they are the "Learning Technology Standards Committee". Now I love IEEE. It's an absolute necessity

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068225547988114302003-11-07T12:19:00.000-05:002003-11-07T12:19:06.040-05:00

Archive is Alive! I'm working on some summaries for these other blogs and sites today. I'll keep you up to date on the info I find as I move around here. But the archive issue as been settled. Woo!

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068225519701274462003-11-07T12:18:00.000-05:002003-11-07T16:07:07.100-05:00

About Hey guys check out this "about statement" and see if this is the kind of thing you were sort of talking about when it came to using new technology to enhance these (eventual) theories.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068147496025575792003-11-06T14:38:00.000-05:002003-11-07T10:49:38.283-05:00

What Do You Think of This? I kind of like the start with "Understand" and "Don't understand". What I don't really understand is how they actaully use the information or retrieve the information. I mean I can sort of see the thought pattern but I don't really like how it's laid out. It seems bulky and not really akin to anything in the 21st century. Hmm... You can see the large map image here

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068147255123594982003-11-06T14:34:00.000-05:002003-11-06T14:36:21.810-05:00

Adults Learning Here is an article by Jackie Dobrovolny about adult learning. It makes some nice overview statements. What I really liked was this: Learners often visualize or hypothesize how they will apply their new skills. This is particularly true when learners plan to use their new skills to solve a problem or improve an existing situation. As they read the instruction, they stop and

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068094597321645492003-11-05T23:56:00.000-05:002003-11-05T23:56:35.873-05:00

Other Users and Their Pulse I was just reading through one of Tim's earlier posts. It's a really good idea to put some of these new technologies that people are interfacing with up here. What is your idea of these "new" technologies? Who uses them? How do they use them? What did they take the place of, or i.e. What service wasn't being met before and how does that lead us to the next trend?

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068093776335166592003-11-05T23:42:00.000-05:002003-11-05T23:50:40.880-05:00

Gord's Voicing his Thoughts Apparently the owner of e-Learning eclectic is down in Disney world eating lots of free food and drinking carbonated beverages while learning about the new revolution of learning. There are a ton of keynote speakers down there. Everyone from General Tommy Franks (yeah I know) to Mr. Masie is in attendance. Mr. Masie has a "from the road report" here. He basically goes

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068069594284801172003-11-05T16:59:00.000-05:002003-11-05T17:00:04.256-05:00

Industry List A good starting list of companies delving into the following areas. Synchronous Environments - Companies that try to stretch bandwidth and deliver video and audio. Course Management Systems (CMS) - Student management, grade tracking, curriculum development, content management (the other CMS). Learning Management Systems (LMS) - This is your backbone stuff. DB's and J2EE

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-106806895783701492003-11-05T16:49:00.000-05:002003-11-05T16:50:22.920-05:00

Stats and Quotes For You All these links come from this great little repository of information on educational stats. There are two separate sections "Significant differences" and "No significant difference". "The national achievement average is 51 percent on this test, and the sample base is entirely from the traditional classroom. My students (entirely online) score an average of 63 percent on

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068067721561260192003-11-05T16:28:00.000-05:002003-11-05T16:29:39.543-05:00

ESL and e-Learning I really think there is a great market to test out most ideas and trends revolving around LMS's and e-learning on ESL and TEFOL students. Learning language is about as basic as you can get. The blocks (verbs, nouns) that are being gathered to build on later are easily accountable. The test subjects are usually children that can be more inclined to adapt to new technologies.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1068066766665475022003-11-05T16:12:00.000-05:002003-11-05T16:17:15.866-05:00

Lotus I got these quotes from this article. "Lotus Learning Management System can assess the corporate IQ of an organization as measured against its business needs. It can make such an assessment because you can integrate the core management technology with other corporate systems -- such as a customer satisfaction system to see whether trained employees are actually meeting the needs of

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067618777353251502003-10-31T11:46:00.000-05:002003-10-31T11:46:30.793-05:00

Away I will be away for the extended weekend. You guys that have permission, please feel free to keep on putting information here. When I get back we are pruchasing the full version of blogger that will alow us to have RSS and XML. Cheers!

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067491064148555662003-10-30T00:17:00.000-05:002003-10-30T00:20:00.300-05:00

Core values This is from the marketing company website that I am looking at, and is a list of their core principles, which I think are directly applicable (almost startlingly so) with the goals we always talk about setting for adult learners/knowledge workers. I'll just list the principles, rather than the full descriptions: Collaboration Embracing permanent ambiguity Adaptability Belief in

tim bouchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067486612739987362003-10-29T23:03:00.000-05:002003-10-29T23:03:28.330-05:00

Dude, turn on the Title bar option bret, i was just thinking that if you really want to get in the know about knowledge management, you should be spending your time looking at google and search engine companies and shit, because their whole deal is managing knowledge. but they are actually doing stuff, and dont spend all day writing white papers and making up gay acronyms. google just bought

tim bouchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067479508381850772003-10-29T21:05:00.000-05:002003-10-29T21:05:20.450-05:00

Deep The info, the presentation, the entire thing is just deep. I'm sure you guys have already seen this. But it uses Breeze and it gives you a bunch of other leads into cool stuff.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067478901883675632003-10-29T20:55:00.000-05:002003-10-29T20:57:11.723-05:00

Scary Halloween Stats For You This comes from an Article by:Dave Pollard. The document can be found here. budgets for KM have been slashed everywhere, and whole KM departments eliminated many companies are now trying to outsource KM, no longer viewing it as a core competency where at one time six of the top 10 best sellers at Books for Business were about KM, now very few KM titles even crack

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067477232850658042003-10-29T20:27:00.000-05:002003-10-29T20:27:10.060-05:00

Making it Applicable Here is pretty good article that I found on Dusk to Dawn. It addresses the gap between the Behavioral sciences and their ability to apply their critiques. Science is mostly analyzing. Engineering is doing. The difference between these two is profound, and it affects not only the way that your knowledge is applied, but even the culture of the workplace. Working for a company

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067463037899214032003-10-29T16:30:00.000-05:002003-10-29T16:31:51.223-05:00

Entreprise Architecture Apparently there was another conference I missed in early September. Overview - Government agencies face a renewed mandate to develop agency-wide enterprise architectures to improve planning and better understand the impact of technology investments on their overall agency operations. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) currently is requiring agencies to

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067451339863419182003-10-29T13:15:00.000-05:002003-10-29T13:17:40.700-05:00

What About SCANS? Does anybody still use the Arnie Packer technology started at Hopkins. Below is some information on SCANS for those of you who may not know how it is different from Blooms Taxonomy. Apparently there isn't much out there considering scans200.org got shut down. I know the technology got bought by ThinQ in 2000 but I figured the initiative would still be alive and in the higher

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067444165493075842003-10-29T11:16:00.000-05:002003-10-29T13:20:31.746-05:00

Errors You Say? It may be true that I don't have a total grasp on every piece of information out there. I received some rebuttals to my posts. I appreciate the heads up from people that are obviously more versed in the industry than I am. Now don't think I will simply let this slide. I still feel in some way I had some sort of right and grounded info in my original statements. I plan to find the

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067402659956313962003-10-28T23:44:00.000-05:002003-10-29T03:03:46.970-05:00

Give Me Your Suggestion I also got this from e-learning Eclectic. He got it from Jay Cross . "School classes and corporate training would be more effective were learners initially told 'This is our best thinking. It might be wrong. How do you see it?' That's a meta-learning tactic that would improve results without adding costs. You could preface all eLearning with a reminder that learners

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067401040721615342003-10-28T23:17:00.000-05:002003-10-28T23:29:40.040-05:00

300 Games You Should Know Apparently if you want to be a wizard, and tell me this isn't the hottest trend, you need to first understand these video games. I really want to see more about what's going on with the video game industry. Man there is a real pit of knowledge out there that I never knew existed. This is so exciting. I thought it was just Tim and I with a white board somewhere. Nope

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067399804044554542003-10-28T22:56:00.000-05:002003-10-29T11:39:07.840-05:00

SCORMS Plural? This guy has a s good rant about SCORM. I'm going to write him an email and see what he is up to. " The very notion that there can be a Shareable Content Object Reference Model for learning objects would seem to suggest that there can be more than one. What's relevant to the US Department of Defense in terms of e-learning is unlikely to be relevant to, say, training doctors.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067376353601720962003-10-28T16:25:00.000-05:002003-10-28T17:06:02.270-05:00

I Can't Believe I Missed This I missed the E-Learning Conference in D.C. on the 17th. Main Topics/Keynotes Driving E-Learning Success: Practical Applications and Lessons Learned The Changing Role of Training and What We Do About It "...challenge attendees to think about how, as learning professionals within government agencies can, like those in the private sector, redefine E-Learning and play

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067373199296155812003-10-28T15:33:00.000-05:002003-10-28T15:38:31.180-05:00

New blogs I found a bunch of new blogs. Most of them are quoting Gatto and that unlearning stuff. It seems like they all want to gear up and do something but they can't get off the pot. I feel like the entire community realizes that something is totally askew in their approaches. I think they are all off except for the video game technology that some people are looking into. You need to check

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1067369924438222552003-10-28T14:38:00.000-05:002003-10-28T14:43:34.180-05:00

Interesting This is a nice little diagram that I wish I had 3 years ago. It's based on the Johari window. It helps give learners a better arena in which to play in. It defines all the boundaries of what is needed to get to the final goal. It's a nice building block for anyone's attempt to define knowledge mapping or curricula. This guy also has more stuff. You can find him under the blogs

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066936335377207522003-10-23T15:12:00.000-04:002003-10-23T15:13:12.066-04:00

Tha Advantage I have been on here now all morning. I have been on here and am feeling really good. I'm feeling this way for a couple of reasons. #1 The people writing these articles have a limited understanding of actual technology and what it can do or how it works. Their IA skills are sometimes unstoppable but their actual udnerstanding of programming all comes second hand. #2 - You will

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066934984272177202003-10-23T14:49:00.000-04:002003-10-23T14:49:43.710-04:00

Mental Mapping Tim, I remember you being really big into that a long time ago. Anyway this guys article isnt' about it. It's more about IA and how your gut instincts should make more determining factors in how you page looks then anything else. Anyway, that's not the point. He does use your slang of mental mapping, and how people are used to a certain way of doing things all the time. I think

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066934372656654552003-10-23T14:39:00.000-04:002003-10-23T14:43:58.590-04:00

Note to Self All these links are totally pointless unless they are accompanied by brief descriptions. Tomorrow we write descriptions for not only the category but for each individual link as well. That will be a good bit of work. But I think it will totally pay off in the end. What this thing needs, and I can already see it getting extremely big, is a new architecture. Any bright ideas boys. I

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066934027622874282003-10-23T14:33:00.000-04:002003-10-23T14:34:52.423-04:00

Video Games Everywhere I turn they are all doing video games. The DoD has tried to hire some of the best gaming thinkers in the world in order to train their naval pilots and more elite officers in tactical preperation. Here's an article on SIMS and their help in training pilots. I mean we al knew that from way back when with Operation X. That movie with MAtthew Broderick and the Chimanzees. I

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066933672460122142003-10-23T14:27:00.000-04:002003-10-23T14:27:52.196-04:00

Blogs Apparently there are a plethora of blogs out there. I'm weeding out the weaker ones as we speak.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066933067350134602003-10-23T14:17:00.000-04:002003-10-23T14:17:47.220-04:00

Smete Smete is a huge digital library. The big problem isn't the technology. The LMS systems and the ideology behiind them are on a faster moving pace than the actual information needed to populate them. Repositories of information seems to be the largest bottleneck at this point.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066932954746233272003-10-23T14:15:00.000-04:002003-10-23T14:15:54.640-04:00

Today I'm cruising looking aroudn looking for my chums out there. I'm cataloging and taking down notes. The sidebar will more than likely be hooked up tomorrow. More later....

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1066845477377580042003-10-22T13:57:00.000-04:002003-10-22T13:58:29.620-04:00

Pick Me Up Ok so now this thing is going to be updated every day with news and comments from around the industry. Hopefully I can find it useful and later, other people can find it useful. Now what I need is a new name for it. I like that "I Kan't Spell" comes up first on google.

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1063073520849529762003-09-08T22:12:00.000-04:002003-09-08T22:39:25.463-04:00

Beyond the network paradigm BRET! I think I may be onto something big. Read this post I just wrote about viruses - especially the end. I am thinking a lot about how the ideas right now in education that are "hot shit" are built around the "network" paradigm. And then you have viruses, which EXPLOIT the network paradigm, to create another paradigm. What is that paradigm? I think thats the next

tim bouchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1062047936487940052003-08-28T01:18:00.000-04:002003-08-28T01:18:56.500-04:00

A Human Approach It's funny to think of myself thinking in a human approach when it comes to technology and education. Not funny in that I can't see how they go together, because it is more and more obvious with every passing day that our intention with technology and education need to be more human. It is funny because I may have trouble doing it. Anything I have trouble with, I first laugh at

JVMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1061567638439319482003-08-22T11:53:00.000-04:002003-08-22T11:53:58.483-04:00

Learning Objects & Colin I agree that you should approach this the way youre doing it, weeding through whats out there, because if you dont know what the other players in the market are doing, theres no way you can steal their knowledge and build on it. So yeah, keep on keeping on. I didnt mean to come off sounding like "youre wrong, do it my way" because thats no use, you gotta look at it how

tim bouchernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492816.post-1061530656254217222003-08-22T01:37:00.000-04:002003-08-22T01:38:03.276-04:00

Whoosh Your Ass Right Back in Here Your approach is great. And I love the higher level thought process, but I think that the people thinking about this aren't as stupid, or as much of an enemy as we think. Learning Objects are definately a way to distribute dynamic content and it is the missing link to creating personalized totally organic curriculum. I don't think anyone has really realized

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