Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2012

Of late, many of our clients have asked us to develop courses for deployment over PCs but which can also be viewed over the iPad. While the demand for HTML5 courses is yet to catch up, the demand is growing stronger nevertheless. This hardly comes as a surprise given that the iPad dominates the worldwide tablet market. As per data published by Good Technology in their Good Technology Device Activations Report | Q1 2012 , the iPad 2 averaged 17.7 percent of their enterprise activations in the fir

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Living in Learning

MAY 3, 2012

The discovery of fire sparked [.sorry] the first social learning moment and the true application of learning. Two knuckleheads, Igg Nyte and Puut Emowt, made the discovery on a Thursday many years ago. Back in those days there was not a lot of dialog exchanged, and as such, there were not a lot of labels to confuse or skew what something might be. What mattered about learning was reduced to its simplest form - what could you DO with whatever you learned.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 3, 2012

The reasons why good people commit business fraud are difficult to understand. Often, leaders who are honest, trustworthy, and generous in one part of their lives commit serious financial crimes in their businesses. Enron had been one of the most admired companies in the world and a respected corporate citizen in Houston prior to its downfall from executives lying about financial performance.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2012

A number of books have crossed my path for a variety of reasons, and there’re some lessons to be extracted from three of them. All have to do with looking at how our brains work, and some lessons therefrom. There have been quite a bit of kerfuffle about ‘brain-based learning’, of which too much is inappropriate inferences from neuroscience to learning.

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LearnDash

MAY 3, 2012

Let's first start with the good stuff: WordPress LMS is generating a lot of positive feedback/buzz in the learning arena. We are encouraged by the notes we have been receiving and will continue to take all of your suggestions into consideration. Speaking of which, if you want to suggest a feature , head on over to our UserVoice site (no registration required).

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Learning Developments

MAY 3, 2012

I first heard about SCORM when I was working for a software company that created collaborative learning tools for higher education. We were using Microsoft Word to create SCORM compatible content. This was back in 2006 and I remember a lot of folks did not understand the value of converting content to SCORM because it seemed so outdated and there were much more current development projects that needed to get done.

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ATD Learning Technologies

MAY 3, 2012

This is one of those topics that never goes away. It reigns supreme in just about every needs study for workplace learning professionals. We say we want to do more and know more. We are eager to check out more tools, and get a better handle on the situation. The topic—evaluation. Click here to read full version.

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e-Learning Academy

MAY 3, 2012

Podcast 23 is the first of a series of three tutorials exploring social media platforms for formal and informal social learning in organisations. This podcast covers things to think about when choosing a social media platform. Whay not download this free e-learning training resource from iTunes Or read the transcript Or watch the entire free [.].

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Mindflash

MAY 3, 2012

Continuous professional development is a critical part of a trainer’s work. We often think of it from the perspective of our learners, but need to think of it from our personal perspective as well.I think of this now as I prepare to attend the ASTD International Conference and Exposition next week in Denver. Conferences are one of the best professional development opportunities for trainers, as it allows you to step outside of your day-to-day duties and focus exclusively on your developmen

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