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Julie Dirksen

Julie Dirksen is a leading expert in instructional design, elearning, and behavior change. She's a frequent speaker at industry events, an eLearning Guild Guild-master, and the author of one of the bestselling books on instructional design, "Design for How People Learn."

Computers are dumb – make smarter e-Learning

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Computers are dumb, which can make your e-Learning dumb. What can you do about it? Be Less Helpful Over the weekend, I watched this video of a great presentation by Dan Meyer on how to Be Less Helpful to students. It’s an hour long, and is well worth the viewing, even if you aren’t really … Read more

Best e-Learning Blog that isn’t an e-Learning Blog

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I follow a whole lot of e-Learning blogs, and they typically cover topics like web 2.0, social media for learning, e-Learning technology, the state of the industry, etc.  Once in a while, they do tackle interesting, chewy e-Learning design questions (but not as often as I could wish for). Where I do consistently find conversations … Read more

Holiday Present from the Acagamic

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Dave Ferguson already called attention to this over on his blog, but I’m going to do it here also. One of my favorite new-to-me blogs is The Acagamic – Usable Game Science, and it’s marvelous stuff.  As a special holiday present, the blog is featuring a series of presentations on things game-y: As a Christmas special, … Read more