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Learning Solutions 2015 – 3-D Printing and RIP/MOD/FAB – Steve Wujec

April 4, 2015 Barry Nadler Leave a Comment

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The Keynotes at Learning Solutions tend to be a jumpstart to your imagination. They allow you to peek into the world of the possible and see what’s coming. I find it very exciting to see what will be impacting my world in various ways over the next 3-5 years. The topic is around the RIP/MOD/FAB Maker community that is building with 3-D printing at its core.

The keynote speaker on the first day of Learning Solutions was Steve Wujec, a senior fellow at Autodesk.

Here is a video from June 2014 that is very similar to his presentation he shared with us.

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Filed Under: Big Ideas Tagged With: 3-D Printing, Autodesk, Big Data, Driverless cars, drones, Google, IBM, Learning Solutions, Steve Wujec, Watson

Mobile Technology is Changing Our World at Blinding Speed

March 6, 2015 Barry Nadler Leave a Comment

 

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LEARNING AS YOU KNOW IT IS CHANGING…FAST!

Every so often, there is a moment in time that changes your perspective on what you do and how you do it. Mine occurred in March 2011.

That day, I walked into the eLearning Guild’s conference here in Orlando, Learning Solutions. I had a mission from my manager – learn about mobile technology and learning (also referred to as mLearning). We were starting to do research into what it would take to start delivering training to our clients on mobile devices. These devices would either be a tablet (probably an iPad) or maybe on a phone. What I did not expect was the actual conversation that was really happening at that conference.

What I learned was that social media, the flipped classroom model, storytelling, and hand-held devices were changing the way people acted, thought, and learned. It was as if someone had literally dropped a bomb on the world I was familiar with.

All of a sudden, I needed to be thinking about was bite-sized learning, HTML 5, video production, social media in the workplace, learning environments, and responsive web design.

BOOM! I knew my world changed immediately and I needed to bring the message back to the office that I had seen a shockwave on the horizon of the training industry and that we better start thinking about it immediately or we would be hit with a tsunami of change and we would get run over in a few years.

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Filed Under: Getting Started #1 Tagged With: amazon, brain science, elearning, Facebook, Google, mobile devices, technology, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, workforce, YouTube

eLearning Mindset – Learning Something New Is Valuable

March 4, 2015 Barry Nadler Leave a Comment

A haunted attraction is potentially one of the hardest locations to shoot photography and video. There’s fog, rapid action, actors that like to lunge at the camera, and extremely low light environments. At the end of the 2012 Halloween season, I knew I needed to actually learn to be a better photographer if I intended to succeed in my role as the media specialist for a Halloween attraction I work with on the side.

I was noticing that most of my photos were blurry or that my camera wasn’t even letting me press the button to take the photo. It was possibly some of the most frustrating photo shoots I had been on.

Understand, I know my way around a video camera. I was in the television industry for about five years working for local news organizations and as an in-house video camera operator for a hotel convention center. I have rarely had issues with cameras. So, this was really getting me upset. Was I actually going to need to be learning something new?

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Filed Under: Instructional Design Tagged With: amazon, Google, haunted house, journey, learning, path, photography, video, YouTube

Visual Design Inspiration – See What’s Around You

February 13, 2015 Barry Nadler Leave a Comment

One of the most interesting rules about creativity that I had to learn is that there are very few truly new things when it comes to creativity. There are new ways of looking at things and there are new ways to combine things, but it is really rare to create something that is completely new.

And, this is a really good thing for us eLearning designers.

Typically, our industries and courses we create are not at the forefront of the media, and therefore are not scrutinized in the same manner that special effects in a movie or video game might be.

If you want to be a real rock star when you start designing your next course, look to different mediums for your inspiration because they will be familiar to your learners and the biggest secret…

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Filed Under: Visual Design Tagged With: David Anderson, Google, infographics, Inspiration, iStock, pop culture, Windows 8, YouTube

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