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The Wisdom of Experience: Simplifying Complex Learning Targets.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Wisdom of Experience: Simplifying Complex Learning Targets by Andrea on March 30, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , performance support , subject matter experts In recent months, I’ve been working on a project to redesign a national training program for bulk plant employees in the propane industry.

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9 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 19

Upside Learning

We have said this before and are saying it again; informal learning is the new ‘learning’. This is not to say that informal learning would act as a replacement to the formal mode of learning, but it is the synergy between these both that produces effective growth. Based on this premise, we have debunked some of the common myths of informal learning.

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Adobe Captivate: The Case of the Missing Widgets

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. Widgets give Captivate developers the ability to extend Captivate's functionality without limits. While you need Adobe Flash to create Widgets, you do not have to be a Flash developer, nor do you need to have Flash on your computer to insert Widgets into a Captivate project. To insert a Widget, choose Window > Widget. From the Widgets panel, select the Widget you would like to use and click the Insert link.

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Success Models for Association Online Education – Leading Learning Breakfast

Web Courseworks

On April 5th, Tagoras will be hosting a breakfast at Clyde’s of Gallery Place in Washington, DC. This will be the kick-off event for their new quarterly breakfast series for those interested in learning more about successful online education strategies. This new series called Leading Learning, will bring together industry experts and association learning leaders in an open environment to discuss the how’s and why’s of business strategies in online education.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Ode to the naysayers

E-Learning Provocateur

Don’t tell me why I can’t. Tell me how I can.

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Synching feelings

Learning with e's

A lot of time has been spent studying the impact of user generated content. You know, all the stuff that gets posted up onto the web, and whether it is at all useful to us as teachers and educators. Some of the best content is often provided by amateurs - people who are not necessarily specialists or qualified in their field of interest, but who are never the less passionate about their subject.

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How to Retain Restless Gen Y Talent? Be a ‘Helicopter’ Employer and Offer Some Career Training (for Starters)

Mindflash

The prevailing stereotype to many employers is that Gen Y are a bunch of job hoppers, and therefore training them in any significant way is likely a waste of time and money. In a few months, they’ll just take those skills you worked so hard to teach them down the road to your competitors. But at least a few experts ( and some statistics out of the BLS ) disagree with this popular narrative of fickle young employees.

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5 Ways to Prepare & Be an E-Learning Winner

Rapid eLearning

I just got back from the Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando. Like always, it was great getting to meet so many blog readers. I truly appreciate the enthusiasm and kind feedback. At the close of the conference, I participated in a panel presentation with some really smart people (not sure how I got invited). If you’re not familiar with them I included links to their sites below.

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Training Lessons from Seinfeld: Lesson #1 – Embrace Your Creativity

Mindflash

I recently stumbled upon Bill Gammell’s ebook on marketing lessons learned from Seinfeld. Because of Seinfeld’s ongoing pop-culture resonance, I’ve been mulling over the idea of a Seinfeld-themed post for a while now – but I’d never taken the time to further conceptualize it. Thankfully Bill’s ebook demonstrated not only how to make some meaningful connections between Seinfeld and the real world, but how to do so in a way that was surprising and fun.

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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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Preview of Articulate Storyline at LS 2011

Learning Developments

I was really impressed with the demo of Articulate Storyline at the Learning Solutions 2011 conference this month. Tom Kuhlmann gave a nice personalized walk through of what the product can do. Here are some of the highlights I remember: It has the same easy user interface you would expect from Articulate but it is much more powerful. Tom created an Engage type interaction in just 1 or 2 minutes.

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Design eLearning Courses by Putting the Horse Before the Cart

OpenSesame

“I need to give a training course to the executive team,” someone recently said to me. “Do you have anything good?”. Of course I said yes. OpenSesame is in the business of selling elearning courses, and just about every organization needs top elearning courses for managers. But what’s wrong with this picture? This training professional didn’t have a specific objective or need in mind.

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Learning Solutions 2011 - The Brain, Presentations, and Culture

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

The Learning Solutions 2011 conference and expo was another amazing experience produced by The eLearning Guild. I spoke on Games and Simulations for Training, and Social Media for Learning, at the eLearning Foundations Intensive. The Intensive was a 2-day crash course on all major aspects of e-Learning. If you are new to e-Learning or just need to get the big picture fast, then this was the place to be.

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Why can't we build something like this for "Objects Used for Learning"?

Mark Oehlert

First place, please don't ever call anything a "learning object" in front of me. Not unless you're prepared to tell me what it is and how its different than any other digital object. So let's go with you just don't use it. Cool. . Second place, have you used Slide Rocket? Did you know that when you use it, when you upload a PPT presentation to Slide Rocket it strips all the images out and adds them to an Asset Library?

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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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Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning Pt2

Wonderful Brain

So we left off with Important/Urgent and I just want to mention that what is important and urgent to someone else may be of little consequence to you. What’s the phrase,&# A failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.&# So true. Of course know when and with whom to pick your battles, right? I’ve saved these heavyweights for last.

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Highlights From Day One of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Symposium

CLO Magazine

Day one of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer magazine Symposium kicked off here at the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island, Amelia Island, Fla., with some compelling insights on social media and how it is impacting learning in business today. The event got underway with a keynote address titled “Your Best Performers Are Hacking You,” in which authors Bill Jensen and Josh Klein described how employees today often have to get around the frameworks companies put in place in order to get the training th

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Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning « Wonderful Brain

Wonderful Brain

About RSS Subscribe: RSS feed Wonderful Brain All Things Considered Important in Learning and Design Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning Posted on v, March, 2011 by Rich 0 I caught an interesting article about the twelve most dangerous words in business. I thought, twelve. That’s it? Then I realized how they apply to learning and the pain they can cause.

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Think you're the first one to think like this?

Mark Oehlert

"It is an extraordinary era in which we live. It is altogether new. The world has seen nothing like it before. I will not pretend, no one can pretend, to discern then end; but every body knows that the age is remarkable for scientific research into the heavens, the earth, and what is beneath the earth; and perhaps more remarkable still for the application of this scientific research to the pursuits of life.

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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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ED's require online college certification in every state!

eLearning Evangelist

According to an article on eCampus News, online colleges will need to get certification from every state in which they have a student. The regulation goes into effect July 1. The online colleges are expressing concern. They are quoted as saying it means meeting a variety of different state certification standards, dealing with a range of fees and bureaucratic hurdles, and ultimately meaning they may not be able to offer programs in every state.

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Design eLearning Courses by Putting the Horse Before the Cart

OpenSesame

'“I need to give a training course to the executive team,” someone recently said to me. “Do you have anything good?”. Of course I said yes. OpenSesame is in the business of selling elearning courses, and just about every organization needs top elearning courses for managers. But what''s wrong with this picture?

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