Opening Keynote Jon Landau
Just taking some time to reflect the first half of today's conference and wanted to write down some notes. The conference started off strong with Gangdum Style blasting as we entered the Juniper Ballroom. I must learn this dance. That were a lot of energy in the room of almost 2000 attendees (the biggest at Devlearn so far). The CEO of the guild started by sharing accomplishments from the past 11 years of the Guild. WOW!
Elearning has been around that long? Just think the days of the professional correspondence school to CBT and now this.. Jon Landau's talk gave me a new found respect for the folks that make movies. The Titanic took a year to make. The ship was constructed from the ground up. It was amazing to see the production set, the construction, and all of the people involved in movie making. Taking ten years to come to life Avatar was revolutionary in the ability to add emotions to characters. James Cameron wrote the script for it back in the mid 90's.
Jon fondly shared that James Cameron writes without regards to reality. As should we if we want to be innovative. We have to push the envelopment. The art does not change with technology. Technology is a means to an end not an end to a mean. Really inspiring.
How does all of this have anything to do with elearning?
As in movies we connect, engage, and inspire people not just on the intellectual but on the emotional. When we make people care about what they are learning they retain it and come back to learn more. It's about building the connection and the engagement. It's about continually innovating and striving to provide a great experience.
Take away: Appeal to the emotional and not so much intellectual. A tall order.
Connect the Objectives to the Business Goals
Kasper Spiro, easygenerator CEO
In this session, you will learn:
- How you can connect learning to business goals
- How you can translate business goals in learning objectives
- How you can design courses based on learning objectives
- How to measure progress based on learning objectives
- What the effect is of reporting on learning objectives
- How you can use learning objectives to individualize eLearning courses
We can create better and more effective learning by making better use of learning objectives.
Track progress based on experiences not just page turns. A case based scenario to measure outcome. (This is a great idea for BOP like the eReader pre-assessment. Need a more efficient way to provide feedback).
Action Mapping
1. Identify the business goals
- Connect to the business
- Be part of the process
- Tell your story! Shout out! Be counted!
- Set the goals for your learning department in terms of contribution to these business goals
- What can my contribution be to the business goal?
- How do I measure it?
2. Identify what people need to do (instead of need to know), translate them into actions
- Create learning objectives
- What do the people need to do to fulfill the business goal
- Talk to the business
- Determine what they already can do
- Perform a baseline
- Determine the learning gap
- In skill and knowledge
- Set your goals in terms of learning outcomes
- Make a high level design of your learning interventions
- Base on learning objectives
- Make sure they are action items
- Set a measurable goal for each intervention
4. Identify what people really (really?) need to know, add that information
- Make the business manager the client
- Start with learning activities
- Translate them actives
- Get SME involved
- Use didactical structure
- Learning objectives
- Questions/cases
- Information
- Keep the business informed
- Be as agile as you can, give demo's every one or two weeks
- Deliver course
- Evaluate course with the business
- Personalization
- Use branching technique on questions, case or assessment level
- Create study advises
- Show where to go
- In the curriculum
- Use learning objectives to create an adaptive learning path between courses
Content authoring
Easy form fill
No programming needed
Inform learner of progress
http://www.easygenerator.com
Take away: We need a better and more efficient content delivery system. Our LMS is creating a barrier between the learner and the content. Not good. How can we provide a good experience when they can't even get to it efficiently. Take away the barrier. Learners does not have the time.
Interesting and fun keynote by Brian Brushwood. Surprisingly!
Mindmap from Clark Quinn.
Take away: We need a better and more efficient content delivery system. Our LMS is creating a barrier between the learner and the content. Not good. How can we provide a good experience when they can't even get to it efficiently. Take away the barrier. Learners does not have the time.
A New Agile Model: Leaving ADDIE Behind |
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation - ADDIE - are all important steps in the design of effective eLearning applications or any learning program. While there have been many adaptations of ADDIE, many of them were made before today's tools, challenges, and opportunities.
More efficient and effective processes are needed and available to produce superior learning experiences in less time. Participants in this session will learn about Successive Approximation as a next-generation approach that uses time and other resources to more effectively produce more creative and engaging eLearning.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to select the most effective design and development process for your organization
- The essential components of context, challenge, activity, and feedback to design eLearning applications
- How to diagram essential process iterations to design and develop more successful eLearning applications
Mindmap from Clark Quinn.
