Tue.Dec 04, 2012

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Adobe Captivate 6: Best Practices for Working with Screen Readers

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel    Last week I wrote about some  Best Practices for Creating Compliant eLearning. I'd like to follow up that article with information about screen readers. Screen readers are programs designed to allow visually impaired learners to navigate through a website or eLearning lesson by reading the content out loud. Two popular screen readers are  JAWS  (Job Access With Speech) and  Window-Eyes.

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13 New Year's Learning Resolutions for 2013

OpenSesame

'We’re helping you get ready for 2013 with a series of Learning New Year’s Resolutions from leading experts and thinkers in the online learning community. We asked our cast of experts one key question: What do you resolve to change or improve about your work in 2013? We''ll be sharing insights and resolutions from industry leaders including Elliott Masie, Cammy Bean, Judy Unrein, Connie Malamed, Mark Britz, Lisa Chamberlin, Melissa Venable, Julie Dirksen, Mike Taylor, David Glow, Mark Sheppard,

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The Smart eXtended Web

Learning with e's

Will the Web recurse infinitely? Many of us are obsessed with the future, and are constantly wondering what new technologies, trends or events will change our lives forever. The Horizon Report is one of the most eagerly anticipated reports each year by educators, because it peers down the corridor of time and attempts to predict what we can expect to see in our classrooms in the next year, 2-3 years, 5 years.

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Insights: Line managers and coaches have a critical role

Clive on Learning

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The seventh of ten 'insights' is that ‘Line managers and coaches have a critical role'. It is, of course, hardly a new insight that managers and coaches play an important part in workplace learning, because it has ever been thus. Having said that, it is encouraging that this report picks up an increasing emphasis in this area.

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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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Billboard Chart Toppers to Keynote the 2013 Lectora User.

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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Content Becomes Its Own Context

bozarthzone

“How much of our training budget goes to things that have nothing to do with ‘learning’? Why does the LMS cost more than the whole L&D department? How many organizations invest in more authoring tools and asset libraries than they do in people who know how to use them to design more effectively? Why have we fragmented learning into shards of ‘objects’ rather than craft whole, robust learning experiences?

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13 New Year’s Learning Resolutions for 2013

OpenSesame

It seems like just yesterday we were blogging our holiday greetings and posting our Top Ten Learning Resources of 2011. It can’t possibly be time to wrap up 2012, can it? But New Year’s Day is just around the corner. We’re helping you get ready for 2013 with a series of Learning New Year’s Resolutions from leading experts and thinkers in the online learning community.

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Internet Sensation THE PIANO GUYS Announced as Keynote

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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ROI is More Than Justification

CLO Magazine

When done correctly, ROI generates key decision-support metrics for learning and aligns thinking with business objectives. In today’s business environment, learning programs that are unable to prove that benefits exceed costs are unlikely to survive. In March, global training company ESI International conducted an ROI study, “Training ROI for the Project Community,” with more than 30,000 respondents, which demonstrates that the benefits of calculating ROI extend beyond the numb

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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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Clean Up Your Client’s PowerPoint Slides with This Time-Saving Tip

Rapid eLearning

Here’s a common issue: your client gives you a PowerPoint file that doesn’t look all that great. It’s the breeding ground for a classic Frankencourse with too many fonts, the wrong colors and hokey images. It’s a complete mess. And your job is to clean it up. At this point the client’s not asking you to rebuild the course. He just wants it cleaned up and published.

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Will you be accepting bribes this Christmas?

Saffron Interactive

Do your people understand the difference between an acceptable gift and an illegal bribe? Does your senior management understand the consequences of the corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery? Saffron’s Bribery Act 2010 e-learning course: Complies with Ministry of Justice guidelines. Requires quick-decision making and uses realistic scenarios.

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Quick tips on tracking learners by sharing group reports

ProProfs

With ProProfs Training Maker, you can easily track the progress of large batches of learners by accessing different kinds of reports. One of them is group reports, which shows you consolidated reports of different groups of learners. The group report gives you detailed information of your learners group’s activity across different courses. Recently, we added a new feature to our Training Maker, which allows you to share the group reports with just a single click of a button.

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