Here are the slides from my recent FocusOn Learning session in Austin, TX You Already Know How to Build mLearning (You Just Don’t Know It)
A big thank you to everyone who was there and feel free to share it with others!
Curated Collection of Design Resources
I put this together for a recent learning design workshop and wanted to share it with everyone.
NOTE: Download the PDF to access all the clickable links in the document.
Check out a bigger, broader collection of tools and resources on this page curated by Tracy Parish.
Multimedia Learning Design Principles
I created this handout for a recent workshop from Richard Mayer’s Principles for Multimedia Learning.
Free Download: Storyline Elearning Navigation Menu
As I was browsing through my morning reading recently, I came across this nifty navigational demo on the codyhouse.com website. I think this makes a nice addition to an online course so I crafted a quick example in Storyline.
How do you make time for learning?
I recently had the honor of being invited to assist Allison Rossett teach a “Digital Writing for Learning and Performance” course in the Educational Technology program that I attended. Allison wrote about it in the ASTD blog. My excitement for being involved with such a great course has now turned into disappointment — the course was canceled due to low enrollment. I really hope we get to try this again sometime since I think the digital literacy skills we were going to cover are becoming increasingly important for us to have.
As learning professionals, we should be on the front-lines of harnessing the new digital tools for driving better performance in our organizations. (BTW – If you’re interested in how these digital tools can improve performance be sure to connect with Harold Jarche and John Stepper.) Obviously we will never be able to achieve this if we aren’t exploring and using these tools ourselves.
One of the main advantages of acquiring and maintaining your digital skills is for learning more efficiently.
I could not agree more with this recent post from the Nerdy Teacher that says…
“As a professional, “not enough time to learn new things” should not be in the vocabulary.”
With the amount of information being generated today, you will never be able to keep up with everything. This is exactly why you should be giving some thought to building your own Personal Learning Network (PLN).
If you’re wondering how to get started check out Harold’s great information on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). He is running a workshop via the Social Learning Center on this stuff.
Also, I am planning to help run a “23 Things” type self-directed learning program this summer for our local ASTD chapter. Those details are still being formulated, but the “23 Things” approach is a fantastic way to learn by doing. I’ll post the details of that, but it will run, roughly from sometime in June into the beginning of September.
UPDATE: Learn Camp is now up and running for the 3rd year in a row.
In the meantime, as Allison tells us, it is time to invest your energy (wisely) to this new way of being a professional.
