Mon.Apr 04, 2011

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Snake Oil and (April) Fools

Clark Quinn

For April Fool’s of this year, we (the Internet Time Alliance , with large credit to Jane and Harold) posted a message on our site: The Internet Time Alliance (ITA) has spent much of the past year on a mission. We have located and assembled a huge collection of informal learning content. Today we’re publishing it and offering a free subscription to all individuals as well as corporate rates. “Without content there is no learning.

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Nuts and Bolts: Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN) by Jane Bozarth

LearningGuild

Trainers and instructional designers have professional development needs too! Social media tools can be as powerful for solving your information and skill needs as they are for your learners’ needs. Here is the way to develop your own Personal Learning Network. It’s simple, and it’s free!

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Twitter: Le triple filtre

Learning with e's

I've been discussing the merits of Twitter as a professional social network recently in conversation with colleagues. One of the regular objections to using Twitter professionally is that there is too great a noise-to-signal ratio. In other words, people are reluctant to get too deeply involved with Twitter because they think they will be swamped with people talking about what they had for breakfast, how their cat was sick on their auntie Bessie, or other niff naff and trivia.

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Social Learning – What’s the Point? Time to turn the tables on the naysayers

eLearning 24-7

What’s the point? That is what one senior exec said to me, the other day when it came to social learning. I shot off the usual reasons, the benefits, the gains and then found myself expanding into the next possibilities of where a system and content authoring tool had to go. It didn’t seem that far of a stretch, actually. Not at all. For end users, they have to see value that is the point.

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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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Not Measuring ROI for Training? Then Don’t Bother With the Investment

Mindflash

Although many learning professionals talk about the importance of conducting return on investment (ROI) analysis of training programs, few actually do it. Many reasons are given for not conducting this level of analysis. One reason is that time and resources are limited and learning professionals have many other programs to deliver. Fair enough. However, the question is not whether an ROI analysis should be conducted, but how time and resources can be freed up so it can be done.

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The success of our ‘Shoot to Share’ experiment, LT2011

Saffron Interactive

So we shot and we shared. At Learning Technologies 2011, we ran an experiment in social learning by inviting people to be filmed answering one of six questions about our industry, such as how were they using social media in learning and what did they think was the best use of mobile technology. We shared these short videos by uploading them, after some simple editing, to our YouTube channel.

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Tips on Using Video for eLearning from ej4

OpenSesame

This week, the OpenSesame crew is celebrating not only our successful April Fools’ Day prank but our partnership eith ej4 , an elearning content developer. The ej4 team uses snappy writing and creative video production to create engaging elearning courses. We’re now featuring more than 400 courses from ej4 in the OpenSesame library, and I took the opportunity to pick ej4 CEO Dan Cooper ’s brain to share some of his suggestions for creating fun, interesting and effective video cour

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Mindflash in the New York Times: How One Business Made the Switch

Mindflash

In case you missed it: the New York Times’ profile of Mindflash last week showed how one company — DBS Financial of Akron, Ohio, an auto loan provider with 30 employees — is turning to online training courses not just to streamline the process but to upgrade the quality and effectiveness of the training itself. Sam Snellenberger of DBS explained the constant predicament he faced: “We’d show videos, or have people come in to do classroom training, but it was a huge pain.

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Tips on Using Video for eLearning from ej4

OpenSesame

'This week, the OpenSesame crew is celebrating not only our successful April Fools'' Day prank but our partnership eith ej4 , an elearning content developer. The ej4 team uses snappy writing and creative video production to create engaging elearning courses.

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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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Augmented Reality Marketing Today

Upside Learning

I ran into this interesting infographic this morning about Augmented Reality marketing today. While it’s not completely relevant to eLearning or learning in general, it’s interesting to see that AR is making rapid strides in marketing. Also, the figures seem to suggest that while it’s gimmicky, it improves engagement and gets individuals to spend more time on those website that use AR.

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The College Tour Right of Passage–Done Virtually

Kapp Notes

Well, its the time in my life where things have gone full circle. I am now touring colleges with my oldest son. I remember tour colleges myself trying to find that perfect fit. So, we pile into the car and drive all over in search of the perfect campus. Visiting college campuses was never easier. But…there will soon be another way of touring campuses.