A quick history of my experience of eLearning and a look at current industry trends. Presentation for CUNA (Credit Union National Association) on October 27, 2015.
The Accidental Instructional Designer #ASTD2014Cammy Bean
Did you get into the field of eLearning and Instructional Design by accident? You're not alone! Check out some ideas and strategies for putting more intention in your practice.
A brief history of eLearning as seen through the lens of my own personal experience. A look at current trends we're seeing that influence how we design and deliver online learning programs. Presented at ATD Tech Knowledge, January 14, 2016.
The Accidental Mobile Instructional Designer #mlearnconCammy Bean
Did you get into the learning field by accident and have been figuring it all out as you go along? Did someone one day say, hey, now you need to be doing this for mobile, too? Well, join the fun! Slides from a presentation at mLearnCon 2014 in San Diego on June 26.
A quick history of my experience of eLearning and a look at current industry trends. Presentation for CUNA (Credit Union National Association) on October 27, 2015.
The Accidental Instructional Designer #ASTD2014Cammy Bean
Did you get into the field of eLearning and Instructional Design by accident? You're not alone! Check out some ideas and strategies for putting more intention in your practice.
A brief history of eLearning as seen through the lens of my own personal experience. A look at current trends we're seeing that influence how we design and deliver online learning programs. Presented at ATD Tech Knowledge, January 14, 2016.
The Accidental Mobile Instructional Designer #mlearnconCammy Bean
Did you get into the learning field by accident and have been figuring it all out as you go along? Did someone one day say, hey, now you need to be doing this for mobile, too? Well, join the fun! Slides from a presentation at mLearnCon 2014 in San Diego on June 26.
Position Yourself for Success in a Highly Connected WorldLuanne Tierney
Technology is changing the way we interact. At the Juniper New Directions Womens' Forum, I offered 10 strategies to help position yourself for the future world of work.
doitmarketing doit-marketing Teaching Sells - Building a Profitable Online Business: What Works (And What Doesn’t) in 2012.
Isn’t it time we quit talking about making money online? When you look at what Amazon, iTunes, Google, Facebook are doing ... as well as countless e-learning and other technology companies (with more showing up every day), it’s pretty obvious that it’s not >making money online< any more.
It’s just making money in the world we live in.
If you’re looking for another one of those >business in a box< solutions, you should close this report now. Because Teaching Sells isn’t a “money-getting system.” It’s a framework to create a real-world business.
I presented this to journalism advisers at the opening session of the 2011 Summer Journalism Workshop hosted by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Louise is a futurist at Future Navigator and she is my
6th guest for my ‘’on the roads’’ interview series. We
talked about future navigator and her futurist perspective.
She won a big national prize for a paper on the future
of the Danish innovation system. She can help you
and/or your organisation to find your way in the
confusion and identify the skills that you and your
organisation needs in order to be head of the game in
the future.
Becoming a digital learning content designerClive Shepherd
This is an annotated, stand-alone version of the presentation I delivered at the CIPD's Learning and Development Show at Olympia in London, April 2014.
We are a team of professionals with convictions and goals that can transformation. Our thrust hinges on the belief that majority of people never invest on themselves. We all need to invest in our most important possession; which is our MINDS. This singular fact culminated in the birth of BefittingLife.com. We are poised to providing the best skills set developments possible, in almost all spheres of life; from the best experts in the world.
Session slides from a session at ATD Core 4, September 29 in New Orleans. Session description: Delivering engaging e-learning is about more than dressing up text bullets on a PowerPoint slide. How can we design online learning experiences that actually make a difference in sharing knowledge, building skills, and ultimately improving performance? In this session, we’ll investigate the many types of e-learning, check out some key principles of good design, look at loads of examples, and talk about what to avoid in e-learning.
Presentation by Meena Nareshwar of CEE’s Zoo Education Programme focused on weaving in sustainable action into all programs of the Zoo and communicating about these to zoo visitors.
Ontologies are used in numerous research disciplines and commercial applications to uniformly and semantically annotate real-world objects. Often there are multiple interrelated ontologies in a domain, and repositories such as BioPortal already provide mappings (links) between these ontologies. Especially manually verified mappings can be reused 1) to create new mappings between so far unconnected sources, and 2) to avoid an expensive re-identification, e.g. when the underlying ontologies change.
New ontology mappings can be determined by reusing and composing previously determined mappings that involve intermediate ontologies. The composition of mappings is very efficient and can achieve mappings of very high quality especially for valuable intermediate ontologies. Moreover, due to a rapid development of application domains, ontologies are frequently changed to include up-to-date knowledge. These changes dramatically influence dependent data as well as applications like ontology mappings and ontology-based annotations. Thus existing mappings may become invalid and need to be migrated to the most recent ontology versions, such that users and dependent applications can consume up-to-date mappings.
In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to ontology mappings and provide an overview on reuse-based approaches for mapping creation and maintenance, currently studied at the Database Group at Leipzig University.
Position Yourself for Success in a Highly Connected WorldLuanne Tierney
Technology is changing the way we interact. At the Juniper New Directions Womens' Forum, I offered 10 strategies to help position yourself for the future world of work.
doitmarketing doit-marketing Teaching Sells - Building a Profitable Online Business: What Works (And What Doesn’t) in 2012.
Isn’t it time we quit talking about making money online? When you look at what Amazon, iTunes, Google, Facebook are doing ... as well as countless e-learning and other technology companies (with more showing up every day), it’s pretty obvious that it’s not >making money online< any more.
It’s just making money in the world we live in.
If you’re looking for another one of those >business in a box< solutions, you should close this report now. Because Teaching Sells isn’t a “money-getting system.” It’s a framework to create a real-world business.
I presented this to journalism advisers at the opening session of the 2011 Summer Journalism Workshop hosted by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Louise is a futurist at Future Navigator and she is my
6th guest for my ‘’on the roads’’ interview series. We
talked about future navigator and her futurist perspective.
She won a big national prize for a paper on the future
of the Danish innovation system. She can help you
and/or your organisation to find your way in the
confusion and identify the skills that you and your
organisation needs in order to be head of the game in
the future.
Becoming a digital learning content designerClive Shepherd
This is an annotated, stand-alone version of the presentation I delivered at the CIPD's Learning and Development Show at Olympia in London, April 2014.
We are a team of professionals with convictions and goals that can transformation. Our thrust hinges on the belief that majority of people never invest on themselves. We all need to invest in our most important possession; which is our MINDS. This singular fact culminated in the birth of BefittingLife.com. We are poised to providing the best skills set developments possible, in almost all spheres of life; from the best experts in the world.
Session slides from a session at ATD Core 4, September 29 in New Orleans. Session description: Delivering engaging e-learning is about more than dressing up text bullets on a PowerPoint slide. How can we design online learning experiences that actually make a difference in sharing knowledge, building skills, and ultimately improving performance? In this session, we’ll investigate the many types of e-learning, check out some key principles of good design, look at loads of examples, and talk about what to avoid in e-learning.
Presentation by Meena Nareshwar of CEE’s Zoo Education Programme focused on weaving in sustainable action into all programs of the Zoo and communicating about these to zoo visitors.
Ontologies are used in numerous research disciplines and commercial applications to uniformly and semantically annotate real-world objects. Often there are multiple interrelated ontologies in a domain, and repositories such as BioPortal already provide mappings (links) between these ontologies. Especially manually verified mappings can be reused 1) to create new mappings between so far unconnected sources, and 2) to avoid an expensive re-identification, e.g. when the underlying ontologies change.
New ontology mappings can be determined by reusing and composing previously determined mappings that involve intermediate ontologies. The composition of mappings is very efficient and can achieve mappings of very high quality especially for valuable intermediate ontologies. Moreover, due to a rapid development of application domains, ontologies are frequently changed to include up-to-date knowledge. These changes dramatically influence dependent data as well as applications like ontology mappings and ontology-based annotations. Thus existing mappings may become invalid and need to be migrated to the most recent ontology versions, such that users and dependent applications can consume up-to-date mappings.
In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to ontology mappings and provide an overview on reuse-based approaches for mapping creation and maintenance, currently studied at the Database Group at Leipzig University.
A portal is a website that works as a single source for all info on a particular domain. An effective Web portal deals with the user a broad array of information, organized in a way that is most convenient for the user to use. When planned, executed and maintained correctly a web portal becomes the entry point of a web user introducing him into several information, resources and other sites in the internet.
Clustering Financial Time Series: How Long is Enough?Gautier Marti
IJCAI-16, New York, conference presentation of paper http://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/16/Papers/367.pdf
Researchers have used from 30 days to several
years of daily returns as source data for clustering
financial time series based on their correlations.
This paper sets up a statistical framework to study
the validity of such practices. We first show that
clustering correlated random variables from their
observed values is statistically consistent. Then,
we also give a first empirical answer to the much
debated question: How long should the time series
be? If too short, the clusters found can be spurious;
if too long, dynamics can be smoothed out.
Son los Métodos Diagnósticos son las herramientas de apoyo para detectar la presencia de una enfermedad. Es el cáncer de mama la enfermedad que con medidas oportunas podemos tempranamente aplicar medidas resolutivas eficaces y disminuir la mortalidad oncológica...
Data Security and Privacy by Contract: Hacking Us All Into Business Associate...Shawn Tuma
This presentation was delivered at the Southern Methodist University Law School, Science and Technology Law Review's 2015 Cybersecurity Symposium on October 23, 2015.
The Accidental Instructional Designer #Training18Cammy Bean
Did you land in this field by accident? How do you create a career with intention and purpose? Slides from my session at Training Conference 2018 in Atlanta GA.
Careers in eLearning: Moving from Accident to IntentionCammy Bean
As a kid, did you dream of working in the e-learning field when you grew up? Chances are, it wasn’t even on your radar. So here you are, completely by accident, and yet passionate about what you do and excited to take your practice to the next level. So what can you do to move beyond your sweet spot and become a more well-rounded practitioner? Opening keynote presentation at the Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase on August 5, 2014 in Naperville, IL.
Content Marketing - How Can You Stand out in 2016White Hat Media
With the Internet full of publishers, how can you make your content cut through the digital noise? Presentation given at the 2016 New Year Digital Briefing (UK).
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Signature content of MTBiz is its Article of the Month (AoM), as depicted on Cover Page of each issue, with featured focus on different issues that fall into the wide definition of Market, Business, Organization and Leadership. The AoM also covers areas on Innovation, Central Banking, Monetary Policy, National Budget, Economic Depression or Growth and Capital Market. Scale of coverage of the AoM both, global and local subject to each issue.
MTBiz is a monthly Market Review produced and distributed by Group R&D, MTB since 2009.
You want a SMALL piece of a BIG pie, not a big piece of a small pie. That the heart of affiliate marketing, well, to be honest, that's the heart of internet marketing.
The Accidental Instructional Designer - Kineo Pacific & Cammy BeanKineoPacific
In this webinar, Cammy Bean (@cammybean), VP of Learning Design from Kineo US (www.kineo.com) shares insights and tips on how to develop a thriving career in Instructional Design in the learning & development industry.
You all know Joe Pulizzi, but do you know Pam Kozelka, Peter Loibl, Robert Rose, Joe Kalinowski, Cathy McPhillips, Laura Kozak, Michele Linn, Kelley Whetsell, Jodi Harris, Angela Vannucci, Clare McDermott, Amanda Subler or Lisa Murton Beets? Get to know the CMI/CMWorld team!
I've been teaching entrepreneurship to designers for just over a year now, but I've been amazed at swift and powerful the results are. Designers feel able to participate in hard product discussions, uncover and promote insights to improve the business model and even make better decisions about their personal life, from salary negotiation to budget making. That's bc entrepreneurship is a microcosm of business, simple yet complete. Along with technology and user research, business must be a common core in design education. Entrepreneurship is the best way to do it.
Presentation I delivered at OfficeDevCon09 in Brisbane, Australia - all about how to get productive, and get a return on applications like Microsoft Office, and SharePoint. Very interactive session.
DevLearn_Getting Started with Learning Content Analytics_Kineo (October 2023)...Cammy Bean
Just when you thought you'd gotten the hang of this L&D business, you now find yourself expected to talk in the language of Data & Analytics, using evidence to better inform L&D decisions. And yet Data & Analytics scores as the lowest capability for TD professionals according to the ATD Talent Development Capability Benchmark. While this session won't catapult you into the ranks of expert right out of the gate, let's get started together with some basic understanding to help you build your data and analytics acumen, while identifying some key components to building a more data driven learning organization.
How does this session address the problem?
In this session, we'll explore the need for data and analytics in the L&D space. We'll explore the core building blocks for a data-driven learning organization, including identifying what you will measure, how you'll capture and analyze that data, and how you'll engage the business with that data. We'll explore four data dimensions that allows us to generate data focused on improving learning outcomes: competence, perception, engagement, and reaction. And finally, we'll review some data dashboards from real-world learning solutions to attempt to tell a data story together of what happened and how we can use this data to improve the solution.
Shades of instructional design (11October2022).pptxCammy Bean
What Shade of Instructional Designer are you? It turns out IDs come in many colors and shades. Explore some of the wonderful variety in our industry and consider your own strengths and areas for growth.
Learning Solutions_Cammy Bean_Best Practices for Accidental Instructional Des...Cammy Bean
Session slides from a live, in-person session at Learning Solutions in Orlando on April 20, 2022.
Many of us found our way into the corporate training/learning field quite by accident. If you're an accidental instructional designer, how do you build a career with purpose and passion?
What shade of instructional designer are you? How can you focus your practice and refine your shade? Session slides from an eLearning Guild Online Forum on January 20, 2016.
Re-ignited! Meme-ing the Innovative World of LearningCammy Bean
These are my slides from this year's #DevLearn ignite session -- 20 slides, 20 seconds a slide -- on the topic of innovation and learning. And all told through memes. My premise? Let's look to the past for what works and not simply chase shiny objects.
This is a photo journal from a walk we took on the Couper Property in Littleton, MA on July 18 2015.
Updated August 17 with developer's current proposal.
Top Tips for Responsive eLearning Design Cammy Bean
Responsive web design? What is it and how does it apply to eLearning? What can it look like? Check out examples of eLearning created in Adapt, an open-source responsive eLearning authoring framework.
Meme-ing the future of e-Learning #DevLearnCammy Bean
Well, these slides probably won't make much sense without the live show that went along with it, but great fun just the same! This was my deck for an Ignite-style session at DevLearn 2014 -- 20 sides @ 15 seconds a slide.
Blended threads: Global leadership development at CoatsCammy Bean
How does a large global manufacturing organization up skill it's front line and middle managers on core leadership skills? By finding the right blends of approaches and partners! Check out this presentation from Learning Solutions 2014 with Kineo's Cammy Bean and Coat's Gary Droghini.
Eight Ways to Make Your Learners Fall in LoveCammy Bean
So much eLearning just makes people want to break up with their training departments. How can you turn that relationship around and get people to fall in love with eLearning? Try one of these eight smooth moves you can use to win their hearts and minds (plus an extra special bonus move to really get that lovin' feeling going strong.) Love really is the answer.
How can you design meaningful interactivity without blowing your budget? How can you set up your e-learning for great engagement and better knowledge retention? Let's explore four simple strategies you can use, pretty much regardless of your tools. Presentation by Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design
Ten ways to turn your learners into zombiesCammy Bean
Want to build a zombie army? Want to make sure you turn your employees and learners into mindless beasts, with drooling lips and glazed eyes? Then turn them into zombies with elearning that's truly horrifying! Ten tips for making horrendous elearning, followed by some silver bullets of design if your real aim is to keep them human and alive.
Brand-led learning: Kineo makes the case!Cammy Bean
Brand-led earning programs can make the difference between blah-blah-blah elearning and programs that really connect with people's hearts and minds to change behavior and make them feel a part of the bigger picture. So what is brand-led learning? And is it safe to do this at home?
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
How did you get into this field? Take two minutes each to share your story with a neighbor.
When I surveyed people on my blog, these were the responses I got…
Those of us who work as a one-person eLearning shop have a bit of a challenge – somehow you need to represent all of these pie slices. If you can do that all really well – you’re some kind of superhero.
If not then you may be falling flat in some way OR you’re getting help from outside of your organization – getting the input of external experts to help you fill out those other pie pieces.
Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/creative_tools/4324925700/ CreativeTools.se - PackshotCreator - 3D print - ZPrinter - Super hero
If you’re happy with your part of the pie, by all means, find the right place in the universe for you so that you can focus on that craft and hone your skills. Keep your own professional development in mind. Learn what you need to about the other pieces in order to get better at your own passion, but don’t get watered down.
Nobody likes watery pie.
But the challenge to each and every one of us in the room to go out and learn more about the other pieces of pie – the ones that you’re perhaps not as drawn to, the ones that scare you.
Photo credit: Pecan Pie with Coffee by Steve Snodgrass
What’s your gap? And what’s one action you can take to learn more about that missing piece in your pie? Say it out loud. Write it down. It doesn’t matter—just DO something. It’s your life, not mine…
What’s missing in Instructional Design?
The problem with Instructional Design is that most people never really learned the Design part. Maybe you got the instruction part down…
The idea that design is NOT storyboarding. Design is NOT learning objectives.
I don't see a lot of ISD who understand that. And a lot of customers, and managers, who call for ISDs, really want people who can storyboard and write lesson plans. That is NOT ISD.
So design, is what?
Design is matching the best possible solutions to the known problems - and not many people think that way.
Let’s all close our eyes and do a little group meditation here. OK – maybe not. But I do want you to close your eyes. And I want you to picture in your mind something that has been well designed. What’s the first thing that comes into your mind when I say that? Hold on to that now and feel your way around it. What does it look like? Can you touch it or feel it? How does it make you feel? What can you do with it? Can you hear it? Does it help you do anything?
Now turn to the people around you and share your something with them. Take a few minutes to talk about the quality of that thing.
Flickr Photo: “Meditation” by Alice Popkorn http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicepopkorn/1676300378/
How many people described something that you could hold in your hand or touch? (How many described an iphone?) Did you describe a room or a place? A building? An appliance? A raincoat? Your music system? Your headset? A chair? A website? An elearning program?
What were the qualities you attribute to this well-designed something?
I think we can often boil those qualities down into a few key areas:
Something that is well-designed often has a tactile aspect to it. You can touch it and it feels right. The metal is smooth and polished. Or the pillow has a plushness to it. The curves feel right against your body. Small objects I want to run over my face or even lick. So maybe that’s part of my litmus test for good design – would you want to lick it?
What makes a classic? The missing piece….
The visceral feeling of a good design – the weight in your hands, the feeling of entering a room. When we talk about something that is well-designed, we’re often talking about the tactile experience of that thing – the emotional experience.
What about visual aesthetics? How does it look? And some might argue that this is an extension of the tactile element of design – the aesthetic of touch – but here I’m talking about a visual aesthetic. Do you look the way it looks? Is it pleasing to the eye? Do you prefer a Mr. Coffee Maker or a Braun?
Next to the physical aspect of a well-designed thing there is also an emotional component. How does this thing make you feel? A sense of serenity and calm? Overwhelming productivity? Sadness? Happiness? Angry? Excitement and fun? For instance, this conference has been designed – and it’s potentially evoking some kind of an emotional response in you. Exhuberance? Excitement? Exhaustion?
What else about design? Well, do you know what to do with it? Is it usable? Is it intuitive enough that you can figure out what it is and then what you can do with it? Who has seen the videos of a two year old figuring out an iPad for the first time? They just get it. That’s good design.
And finally, does it produce the desired outcome? Is it solving the problem it’s supposed to solve? If it’s a chair that’s supposed to provide good back support, does your back feel supported? If it’s a light switch, does the light actually turn on when you flick it?
So what is Design?
It’s possible that if you talked to designers in different fields, you would likely get some different answers.
So there exists this tension inherent in the word “design” – is it creativity? Is it process? What is design? I actually had to look it up because I realized I didn’t really know. And when you start digging around, it turns out that there really isn’t one definition of design. It’s kind of a shifting, amorphous thing, depending on who you’re talking to.
So who can tell me what design is? We’ve talked about examples of things that we think are well designed. But what actually is Design? (group discussion)
“Art can exist for art’s sake. Design cannot.” Design must have a purpose. ~ Matt Ward blog. Purpose, Intention, Content. Every element of the design should contribute to achieving the PURPOSE. Elements placed with thought and reason, consider given to details = INTENTION. Content functions as the framework – the lens through which the design is focused.
http://blog.echoenduring.com/2010/05/25/what-is-design/
Matt Ward: Purpose, Intention, Content. Every element of the design should contribute to achieving the PURPOSE. Elements placed with thought and reason, consider given to details = INTENTION. Content functions as the framework – the lens through which the design is focused.
So what do we need to do to make sure we’re designing better elearning?
Designing inside the box (*Jeannette Campos)
The reality of the eLearning Design field: we have to design within a lot of constraints.
Designing for eLearning
This presentation that I’m giving today – I have been designing this since I first thought of the topic and submitted a proposal. I’ve been reading and researching and talking to people and thinking about design. That went on for about 5 months. About a month ago I started outlining and writing and rehearsing my ideas in my head. As my kids fell asleep at night, I would sit in the dark and give me talk in my head. I was designing.
In that same six month time period, I have worked on somewhere between 12 and 20 different elearning projects. In this business, we often just don’t have the time.
Most of us have to live with some pretty serious CONSTRAINTS in this business. Usually it’s “I want it in three weeks and we’ve got limited budget. But it needs to be really kick-ass.” Gulp. It’s the holy triumvirate of budget, time and quality.
Designing within constraints that is the box of present day elearning.
Because sometimes/often the reality is that we do have to design within that box.
The constraints are the sides of your box – and you need to design inside that box. It doesn't preclude creativity or innovation. It just means you design inside the box. When you do that – and when you can do that well – your solution is more durable, more likely to be sustained, and more likely to *stick*
Easy. First, you consume it. You simply MUST be a consumer of your own product line. You have to know what is out there, what you like, don't like, listen to what people are saying, follow the trends. NO ONE in history has ever said they need more next button. NO ONE!
Design must be RESPONSIVE - to business need and business demand. We very often miss both.
Even if you’re stuck with limited time, before you start storyboarding…stop and think….DESIGN something.
Know what problem you’re trying to solve. Make sure it contributes to that desired outcome. Did it help someone do their job better? Did it lead to better performance? Did it open eyes the way it was supposed to? And if it’s all about ticking a box to ensure compliance – well, did it even do that? What problems is it helping to solve?
Think about the bigger picture – the SYSTEM – in which this elearning program exists..
As my friend Jeannette Campos said to me, “Design must be purposeful, and to be purposeful, you MUST understand the business and the system in which it is intended to live.” (it is called instructional SYSTEMS design for a reason).
Either you should be designing that bigger system as a true ISD – or you’re building a piece of that bigger picture. And if you’re just building that piece – the single elearning component – that’s fine. Do it and do it well. But know how it fits into whatever other activities are going on to support this performance outcome – be it on the job training, informal knowledge shares, classroom training, and so on.
Ben Hamilton-Baille as quoted in “In Pursuit of Elegance” by Matthew May:
“What’s wrong with how we engineer things is that most of what we accept as the proper order of things is based on assumptions, not observations. If we observed first, designed second, we wouldn’t need most of the things we build.” (p. 163)
Make it emotional. Create a connection with the human being who will be interacting with/consuming this program.
Pictures that look at you -- we make an emotional and human connection.
That boiling petri dish of bacteria -- yeah, that’s emotional for me.
Make sure it’s intuitive and easy to use. User Interface Design. GUI. All that and usability too.
Rip off good stuff: “Using proven choices and methodologies for achieving and effective design” – it doesn’t have to be new and original. A lot of design is simply ripping good stuff off.
Make use of design patterns – repeatable and proven solutions that you can apply to save time…
Design is a creative process with some pretty knowable formulas
Guided Story
Knowledge and Skill Builder meets a Guided Story.
Goal Based Scenarios
Design within your box. Often we elearning people are handed a very small box “go build a course.” Your problem might be to design a good course that people want to sit through. That’s ok, to. Know what your problem is. And then solve that problem REALLY well.
Or get radical and change the world. Blow up your box and try to solve bigger problems with different solutions.
Remember the people – have mercy on them. And love them, even.