Fri.Jan 27, 2012

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MANAGERS AND MAD HATTERS: WORK THAT STRETCHES

Performance Learning Productivity

This is the third and final of three posts adapted from articles I’ve written for Inside Learning Technologies & Skills magazine. It was published and distributed in the magazine for the Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition in London 25-26 January 2012. "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,” says the White Queen to Alice.

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Get up to speed with social media, social learning and social business

Jane Hart

At the Social Learning Centre I am going to be hosting a number of short online “programmes” about social media, social learning and social business. These “programmes” will use a very informal, social, collaborative approach: there will be no formal classes and no monitoring/management of your learning in a LMS. Rather the programmes will be hosted in dedicated group spaces on the Social Learning Centre (which is powered by a social and collaboration platform).

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Learner Experience Design with Julie Dirksen #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

My live blogged notes from Julie Dirksen’s Friday session. Julie wrote the book: Design for How People Learn. www.useablelearning.com Learner experience design: overlap between user experience design (uxd) and instructional design User experience design – how Amazon makes sure that customers can buy a book. – as long as someone can get to the end of the process, it’s a success.

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A Surprise!

ID Reflections

Today I received a pleasant surprise! And one that also humbled me. One of my Twitter friends notified me about this post: Asia Pacific's List of elearning Movers and Shakers -- [link] asia-pacifics-list-of- learning-movers-and-shakers. html I appear in this curated list of the top 10 movers and shakers, and I was delighted. Then as the euphoria settled, I was beset with questions.

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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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Lisa Doyle Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

My live notes from today’s closing session at ASTD TK12 in Las Vegas. Lisa Doyle is the Chancellor of the Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy and named Chief Learning Office of the Year by CLO Magazine for 2012. “The more we understand our Veterans, the better we will serve them.” VA – second largest cabinet level agency in the US. 300,000 employees. 152 medical centers and hospitals across US.

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Training: Best Practices for Creating eLearning Courses using Adobe Presenter

Adobe Captivate

Topic: Best Practices for Creating eLearning Courses using Adobe Presenter Date and time: Thursday, Feb 2, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create an eLearning course from within Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will share some best [.].

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Positive deviance and the IPD

Learning with e's

We all know that organisations and institutions impose barriers to innovation. The larger they are, the more rules they tend to generate. This is because by nature large organisations are conservative and there is a perceived need to protect the status quo and maintain order. But this isn't always good news for creativity and innovation. James Clay once called such enforcing agencies 'Innovation Prevention Departments', and claimed that every institution has one.

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Time to break this notion: Teacher is always right!

Adobe Captivate

We’ve grown up with a notion that teacher is always right! I’ve gone to the extent of sometimes disagreeing with my parents if my teacher said something otherwise. I’m sure some of you must have had similar experiences. This is truly rewarding for the teachers and they’ve earned it by teaching their students everything correctly [.].

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Border crossings

Learning with e's

As ever, the Learning without Frontiers conference and festival was a rallying point for those who are at the forefront of innovation in education. All sectors were represented, and with the Learning and Development professionals conference in tandem on the floor above, the joint event showed real attempts to embrace all education and training practices.

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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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Dynamic text for buttons… Drawing Shapes + Click boxes way!

Adobe Captivate

It is very common to allow the users to navigate to a different screen if they would like to read more on a particular topic. When we create such screens, being smart in navigation and letting the learners know which screen they came from becomes very important. If the learner is clicking ‘Read more’ from [.].

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On eLearn Magazine: A Curator's Tools and To Do List

OpenSesame

We’re proud to share our first article in eLearn Magazine: A Curator’s Tools & To Do List , an exploration of using curation techniques to manage information in the enterprise environment. . Are you using curation techniques in your organization? Tell us about it in the comments! . The post On eLearn Magazine: A Curator's Tools and To Do List appeared first on OpenSesame.

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Training: Creating HTML5 Courses for iPad using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter

Adobe Captivate

Topic: Creating HTML5 Courses for iPad using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter Date and time: Thursday, Feb 23, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create eLearning courses for your iPad. They will show you how to create a course in Adobe Captivate [.].

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Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

SAP, the world’s largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company’s quarterly revenues grew by 12% to over $3.4 billion Euros and profits rose by 23% to $1.6 billion. And now that the company has announced its plans to acquire SuccessFactors for. Read more» The post Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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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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1,300 iPads for Level 3 Sales Team - Perfect Mobile Learning Tool

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

So, if you are one of the people mad about the EULA for iBooks2. And you are convinced that companies will not use Author for training materials? THINK AGAIN!!! MacTrast posted "Level 3 Looks to iPad to Reinvent their Sales Team". They are relaying the story from Information Week's article "iPad's for All: One Sales Team's Story". While neither article specifically mentions iBooks as part of the intended use, I can bet that it's coming.

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Adobe Course Companion for Captivate, online demo

Steve Howard

Are you interested in Adobe Course Companion? [link]. Adobe Systems will give a demo of “Course Companion for Adobe Captivate 5.5” on Wednesday 1st February 2012. Here are the details. Date – Wednesday 1st February Time – 8:00 AM PST (Pacific Standard Time) 11:am Eastern Duration – 1 hour Connect meeting URL – https://my.adobeconnect.com/giliyaru.

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E-Learning with love

e-Learning Academy

“What’s love got to do with it?” - apologies and admiration to Tina Turner Last week I used the word “Love” to describe the attention to detail required to build a quality e-learn. I later wondered whether the term was a bit “over the top” for readers. Was I portraying my passion for all things [.].

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Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

SAP, the world’s largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company’s quarterly revenues grew by 12% to over $3.4 billion Euros and profits rose by 23% to $1.6 billion. And now that the company has announced its plans to acquire SuccessFactors for. Read more» The post Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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On eLearn Magazine: A Curator's Tools and To Do List

OpenSesame

'We''re proud to share our first article in eLearn Magazine: A Curator''s Tools & To Do List , an exploration of using curation techniques to manage information in the enterprise environment. . Are you using curation techniques in your organization? Tell us about it in the comments! .

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Learning Tech 2012 Conference News

eLearning Weekly

Conference News! This April, in Chicago, I will be speaking about mlearning design and strategy at Learning Tech 2012. I love Chicago. It’s a city with an energy that makes events especially invigorating. I hope to see you there, April 23-25. For more information, I contacted Courtney Green in New York to ask her about the conference : Courtney, we know I will be at the conference representing eLearning Weekly Magazine, who else will attendees have the chance to meet, and what companies w