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JANUARY 3, 2013

If you are a bricks and mortar college or university, you may be considering offering online courses. Heck, you may have already begun to offer them. The problem is there is a right way to do it and lots of wrong ways to do it. What I’m seeing is a lot of bad. History. When you ask folks what was the first 100% online university most will say the University of Phoenix.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Okay, the first day of ASTD TK13 has wrapped up – at least from the expo side of the house. Excuse any strange text breaks – writing from the WordPress iOS app. Let’s jump right in for the game action. TOUCHDOWN. I was really impressed with a few new products. Go! Animate. A unique product that uses the power of animated figures. Can output to MP4 or Flash, I loved the MP4.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Wow, wasn’t that marching band fantastic? I loved the lip synch of that tune. Okay, time for the 2nd half to begin, so let’s go right to the kickoff. As before, please excuse text line space funkiness – WordPress app on iPad. TOUCHDOWN. The product comes in two flavors – a simple and a more robust. I focused on the more robust.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

Everyone loves to receive gifts. Whether it is a result of a wedding, anniversary, baby, birthday, holidays or whatever – it can be a fun and exciting time. Especially when it is wrapped all nice and neat. I’ll admit, my gifts are either in a bag, wrapped in newspaper or just handed to people. But, hey that’s me. But for others, they take the time to put a bow on it.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

Before you jump into purchasing a LMS it makes sense to cover the basics, understand the jargon, decide if you want to go it alone or hire a consultant and last but not least realize you are not alone in the process. Jargon. The industry uses a lot of jargon and it is easy to become confused. Let’s break down the most common terms and two new terms hitting the space.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

I’m still stunned at the amount of misinformation that is continuing to fester on the Internet and on sites such as Linkedin. People have serious questions, real questions and in return they get all types of responses, many of which are just not true. Sometimes the responses are innocuous, sometimes it is confusing and sometimes you wonder if the person responding themselves are providing knowledge that sounds accurate, but in reality they themselves don’t know (but afraid to admit

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