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I had been planning to post both during and after the recent ASAE Great Ideas conference, but things have been quite busy lately at Tagoras. Overall, I thought it was one of the better ASAE events I have attended in recent years, and I think the Next Generation Learning track put together by the Professional …
In commenting on a post titled “I hate it when presenters do that,” I highlighted the following passage from the 6th edition of Malcom Knowles’ classic The Adult Learner: …by and large, the adults we work with have not learned to be self-directing inquirers; they have been conditioned to be dependent on teachers to teach …
I’ve written before about how important use cases are when selecting technology. The basic idea behind them is that choices about technology should be driven by the desired user behavior and outcomes. What should a user be able to do when using the technology and why? Only once the desired behavior and outcomes are clearly …
I wholeheartedly agree with the following two passages. One is a comment by Stephen Downes on a Garr Reynolds blog post, the other is from a blog post that Downes pointed out a while ago. Here’s the first: Connection is one thing. Engagement is something very different. Connection is about creating interaction, a voluntary state …
I found the following video through Stephen Downes, who found it on Tim Kastelle’s excellent blog. In it, David Gauntlett does a very nice job of weaving together distinct but related perspectives on how social connections and tools engender engagement and creativity. As Gauntlett puts it, “Making is connecting because you have to connect things …
This is a slight revamp of a post I did a couple of years ago on a different blog. I’ve seen interest in LMS adoption by associations grow in the meantime, but I still see relatively little attention given to use cases. *** I recently received a regular e-mail update from one of the corporate …
Learning management system pricing in the association market has evolved quite a bit over the years and, for the most part, has gotten somewhat lower. Based on data gathered from 20 different association LMS vendors, here are average costs in year Year 1 (which usually includes some level of implementation fees) and over a 3-year …
A heavy load of client work has left little time for creating new content for the Tagoblog lately, so I thought this might be a good time to post an article I wrote a while back for the Avectra Academy. Enjoy – and I’ll be back soon with new content. – Jeff *** If you …
In the run up to a session on e-learning that I participated in at the recent UnTech10 event, someone planning to attend the session asked about the state of “collaborative learning” in the world of e-learning. As this person put it, collaborative learning …should be a particular strength of e-learning from the perspective of technological …
I offered up a definition of learning as I see it a while back on my Mission to Learn blog. Readers there would not have been surprised that I see learning as being much more about ongoing process and interaction than about specific events or degrees or credit. Earlier this week, I was reading Digital …
ASTD ran an article not too long ago in which the time to develop an hour of training in 2009 was compared to the time to develop the same type of training in 2003. Since I often get asked about how long it takes to develop various types of educational content, I thought the article …
Some of these are already available, some are on the way, but certification expert Mickie Rops lays out five great certification resources in a recent post on her Beyond Certification blog. While driving e-learning sales is not a reason for creating a certification program (and, generally speaking, you need to be careful to keep a …