Notes from Tony Christopher (thanks, Tony)
6 million users - deliver 1 million videos per day
- 33% corporate, 33% individuals, 33% academic
3000 course titles (avg. mult videos per title, avg. 4-7 minutes)
Leader's experience is her in-class students who use Lynda.com earned no less than a B in her courses
- Can check 'course history' for what individuals watch / use on Lynda.com
"playlists" - selected set of courses - reference book shelf - supporting materials
- playlists can be nested
- playlists can be private or shared
- if a person you admire knows topic X very well, look at her playlist for the courses she's taken
Tips for "Taking" a course
Leader rarely completes a course...
Pick the spot you want to enter and leave
this is one of the values of personalized learning.
On first viewing she plays it at 1.75x
we take in a great deal from the visuals
There's a transcript of the audio track
can search the transcript
Watch with closed captioning to see the words
Have staff / learners show how they use the learning in their work
Discover learning by trying things ... search topics e.g.,
Documentaries
Web courses
Academic - Designing online courses
IT
Scanning the topical groups of courses
share course titles that look interesting back to yourself as a reminder
Give staff a project related to what you want them to learn
Chunk up the learning - build skills over , make it achievable
they'll be more motivated to take the course, to learn the skills you want them to have
Configurable Player Preferences
Flash is default
May want to change to Chrome for HTML 5
Firefox does not support HTML 5
Much better experience in HTML 5
Never watch in Safari
Set preferences is like setting up your workshop
Digital desktop management needs to be taught
Help is 24/7
- access at bottom of every page
Set your own learning path - Lynda.com
Proposed by Nancy Baumann
Where will the conversation continue?
Emails announcing release date coming soon!
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