Sat.Mar 10, 2012 - Fri.Mar 16, 2012

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Workplace Trends from 2004…Still Trending

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. I cleaned my bookshelf the other day, which included moving out stacks of old magazines. One dusty cover that caught my eye was the January 2004 issue of Training + Development Magazine from ASTD, with this headline: 8 Trends You Need to Know NOW. I immediately thought, “I wonder if those trends are still relevant.”. So I took a break from my periodical purge party to skim through the article by Karen Colteryahn and Patty Davis.

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3D Virtual Worlds are NOT Dead, Dying or Disappearing

Kapp Notes

There are many reasons by I believe that virtual worlds are not dead, dying or disappearing. In fact, I believe that they are gaining momentum and are becoming more and more impactful as the technology gets better and more real world business cases are indicating the value of these environments, in addition there are several initiatives that are examples of the kinds of projects that are are driving virtual worlds.

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Voting for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 is now open

Jane Hart

This is the 6th annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list I will be compiling based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide. With nearly 100,000 page views on this website of the 2011 list and over 330,000 views of the slideset via Slideshare , there is huge interest in how these tools can be used for teaching and learning. If you are a learning professional (e.g. teacher, academic, trainer, consultant, developer, practitioner, analyst, etc) and active in the field of (e-)learni

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Writing & Grammar: Should a Comma Go After Although?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby    I rarely go out on a limb and say the word  never  in answer to a punctuation question, but I am going to chance it this time: Never put a comma after  although --unless what follows it is a completely nonessential interruption. Okay, so it turns out I still can't say  never. But let's examine why I  want  to say never.

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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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The State of Rapid Development Tools for Mobile Learning: Webinar Recording Now Available

mLearning Revolution

'If you were not able to attend our Webinar yesterday on mLearning and the state of rapid development tools for mobile learning, the recording is now available. I’m very happy with how the webinar turned out and I would like to thank Jeff Tillett and Chad Udell from Float Learning for having me, as well as Robert Gadd for sharing the microphone with me.

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Net Work Literacy Online Programme

Jane Hart

Working online is different. Few traditional jobs prepare anyone for this. How can you develop a professional network that is not dependent on a job or an employer? Networked working habits and practices take a while to develop and may not come easily to everyone. This is where to start – by developing net work literacy , where work is learning and learning is the work.

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PowerPoint 2010: Turn Off Picture Compression

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George  You may not realize it but PowerPoint is lowering the quality of the images in your presentations. How? By default, PowerPoint is set to compress the images in your files. In most cases compressing the images is a good idea because smaller images mean smaller overall presentations. In some cases however, you may wish to maximize the image quality.

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How to Keep Talent from Walking Out the Door

The Performance Improvement Blog

Are you worried about employee turnover in your company and how it might get worse once the economy improves? If you aren’t worried, you should be. It has been estimated that as many as a third of employees are looking to change jobs. Now that the recession is easing and more companies are beginning to hire again, these employees will start acting on this desire.

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TED Gets into Education in a Much Bigger Way!

Kapp Notes

TED, the organization that brings thought provoking and exciting talks to the web and around the world (a group is doing a TEDx event to Bloomsburg.more later) is launching the idea of TEDEd. It’s a wonderful idea. They are teaming up animators with master instructors to create engaging content to teach specific targeted concepts. The quick videos are designed to gain attention and education.

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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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The Snowball Effect: Documentation and Training for Global ERP Systems

Dashe & Thomson

Once upon a time, a major manufacturing company implemented SAP to handle all of their North American operations. Several years passed and the company implemented new SAP modules and fine-tuned existing modules. Everything was working well and they were getting a good return on their system investment. Finally, it was time to start bringing the wonder of SAP to the company’s global operations.

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Ouch! The Truth Hurts.

KnowledgeStar

But despair not, change will come to the educational system, it will just take time. Planks Principle about the way science changes is worth repeating here. In his autobiography, Planck remarks that a "new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.".

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New Learning metaphors: presentation on learning maps at #LSCON12

Challenge to Learn

Next week is the Learning Solution conference organized by the E-learning guild in Orlando. I will present concurrent session 311, Wednesday at 14.30 in the International Center Room. I will present my ideas about new learning metaphors and will show some examples of possible solutions. A great opportunity to get feed back on this ideas and I hope to get some new ideas from the audience too.

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Gamification Company Bunchball Makes Interesting Announcement

Kapp Notes

Eariler this morning, the gamification company, Bunchball made an interesting announcement about the personalization of gamification, which ties nicely into my posting the other day– What Happened to the Promise of One-to-One Online Learning? (of course the announcement is unrelated to my blog posting but the company is going ahead in that conceptual direction and making inroads into online personalization on the commerce side, and, I am sure can be adapted to the learning side as well.).

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Effective Storyboarding

Integrated Learnings

By Dean Hawkinson. Storyboarding for an eLearning course can be a very effective way to lay out the overall look and feel of your course, as evidenced by this post by Donna Bryant. Storyboarding can serve a couple of different purposes: It can be an easy way for your subject matter experts (SMEs) to review content during the development stage It can serve as instruction for a developer when the actual development of the course is not done by the designer of the course.

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Adobe RoboHelp: Synonyms Made Easy

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel    One of the most often used areas of any Help System is Search. And since Search is created automatically when you generate a layout, there's nothing the RoboHelp author has to do to make Search available for the user. Search does have one main drawback for the user. If the word the user types in the Search box isn't found within any topics, the Search will fail and nothing will be displayed for the user.

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Tips & tricks for self-publishers – Part 4

E-Learning Provocateur

In Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 3 I explained how to self publish a paperback. Now that your book is available, you will need to inform your customers that it exists. If you’re relying on their extraordinary Google and Amazon search skills to be “discovered”, you’re dreaming. You need to do much more than that to get noticed!

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#SLCONF 2012–Social Learning in action

Lars is Learning

Last Thursday I attended the #SLCONF Social Learning Conference in London. It largely practiced what it preached – in that it proved to be a highly social discussion and effective forum for sharing ideas and experiences with an experienced group of professionals and practitioners. Good use was made of alternative formats and seeding conversation between groups.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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Free E-Learning Tutorial: Future Trends in Learning Management Systems

Connect Thinking

I have just released episode 22 of the Connect Thinking E-Learning Academy free video and audio podcast series. This is the third and final video of a podcast series on Learning Management Systems (LMS). This episode explores the limitations of many existing LMS and what features might be included in future personal learning environments (PLEs). You can doenload our free elearning tutorials from iTunes.

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In Delhi: EDGEX2012

ID Reflections

I am siting aboard a Jet Airways flight on my way to attend and present at the EDGEX2012 conference in Delhi. It's officially starting from tomorrow. But we--the speakers and the organizers--are meeting today. I am sure Viplav Baxi has already started his day and the folks are already meeting at the Habitat Center, the location of the conference. Am I excited?

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Cal State Online Plays Small Ball

Allison Rossett

Tweet The California State University (CSU), the largest state university system in the United States, has at long last settled on an online learning strategy for its 23 campuses. With more than three decades as a professor in the CSU, now retired, I decided to take a look. The goal. “The goal is to increase capacity at California State, where massive budget cuts have coincided with a rising demand for higher ed degrees,” wrote Steve Kolowich in a review of the plan.

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Ouch! The Truth Hurts

KnowledgeStar

But despair not, change will come to the educational system, it will just take time. Planks Principle about the way science changes is worth repeating here. In his autobiography, Planck remarks that a "new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.".

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Stephen Downes #EDGEX2012 Mindmap

Clark Quinn

Stephen Downes reviewed MOOCs – goals, features, wins, and room for improvement – at the EDGEX conference.

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Knowledge Direct Learning Management System Gets Fresh New Look

Association eLearning

'Digitec’s flagship product, Knowledge Direct, an all-in-one learning management system for online training and development, looks better than ever, thanks to an updated user interface! Digitec’s product development team officially released the new version this week. New and existing users of the Knowledge Direct LMS will enjoy a sleeker, more user-friendly and fluid interface – featuring collapsible text areas, graphical icons and better organization of module content.

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What is social learning?

From the Coleface

Last week I attended #SLCONF , a conference on social learning. Social learning is a zeitgeisty term which is very much in the early stages of the Gartner hype cycle for most organisations. I participated to find out more about what social learning is and what L&D practitioners should be doing about it/ with it. There does not seem to be commonly accepted definition of social learning.

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Snagit webinars - discover what's new

TechSmith Camtasia

Do you love webinars? OK, don't answer that. Do you love Snagit? We're putting together a few not-boring webinars, loaded with real-life examples of how you can use the new Snagit. And you'll have a chance to ask questions, too. One session will be geared for educators; the other for everyone else. The basic structure for each: intro, demo, Q&A.

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Project Team Engagement in the Context of Human/AI Hybrid Teams

The leadership style that the leaders adopt during engagement is critical in gaining team member support for building a positive thinking team. The challenge is in deciding whether to adopt an engagement focused leadership style that emphasizes human behavior characteristics such as personalities, or to a task-oriented leadership style that focuses on the work needed to be performed and the tools to be used.

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Dave Cormier #EDGEX2012 Mindmap

Clark Quinn

Dave Cormier made an eloquent case for rhizomatic learning.

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My love-hate relationship with learning objectives

Clive on Learning

I think most people would agree that workplace learning interventions need a clear purpose, closely aligned to the needs of the organisation, and should be directed at helping employees to acquire competences that will help them in doing their jobs effectively and efficiently. But statements of purpose or competence are what we would normally regard as learning objectives, which define the outcomes of a learning intervention in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes.

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Making Evidence-based Decisions

Allison Rossett

Tweet Video: Profiles in Leadership: Making Evidence-based Decisions. Click thumbnail to view video.