Sat.Mar 20, 2010 - Fri.Mar 26, 2010

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eLearning Development Is An Iterative Process

Upside Learning

Earlier this month, Tom Kuhlmann talked about 10 things to do before your eLearning course goes live. His post makes great sense but what really caught my attention was the statement he began with. “It’s amazing how fresh eyes can find things you might have overlooked during production. So, before launching your elearning course, it’s a good idea to have others review it.

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eLearning/Captivate Development: Let IconLogic Lend a Hand

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Do you have an immediate need to develop eLearning using Adobe Captivate? Need an eLearning script written? Our team of writers and Adobe Certified Experts (ACE) in Captivate can assist you in developing eLearning courses. We can do it all, from story-boarding to script development to voiceover script development to turn-key Captivate production. We can even provide live, world-wide support or mentoring online.

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Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles

Tony Karrer

In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources.

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Weekly Bookmarks (3-21-2010)

Experiencing eLearning

10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep End of the Invisible Web. Search engines for finding information in databases, books, journals, and other places not indexed by Google. tags : search , invisibleweb. I Came, I Saw, I Learned…: Development Times for Captivate eLearning. Estimates for the production part of Captivate development. A large project (80-150 slides) should take 8-10 hours to produce.

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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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Tools For Mobile Learning Development

Upside Learning

Upside is doing a fair bit of mobile learning development and we blog about it regularly. In the process of development, we are often forced to explore the various tools available. I want to share some tools which may assist you in developing mobile learning applications. On broad level those tools can be categories into tools for: Enterprise application like LMS, LCMS.

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Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at the Moment of Need #ls2010

Learning Visions

My live blogged notes from eLearning Foundations Intensive with Bob Mosher. Here’s a picture! J.I.T. = “just in time” – the acronym was born in 1992. What does this mean to the learner? they expect it, informal, interruption, necessary eLearning invented J.I.T. We equated availability with relevance. “Anytime, anywhere”. But J.I.T. doesn’t equate with relevance, because it’s often not targeted.

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Learning Tools

Clark Quinn

Owing to sins in my past, I not only am speaking on mobile learning at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference e-Learning Foundations Intensive session, but also introduced the tools section. The tools will be covered by smart folks like Patti Shank, Harry Mellon, Steve Foreman, and Karen Hyder, but I was supposed to set the context.

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Is the Recession Bad for Effective Learning Solutions?

Upside Learning

When eLearning came into being through its early predecessors in the form of CBT and then WBT one of the primary reasons and its drivers was increasing acceptance of its potential to save costs due to the inherent advantages in centralizing (more with WBT) content, the reduction in logistics costs, persistent storage and to an extent uniformity in content delivery.

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Creating Assessment Questions that Measure Performance

Kapp Notes

While knowledge assessments have become more and more popular both in business and academia, there are still issues with the creation of valid and reliable test questions. It is imperative that an assessment item actually measure knowledge and potential performance. The goal is to create a test question that is linked to the objective of the training and that measures the right level of learning.

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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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What's the Future of Diversity Training?

The Performance Improvement Blog

I fear that diversity training is losing favor among senior executives and HR departments. What I’m observing might simply be the natural evolution of a workforce intervention, similar to “quality improvement” which has moved from the province of a few experts to the responsibility of everyone in the organization. According to Billy E. Vaughn  writing in DiversityOfficerMagazine.com, diversity training started in the 1960s, during the civil rights era, and was about racism and changing the

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Confucius 2.0

E-Learning Provocateur

I’m a big fan of ancient proverbs. Sayings such as… Fortune favours the brave. - Pliny the Elder. and… Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Lao Tzu. …I find truly inspirational. Confucius 1.0. The master of ancient proverbs, however, must be Confucius. Some of my favourites of his are… Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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UL Fun-e-toons: The World of Social Media

Upside Learning

Related posts: Social Media Libraries for Flash UL Fun-e-toons: eLearning By Pages. Tags: Humor Funny Toons Social Media Social Media World The World of Social Media UL Fun Cartoon UL Fun e toons.

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Presentation Resources:Selecting Appropriate Training Approach

Kapp Notes

Here are some resources and links related to my presentation titled "Selecting the Appropriate Training Approach: Delivery Decision-Making" given at the Medical Technology Learning Institute conference titled "Employee Training under FDA Scrutiny" It's Not Gibberish, It's Learning as a Process Design: Compliance Complaints Definition: ABCD Objectives Steps Gen Y (Gamer Gen) Can Take to Understand Boomers and Gen X'ers Do We Really Need to Design Differently for Digital Natives Teaching/Training

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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#LS2010 Sir Ken Robinson: The Element - How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Wed Keynote

Learning Visions

My live blogged notes from Wednesday keynote at Learning Solutions 2010 in Orlando with Sir Ken Robinson. His most recent book is The Element. __ Las Vegas is an idea…a coming together of people’s imagination. There’s no good reason for Vegas. The same could be said of Orlando. Imagination powers human beings. There are no facts about the future. There are forces at work in the world for which there are no precedents.

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Acrobat 9: Scanning into a PDF Portfolio

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by David R. Mankin Here's the scenario: You work at a law firm. "Client Z" has a date in court coming soon. You have created a PDF Portfolio for "Client Z." This portfolio contains dozens of individual documents. There is one document that is still missing--It's a police report from another district. The report arrives just in time. via mail.

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Digital Interaction Design to Tangible Interaction Design

Upside Learning

Interaction design is almost always a synthesis of traditional methods and approaches from varied established disciplines. When I write about interaction, most people reading it view it in the context of software or some form of digital technology. “Interaction” isn’t only about technology or software. Industrial designers are taught to design ‘things’ that engage people and facilitate their relationships with those things.

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Improving Life Through Video Games

Kapp Notes

A couple of interesting positive video game stories. An engineering team at Rutgers University have modified a popular home video game system to help people with cerebral palsy improve hand functions. According to ScienceDaily in the article Modified Home Video Game Shows Promise for Improving Hand Function in Teens With Cerebral Palsy a team has modified a Sony PlayStation 3 Console, a virtual glove and customer software to provide exercises and activities to improve hand and finger movement.

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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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The GPS and EPSS

Clark Quinn

It’s not unknown for me to enter my name into a drawing for something, if I don’t mind what they’re doing with it. It’s almost unknown, however, for me to actually win, but that’s actually the case a month or so ago when I put a comment on a blog prior to the MacWorld show, and won a copy of Navigon turn-by-turn navigation software for my iPhone.

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Adobe Captivate 4: Crop It!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel I've been teaching Captivate for years. One of my favorite parts of any class is showing features of the software that even veteran developers of the program did not know were available. Case in point: during a recent class a student asked if it was possible to crop imported images directly within Captivate. She had been told that while you could resize images, you could not crop them.

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The Metaphor of Personal Space

ID Reflections

Personal space is a metaphor of our existence! Here's a little story before I get to the crux of my post. A few years’ back, in an earlier organization where I used to work, I was sent onsite for about 8~9 weeks. When I came back, I found someone else sitting at my workstation. Initially thinking this to be a temporary arrangement, I was deeply hurt to find out that the arrangement was permanent.

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Systems Training: Choose Your Own Adventure

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. What does ideal systems training look like? Much of the systems training I've encountered tends to follow this basic formula: Overview the computer program (e.g., uses, primary functions, etc.) Introduce basic navigation and main windows (with demonstration + practice) Perform specific tasks or procedures (with demonstration + practice).

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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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Big Huge Opportunity for Education

KnowledgeStar

The 800-pound gorilla in the patient’s waiting room, with a rolled-up version of the healthcare reform act in one hand is … an opportunity for you. Here’s the deal… The following article is the best of many I’ve read in the past few days outlining the real vision that President Obama has for healthcare in [.].

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mLearning: Some Technical Tips

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George Back in February I discussed the growing adoption of mobile learning as a viable means for eLearning and communicating ideas. Now I'd like to take a brief look at a few technical aspects to keep in mind when developing mLearning. Keep file sizes relatively small. A typical mLearning lesson should be no more than 2-3 megabytes. Be mindful of how many images you use and their sizes.

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Work Context: The New Classroom

Living in Learning

After 22 years in the telecom industry, all but four of them with AT&T and Sprint, I had a very humbling experience. Fifteen of those years were spent living out of a suitcase as a roving sale trainer and then as a manager. My “humbling” may more accurately be described as an epiphany. It was shocking to me because I had convinced myself – after more frequent flyer miles and Marriott points than a human could use – that I had the sales training gig figured out.

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Let go to move on.

ID Reflections

Have you ever felt free? Really really free? Unfettered, unbounded, untethered? If you have stretched yourself to your limit and beyond to get a really really important project, and then finally gotten it, you are left with a feeling of exhilaration mixed with a sudden emptiness. Do you know what I mean? It's a bit like the race is over, you are down on your knees on the tracks, you have won the gold but you are too tired to appreciate its worth!

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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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VenueGen Announces 3D Meetings for "Everyone"

Kapp Notes

Virtual world provider, VenueGen , recently came out of private Beta to a public Beta (whatever that means) and loudly announced their virtual meeting platform. They call it both visually appealing and easy to use. It has been described as a lot more than Cisco’s WebEx meeting platform, and a lot less than Linden Labs’ Second Life virtual world. A man and his avatar.

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Troubleshooting: Parallels Mouse Synchronization

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George We had a bit of a panic here at IconLogic. When doing a routine install of a wireless mouse onto our iMac running Parallels, we somehow managed to anger the computer gods and found ourselves unable to run Parallels in Coherence mode (the mode allowing Windows and the Mac operating system to operate seamlessly as one). Furthering our frustration were the hoops we were being made to jump through to get technical support from the Parallels website.

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Learning Solutions Conference: Experts of the Guild

Web Courseworks

I have been impressed over the years with the fine work of David Holcombe and Heidi Fisk, founders of the eLearning Guild. When it comes to eLearning, the Guild is a trusted source of information, networking and a true community of practice. The information on their website says it all: “As a member-driven organization, the Guild produces conferences, online events, e-books, research reports, and Learning Solutions Magazine—all devoted to the idea that the people who know the most about making e