The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 6, 2011
by AJ George The push for mobile learning (mLearning) has been a surprisingly long one. Last year we talked about how mLearning wasn't quite ready , but we threw out some technical tips in case you were ready to dive in. Almost a year later we noted that the Horizon Report slated adoption of mLearning for one year or less. And now a recent T+D magazine features the article: " At Last: M-Learning Going Mainstream.
Upside Learning
JULY 6, 2011
IDEO is one of the companies I admire for solid and contemporary product design and especially follow their Play and Digital Experience areas on their website. I recently heard on twitter that they’d launched a toolkit for educators to assist with Design Thinking at [link]. If you’re a K12 educator, you’ve probably heard about this one by now. IDEO has broken design thinking down into five elegant steps and describe them as: 1.
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Integrated Learnings
JULY 6, 2011
By Joseph Suarez. Recently Trivantis, makers of the eLearning development program Lectora, announced the release of Snap! by Lectora. While the product isn't revolutionary and at times leaves more to be desired, with a $99 price tag, Snap deserves a closer look. So just what is Snap? Primarily it is a PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool with additional features for eLearning development such as narration recording , quiz assessments , and LMS publishing.
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 6, 2011
It seems to me that right now this is a wide open field. There are people looking at applying the Kirkpatrick model, there are people measuring the use of social learning tools, and there are people talking about something similar to Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method. In the spirit of my blog posts on Re-evaluating Evaluation and Revisiting Kirkpatrick , I decided to start with Don Clark ?
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 6, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. I fell in love with Captivate 5 the moment I started the program. The user interface (UI) was a vast improvement over every legacy versions of the program. Looking back on my experience with Captivate 5, I have few complaints. Honestly, Captivate 5 is really, really good and there's not much to gripe about. That being said, I do have a few pet peeves in Captivate 5.
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Marcia Conner
JULY 6, 2011
Sometimes people read The New Social Learning in the hope it will be written expressly for trainers in corporate training departments. They learn quickly that it was written for leaders in every sort of department determined to help themselves and their people learn more from everything, not only training… from work and the interactions that [.
Mindflash
JULY 6, 2011
Project managers are often thought of as the gears that keep a business moving full-steam ahead. But with the high-stakes pressure of deadlines, limited staff, and tight budgets, they need all the help they can get. One survey, conducted by PM Solutions Research provides some insight into how companies are going about training their project managers — and the positive results they are witnessing.
Usable Learning
JULY 6, 2011
So, as an instructional designer, part of my job is to make things clear and easy to understand , right? Well, it turns out that’s not necessarily the best option. Cathy Moore just put up a blog post that has her checklist for evaluating your own e-Learning design. You rate where your learning falls on a continuum. In particular, I noticed this item: This isn’t a new idea, but it’s particular powerful one — use consequences instead of disembodied-voice-of-the-eLearning-
LearningGuild
JULY 6, 2011
Twitter is no longer a solution looking for a problem. Users find more uses for this microblogging service. every day through apps, and that includes uses for personal and organizational learning. Here is a handy. list of apps that will improve your Twitter experience!
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Mindflash
JULY 6, 2011
Training programs are usually associated with better retention, but not always. Make this mistake and see your investment walk out the door. Training your employees, common sense tells us, builds loyalty and capacity and makes your organization more likely to retain talent for longer. But is this sensible assumption really true? Recently two professors for the University of Iowa decided to find out.
eLearning 24-7
JULY 6, 2011
Welcome, Welcome. How are you today? Audience: We are Fine – Craig! Glad to hear that. Well, I am here to tell you about an amazing product that can answer your LMS questions. That’s right your questions when it comes to identifying a LMS. I know, I know you have heard it before, read about it before, thought about it before and yes, uh, did I say read about it before?
Jay Cross
JULY 6, 2011
Tiffany Shlain is a treasure. Her movie Connected comes out this fall. I can’t wait. There are a few screenings before the release. I plan to see it on July 23 @ 4:30 at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Thanks to Ross Dawson for the tip.
Learning with e's
JULY 6, 2011
I'm a little overwhelmed by the response to my post yesterday entitled Seven reasons teachers should blog which as I write this, is racing toward 2000 views in just 24 hours. Thank you to all those who have taken the time to stop by and read it. It is turning out to be one of my most successful posts of the year, and not just because of the hit rate.
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