Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 11, 2011

Two weeks ago Jane Hart wrote an article titled, Social Learning: to be or not to be? , in which Jane expresses her dislike of the term Social Learning (big S, big L). Jane claims that “Social Learning has come to refer exclusively to the use of social media in top-down, formal learning.” She also states that “social learning (small S, small L) happens continuously – freely and openly – in everything we do – in work, learn and study.”.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 11, 2011

"Did you see the elearning that that team created? You know the one that was really boring and no one could remember a thing about? Remember how every screen was packed with information and endless text bullets? And how the learners were completely bored but had to sit through it because it was compliance training?". You did? Hopefully you weren't the designer on that one!

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 11, 2011

In many organizations today we need less competition and more collaboration. Ron Ashkenas makes this case in a blog post for HBR titled, Learning Not to Compete. He gives examples of organizations in which collaboration, not competition, has become the way to success. He writes: As organizations have become more global and more reliant on cross-functional processes, teamwork and collaboration are increasingly becoming the currency of success.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 11, 2011

Kno (pronounced “Know&# ) is a company that produces an application to for digital text books for downloading onto iPads, eReaders, the web and now for Facebook. The application allows you to Highlight any text on a page. Zoom in on any picture by double-tapping (iPad only).Create stickies for a highlight or any page. Preview any page from an entire book (iPad only.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 11, 2011

I wanted to take a moment to recap the happenings at last week’s UW Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, WI. My week started by appearing on a panel in front of 180 first-time conference attendees. My platform was encouraging distance educators to not get hung up with technical bureaucracy and silos that create [.].

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The eLearning Coach

AUGUST 11, 2011

I’m happy to announce that Instructional Design Guru , my new reference and performance support app for instructional designers, is now available for the iPhone. It defines over 450 terms associated with learning experience design, drawn from the fields of instructional design, cognitive psychology, social media, multimedia, technology and law.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 11, 2011

Although here in the UK inner-city rioting is grabbing all the headlines, behind the scenes we are experiencing (another) economic sea change, one that will influence just about everyone in the western world. The markets have woken up to the fact if you're going to tackle crippling levels of national and personal debt then that necessarily means spending less and that economic growth will suffer as a result.

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Mindflash

AUGUST 11, 2011

A trainer’s job would be much simpler if her audience were all geniuses. Imagine, for example, the long lunch breaks you could take if every person you worked with had the recall capacity of savant Daniel Tammet , who holds a world record for reciting Pi from memory to 22,514 digits and who learned conversational Icelandic in just one week. Of course, geniuses are geniuses because they lie so very far outside the norm on the extreme end of the distribution curve of human abilities.

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Rob Hubbard

AUGUST 11, 2011

What’s the biggest cost in any elearning or training programme? The production of video, graphics and audio? The instructional design time? The subject matter expert’s time? No. It is the time it takes your learners to go through the material. 10,000 employees going through three hours of bloated elearning courseware is a huge time cost to your organisation.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 11, 2011

'When I read the Tao Te Ching in my freshman year of high school I didn’t really get it. The principle texts of Taoism were just a little bit too. vague for my high school self.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

AUGUST 11, 2011

It seems like a lifetime ago that I created the my first interactive 3D training simulation. It was such an amazing training solution combining software interactions with physical processes into one learning experience. I know I wasn't the only one doing it, but in 1995 there just wasn't anyone that could do it cost effectively. I posted about it in 2006.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 11, 2011

When I read the Tao Te Ching in my freshman year of high school I didn’t really get it. The principle texts of Taoism were just a little bit too… vague for my high school self. All of the talk about going with the flow, and the impermanence of the universe was just too much for me at the time. I just couldn’t dig it. That is until I started playing Minecraft.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 11, 2011

Since the earliest days of television and the subsequent introduction of personal computers, the visual display unit (we now commonly refer to them as 'screens') has been an integral part of the user experience. Families who previously gathered around the hearth to share their day's experiences moved their orientation (and their living room furniture) to face 'the box'.

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Rob Hubbard

AUGUST 11, 2011

Time: it marches relentlessly on – we can’t stop it, change it or rewind it (yet!). We squander it on the wrong things, complain when it goes too slowly and when it goes too fast. In this posting I’ll share three tips for making the most of the time you have, so you can maximise the success of your elearning projects. There is a pub that I often walk past, which for years had a fairly bad reputation.

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