Mon.Jan 30, 2012

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Social Learning: Are you starting from the right place?

Jane Hart

When I hear people ask for advice about how to “do” or “implement” social learning it reminds me of this Irish joke. “Paddy stopped cutting the hedge as the big car drew up beside him and an English visitor enquired, . “Could you tell me the way to Balbriggan, Please?” Paddy wiped his brow. . “Certainly, sor.

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Reviewing elearning examples

Clark Quinn

I recently wrote about elearning garbage , and in case I doubted my assessment, today’s task made my dilemma quite clear. I was asked to be one of the judges for an elearning contest. Seven courses were identified as ‘finalists’, and my task was the review each and assign points in several categories. Only one was worthy of release, and only one other even made a passing grade.

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ASTD TechKnowledge Wrap Up in Pictures #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

Back home now after another exciting week in Las Vegas for ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2012 conference and expo. (I took a redeye home Friday night and then went camping with my son’s cub scout pack Saturday night. Crazy, I know.). Held at the Rio in Las Vegas, this year’s conference featured great keynote sessions from Jane McGonigal, Stuart Crabb of Facebook, and Lisa Doyle of the VA; concurrent sessions and creation stations with Jane Bozarth, Connie Malamed, Julie Dirksen, Kevin Thorn, Aaron Silver

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More Learning and Development Myths

Absorb LMS

As a follow up to my post of last December titled “ The Biggest Myths in Learning and Development ,” I asked the following question within various LinkedIn discussion groups: What other learning and development beliefs do we hold to be true but probably aren’t? Here are some of the replies: Universities are embracing e-learning to extend their audiences to people who cannnot afford to attend their institutions. — Jean-Marc R.

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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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Introducing.the Camtasia Small Business Test Drive!

TechSmith Camtasia

We're excited to introduce a fun new project we're working on this month--the Camtasia Small Business Test Drive! Starting last week, we challenged four small businesses in the Lansing, Michigan area to "test drive" Camtasia Studio and/or Camtasia for Mac in their business setting for four weeks. Each week, they will share the experience with us through written responses, screencasts, photos and video.

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Nuts and Bolts: Opportunity Knocks? by Jane Bozarth

LearningGuild

Formal design process gets a lot of attention, but not every problem requires the full treatment. Consider first what your client needs, before you start working on what the process flow chart requires, and when the problem is simple, keep the solution simple. Jane offers the key to remedies for performance issues.

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OpenSesame Wins Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Silver Award

OpenSesame

'We are proud to announce we have been awarded a Brandon-Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Silver Award in the Content Authoring and Content Management Technology category for our patent-pending SCORM video player.

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What you should look for when doing a QA

Good To Great

Last week I set out the benefits of QA. But what does ‘QA’ actually mean? To many people, it is synonymous with ‘proof-reading’, but that’s a very simplistic view. QA stands for quality assurance, and that means quality in every respect. If you were QA-ing a newspaper article, the review would of course cover spelling and grammar.

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The End of a Job as we Know It

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away. Over the last few years I’ve been speaking with many corporate business and human resource leaders and hearing a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign organizations so we can learn faster, communicate. Read more» The post The End of a Job as we Know It appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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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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OpenSesame Wins Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Silver Award

OpenSesame

We are proud to announce we have been awarded a Brandon-Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Silver Award in the Content Authoring and Content Management Technology category for our patent-pending SCORM video player. It’s our goal to unlock elearning with new technology, better ways to purchase content and great service, and this award demonstrates that we’re on the right track.

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The End of a Job as we Know It

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away. Over the last few years I’ve been speaking with many corporate business and human resource leaders and hearing a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign organizations so we can learn faster, communicate. Read more» The post The End of a Job as we Know It appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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