Sat.Oct 06, 2012 - Fri.Oct 12, 2012

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

'eLearning is an education system that primarily utilizes technology to transfer skills and knowledge. You might also notice eLearning being referred to as online learning, web-based learning, or distance learning. It enables learners to advance their knowledge anytime, anywhere, allowing for more flexibility and consistency. Elearning can include virtual education, social media, digital collaboration, computer-based curriculum, mobile performance support, and the list goes on.

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eLearning Development 101: The Guide to eLearning Authoring Tools

OpenSesame

You don’t have to be a software engineer to succeed as an elearning developer. eLearning authoring tools give anyone the ability to make high quality online courses. But with so many tools on the market, how do you know where to start? This is our guide to choosing the right authoring tool for you. Articulate Studio ‘09. The post eLearning Development 101: The Guide to eLearning Authoring Tools appeared first on OpenSesame.

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Four Articles & Papers Defining this thing called #Gamification

Kapp Notes

Here are four papers, articles, and/or chapters that discuss various aspects of gamification and what it means to education, learning and the public in general. WARNING–There is not a general consensus among these articles…that’s exactly why I collected these different views. The first article is from an online journal called GAME.

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Video as eLearning: 15 Tips

Web Courseworks

I was recently featured in an article in In Business magazine that highlights “The Online Video Phenomenon” and talks about the upsurge of online video marketing. Why is it so popular? Well, as stressed in the article, online video marketing is popular because it allows a story to be taken around the world, it “brings a much [.].

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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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Converting ELearning To Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions

Upside Learning

More and more organizations with eLearning programs in place are feeling the need to move towards mLearning, and we believe that Tablet Learning can be a smooth and easy way to initiate this shift. In many cases, though, Tablet Learning is considered a form of mLearning, and there is often a degree of hesitation to make the switch, perhaps brought on by typical myths associated with Mobile Learning.

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Three Videos Related to the Future of Learning

Kapp Notes

Here are three videos, all from a slightly different perspective that, I think, are related in one way or another to the future of learning both within organizations and within academic institutions. We need to learn from the expert teachers, from what is happening online and, of course, from games. What makes a teacher great? (this clear back from 2012).

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eLearning: Quick Infographics

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George  Last week I wrote about how to use PowerPoint to design your own infographic. It wasn't too hard, but hey, we're not all designers here, amirite? If designing your own infographic had you throwing up your hands in defeat, maybe you should try out Easel.ly. Here's how it works. From www.easel.ly click the start fresh slide to get started.   The following window works as a pasteboard, similar to what you will find when editing a slide in PowerPoint.   Cl

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Some Thoughts On Tablet Learning (aka Elearning On iPads)

Upside Learning

There’s no doubt the iPad has been a phenomenal success. It has ruled the tablet computer space with a commanding market share ever since it literally created the category in 2010. Our earliest reactions of the iPad were that of disappointment but then iPad has gone on to shape a new category of learning, which I prefer to call ‘tablet learning’. It’s not the same as mLearning.

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Learn something new in 10 minutes a day

Jane Hart

As part of the online workshop I’m running at the Social Learning Centre on Social Media for Professional Development, I’ve set up a Learning Board on the new pinning tool, Learnist called Learn in 10 minutes a day – and I’d like to invite you to contribute to the Board: What resources could you use to learn something new in just 10 minutes a day?

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Seven Interesting and Different Slidedecks on #Gamification

Kapp Notes

Here are Seven unique slide decks from Slideshare.net each giving a different take (visually and contextually) on the concept of gamification. The first is from Sebastian Deterding: 9,5 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Gamification from Sebastian Deterding. The second was presented at a conference by Kyle Findlay and Kirsty Aberts. It’s got great game graphics and provides results of some research they conducted in an online community with adding gamification elements.

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Take the law out of compliance training

E-Learning Provocateur

Compliance training is everyone’s favourite punching bag. I deduce two main reasons for this: It’s usually drop-dead boring, and. People don’t like being told what to do. So we in the L&D department are put in the unenviable position of selling the unsellable to our colleagues. To do so, we typically resort to a couple of irreproachable messages: It’s the law (so we have to do it), and.

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Adobe Captivate 6: When It Comes to Quizzes, Go All In

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel    When a learner takes a quiz created with Adobe Captivate, failure by the learner to click the Submit button on each and every question is a recurring problem. Many learners don't realize that a question is considered incorrect if it's skipped. And the answer is skipped if the Submit button isn't clicked. How can a learner miss clicking the Submit button?

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

On 1 October I released the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 list , and in my introductory analysis I said. “Whilst there is a clear differentiation between the personal/professional tools and the enterprise tools being used by workplace learning professions, in education teachers are frequently making use of the same toolset for both their teaching and their own personal learning.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Three More Views on #Gamification

Kapp Notes

Here are three more views on Gamification. Also, in case you missed it here are the first Three Views on Gamification. This one is from Gabe Zichermann. Here is one from Sebastian Deterding. What is Gamification with Extra Credits. BONUS Fourth Item: Gamification of Education from Extra Credits.

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My tips for the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas

Challenge to Learn

DevLearn promises to be a great conference this year again.There is a very promising line-up of keynote speakers and other presenters. The eLearning guild has a reputation for inviting surprising key-note speakers and it looks like they have done it again. We have a movie producer, an entertainer, an adventurer, an author and a TV personality. I’m looking forward to their presentations.

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Focus on ‘do’

Clark Quinn

I’ve been working on a project where we’re reviewing the curriculum before we design the learning outcome. The level of detail is admirable: courses are defined by objectives, which then drive learning objectives, from which are extracted key concepts to present. And I’m finding one approach that’s making this go really well.

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What Blocks Performance Support from Becoming a Strategic Initiative?

Living in Learning

When Einstein defined insanity as “Continuing to do what we’ve always done and expecting different results”, he was on the money. We continue to train with hopes that some form it…some technology enhanced venue of it…some exotic blend of it…is going to produce sustained capability that produces tangible business outcomes. Does training contribute to results?

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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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When Did You Become A Leader?

The Performance Improvement Blog

I recently returned from a nine-day trip to Rwanda where I teamed with two colleagues to train the leadership team of Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village , a residential community for orphaned youth, in how to use evaluation to continuously improve their educational and personal development programs. One of the first things we did with the staff was to ask them to share a story about when they discovered that they were leaders.

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LAST CHANCE: Suggest or Vote on LearnDash Features

LearnDash

One of the things we are most excited about for our WordPress LMS here at LearnDash is the fact that it is actually built by the eventual users. We put a lot of importance on the suggestions we receive from the community, particularly on our UserVoice site and the emails that we receive. Admittedly, we cannot be all things to everyone, so I’m sure that there will be some people who prefer different functionality (and hey, perhaps it will eventually make its way into the solution given e

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Inoculating the organization

Clark Quinn

I was having a discussion the other day with my ITA colleague Jay Cross, and the topic wandered over to how to use the social approaches we foster under the umbrella of the Coherent Organization to help organizations become one. And I went feral. Do we work top down, or bottom up? In the course of the conversation it occurred to me that given the model we propose, that you can’t just have the broader social network create it, and you can’t even really build a community of practice

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Assembling the Performance Support Strategy Puzzle

Living in Learning

Performance Support is a lot more complex than a job aid. I would add that when properly integrated as an inclusive bridge between training and actual work performance there exists an inherent strategic value that up until recently was rarely considered. I would even go so far as positioning a Performance Support Strategy as a key driver over a Learning & Development strategy.

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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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Continuous Improvement in Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village

The Performance Improvement Blog

In my last blog post I mentioned my evaluation work with Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. One of the tools we used to help the Village staff think about indicators of success was a model of the residents’ total Village experience. See below. We asked the staff, “What indicates that you have been successful at each point in this model?” At " baseline ", they said that it’s knowing students’ abilities and expectations when they first arrive at the Village.

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¿Su LMS habla español?

KnowledgeStar

Why build a Spanish LMS? First, more and more of the schools with whom I’ve spoken this past year, individually and at conferences and meetings, have told me they need one and need one now. So I did some research and that brings us to the second point. The surprising facts: Spanish is spoken by [.].

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Performance Improvement Culture Cops

Web Courseworks

I have held interest in the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) for years. With the mission “to develop and recognize the proficiency of its members and advocate the use of Human Performance Technology”, I have come to believe that all managers of eLearning should consider joining this group. Many themes of my book MindMeld focus [.].

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Take the law out of compliance training

E-Learning Provocateur

Compliance training is everyone’s favourite punching bag. I deduce two main reasons for this: It’s usually drop-dead boring, and. People don’t like being told what to do. So we in the L&D department are put in the unenviable position of selling the unsellable to our colleagues. To do so, we typically resort to a couple of irreproachable messages: It’s the law (so we have to do it), and.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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E-learning Developer vs. Web Developer

Integrated Learnings

by Jonathan Shoaf. You know when to hire a plumber. You know when to hire an electrician. But do you know when to hire an e-learning developer? How do you know if you need a web developer? Let's take a look at those roles. First, let's look at an e-learning developer. An e-learning developer will have the following abilities: Knowledge of how to use an e-learning development tools such as Adobe Captivate, Lectora, or Articulate.

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Webinar: Creating Engaging eLearning

B Online Learning

Share. Tweet. Pin It. This webinar shows you how to engage your learners using rapid eLearning strategies and offers practical tips about how to develop interactive eLearning courses you can be proud of. Challenging your learners using engaging eLearning scenarios When is the right time to use scenarios or branching scenarios? How to reapply your scenarios to any situation. [.].

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Reflections on Two Decades and Three Degrees

Allison Rossett

Jolie Kennedy is my guest blogger. I think you will enjoy her take on her learning experiences. Jolene writes: Summer 1989: Queens College, City University of New York. Madonna’s Like a Prayer blares on my headphones. It’s my first semester and I’m low man on the totem pole. I get classes no one wants… statistics and ethics. Ugh. College sucks! Stats class is a bust.

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