Mon.Dec 03, 2012

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A Course to Remember: Facilitating Memory Retention in eLearning

B Online Learning

Instructional designers are interested in the question “How do people learn?”. This is not an easy question to answer because there are so many factors involved in the learning process—motivation, environment, ability and so on. In this post I would like to take the question one step further to ask “How do people retain what [.].

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The Future of E-Learning in 2013

LearnDash

Picture from insidehighered.com. As the year comes to an end, I find myself looking at the emerging trends in our industry, particularly in regards to e-learning. Arguably the most exciting advancement is the new Tin-Can API as we move away from the clunky SCORM protocols of the past. New development tools have also hit the scene, particularly among the big players with products like Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate 6.

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Vale David Jonassen

Clark Quinn

David Jonassen passed away on Sunday. He had not only a big impact on the field of computers for learning, but also on learning itself. And he was a truly nice person. I had early on been a fan of his work, his writing on computers as cognitive tools was insightful. He resisted the notion of teaching computing, and instead saw computers as mind tools, enablers of thinking.

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The Just Right Learning Management System

dVinci Interactive

According to a recent Bersin study , organizations will spend $1.9 billion in 2013 on learning management systems (LMS). With more than 500 LMS providers in the market and most offering the same features, it can be hard to find the best solution for your needs. Today’s LMS applications can be installed or hosted and are available with various pricing models.

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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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Game Design and Gamification Workshop at ASTDTK2012

Kapp Notes

Are you headed to ASTDTK13, if so, check out this great workshop. Here is the ASTD press release. Learn how to engage learners using game design and gamification! You know games are a great way to engage learners and increase learning retention. But games need to be carefully designed for maximum learning effectiveness. You now have an opportunity to participate in a hands-on workshop, Game Design and Gamification , where you will work through the game design process step-by-step with two inter

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eLN Insights advent calendar

From the Coleface

After a weekend of getting advent calendars underway, once again it’s great to see that the eLearning Network has its own advent calendar up and running. Check it out at [link].

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TalentLMS: Multiple languages, TinCan, big uploads & more

eFront

You are awesome! We would like to personally thank all of you who helped us spread the news about TalentLMS. It has been 7 weeks since our official release and more than 1400 accounts have been created since then! We have very ambitious plans for TalentLMS and we will keep improving it whilst maintaining its aesthetic integrity and simplicity. Today we would like to announce a new product update that includes many important additions.

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Camtasia for Mac: Meet The Mysterious but Heroic “Global Edit Mode”

TechSmith Camtasia

This is one of those features that you probably would never find on your own, and even if you did there’s a good chance you’d have no idea what it did or how amazingly useful it can be when you need it–at least that’s how it was for me at first. Here’s the scoop: Can’t see the video? View it on Screencast.com. The post Camtasia for Mac: Meet The Mysterious but Heroic “Global Edit Mode” appeared first on TechSmith Blogs.

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Nuts and Bolts: Content Becomes its Own Context by Jane Bozarth

LearningGuild

Concepts sometimes map over from one field of human activity to another, and the result of the. juxtaposition can be a better understanding of both fields. In this month’s column, Jane offers her. review of a new book about the music business in which she found many parallels to the learning and. development business, and the insights she gained.

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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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Recycling learning

Learning with e's

".making good use of the things that they find, things that the everyday folk leave behind." Yep, that's a blast from the past for those who grew up watching the children's programme The Wombles on television. Essentially, the Wombles were furry creatures who lived on Wimbledon Common and tidied up all the litter left behind by the 'everyday folk'. Not only did they tidy up, they also recycled the objects they found, into something useful.

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How to Create 508 Compliant e-Learning Courses ? Free Webinar

Trivantis

'Forum. Blog. Logins. Lectora Online - USA. Lectora Online - EU. ReviewLink. CourseMill LMS. Community Forum. Products. Authoring Tools. Lectora Inspire. The Full-Featured Authoring Tool. Lectora Publisher. e-Learning Authoring Software Made Easy. Lectora Online. Web-based Collaborative e-Learning Authoring. ReviewLink. Online Course Review and Collaboration.

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LMS Switching Guide – A Free eBook!

Upside Learning

There are things that are easy to do, and then there are a few that are easier said than done. Switching to a new LMS, for most organizations, belongs to the latter. We have addressed various areas in LMS switching on our blog earlier. While we welcome you to sieve through our blog and read up on these insightful posts, we present you with a simpler option – a compilation of all these posts in a single book.

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