The Boggs e-Learning Chronicle

e-Learning Lingo Podcast #57: Metadata

The next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series is up!   This week's word is  "Metadata".

On the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, there are three ways to comment on each episode. You may post a message to the blog; leave a web-based voice mail by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner; or call in and leave a message about each show.  You may find each weekly episode and its accompanying transcript on the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series page located in the Media Center of the SyberWorks web site.

Press Release:

The e-Learning Lingo Podcast #57: "Metadata"

Blog:

e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series Blog

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast #22: Interview with Guy Wallace about his e-Book, "T&D Systems View"

Here is our latest press release and e-Learning Series podcast:

Press Release:

SyberWorks e-Learning Podcasts: Episode #22: Interview with Guy Wallace about his e-Book, "T&D Systems View"

Podcast:

Episode 22: Interview with Guy Wallace about his e-Book, "T&D Systems View"

Dave Boggs, CEO of SyberWorks, states, “Today’s podcast is an interview with Guy Wallace, Certified Performance Technologist and the President of EPPIC, Inc.  Guy has written an e-Book, ‘T&D Systems View,’ which presents a structured method for managing the learning/training function from a systems and process perspective."

 

SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Transcript #22

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait... wait...

Ways To Reduce Your Company's Training Budget

Found this article while surfing my rss feeds, and given the state of the economy, I thought it might be pertinent...

Ways to trim learning & training operational expenses By Mohana Radhakrishnan

Taken from the article.......

1. Consolidate and centralize learning technologies.
   
   " Invest in delivery platform management technology, authoring systems technologies,  Learning Management System (LMS) optimize, customize or consolidate learning technologies."


2. Convert ILT to blended or e-Learning.
   
   "One of the key strategies organizations are considering is converting instructor led training to blended or e-learning."


3. Optimize learning technology support and administration.
   
   "This refers to the human activity surrounding a learning system namely, the administrative work going on within the training group. Software as a service plays an integral role here"


4. Centralize services, not processes.
   
   "Learning systems in organization is distributed and totally inefficient. That's because there are multiple people in multiple groups completing the same tasks or transactions, but doing it in multiple ways."


5. Improve vendor management.
   
   "Benefits are obvious if some type of vendor management program is implemented. Most of them are accomplished by simply reducing the number of vendors that organizations works with, but one of the key takeaways that we discovered was that a vendor management tool was necessary in order to improve how learning professionals interact and work with their vendors."


6. Optimize learning operations.
   
   "The real keys to improving business processes are audits and documentation. "


7. Reporting-produce press data and more intelligence .
   
   "In terms of reporting, cost and activity measurement is valid in some regards."


8. Optimize training resource utilization.
   
   "This is all about optimizing the utilization of classrooms, instructors, course materials and equipment."


9. Run your training organization like a business.
   
   "It’s critical to identify your training organization core skills and determine the true value to the company as a whole. If your value is not found in administration services or in technology management, then it might be a good idea to shed that work or find ways to seriously streamline it."

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Preview #22

Here's a sneak preview of our next  SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series episode on an interview with Guy Wallace where he discusses his e-Book, T&D Systems View. Have a listen....

Audio Preview

Time: 26  Seconds

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

Three Tiered Approach To e-Learning Design and Development...

Designing and Developing E-learning Projects: A Three-Tiered Approach By Saul Carliner

Excerpt:

"One of the problems with Instructional System Design (ISD), the methodology that underlies most instructional design efforts, is that it takes a one-size-fits-all approach to projects. More specifically, as presented in texts and courses (and often, as approached in practice, taught), ISD assumes that all projects are new ones with equal levels of complexity.

In reality, a wide variety of instructional design projects exist. Some are new, some are revisions. Some revisions are simple ones, requiring either a brief update of information or a quick fix to something in error. Some revisions are more complex than new courses, more like historic preservations that are intended to bring a building up to code while preserving the crumbling exterior of the original structure. Some projects are intended for the classroom, some are intended for presentation online."

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait... wait... C: wait... SD: wait...

e-Learning Lingo Podcast #56: Netiquette

The next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series is up!   This week's word is  "Netiquette".

On the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, there are three ways to comment on each episode. You may post a message to the blog; leave a web-based voice mail by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner; or call in and leave a message about each show.  You may find each weekly episode and its accompanying transcript on the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series page located in the Media Center of the SyberWorks web site.

Press Release:

The e-Learning Lingo Podcast #56: "Netiquette"

Blog:

e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series Blog

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

Book on Training Evaluation....

Found this up on Jim Kissane's blog...

How Do They Know They Know?: Evaluating Adult Learning

by Jane Kathryn Vella, Jim Burrow, Paula Berardinelli

Synopsis: "Applies principles and concepts of popular education to evaluation?a critical piece in program development and training with adults. Using real-life case studies, the book shows how the model works in a variety of settings to help trainers evaluate adult learning."

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

Curriculum Architecture Design

Guy Wallace has some good information on his blog, here is a post that may be useful to you.....

The Purpose of Curriculum Architecture Design

Excerpt:

"The Curriculum Architecture Design (CAD) process generates the overall design for an entire T&D product line. The design is high-level (macrolevel), systems-oriented, and modular. The design identifies
• Where (within the scope of the design) training needs exist
• Currently existing T&D that addresses the training needs
• Gaps where no existing training addresses the training needs
• Which gaps are high-priority and should be filled by new or updated training

In summary, the Curriculum Architecture Design process identifies all of the T&D that could be and then prioritizes efforts to build all of the gap T&D that should be."

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

e-Learning Lingo Podcast #55: Reductionism

The next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series is up!   This week's word is  "Reductionism".

On the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series, there are three ways to comment on each episode. You may post a message to the blog; leave a web-based voice mail by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner; or call in and leave a message about each show.  You may find each weekly episode and its accompanying transcript on the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series page located in the Media Center of the SyberWorks web site.

Press Release:

The e-Learning Lingo Podcast #55: "Reductionism"

Blog:

e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series Blog

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System

Online Web Annotation Tool

Found this up on Jane Hart's blog....

A.nnotate.com lets you easily give, collect and store detailed notes on documents and web pages And its free!

elearning	learning management systems
elearning podcasts	Competency Management

Dave Boggs
SyberWorks, Inc.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series
SyberWorks LMS e-Learning Implementation Podcast Series
e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series
SyberWorks Training Center Learning Management System