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4 Traits of Successful Online Learning

B Online Learning

For many, the prospect of studying online for the first time can be daunting! The thought of studying without someone right there in front of you can be intimidating. However, those with experience in online learning would agree that online learning is supportive, flexible, personalised and collaborative. Supportive Frequent and convenient communication between learners and [.].

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The future of learning management

E-Learning Provocateur

People familiar with my blog will know that I’m not a member of the anti-LMS brigade. On the contrary, I think a Learning Management System is a valuable piece of educational technology – particularly in large organisations. It is indispensible for managing registrations, deploying e-learning, marking grades, recording completion statuses, centralising performance agreements and documenting performance appraisals.

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Using Games and Avatars to Change Learner Behavior

Kapp Notes

A recent article in Wired presented an interesting research finding. Flying around a virtual world as a superhero made subjects nicer in the physical world. The study conducted by Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab conducted a study where they took 30 male and 30 female participants and immersed them in a virtual world and assigned them either to play a superhero character who could fly or to become a passenger in a helicopter.

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eLearning on iPads – 10 Bright Ideas

Upside Learning

Sorry! While exhibiting at ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 and Learning Technologies 2013, we seem to have severely underestimated the interest and demand we would have for our little pocket ready-reckoner on “ eLearning on iPads – 10 Bright Ideas ”! So if you missed it or only managed to grab a copy and need some more, we have created a slide deck of it, which you can find embedded below in this post.

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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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Re-thinking Workplace Learning: extracting rather than adding

Performance Learning Productivity

A decade ago the Corporate Executive Board published a report detailing the findings of a study into the role managers can play in employee development. By almost any standards the sample in this study was large – 8,500 cases drawn from 14 organisations across six industries in nine countries. One clear finding presented was that: “t hose activities that are integrated into manager and employee workflow have the largest impact on employee performance, while those that are distinct events separat

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Invisible Gorilla Strikes Again

The Performance Improvement Blog

This time it’s radiologists. In a study reported by NPR , 83% of radiologists failed to see the image of a gorilla on slides that they were reviewing for signs of cancer. The conclusion by reporter Alix Spiegel is: … what we're thinking about — what we're focused on — filters the world around us so aggressively that it literally shapes what we see.

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Mobile Learning Implementation: Need, Myths & Success Factors (ASTD TK 2013 – Slide Deck)

Upside Learning

At all major learning/HR/training conferences and events since last 12 months and more, there is a clear change you can notice – more and more people, increasingly, talk and inquire about mobile learning. I have personally seen a big change in the understanding and awareness about mobile learning people have and its fulfilling to see that what we believed, for last couple of years, is finally taking shape – more and more corporates are now actually implementing mobile learning than before.

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Blog

Association eLearning

'Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Share this on LinkedIn Share this on Google+ Pin this to Pinterest Stumble upon something good?

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Infographic on Making Money with an Educational App

Kapp Notes

Here is an interesting infographic. In the span of 2 years an independent developer earned nearly $700,000 in profit from educational apps. Here’s a look at how he did it and what we can learn from his experience. I thought you and your readership might be interested in the infographic. Please take a look and feel free to reuse it on Kapp Notes or elsewhere.

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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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One Interactivity Builder for Many Authoring Tools

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Of late, some vendors in the e-learning tools industry have started using the word 'interactivity' in a rather loose way. You hear of authoring tools that provide interactivity building features. This leads some users to believe they are getting course authoring and interactivity building in one package! Of course, we do welcome the efforts by authoring tool vendors to help their users build engaging courses.

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eLearning and Documentation: To Translate or not to Translate. That is the Question!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jen Weaver  As global reach expands and local diversity increases, interactions with coworkers, employees, or clients bring us in contact with those who speak different languages. As a result, we are faced with the new demands of a diversified audience coupled with tight budgets, limited time and in an overall downturned economy. Achieving a high return on investment from your training, eLearning, and communication initiatives is extremely important, starting with the initial decision:

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Smart Flexibility Comes Inherent with Raptivity

Raptivity

What is the maximum number of text characters that can be used in an interaction? Well, that’s a common question that pops up in the mind of any instructional designer who starts using a tool. Raptivity users are no different. [.].

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Social Learning in Business: Online Workshop

Jane Hart

This workshop runs 1-31 March 2013 at the Social Learning Centre, and is led by Harold Jarche. The workshop will look at ways to enhance social learning, or people learning together while working. The Agenda will include an optional introductory webinar and cover four key areas: Social learning: The lubricant for social business. Narrating your work and learning.

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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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5 Step Process For Learning Anything

Dashe & Thomson

How do people with an incredible amount of talent become so skilled at what they do? That’s the question I’ve been seeking an answer to over the course of the last year. After reading numerous books on the subject, there seems to be a clear trend among top performers. The [.] The post 5 Step Process For Learning Anything appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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User Interface Considerations for Learning #Games

Kapp Notes

In a learning game, the user interface needs to do three things for learning games. First it needs to establish the context/environment in which the game takes place. Is it an office? A warehouse, a far away planet? The interface should provide the feeling of immersion of the learner into the environment of the game. This is, of course, done with the artwork but should also be a consideration in button and menu design as well.

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Adobe Captivate: Export and Share Audio and Images

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      If you're a Captivate developer working with non-Captivate developers, you may be asked to share some of your project assets so those assets can be used in other applications. I had a PowerPoint developer ask to use one of the audio clips in my Captivate project in his PowerPoint presentation. If I had access to the file on my hard drive or server, it would have been simple enough to email the file to him as an attachment.

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tiny Training: More ID in 140 characters #140id

Jane Hart

My previous post about Instructional Design in 140 characters generated a lot of interest, so I thought I’d tell you about a project I set up in 2010 to explore the use of Twitter to provide daily “tiny facts” I created the Twitter account, @140university and in the first part of the project I provided daily tweets (in a number of different categories) which contained a fact PLUS a link to a resource to find out more.

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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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Performance support-ing learning

Clark Quinn

In a post last week, I mentioned how Gloria Gery’s original vision of performance support not only was supposed to help you in the moment, it was also – at least in principle – of developing you over time. And yet I have yet to see it. So what am I talking about? Let’s use an example. I think of the typical GPS as one of the purest models of performance support: it knows where you’re trying to go (since you tell it), and it helps you every step of the way.

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Change the Conversation – Extend the Blend

Living in Learning

We’ve been touting Training as a viable solution to virtually any performance problem for years. Our clients bought in. They’ve been buying in for as long as we’ve been selling it. We’ve done it well, and we’ve even started believing it ourselves to the extent that we wrap up a training event and move to the next. We’re deploying learning, but we are NOT implementing the application of it.

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5 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your e-Learning Offering

dVinci Interactive

Many organizations that offer e-Learning opportunities find it difficult to attract audience participation. This is not surprising when you consider how little time people have to invest in training that is not mandatory. If you want more people to participate, you’re going to have to make outreach efforts. Assuming you have an offering that is valuable for your target audience, here are some ideas: Define an e-Learning brand for your offering.

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Today is International Darwin Day

Jane Hart

Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. On this website you can find all sorts of information about Charles Darwin and the International Darwin Day Fundation.

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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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Writing & Grammar: Parentheses

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby  I routinely get questions on this mechanical detail in my grammar and editing classes: does a period or comma go inside or outside of the closing parenthesis? And the answer is it depends. The way I think of it is that if the previous sentence was over before you inserted the parenthetical part, and you have a complete sentence inside the parentheses, then the period goes on the inside: We offer classes on writing and grammar.

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Podcast: Bob Mosher speaks with Marc Rosenberg

Ontuitive

Marc Rosenberg, performance support advocate, speaks with Bob Mosher on his reasons why 2013 is the year for Performance Support. This podcast is the first in a series that will continue throughout the year. Please let us know if there is anyone you'd like to have sit down with Bob to discuss performance support.

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Quick Ideas about Problem Solving Games

Kapp Notes

Here are a few ideas about creating a game to teach problem solving and creating a game to actually solve a problem like FoldIt. To teach problem solving, design a game where the learner : Assumes a role. Partakes in meaningful in-game dialogue. Navigates a complex storyline. Feels challenged. Immediately is immersed in the environment. Manipulates variables within the game.

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Raptivity to unveil some exciting new features at TrainingMag Conference and Expo, 2013

Raptivity

Training magazine’s 36th Annual Training 2013 conference & expo at Orlando, Florida will witness the launch of something very exciting and useful for the eLearning community. Any guesses? Well, let’s keep that as a surprise for now. In fact, why [.].

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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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The future of learning management

E-Learning Provocateur

People familiar with my blog will know that I’m not a member of the anti-LMS brigade. On the contrary, I think a Learning Management System is a valuable piece of educational technology – particularly in large organisations. It is indispensible for managing registrations, deploying e-learning, marking grades, recording completion statuses, centralising performance agreements and documenting performance appraisals.

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Driving ROI by Measuring the Right Stuff

Ontuitive

In last week's post, ROI: The Most Difficult Metric! , we talked about rethinking how you look at ROI, or the return on the investment your organization is receiving from your training efforts. This is an issue we have talked around for a very long time, but because of the distance between learning and performance we’ve rightly struggled to connect our learning results with business results.

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A Manager Perspective to Managing Change in Learning: Part 4

Connect Thinking

Over the last several weeks I’ve blogged about change management when introducing technology (e-learning) to a learning strategy (see Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ). Today is the fourth post on the topic of change management, this time thinking about what managers need to know and do to be part of the change. Managers play a vital role in encouraging staff to engage with online learning. .