Tag Archives: eLearning

Two Underutilized Software Training Technologies

There are two technologies that are familiar to many software professionals, but somehow don’t see much use in the rest of the organization. The first technology is computer screen movie capture (aka screencasting) and the second is the ability of virtually every laptop and most video cards to support multiple monitors.
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Why we need a ‘Work Networking’ Metaphor

One of the profound joys of talking to experts is that they can ask that one question that bursts your bubble. I just had that experience with Tony Karrer – master of the eLearning Technology blog. I sent him some links to our CoSolvent Community Server, along with the blithe statement: “We are trying to [...]
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Direct: from Brain to Action

What are the three biggest headaches in eLearning? Getting the knowledge out of the expert’s brain Embedding the knowledge in the learner’s actions Everything in between
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eLearning Design Patterns

The concept of a design patterns was originally recognized and popularized by Christopher Alexander to make sense of the manner in which architects (of buildings) could so easily generate their designs. He identified a design pattern as a construct that: “describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes [...]
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