Sat.Nov 27, 2010 - Fri.Dec 03, 2010

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Table: Key Advantages of Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations

Kapp Notes

Recently I was asked a series of questions by a Ph.D., candidate about games and simulations to augment his literature review. I decided to answer the four questions in blog postings. So here is the answer to the first question which is, “What are the key advantages of Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations?&#. Since I am working on another project to link game attributes to learning outcomes, I’ve decided to answer the question in the form of a table.

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How not to do social media

E-Learning Provocateur

As my friends can attest, I’m a big Socceroos fan. I grew up playing football (aka soccer) and although a few different codes compete for my attention in my home town, the World Game is the one I truly care about. It was to my great joy, therefore, that the national administrators of the sport comprehensively revamped the local league several years ago.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 2

Upside Learning

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. 1. Learning Management System Acquisition Statistics. More organizations are looking to invest in Learning Management Systems as the economy slowly improves. This article on the Brandon Hall blog mentions new statistics on this new technology.

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Good Evaluation Facilitates Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Evaluation of programs (e.g., training, coaching) and organizations has more to do with facilitating learning than it does with statistics. Typical measures such as ratings of programs, frequency of participation, or fluctuation in revenue are useful only if they become the stimulus for a facilitated discussion of stakeholders that addresses implications for enhancing performance.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Newest Flash Player Update Breaks Captivate Published Content

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

If you spent the Thanksgiving holiday away from your computer, the Internet and Captivate then you missed all of the excitement. It appears that the latest Flash Player update (10,1,102,64) is causing much angst in the Captivate community. It seems that if you are using Captivate 5 and included text animation in your projects, the published lessons will not play correctly in the newest Flash Player.

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November 2010 Monthly Roundup: 5 Most Popular Posts

Upside Learning

In continuation to our series of monthly roundup posts, here is a collection of our top 5 posts for November, each accompanied by a quick brief. 1. Digital Instructional Media Design 101 – Principles Of Gestalt Psychology. Focuses on how a basic understanding of the Gestalt principles can help create harmonious design and improve the odds that the intended message is conveyed to the learners. 2.

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Introducing Totara! Webinars in December.

Learning Visions

We had fun at DevLearn last month giving some sneak peeks of the new Totara LMS. If you missed us on the stand, now’s your chance! If you haven’t heard yet about Totara, it’s a new corporate distribution of Moodle. It includes a wide range of features designed to meet the specific needs of corporates, including competency management, staff development plans, team management, individual and corporate dashboard reporting, and the management of classroom events.

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PowerPoint 2010: Secret Passageways, Part II

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. Last week I shared a couple of the lesser-known PowerPoint tricks to help speed up your workflow. This week, a few more. Change Your Point of View. Faster You can switch your View options by using the View tab on the Ribbon. A faster way is to use the buttons at the bottom right of the screen. What you may not know is that holding down the [ Shift ] key when you click these buttons will provide even more shortcuts.

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In which ways do you use social media for your own learning?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I met Niel van Meeuwen some time ago when we talked about using social media in learning trajectories. He already mentioned his talk in Lissabon during the Eapril conference. His presentation was last Friday and he experimented with a Twitter backchannel. Unfortunately because people there might not have been on Twitter, it worked mainly to get input from outside the conference into the conference.

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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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Moodle winterland

Moodle Journal

Well winter has arrived with its usual surprise and caught out here again in England; I thought you might appreciate a snap of my garden. College closed early yesterday just after lunch and is closed completely today. I have just finished marking some HE test papers and uploaded the results into our Moodle vle. While posting this blog, I have actually moved on and am now waiting in Moodle chat for any students who may drop by requiring assistance with coursework.

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Thanksgiving Story and The Value of Video Games

Kapp Notes

Here is a touching message I received from a gentleman I went to high school with way back in the late 1980′s. I thank Chuck for reaching out to me and for providing such a wonderful example of how “video games&# can really have a positive impact. How are you? I just happened to find you on facebook and I see the work you are doing. I have a story you might find interesting.

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Adobe Captivate 5: You Can Capture Time. Really!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. You are recording a demonstration and you'd like to capture the amount of time a process takes. For instance, clicking a button in your application takes 7 seconds for the process to complete. However, when you record the demonstration, Captivate captures the button click and the resulting screen, but does not capture the 7 seconds it took for the process to conclude.

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Best Lecture

Tony Karrer

I just read George Siemens post Will online lectures destroy universities? He makes the point that despite articles like Why free online lectures will destroy universities – unless they get their act together fast : Statements like “universities are obsolete” or “universities are dying” are comical. And untrue. Universities are continuing to grow in enrolment and general influence in society.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Learning About the Future of Learning

Web Courseworks

This week I am excited to mention yet another conference that I have high hopes for and am eager to participate in. This conference offers a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere that should foster innovation and inspiration in all who attend as a journey of discovery with new association management techniques begins. The event that I am referring to is the Great Ideas Conference that is taking place in Colorado Springs from March 13 th -15 th ; and this year, the event has a special focus: Next Ge

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What’s Happening with OLIVE? Find Out.

Kapp Notes

Checkpoint Training in a 3D environment of OLIVE. The other day, I caught up with Warren Haseley at SAIC about the 3D virtual world of OLIVE (On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment). Since Forterra was purchased by SAIC a while back, I had been curious about what the company was up to and how they were doing since they were purchased. So I asked Warren a few questions and you can see his answers below. 1) What’s your role at SAIC and what do you do on a daily basis?

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Adobe RoboHelp: Word 2010 Support

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

The following was recently announced by Ankur Jain , Product Manager, RoboHelp on the Technical Communication blog : "Many of you must be wondering about Adobe's plans to support Microsoft Word 2010 in RoboHelp. Some of you have submitted requests for RoboHelp to support Word 2010, and many others have asked me about it in various forums. I'm pleased to announce that the next major release of RoboHelp will support Microsoft Word 2010 for all the workflows including import/linking an

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Good to ‘go’

Clark Quinn

It’s time for me to formally announce that the site for my forthcoming mobile learning book, Designing mLearning , is now live and ready to visit. On it, you’ll find the ‘about the book’ info, the gracious endorsements from some truly great and kind people, and more. I’ll be speaking about the ideas quite a bit in the coming months.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Greetings from the E-Learning Provocateur

E-Learning Provocateur

After a couple of years of blogging under the banner E-Learning in the Corporate Sector and more recently Learning in the Corporate Sector , I have decided to revamp my image. One of my reasons is the seemingly ubiquitous advice for bloggers to specialise in a topic, rather than try to be all things to all readers. For me that topic is e-learning, so I am keen to reinstate that term into my blog title.

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Some Shortcomings Around Game/Simulation Research

Kapp Notes

Another question related to serious games and immersive learning simulations: “What are the shortcomings in the scholarship/research around. Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations? &#. One of the biggest shortcomings is how comparative research is conducted. Everyone wants to do a study comparing serious games/immersive learning simulations with classroom or online instruction to see which is better.

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Just Listen!

The Performance Improvement Blog

Bosses, supervisors, co-workers, coaches, and mentors need to listen more and give advice and commands less. This is a poem that expresses this belief. . Please, just listen. When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me. why I shouldn't feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings.

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The mission of EasyGenerator according to Kasper Spiro « Change to.

Challenge to Learn

Skip to content Homepage Kasper Spiro Change to learn “ On a mission to make EasyGenerator the best and most successful e-Learning authoring tool in the world ” ‹ The future of e-Learning, according to Kasper Spiro Why EasyGenerator isn’t open source › November 27, 2010 The mission of EasyGenerator according to Kasper Spiro Last week I blogged about the vision I have on the future of e-Learning.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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e-learning gets it own advent calendar

From the Coleface

Possibly a sign of an industry’s maturity is when it has its very own advent calendar. The eLearning Network has sponsored this fab resource where each day you will get a gift of tips from some of the industry’s leading thinkers. Happy festivities @ [link].

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Nine West Expoze platform heels

Kapp Notes

Here are some resources supporting a presentation I did recently titled “Avoiding Death by PowerPoint&#. Avoiding Death by PowerPoint. View more presentations from Karl Kapp. PCAR Presentation Resources. Resource for Presentations. Learning Circuits Big Questions: Avoiding Death by PowerPoint. PCAR Presentation Resources. Resource for Presentations.

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Characters

eLearning Cyclops

I like to use characters in courses because they can personalize a course and lend themselves to creating a more informal tone and an easy means of adding humor. Here are some ways I like to use characters in e-learning. Guide or facilitator - Typically this person is the expert that walks you through the content and facilitates discussions, interaction, etc.

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Friday Cartoon: “The tech repair video said to first unplug the computer…”

Mindflash

One of my favorite kinds of cartoons to do is one where it circles back on itself. For example, I once did a cartoon where an angry person is yelling at another: “I’m being redundant?! I’m be redundant?!&# I used a similar technique here. I was brainstorming what a person might be training for on a computer — sales, management, technology — when ‘technology’ suggested computer repair to me.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/28/2010 The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter On Twitter exists a resourceful community of e-Learning professionals. During the last 2 years I was able to exchange ideas, share thoughts, and learn from this community of practice.

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Exclusive Gift for Camtasia Users from Digital Juice

TechSmith Camtasia

'Tis the season for giving! As you may have heard on The Forge earlier today , Digital Juice has an exclusive digital gift for Camtasia users to celebrate the holidays! Digital Juice is giving you 70 High Impact SoundFX and 3 Full-length MusicBOX songs. What do you have to do? Just sign up here and they will email you download instructions. The promotion will expire on 12/9/10.

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My Top 10 'Learning' books from 2010

Sticky Learning

Another year comes towards to an end and its been another year of great reading for anyone with an interest in learning. Once again I have read from a wide range of areas, all with something to add to how I think of learning. Below you'll find my top recommendations for the year along with a short summary of what I got out of reading each book. I haven't put these in a top ten order this year, there were so many contenders for the number one spot!