Category Archives: elearning

Deeper Instructional Design

Wendy’s blog notes from a presentation by Clark Quinn is a great follow-up to my recent post about Donald Clark’s comment regarding “clip arting” courses to death. Among the points I’d highlight here are: We can’t “create” learning- We can design environments conducive to learning. Can’t dump a bunch of knowledge on people and expectContinueContinue reading “Deeper Instructional Design”

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Learning Communities List : eLearning Technology

Tony Karrer has posted a list of learning communities.  A few on LinkedIn and Ning; a couple email lists. These look like pretty good places to start if you’re looking for this kind of stuff. I’m already following most of these but there’s at least one that I’m headed to check out. Although it’s tiedContinueContinue reading “Learning Communities List : eLearning Technology”

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Rapid tools: more bubble machine than bubble

“Clip art it to death”.  When I read that line is Donald Clark’s post I thought he must be seeing the same types of things that I’ve been seeing a lot of in my organization lately.  Another phrase I’m reminded of when it comes to clip art, animations and other distracting items is “Just becauseContinueContinue reading “Rapid tools: more bubble machine than bubble”

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Making the Election Video: Behind the Scenes | Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English

My bet is that people think since these videos are “simple” that take only a short time to create. This post is a great illustration to the point that it takes LONGER to create short, simple, elegant, stories that tell a great story very well. It takes a lot of thought and work. If you’veContinueContinue reading “Making the Election Video: Behind the Scenes | Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English”

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