E-Learning Symposium 2015 was one of the best covered symposiums on social media. A number of attendees and even speakers got into the act and live tweeted the conference. We’ve curated some of the best we found below (feel free to add the ones we missed to the comments).
E-Learning Council @learningcouncil
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Patti Shank PhD CPT @pattishank
RT @lwarrenaustin: #ELS2015 totally agree with @Quinnovator that learning styles are a myth
safely back home after a great couple of days at @learningcouncil’s #els2015 thanks to all!
#ELS2015 Project objectives are different than learning objectives, but just as important when designing a course. Don’t skip. @nolecture
#ELS2015 Divide a project into roles. But just because you have many roles, it doesn’t mean you won’t play more than one role. @nolecture
#ELS2015 Just had to plead the tweet because I missed the question that Lou asked me. @nolecture
#ELS2015 Only two reasons to do projects are to increase revenue and avoid costs. Ask your sponsor which a project is. @nolecture
#ELS2015 All compliance projects are avoid cost projects. @nolecture
#ELS2015 When you go to a project sponsor with a problem, always go with at least two solutions. @nolecture
#ELS2015 The role of a project manager in an elearning project has nothing to do with instructional design. @nolecture
Cool http://mlearnopedia.com — a resource for Mobile Learning #ELS2015
#ELS2015 totally agree with @Quinnovator that learning styles are a myth
#els2015 mobile phone in training – augmenting formal training, performance support, social, contextual (based on where & when)@Quinnovator
#ELS2015 culture can change only when leadership is on board @Quinnovator
When you take a thought and try to make it concrete – that is learning. #ELS2015
#ELS2015 When creating communities of practice, ensure that you’re able to support both communication and collaboration. @Quinnovator
#ELS2015 When creating job aids, ensure that the information architecture is designed to that they are easy to find. @Quinnovator
#ELS2015 For good multiple choice questions, make sure options are not obvious wrong answers, but reliable ways to go wrong. @Quinnovator
RT @LeighMires: Giving people rote instructions only works in rote situations. #ELS2015
#ELS2015 Chose the right practice problem, a problem that your learners want to solve, and now they’re motivated. @Quinnovator
#ELS2015 What makes great education? What makes great engagement? The lists are perfectly aligned. @Quinnovator
@els2015 before you design training, be clear about the problem you need to solve @Quinnovator
@els2015 learning in the Information Age is about the ability to make better decisions @Quinnovator
Simulations can be a good alternative to mentored live performance #ELS2015
The best practice is mentored live performance. Problem is individual practice doesn’t scale well. #ELS2015
#ELS2015 The difference between well-designed and well-produced training is subtle, but the impact is tremendous. @Quinnovator
#els2015 workplace learning requires a learning ecosystem @Quinnovator
Special #FF to @LukeClimber for livetweeting #ELS2015 & for absolute calm when a wasp walked on his face, right @keving789 and @elearning?
Who to follow for #FF? @Quinnovator @keving789 @elearning @nolecture @peleugboajah @lwarrenaustin @learningcouncil @microassist #ELS2015
Here’s an #ELS2015 fun fact–one of our board members walked 5 miles today..just helping out at the conference. Awesome event!
Whew! We came, we learned, we sang and at a bit too much food. Social hour just ended #ELS2015 is done!
My saw was sharpened at #ELS2015. Can’t wait to put learnings into practice. Thank you, presenters, sponsors, and hosts. @learningcouncil
Dr. @peleugboajah‘s #ELS2015 presentation was smooth as a fresh jar of Skippy.
The variety of technologies used by volunteers is a challenge of public outreach training. @lwarrenaustin #ELS2015
For public outreach, invest in your volunteers through training. #ELS2015
Sarah Hutchings: And — not surprisingly — training so many volunteers who have so many types of devices, OSs, etc.. #ELS2015
Sarah Hutchings: Also a challenge training ppl who give their time when it’s privacy compliance training #ELS2015
Sarah Hutchings: challenges include Single Sign On & different sites related to org. Also a demographic not ready for LMS #ELS2015
Mary VanWisse Open caption/print may still be barrier for people who learn to read ASL before English (& who are deaf). #ELS2015
#ELS2015 public outreach training challenges; proprietary concerns, legislative mandate, and diverse learner backgrounds #ELS2015
Multiple delivery channels — outside an LMS — tracking is more of a challenge, but the goal for Luminex is reduced call volume #ELS2015
So much information, so many smart people… I LOVE THE eLEARNING COMMUNITY! #ELS2015
Instead of closed captioning videos use ASL! Brilliant #accessibilityissues #ELS2015
#ELS2015 For outreach, course as a whole may be ten minutes, but structured so that client can find solutions in one or two minutes.
#ELS2015 Heidi Boswell: You may want an LMS, but is it better for strategic goals to make content easily available online?
In case y’all are looking here’s the Design Thinking Course that Lou Russell @nolecture mentioned https://www.coursera.org/instructor/liedtka01 … #ELS2015
Now Sarah Hutchings, from American Cancer Society (Volunteer Training) #ELS2015
I had never heard of #EPT (a standard of care for STDs). I can imagine the barriers to outreach training there. #ELS2015
Mary VanWisse mentions a Expedited Partner Therapy training, and putting a trusted expert early in the training to overcome barries #ELS2015
For external training We have to make the training interesting and make it worth their time. Mary Van Wise – Texas DSHS #ELS2015
When creating customer training – talk in the language of the customer – not your internal language. Heidi Boswell #ELS2015
Mary VanWisse panelist is from Health Communication & Community Engagement TD/HIV/STD & Viral Hepatitis Unit at DSHS #saythat5xfast #ELS2015
First panelist joining Linda Warren @lwarrenaustin is Heidi Boswell from Luminex #ELS2015
Linda Warren @lwarrenaustin now introducing Public-Facing Outreach Training pane Linda Warren @lwarrenaustin #ELS2015
A truth about outreach training – Your audience is busy. You have to make it matter to them. #ELS2015 A “Duh” but we forget.
Wow, pretzels as a mid afternoon snack. Unique and delightful! #ELS2015
Only Perfect Practice makes perfect. As trainers we facilitate Perfect Practice! #ELS2015 Thanks to @peleugboajoah
Everything gets better with practice!Thanks Pele! #ELS2015
ROI is net benefit over input. ROI is only using one number; what if you had other data. Measure the right things — @peleugboajah #ELS2015
Awareness is not sufficient. Practice is the missing link. Practice is to pinpointing what to practice. — @peleugboajah #ELS2015
Training ROI Gaps: Pinpointing, Application, Datafication — @peleugboajah #ELS2015
I must say that @learningcouncil rounded up a great, engaging group of speakers this year for #ELS2015
240% performance improvement is possible, *if* training was engaging — @peleugboajah #ELS2015
Bringing new meaning to See, Do, Teach. — @peleugboajah just performed a song. Clapping was involved. #ELS2015
The training story: three people ask a guru how to play a guitar: 1) Tell me, 2) Show me, 3: involve me. — @peleugboajah #ELS2015
CEO: Strategy.LMS: Learning. Employee: Behavior. These together make the batters to light the Results lightbulb — @peleugboajah #ELS2015
What employees not getting: Job specific training, prof development, career development, career advancement — @peleugboajah #ELS2015
Employees want GOOD Job-Specific Training & Professional Development #ELS2015. Echos of Daniel Pink’s Mastery-Austonomy-Purpose
What managers want is accountability #ELS2015 We’re implementing and we’re going to be successful #ELS2015
90% of HR leaders believe they underperform. 85% loss of ROI from training and development. OUCH. Time to change #ELS2015
CEO’s want Excellence and Consistency in Execution – PERFORMANCE #ELS2015
And how do you top the last speaker? Pull out a guitar and start a singalong #ELS2015
Skill plus knowledge x motivation equals performance #ELS2015
Next up is Pele Ugboajah @peleugboajah, and just shared a joke with our attendee from Nigeria. #ELS2015
Turns out we have someone here from Nigeria. WOw #ELS2015
Takeaways: Your goal is make it as small as possible. — Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015
Agile is counter-cultural for governance. ADDIE is not a five year project. SAM is a compromise. — Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015
SAM is a good compromise from when requirements aren’t clear. @nolecture Take big make it small. Isolate risk of change #ELS2015
Very stable requirements – use ADDIE quickly. Puzzles – ADDIE Mysteries – Agile. @nolecture #els2015
No one knows what you do as an eLearning developer. They think you do PowerPoint and can’t figure out why you take so long. #ELS2015
@nolecture How will you play? Ownership Accountability Responsibility or Blame Excuses Denial #els2015 #elearning
Your job as an project manager is to keep the pigs from eating the boat. @nolecture #ELS2015 @learningcouncil
If you don’t know why you’re doing something, you’re not ready to create a project schedule. @nolecture #ELS2015 @learningcouncil
#1 rule for project communication: status report at the same time every week. You’ll look like a rock star! @nolecture #ELS2015 #elearning
In the absence of information people make up crazy stuff – reason for weekly status reports. so true @nolecture #ELS2015
#DesignThinking is about working on mysteries, not puzzles… fail early and often… and learn from that — Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015
#ELS2015. Lou Russell: If you do nothing else for a project communication plan, send a status report at the same time every week.
#ELS2015. Lou Russell: If you don’t know why you’re doing a project, don’t do it.
Project management: why, how, adapt, learn (define, plan, manage, review) @nolecture #ELS2015
Deliver a small piece quickly; fail early and often #ELS2015 @nolecture
There is a great Coursera course on design thinking from Darden School for free @nolecture Take it. #ELS2015
By the way if you are looking for a good intro to more Agile dev methodologies get SCRUM http://amzn.to/1P488eR #book #ELS2015
SAM = Successive Approximation Method. Rapid Prototyping… we’re getting heavy into the methodology madness in here. @nolecture #ELS2015
“That’s not ADDIE. I have slides, where the problem.” — Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015 #knowinglaughs
The problem with instructional design methodologies is our lack of ability to focus. @nolecture #ELS2015 @learningcouncil
#ELS2015 Problem with ADDIE: after three months of Development, Analyze is out of date.
Project Development methodologies are really just “cheat sheets”! @nolecture Lou Russell #ELS2015 #elearning
Project meetings these days are really more like flash mobs. – Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015 @learningcouncil
There is no such thing as a project team–there is beg and borrow. We call them stakeholders to sound more grown up @nolecture #ELS2015
CCAF: Context, Challenge, Activity, and Feedback. — Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015
(Skills + Knowledge) * Motivation = Performance @nolecture #ELS2015
#ELS2015 Training is a sacred profession. We’re messing with people. Lou Russell
#2 Why today? Tells you all the politics — Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015
2 Important questions – What will the person be able to do after the learning experience that they can’t do now? Why today? #ELS2015
Want to learn how to shoot effective video on your smartphone? Talk to Austinite @aaronmsb #ELS2015 @learningcouncil
Appropriate uses of games. What is implied in a game? Winner, Loser. #ELS2015
“We’re so busy… how can I listen” #ELS2015
What are the restrictions of the internal resources vs external resources? #ELS2015
Make it up as you go along is not a methodology… it’s not scalable — Lou Russell @nolecture #ELS2015
Learning. It helps common people do uncommon things. Your people are your value #ELS2015
Takeaways:: Incorporating delays in timing/required actions — on Dave Anderson @elearning #ELS2015
Takeaways:: Video feedback.options to the decision maker, Time/Resources/ROI on video — on Dave Anderson @elearning #ELS2015
@jaimekay16 Science may be cool, but geeking out in your own field around the experts who geek out in their own field is cooler. 😀 #ELS2015
#els2015 video recording with an iPhone is a powerful training tool – David Anderson
Dave Anderson at #ELS2015: Branching scenario for video quick to record. Hardest part is the decision tree, but have to do that with slides
I feel like I’m a David Anderson groupie! #ELS2015
Make sure you follow @learningcouncil which organizes the E-Learning Symposium every year #ELS2015
“if you’re following this, high five the person next to you” – great distractor when pulling up stuff for the screen #ELS2015 @elearning
Video in Elearning using branching,very short scenarios, and “waiting audio” that increases in volume. #ELS2015 @elearning @learningcouncil
Dave Anderson at #ELS2015: building a screen of eLearning can take hours; can get a quick video in much less time.
And our MC is John Gillis (I don’t quickly see his twitter handle, sorry). #ELS2015
Coming up will be Linda Warren @lwarrenaustin, Lou Russell @nolecture Pele Ugboajah @peleugboajah, Linda Warren @lwarrenaustin #ELS2015
#ELS2015 check out the NYT quizzes, like “can you spot the liar?” @Articulate Dave Anderson #elearning
#ELS2015 speakers so far are: Clark Quinn @Quinnovator, Kevin Gumienny @keving789, and @Articulate‘s Dave Anderson @elearning #ELS2015
“How do I force my learners watch every video” — most common question to @elearning. You can delay options. #ELS2015
The average person works 90,000 hours in a lifetime #ELS2015 #toolong
Let learners make connections between topics – interleaving @keving789 #els2015
Takeaways from Kevin Gumienny: hints for novices, What-Why-How, Expertise Reversal Effect #ELS2015
. it was very inspiring. It was a good reminder of how fun and effective elearning can be. #ELS2015
A couple of years ago, I saw Kevin Gumienny, Using Comic Book Design to Engage Learners http://www.austinastd.org/event-589200 #ELS2015
People learn from repeated practice tests, not just studying and taking one final test. #scienceiscool #ELS2015 @keving789
Because science is cool! LOVE IT! Thanks Dr. Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
Takeaway from Kevin Gumienny: Feedback using temperature gauges. I need to do that more often! #ELS2015
@WillWorkLearn @Quinnovator #els2015 Speaker Dr Kevin Gumienny JUST mentioned YOU here at the elearning symposium!
#els2015 #elearning Dr Kevin. G expertise reversal effects – experts need less info So trickle out hints until the learner finds their level
My head is exploding. Kevin Gumienny (yet again) have given me so very much to think about, and find ways to implement #ELS2015
#ELS2015 You guys are so lucky to be hanging out with @Quinnovator
There’s our old friend, branched scenario… Figure out the paths the learners may choose… (con’t) — Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
Kevin Gumienny (@keving789): “Adding layered hints to your training accommodates novices and experts alike.” #ELS2015
Expertise Reversal Effect — moderate for it to maintain motivation when courses have both experts and novices — Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
Kevin Gumienny (@keving789): “Ask yourself these questions about how you think.” #metacognition #ELS2015
Echoing Dr. Quinn. The more expert a person is, the less information and support they need @keving789 #ELS2015
Expertise Reversal Effect.Novices don’t have the expertise, they need the external support — Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
#metacognition what (exactly) are you doing? How are you doing it? How does it help you? — Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
If you can’t do it hands on, do a simulation. — Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
Transfer: Context & metacognition (thinking about how you think). Academic & real life context are very different — Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
#ELS2015 #elearning “interleaving” improves retention. Mix up content with questions, revisit section 1 content in section 2…
#ELS2015 #elearning “interleaving” improves retention. Mix up content with questions, revisit section 1 content in section 2…
Practice tests help people embed learning, up to nine months later – Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
@lwarrenaustin #podcasts #els2015 I think podcasts are good – if they’re short – because you can access them when driving & mowing the lawn
Making learning effective: Memory, Transfer, Motivation. Kevin Gumienny #ELS2015
#els2015 Kevin Gumienny The Brainy Way to Better Training #elearning
@Jenn_Tech @learningcouncil thanks for your vibrant tweeting! #ELS2015
#els2015 wondering about current interest in podcasts for training when people retain 10% of what they hear. Pretty low retention rate.
Take away for @Quinnovator: The least assistance principle #ELS2015
Take away for @Quinnovator : Before developing, look at the problem your solving. Backwards design. Re-evaluate the ROI. #ELS2015
Practice not until you get it right, but until you can’t get it wrong, says @quinnovator #ELS2015
“Least assistance principle gets them back to work quickly” And that’s what we want, isn’t it? #ELS2015 @Quinnovator
.@quinnovator: a major barrier to innovation is a Miranda organization- anything you say will be held against you. #ELS2015 @learningcouncil
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” @Quinnovator #ELS2015
How does L&D become the MOST critical part of the organization, not the least critical part of the organization #ELS2015 Hear! Hear!
“Once an org. gets to critical mass it becomes self-sustaining and self-correcting” And it takes time to get there @Quinnovator #ELS2015
If the answer can come from the network it should (not from L&D) #ELS2015
“The least assistance principle: ‘What’s the least I can do for you’ is not a rude response. @Quinnovator #ELS2015
Clark Quinn (@Quinnovator): “We’ve got to stop working as a faith-based domain. If you build it, people will come? No.” #ELS2015
If you want your organization to be open and supportive of new ideas, it starts with leaders creating the environment #els2015 #elearning
Creating a learning organization requires you to be concrete about learning processes – education & training, experimentation #ELS2015
Clark Quinn (@Quinnovator): “Some say there’s no time to reflect. If you work less and reflect more, the quality of work goes up.” #ELS2015
Creating a learning environment requires an appreciation of differences, openness to new ideas, time for reflection #ELS2015
“where are you getting your answers?” “The bathroom — whip out the phone and look” — @Quinnovator [You KNOW you’ve done it] #ELS2015
A coherent organization has work teams, communities of practice and social networks @Quinnovator — absolutely! #ELS2015
“Now we need models and data and people” things like performance support are optimal. @Quinnovator #ELS2015
Check out http://elearningmanifesto.org Help out with improving learning and development #ELS2015
Brainstorming works if you give people issue ahead of time, let them form own ideas, then come together to discuss #els2015 #elearning
#ELS2015 “If you are only doing courses, you are abandoning most of your workforce” @Quinnovator
The correlation between whether people think learning was effective vs. if it was effective is 0 (ok let’s not exaggerate 0.09%) #ELS2015
On multiple choice questions it shouldn’t be a right choice against silly choices. It is the right choice against the usual wrongs #ELS2015
Clark Quinn (@Quinnovator): “The myth of the individual genius is busted—the room is smarter than the smartest person in the room.” #ELS2015
Quinn at #ELS2015 We need to be augmented humans. Keep to pattern-matching, leave rote info to machines.
Average knowledge worker searches for information 30% of their day and 50% of the time they’re not successful Ouch! #ELS2015 @quinnovator
Quinn at #ELS2015 Gaps exist between what we do in L&D and where we need to be.
#ELS2015 @Quinnovator “Are people growing fast enough to keep with with the needs of the business?” Only 23% — Scary!
Clark Quinn (@Quinnovator): “If we’re going to have the revolution we need to have, we first have to understand where we are.” #ELS2015
#ELS2015 Poll: How well does your company track learning’s ROI? Overwhelming low.
No matter how good training is, if management doesn’t support and follow up, there is no ROI. #ELS2015 #training @learningcouncil
What about this title for a training team: Value Realization Team! So good… #ELS2015
A barrier to video – Accessibility. It’s something we we forget to consider. #ELS2015
Learning without application is worthless. – Dr. John Gillis #ELS2015 @learningcouncil #elearning #instructionaldesign #training
It’s begun! The E-learning Symposium in Austin has begun, with people from as far away as CT. It’s grown. #ELS2015