Sat.Nov 26, 2011 - Fri.Dec 02, 2011

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Tablet Learning – Neither Mobile Learning Nor eLearning

Upside Learning

There’s a definite movement towards delivering learning on tablets and mobile phones. It is quite common these days to get client requests for delivering elearning (meant for traditional desktops) or mobile learning (meant for mobile phones) solutions on tablets too. Is that a good idea? I think a more consciously chosen approach for tablets would be better in most cases, while sometimes just publishing to multiple devices may be suitable.

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Three Programs for Creating 3D Training Games

Kapp Notes

The other day I received an email message asking if my upcoming book “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” gives instructions on how to build games. The short answer is “no.” While the book provides content related to the design of games, the development of games and integration of game elements into e-learning, it is not a programming book and neither is Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning.

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Twelve Ways to Add Value to Open Source LMS Systems

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

I've been too wrapped up thinking about interactivity to pay attention to the pains learning managers must go through for making their Moodle implementations effective. So, when I sat down to talk with Dr Asheesh Choksi, technology consultant and architect, about Moodle, he gave me a 12-point program to add value to Moodle - which was quite an eye opener. 1.

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Key social learning resources: part 12 #sociallearning

Jane Hart

Here’s this week’s round up of resources that look at social learning and the use of social media for working and learning: 1 – The first resource I want to share with you this week is Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Learning Start Guide, which appears inside the (glossy) November edition of Inside Learning Technologies magazine, and which is introduced as follows: “New tools have given training practitioners limitless new … Read the rest.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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Re-Recruitment and Re-Engagement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Every new employee, whether a front-line worker or top level executive, comes to the job with a high level of excitement and a strong desire to do well. Then, sometime during their tenure in their companies, most cease being engaged and many start to look elsewhere for new opportunities. Companies cannot afford to have a disengaged workforce and lose their talent to competitors.

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Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen @usablelearning

Learning Visions

If it’s possible to be in love with a book, then I am in love with this one. Julie Dirksen has written a most excellent book for the beginning practitioner as well as the seasoned veteran of instructional design: Design for How People Learn. She explains theory in easy-to-understand terms, provides lots of examples and real world situations to help you see how you can apply the principles she's talking about to your elearning programs.

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The unscience of evaluation

E-Learning Provocateur

Evaluation is notoriously under done in the corporate sector. And who can blame us? With ever increasing pressure bearing down on L&D professionals to put out the next big fire, it’s no wonder we don’t have time to scratch ourselves before shifting our attention to something new – let alone measure what has already been and gone.

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November 2011 in review

Jane Hart

As we count down to the big holiday season for Christmas and New Year, here is my review of November 2011. As I’ve already mentioned lots of articles this month in my posts of key social learning resources: part 10, part 11 and part 12 , here are 5 other great articles that appeared in November and which I added to my 2011 Reading List. The mobile world in 60 … Read the rest.

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Adobe Captivate: Set a Master Movie

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. Last week I showed you how to remove the TOC from an Aggregated Captivate course. One reason that people elect to hide the TOC is that the TOC simply takes up too much space on the learner's screen. One way to get around the space issue when it comes to the TOC is to create an overlay. Simply put, the overlay feature will keep the TOC hidden until the learner elects to expand (or show) it by clicking a button.

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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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Flash for Instructional Game Development

Kapp Notes

There are several books that can help you to utilize Adobe’s Flash (which I know has a bad wrap due to Apple, however, it is still great for creating instructional games). Here is another interesting book, its a little older but still has some relevant information. The description does a nice job of summing it up “Not necessarily a software book, Flash Animation for Teens takes readers through the basic concepts of animation while using Flash.

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Evil Design

Clark Quinn

In the mobile ideation session I ran today for some folks, the question came up about good and bad examples of design, and subsequent events reminded me of the topic of not just bad, but evil design. What I mean is design that is crafted to return maximal outcome to the designer, not just at the expense of the user, but even to the discomfort of the user or contrary to their intentions.

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OEB11 Scenarios for the future of corporate e-Learning: participate! #lrnscen

Challenge to Learn

The first online Educa day (pre-conference session day). After building up our booth I attended a workshop about the future of corporate learning. It was an interesting session. Both the process of creating the scenarios and the scenarios themselves. Hans de Zwart en Willem Manders led the workshop, they both work at Shell. Shell uses scenarios to get insight in possible future developments (in their case about energy) to base their decision on they make today.

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PowerPoint 2010: Creating a Spinning Animation, Version 2.0

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. After posting the first article, PowerPoint 2010: Creating a Spinning Animation , I got a tip from one of our readers, Konrad Schroth , for an alternate way to create a spinning animation. Today I'd like to share his method. The previous method I shared involved duplicating the object you would like to spin, making it invisible, lining it up as a mirror image to the original image and then grouping the two images.

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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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Social media: 4 opportunities for secondary education

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Not too long ago I went to an evening session about social media at the secondary school of my daughter. It struck me how the subject of social media is approached from fear. I was very happy when I was invited to do three sessions for the teachers of a secondary school myself. You can imagine that it was not about fear, but about the 4 opportunities that social media offer.

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Isolating the Results of eLearning Impact

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. A recent project renewed my interest in Level 3 and Level 4 evaluation methodologies. That led me to purchase the book, Isolation of Results , by Jack Phillips and Bruce Aaron. Since factors beyond a training effort can influence employee performance – such as marketing campaigns, hiring strategy, and other business initiatives – this book describes ways to calculate how much credit a training effort can claim for improved performance.

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Online Educa 2011 in Berlin

Challenge to Learn

I will be leaving to Berlin to attend the online Educa after I have finished this post. This year easygenerator will have a booth (B44). We share this booth with our friends of ANewSpring, ur german partner ILT will join us and I represent LINGOs at the online Educa. I don’t like the standard setup of expos as the online Educa. I have proposed a new setup, a sort of lounge room where you can rent a couch (instead of a booth) and where you can sit down and actually can have a good conversat

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THE Future of Education is Blended Learning

KnowledgeStar

This is a MUST WATCH for anyone interested in the future of what we today call the K-12 grades. And if the past gives us any signage on the road to the future, it also is about the way we will learn in colleges, universities, corporations and other organizations. There are not many people today [.].

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Upcoming Webinars, Articles and Events

Kapp Notes

I am presenting a couple of Webinars in the near future. Here are the details. Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:15 AM (Pacific Time). As part of the eLearning Guild’s Online Forums, I am speaking on the topic of Gamification. There is a fee but it is for the entire conference with dozens of great speakers. You can learn more and register now at the Online Forum Registration.

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eLearning Cyclops: Deconstructing My #DemoFest Course ? Part 2.

eLearning Cyclops

eLearning Cyclops. My insights on elearning and mlearning. Pages. Home. Free eLearning. Cloud Apps. About Me. Privacy Policy. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Deconstructing My #DemoFest Course – Part 2 #DevLearn. In my last post I gave an overview of my DemoFest course, Intro to Office 2010. I would like to delve into the analysis and design of the course.

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The unscience of evaluation

E-Learning Provocateur

Evaluation is notoriously under done in the corporate sector. And who can blame us? With ever increasing pressure bearing down on L&D professionals to put out the next big fire, it’s no wonder we don’t have time to scratch ourselves before shifting our attention to something new – let alone measure what has already been and gone.

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A Backpack Full of learning

KnowledgeStar

It takes more than a village: It also takes a hotspot. TeachAClass.org is bringing wireless routers pre-loaded with online education content to provide lessons to rural communities. As a turbulent snowstorm whips across the vast, desolate Mongolian grasslands, a group of schoolchildren huddle over laptops, their eyes transfixed as the sagacious Sal Khan [.].

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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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The 5 key steps to building an eLearning program: Step 4 – Content

B Online Learning

Share. Tweet. Pin It. We are almost at our destination in our series -Implement or Reinvent Your eLearning. In previous blogs we have covered off the earlier key steps: Strategy Design Resources Step 4 in this process is something integral to eLearning management and arguably the most vital of all 5 steps – Content. This either makes or breaks [.].

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Free Flash eLearning Interaction Template

eLearning Brothers

Once again, we are sharing another eLearning template for FREE! This is one of our Flash Interaction templates. You’ll need to own a copy of Adobe Flash to open this one. You’ll notice that we are giving you both the actionscript 2 and 3 files. Hope you enjoy! Click the link below to go to our eLearning Templates site to download the files.

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A head teacher writes.

Learning with e's

We have had pencils in our school now for some time, and we were one of the first to adopt them, but it has been an uphill struggle. There aren't enough to go around, and often several of the children have to crowd around to use the pencils at the same time. But we are better off than many schools. We have a well equipped pencil suite where the chained desktop pencils are used in special sessions, and often, as a reward for good behaviour children are allowed to come into the suite (under teache

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Increasing the Graduation Rate

KnowledgeStar

(From NPR Sunday November 27, 2011) The typical college student today isn’t “typical” anymore: Only 1 in 4 lives on campus and studies full time. But part-timers and commuter students are much less likely to finish — most part-time students are still without a degree or a certificate after eight years. Higher education is desperately [.].

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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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The Many Faces of the Business Conference Attendee

Mindflash

Those of us who have attended a business conference are aware of the diverse types of people present. From the gadget geek to the slick salesman, you can categorize just about everyone in the room. (Click image to enlarge).

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Interview With a Lead Developer: Justin Welsch

TechSmith Camtasia

Who are you, and what do you do? Justin Welsch Lead Developer for Shared Code/Recorder SDK/Anti-Piracy. How did you find out about TechSmith? I saw TechSmith on Monster.com way back in 2001. I called the number listed and spoke to Bill Hamilton himself. What do you like most about working at TechSmith? I like that TechSmith is a relatively small company (or has a small company feel) that has many people who are passionate about what they work on.

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Capture the mistakes… that data might help!

Adobe Captivate

I was reading this wonderful post from Dr. Pooja Jaisingh on how we could make the learning more engaging and interesting by allowing learners to make mistakes. With this thought, I was going through a customer request on how to capture and calculate the incorrect clicks in a course. These thoughts made me think, what [.].

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