Tue.Feb 19, 2013

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The Question Of Why (Not) eLearning On iPads Or Tablets?

Upside Learning

2012 saw the re-emergence of ‘Mobile learning’ or ‘mLearning’ as “new” (ok, not really new) buzzwords in L&D and Training circles around the world. But largely in the wrong context! Mobile Learning is being loosely attributed to any learning activity that is not location bound, which is very surprising! And even more surprising is, more often than not, it is not even referring to mLearning at all!

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Human enough #edcmooc

E-Learning Provocateur

It is with glee that the proponents of e-learning trumpet the results of studies such as the US Department of Education’s Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies , which found that, on average, online instruction is as effective as classroom instruction. And who can blame them? It is only natural for evangelists to seize upon evidence that furthers their cause.

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Learn, Share, and Connect at 2013 Training Conferences

Raptivity

How can you stay current with new trends and tools and improve your skills in our fast changing world? Two convenient ways of course are 1) reading magazines and books that bring you up to speed on latest trends such [.].

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Free Webinar: Create eBooks in a Snap

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I'm excited to be offering a free webinar next Monday, February 25 (noon Eastern) where you will learn how to quickly create eBooks  (ePub  and  Mobi ) in record time using tools available off-the-shelf in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite. While this is an event that I'm teaching for the good folks over at the  International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) , IconLogic is sponsoring the event so it's open to everyone.

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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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Meetings: Love Them or Leave Them

The Performance Improvement Blog

Why is it that after all that has been said and written about wasteful meetings, managers continue to conduct meetings that are unnecessary and wasteful? Carson Tate writes in the New York Times : The meeting culture that is dominating corporate America is unsustainable and unproductive. How many meetings did you attend last week that didn’t even have an agenda?

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The Power of Habit (it's what I'm reading)

Learning Visions

To run or eat a donut? To go to bed early or sit up watching hours of Netflix? To do a process correctly and follow the steps or to go all rogue and do what you feel like? How do habits form and how do we change them? How do we learn new habits? How do we replace bad habits? My late night habit this week is reading The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

Guest post by Michael F. Ruffini, Ed.D. Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. Their many instructional applications include step-by-step process, demonstrations , tutorials , and presentations. Students can watch a screencast video at their convenience, pausing and reviewing as often as needed. 1 Screencasts can be designed to let students personalize their learning and highlight important information as they proceed at

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LMS vs LCMS vs CMS.changing one letter makes a big difference.

OpenSesame

'What are the differences between LMS, LCMS, and CMS? This question often stirs up confusion among those who simply do not know the answer. Not to worry - we know the differences and we are going to share our knowledge with you. The three most common ways to deliver online courses are through a Learning Management System (LMS), Learning Content Management System (LCMS) or Content Management System (CMS).

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Is all learning social?

Learning with e's

Just about every day I find myself embroiled in a discussions about fundamentals of learning, the nature of knowledge and the processes of education. It comes with the territory of working as an academic in a university, and I expect to do it much of the time. When I'm not talking about learning, I'm reading about it, researching it, thinking about it, and writing about it.

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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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Virtual Instructor-Led Training: The Best of Both Worlds

CLO Magazine

Virtual learning can help organizations connect with employees while avoiding hefty fees. Learning management programs are evolving. Traditionally, instructor-led training (ILT) was the preferred mode within organizational learning. E-learning sparked excitement, but for some it has disappointed, being dubbed as ineffective. But lately, the learning management community has introduced virtual instructor-led training (VILT).

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Future learning environments: professional, powerful, personal

Learning with e's

Once again, thanks to Don H Taylor and his crew, this year's Learning Technologies conference was a highly successful event. 50 speakers presented talks at the event in London's Olympia over the two days, in what has become one of the premier, must attend events for learning professionals in Europe. High profile speakers including MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, futurist Gerd Leonhard, Lord David Puttnam, Professor Stephen Heppell and author Tony Buzan took to the stage to talk about their visions fo

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The eLearning Guild Publishes 2013 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report by Jennifer Neibert

LearningGuild

The eLearning Guild has released the 2013 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report. Based on data obtained from more than 4,700 Guild members, worldwide eLearning salaries increased slightly by 1.7% this past year, with an average global salary of $77,682. In the US, salaries increased by 0.06% to $78,984.

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Part 1: The Shift From Push to Pull Learning

CLO Magazine

Learning organizations are moving from pushing learning to employees to helping workers find answers by leveraging mobile, video on-demand and other forms of just-in-time learning. In a fast-paced business environment, employees don’t have time for an hour-long traditional classroom or e-learning program. They prefer options such as video on-demand, digital asset libraries, mobile and other forms of just-in-time learning.

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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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Documentary Review—Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology, directed by Tiffany Shlain by Jennifer Neibert

LearningGuild

With curiosity and candor, Tiffany Shlain set out to make a film answering one question: What does. it mean to be connected in the 21st century? The result is her critically-acclaimed documentary and. personal memoir, Connected, in which she explores the visible and invisible connections that link us. as humans to one another, to the major issues of our time, and to the world at large.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Size Isn’t Everything – Cathy Davidson – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Wired UK raises the possibility that the university may have to restructure itself. That undoubtedly will raise numerous hackles. But from an intellectual standpoint, it signals a revolution in waiting. Forbes, on the other hand, touts the financial promise of investments in MOOC’s and other digital educational offerings.

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Don’t mind the cows… an Ask3 Teaser

TechSmith Camtasia

We’ve put together a 90 second teaser video to give everyone a taste of how Ask3 is being used. The cows are at the end. But pay no attention to them. ;-). Can’t see the video? Watch it on YouTube. We’re working on the next teaser with samples from you and your students. Please let us know if you’re using Ask3 in a way that you’d like to highlight!

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Part 4: Linked Enablement

CLO Magazine

Deciding when push or pull learning works best is predicated on the idea that push and pull types of learning are mutually exclusive. AlliedBarton was not one of the early adopters of pull learning. Much of the reasoning behind its recent adoption is the highly regulated nature of the security industry. This is not uncommon. According to Chris Tratar, senior director of product marketing at Saba, early adopters tend to have heavy focuses on knowledge worker industries, which include consulting,

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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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How to Be Ready for Your Big Budget Increase

Mindflash

You are in your CEO’s office and she says to you, “I am happy to increase your training budget next year. But here’s the catch. The training better be shorter, faster, and more targeted at our top three company goals than training you have delivered in the past. If you can do that, I hardly care how much it costs. Can you do that?” Well, can you?

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Part 3: Start With Strategy

CLO Magazine

Once the strategy has been established, a learning team should meet with individual leaders in departments where pull learning will be used to flesh out what major business challenges. Brent O’Bryan, vice president of learning and development at security personnel provider AlliedBarton, and its learning team are in the process of rolling out a set of pull learning modules in the first and second quarters of this year.

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#EDCMOOC: utopias & dystopias – looking to the future (part 3)

Good To Great

In 2009, Rebecca Johnston wrote a paper called ‘Salvation or destruction: Metaphors of the internet’ whilst working towards her PhD. I was surprised to see a relatively old paper on the resource list for the second week of E-learning and Digital Cultures , but actually found it interesting reading. Johnston analysed a sample of editorials from 2008 in the USA, to identify categories of metaphors used for the internet, concluding that there were four main categories: physical space, p

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Part 2: Not New, Just Revisited

CLO Magazine

The concept of just-in-time learning, where employees look for learning options at the point of need, isn’t new. Consider the following scenario. An employee in another department has expertise in a topic a peer has a question on. Rather than sitting through a class on that topic, the peer could go to the colleague and ask him or her directly. This type of knowledge sharing doesn’t have to involve colleagues at the same company.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Adobe Captivate: Text Entry That Sticks Around

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      A client wanted us to create a software simulation that would allow learners to fill out part of a spreadsheet. In addition, as learners moved from cell to cell, the client wanted the learners to see what they had typed in the previous cells and change the text. You can use text entry boxes to simulate areas in an application that require a learner to type data.

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Special Report 2013: Learning Delivery

CLO Magazine

Learning organizations are moving from pushing learning to employees to helping workers find answers by leveraging mobile, video on-demand and other forms of just-in-time learning. Part 1: The Shift From Push to Pull Learning. Jeffrey Cattel. Learning organizations are moving from pushing learning to employees to helping workers find answers by leveraging mobile, video on-demand and other forms of just-in-time learning.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

Page 1 of 2. Previous | Next. GEORGE SIEMENS. JUNE 3, 2012. What is the theory that underpins our moocs? If you’re even casually aware of what is happening in higher education, you’ve likely heard of massive open online courses ( MOOCs ). MORE >> GEORGE SIEMENS. JULY 25, 2012. MOOCs are really a platform. We can officially declare massive open online courses ( MOOCs ) as the higher education buzzword for 2012.

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Pull Technology Boosts Agility

CLO Magazine

Change can be good and bad, but it is constant in today’s global business environment, and leaders know it. Change can be good and bad, but it is constant in today’s global business environment, and leaders know it. In October, the Human Capital Media (HCM) Advisory Group, the research arm of Chief Learning Officer, published a study that asked some 600 learning leaders where there was an opportunity for a learning organization to make a business impact, and most pointed to agility and pro

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Worried about software? Consider performance support

Allison Rossett

I can’t get enough of performance support. That passion began early, when I encountered the limitations of my own memory. It continues to this day as I discover even more flaws in my memory. Of course, I rely heavily on technology to help me travel, pack, commune, invest, eat and maximize the software residing on my computer. That’s all good for me.

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Is There an App for Leadership Development?

CLO Magazine

Mobile apps will soon offer robust tools for leadership and managerial development. The possibilities are endless and important, especially when paired with traditional course development and coaching. In January 2012, Deloitte and Forbes Insights published “Talent Edge 2020,” a study of matters weighing on executives’ minds. The respondents cited leadership as their most pressing talent concern.

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LMS vs LCMS vs CMS…changing one letter makes a big difference.

OpenSesame

What are the differences between LMS, LCMS, and CMS? This question often elicits confusion among those shopping for the right software tools for their organization. Not to worry—we know the difference and we are going to share our knowledge. First, let’s define our abbreviations. “LMS” is an acronym for “Learning Management System”, a software platform used to deliver and track training courses.

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