Fri.Mar 30, 2012

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Terrors of Taxonomy

Living in Learning

I wish I had a nickel for every time I read a post on one of my networking groups where someone asks what features they should be sure to get on their LMS. Having been down that path multiple times, I can say the chances of finding one with the “best features” are really good, because most LMSs I’ve seen have all of them. My point being this – the LMS is the commodity – the world does not rotate around the LMS – the application in which the LMS is going to be implemented is where the variability

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Training Stats Don’t Mean SQUAT Without This

LearnDash

Measuring training effectiveness is a necessary component of any training implementation, but there is one things that absolutely cannot be forgotten if you plan on reporting metrics on your training initiative. Surprisingly, this step is often skipped on many training programs. What often happens is that trainers start to analyze the current situation, design their approach, develop the training, test it, implement and then evaluate (did catch that?

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Is the cloud hastening the demise of the LMS?

Xyleme

LEARNING REACHES TO THE CLOUD. The IMS Global Learning Consortium has announced the release latest version of the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability Specification – Version 1.1. This specification provides a way for courses running in IMS-conformant Learning Management systems to securely access remote content, tools and services, and receive back user’s results.

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In Retail, a Compelling Case for More Employee Training

Mindflash

Retail companies have typically responded to the economic recession by cutting staffing and training departments in order to keep prices low. But in an interesting new piece in the New Yorker , James Surowiecki argues that having more and better-trained workers is a smarter strategy for retailers. The piece has ignited a flurry of debate and commentary online.

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

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Learning Professionals and Their Roles as Curators

ATD Learning Technologies

Over the past two weeks, we've looked at Filtering: A Challenge and Responsibility for Learning Professionals , and Curation: A Core Competency for Learning Professionals. In this closing post in my Learning Circuits series, I want to dig into curation in greater detail, describing what role technology plays in the curation workflow, and what it looks like for learning.

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How Training Can Help Restore Credibility to the Mortgage Industry

Mindflash

Note: Bill Cushard will be the special guest of a Twitter chat on Friday, March 30 at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) in which he’ll discuss this article, plus other answer other training questions. To participate, just include #trainchat in your question, and follow the action. The session will run for roughly 30 minutes. See you there! There’s no shortage of coverage or explanations about how the mortgage crisis unfolded and the disaster that ensued.

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Resources: How to Design and Facilitate a Virtual Classroom (webinar)

e-Learning Academy

Looking for cost effective and agile ways to train staff? Then virtual classroom (VC) may be the answer you are looking for (other terms for VC include webinar and web conferencing). At first, virtual classroom can seem a little daunting to design and facilitate. A virtual classroom train-the-trainer workshop is a great way to build [.].

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The Benefits of Online Learning

Mindflash

E-Learning Solutions Allow Workers to Access Training Materials from Anywhere, at Any Time. Online learning , or e-learning , offers a number of advantages for people and companies looking to develop a new content program or curricula — none bigger than the ability to offer that training anywhere, anytime. That means whether your trainees are all together in a classroom or scattered all over the country in different time zones, they can still tap into the same course materials, and at a time tha

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Working Smarter, March 2012

Jay Cross

March 1, 2012 to March 30, 2012. Working Smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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