Mon.Jul 11, 2011

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Staying Sharp with Video Games

Kapp Notes

In an interesting study, a slightly older group of 40 non-gamer adults in the Forty Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, community, with an average age of 69, was randomly divided into two groups. The lucky group was asked to play the real-time strategy game, Rise of Nations Gold Edition (RON). RON combines the speed of real-time gaming and the complexity of turnbased strategy games.

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Travel Tech

Clark Quinn

I have, not surprisingly, had my eye tuned for new mobile uses, and have recently spied a couple of ones I had not noticed. These range from the predictable but cool to the novel (at least to me). First, on a recent train trip, the conductor had an app where she could check seats. Having missed a connection, the hope was that there were seats available on the next train.

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7 Ways to Increase Your BrainPower

KnowledgeStar

Sean McCool (yes that’s his real name) from AWAI had a number – 7 actually - tips for improving your BrainPower. I’ve been adding all 7 into my routine and find they REALLY do help make me a better, more productive thinker. So I’m passing them on … 1. Engage Yourself in Regular Exercise [.].

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Captivate Templates

eLearning Brothers

Announcing…Captivate 5 Templates! Use our Captivate screen layouts and master slides to quickly build stunning online content. These Captivate Templates are a perfect addition to your eLearning toolbox. Use theme over and over again in many courses. Our goal is to provide templates that help you with the visual design or your courses. We also want you to have the source files so that you can continue to add custom layouts and themes.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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How Social Media Has Changed Learning: A Few Answers Via Tweet Chat

Mindflash

Each week, a group of learning professionals gathers for at Tweet chat called #lrnchat to discuss issues and ideas in the workplace learning space. I try to join the sessions as often as I can because it keeps me in tune with what forward-thinking individuals are doing in training, e-learning, and instructional design. These weekly chats are a major part of how I learn.

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Marc My Words: Back to Basics – When Training Is Not the Answer by Marc J. Rosenberg

LearningGuild

We know that training is only one solution to performance problems, and that there are several others. So why always fall back on “build a course to fix it” as the default solution? Here’s an aid to help with that particular performance problem, and there’s no course required.

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Is your eLearning Racing in Circles?

Adobe Captivate

I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the nature of business, eLearning and the deceptive influence of speed. Riddle me this… One man starts at the beginning and drives 200 miles and 200 miles per hour and when he stops at his destination he exits the vehicle to find he’s arrived at exactly the [.].

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Micro-Scenarios and Interactive Stories - List of References

Vignettes Learning

This is listing of Micro-Scenarios and Interactive Stories - List of References and More Examples 1. Asking for a Rais e Ray Jimenez, PhD 3Minute Worlds - Learning Community Social Learning, Work and Performance 3Minute eLearning Games "Helping Learners Learn Their Way" Ray Jimenez, PhD Author "3-Minute e-Learning" www.vignettestraining.

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Unique compliance training requirement- score and enforce

Adobe Captivate

Recently there was a unique quiz usecase discussed on our Facebook page, where the trainer wanted to create a slightly different compliance or mandatory training course. The requirement was that for each question, the answer selected by the participant in the first attempt would be used for scoring. But they also wanted to ensure that [.].

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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“Summer School”

Jay Cross

Via LinkedIn Groups. Group: Chief Learning Officer magazine. Subject: Time to Go Back to School Virtually (For Free!). Dear Chief Learning Officer LinkedIn Group Member, The 2011 HCM Summer School event is one week away! Join Chief Learning Officer, Diversity Executive and Talent Management magazines on July 19-20 for this FREE event, which starts both days at 9:15 a.m.

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Unique complaince training requirement- score and enforce

Adobe Captivate

Recently there was a unique quiz usecase discussed on our Facebook page, where the trainer wanted to create a slightly different compliance or mandatory training course. The requirement was that for each question, the answer selected by the participant in the first attempt would be used for scoring. But they also wanted to ensure that [.].

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Just a minute

Learning with e's

The sheer volume of content being created and posted to the web is overwhelming. In a post brought to my attention today, Kelly Hodgkins claims that if we paused the web for 60 seconds we would miss the birth of more than 1500 new blog posts, almost 100,000 new tweets, 20,000 posts on Tumblr, 600 new videos (more than 24 hours) uploaded to YouTube and at least 12,000 new ads on Craigslist.

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