Mon.Feb 06, 2012

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Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning is Wrong

Upside Learning

Admit it, didn’t the title of this post catch your eye? Coming back from vacation and digging into my feeds I found this interesting article from Wired – Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning is Wrong. While the title makes a sweeping statement, I found that’s not what the article is really about. Perhaps the reporter needed to relearn a thing or two and forget a few too.

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Interactivity

Kapp Notes

The Advantages of Interactivity. There are many advantages of having learners interact with the subject matter they are learning. Studies, as well as common sense, indicate that interactivity helps the learner retain information as well as increasing the learner’s willingness to spend time with the material. In fact, Michael Grahame Moore editor of the American Journal of Distance Education, writes that interactivity between a learner and the content is “the defining characteristic of education.

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How to keep formal e-Learning relevant

Challenge to Learn

We all know that e-learning is changing, we all know that our learners have changed. The rise of the internet, social media and mobile devices have changed our world. It turned out that it is much easier for a learner to adapt to these changes than for a e-Learning manager or developer. Over the past 16 months I have written all kind of post researching this change.

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Adobe Acrobat X: Adding Description Fields to Document Properties

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Barb Binder    It's easy to ignore the Description tab of the Document Properties dialog box in Adobe Acrobat. You may never even think about it as you create, enhance and review your PDFs. But if you start amassing a large collection of PDFs, ignoring the Description tab would be a mistake. The Description fields are easily searched (both locally and online) and taking a few minutes to fill them out as you go will save you the headache of realizing a few years down the road t

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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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Designing the killer experience

Clark Quinn

I haven’t been put in the place of having ultimate responsibility for driving a complete user experience for over a decade, though I’ve been involved in advising on a lot on many such. But I continue my decades long fascination with design, to the extent that it’s a whole category for my posts! An article on how Apple’s iPhone was designed caused me to reflect.

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Happiness Makes You Smarter? :( It’s True! :)

KnowledgeStar

TED Talks are like the TV show The Voice. They are The Voice of Great Minds. Everyone who speaks at TED wins. Here’s another great TED talk that might, if you really listen, change your life … In many of my most recent posts I alluded to the idea that “average’ was not a goal. [.].

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Camtasia Small Business Test Drive: Week 2

TechSmith Camtasia

We're turning the corner to the second week of the Camtasia Small Business Test Drive ! If you missed out on the first week, catch up here. This week each business created their first (or in some cases, second or third) screencast and sent us an exmaple. They also shared with us a little about their process, how they prepare and edit their videos, what challenges they faced, etc.

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LearnTec and a few more awards for eFront

eFront

In the context of Learntec trade fair our Austrian VAR ( Click-and-learn ) has been awarded with two “gold medals” (in the category “LMS” – with eFront ; and in the category “development of individual learning content”). Customers voted our Austrian VAR on first place within the “eLearningCHECK” which is the greatest customer-award for eLearning in the German speaking market. eLearningCHECK is an independend customer satisfaction survey for the german speaking eLearning market.

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Making Your eLearning Initiative an Internal Bestseller

OpenSesame

'As elearning developers, training coordinators and instructional designers, we create great courses, programs and materials. But that''s only half the battle. How can we make sure we get wide adoption and engagement in the assets and resources populating our learning management systems? On this blog, Kelly Meeker''s Dec 7 article provided some sage advice on how to position your courses in the OpenSesame marketplace.

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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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My mouse is dead

Learning with e's

No, we haven't had a pet bereavement. and there is no tiny rodent laying legs up in its little cage (although. there's a thought. My daughter's pet mouse sometimes keeps us awake at night with its irritating noises.). No, I'm referring to that wonderful old computer peripheral device that was first introduced in the last century. The mouse has served its purpose, and has been a faithful servant for all those using computers.

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Marc My Words: eLearning Boot Camp by Marc J. Rosenberg

LearningGuild

Traditional roles in training and education are in transition, and perhaps fading away. Specializations in eLearning are merging and morphing. What was current last year is now passé, and what was a blip on the horizon is now mainstream. In a time of constant change in our professions, how do you know where to focus your attention? The answer is continuous professional development, and here’s how.

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The State of Sales Training in 2012: Top Trends and Takeaways

Mindflash

On December 7, 2011 ESR delivered a webinar presentation on the state of sales training (download the MP3 or PDF—free registration required). It was an hour full of valuable intelligence and insight for sales training companies and sales trainers in corporate L&D organizations. Here are some of the points I made during the event, but first, a quick review of 2011.

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Making Your eLearning Initiative an Internal Bestseller

OpenSesame

As elearning developers, training coordinators and instructional designers, we create great courses, programs and materials. But that’s only half the battle. How can we make sure we get wide adoption and engagement in the assets and resources populating our learning management systems? On this blog, Kelly Meeker’s Dec 7 article provided some sage advice on how to position your courses in the OpenSesame marketplace.

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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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Reflections on #ASTDTK12

E-learning Uncovered

What a great time I had at TK12! As one of the conference planners, I had duties that prevented me from attending very many of the sessions, but I can honestly say that the whole event was a learning experience. We kicked things off on Wednesday with an opening keynote by Jane McGonigal, serious game designer and author of the book Reality is Broken.

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The 4 Best FREE eLearning Tools for 2012!

cogentys

Click on the links below to get started: Flickr : Home to over 5 billion of the worlds most interesting photos. SlideShare : A cloud service that allows eLearning professionals to view and download presentations & documents on topics that interest them and remix for their own work. SoundCloud : The world’s largest community of sound creators.

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ASTD Houston Membership Mixer: Use the power of KINECT for Windows to transform training

Take an e-Learning Break

Register at: [link] Come and Join the Fun! Kinect has changed the way people play games and experience entertainment. Now, Kinect for Windows offers the potential to transform how people interact with computers and Windows-embedded devices in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, retail, transportation, and beyond. We’ll discuss how the Kinect technology will change the face of training.

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10 Ways to Bring A Conference Back to Work

ATD Learning Technologies

When it comes to conferences, a better slogan would be, "What happens in Vegas should NOT stay in Vegas." If you're one of the fortunate people from your organization to attend a professional conference, how can you bring it back to the workplace so everyone can benefit? During sessions, keynotes, hallwa. Click here to read full version.

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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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Social Learning: Key resources from January

Jane Hart

Here is my pick of 10 articles about social learning since my last posting just before Christmas. I have listed them below in chronological order, and also added a short quote from each of them to give you a flavour of what each is about. If you want to read further articles you will find many more that I have saved in my 2012 Reading List. 1 - Through the 70-20-10 looking glass , Charles Jennings, ITA, 29 December 2012. “In this article I want to turn to the ‘how’ of change and transform