Sat.Jan 01, 2011 - Fri.Jan 07, 2011

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My Learning Resolution For The Year (Hint: It's not “to be.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS My Learning Resolution For The Year (Hint: It’s not “to be original&# ) by Jim on January 5, 2011 in eLearning , social learning With the New Year comes new resolutions, and I’ve made an effort (you might even call it a resolution) to have at least one of mine be training related (the others were booked solid).

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Synchronous Software Scavenger Hunts

Experiencing eLearning

If I’m doing software application training, doing it as a webinar isn’t really my first choice. I’d rather create a bunch of Captivate tutorials and job aids to let people learn at their own pace, when they need to use the skills. Just-in-time, interactive training that supports or simulates actual tasks is my first choice. Application training via a synchronous tool like WebEx, Adobe Connect, or Elluminate too often ends up with passive learners.

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Game Based Learning Isn’t Always Electronic

Upside Learning

A very popular myth surrounding game-based learning is that it involves learning through video games. This article showcases The Healing Blade , a card game which is slowly gaining popularity among medical students in the United States. The Healing Blade is a card game that teaches budding Med students the ins and outs of infectious disease. It was created by two doctors, Francis Kong and Arun Mathews, who founded the game company Nerdcore Learning.

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Lost in Translation:

Performance Learning Productivity

Why Learning Professionals Need to Learn to Speak their Stakeholders’ Language The language we use is important. There’s no doubt about that. Human cultural development owes a great deal to our ability to communicate complex thoughts and be clearly understood by others so they can take actions. The problem is, like opinions, there are just so many languages to choose from at any one time.

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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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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise Learning? by Paul on January 7, 2011 in LMS (Learning Management System) , social learning People love to learn. It’s true. Have you ever heard someone say, “I hate learning!

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This LMS Has No Traps!

Upside Learning

Customer Complaints, how to avoid the traps makes for an interesting read; especially so because it looks at the LMS sales process purely from a customer’s perspective. The issues highlighted are quite pertinent and yes, I think, there is a high probability that an organization looking for an LMS (new or changing) would have encountered one or more of these traps.

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PowerPoint 2007: Adding Voiceover Narration to Presentations Converted to Movies

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. Last week I detailed how to turn a PowerPoint 2007 presentation into a movie that could be uploaded to popular video sharing sites like YouTube.    If you wanted to add voiceover narration to the movie, however, you may have run into a bit of a problem--there is only one row in the Windows Movie Maker timeline for audio. If there was a need to add background music to the presentation in addition to narration, you would be in a bit of a pickle.   This week, expandi

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise Learning? by Paul on January 7, 2011 in LMS (Learning Management System) , social learning People love to learn. It’s true. Have you ever heard someone say, “I hate learning!

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Countering Social Media Fatigue (SoMeFat)

Learning Visions

In these days of Social Media, many of us live increasingly in the public eye. What I write here can be viewed by anyone. What I say on Twitter can be viewed by anyone. What I update on my Facebook status can be viewed by lots of people (not anyone – I have designated my FB friends and set my privacy settings, but 300 people isn’t really a private place, is it?

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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Kick Starting 2011 With A Brandon Hall Research Webinar

Upside Learning

For us this New Year has been more than just resolutions. After a successful 2010, we are all geared up for 2011 with more events and more plans. And hence more opportunities to help you in managing your learning better! We are kick starting the year with a Brandon Hall Research webinar on ‘ How to Select the Right LMS for Your Small/Medium Business’.

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2010 in Retrospect: Top Few Blogs and Books

ID Reflections

This post should have made its appearance a few days back—at least a day back—but procrastination sometimes overtakes me. This time, it was compounded by the lure of spending more time with my daughter (since I am in Mumbai after quite a few months) and the writing of the post just never got done. But I have promised myself that this year I will turn more ideas into actions and will not let procrastination rule.

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2011 Predictions

Clark Quinn

For the annual eLearn Mag predictions, this year I wrote: I think we’ll see some important, but subtle, trends. Deeper uses of technology are going to surface: more data-driven interactions, complemented by both more structured content and more semantics. These trends are precursors to some very interesting nascent capabilities, essentially web 3.0: system-generated content.

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Link of the Week

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Infosemantics has created a nifty  Drag and Drop question widget for Adobe Captivate. According to Rod Ward of Infosemantics , the widget "allows you to create your own drag and drop questions using  almost any objects you can add to a Captivate screen." Rod said that the widget works in Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Captivate 5.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 7

Upside Learning

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. 1. 7 Predictions for the Gaming Industry in 2010. The video gaming industry made great strides this year. Here are 7 predictions for what to watch in 2011. 2. The Ultimate iPhone Guide: 60+ Essential Resources.

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When clicky-clicky bling-bling goes viral

Learning Visions

Jane Bozarth wrote a great New Year’s Resolution post in the latest Learning Solutions Magazine – Nuts and Bolts: 2011 Resolutions – a must read for every eLearning professional. It’s a must read not just for the great tips, but also to catch a glimpse of the pure genius of Kevin Thorn’s ode to clicky-clicky bling-bling.

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Educational Games: A $5 Billion Dollar Market

Kapp Notes

Any market this big is bound to bring in the big boys and Google is seriously looking at getting into the educational game business on an App basis. According to the article Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store Google seeks to lure more educational developers and is stepping up efforts to generate revenue from educational related applications.

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Death of an ISD

Living in Learning

the role of ISD is not diminishing; it is expanding. It has to. Traditions of learning in a linear manner are not disappearing; but they are becoming secondary. To some who read this, I can see them taking that last statement as a downgrade in importance. Before any ISDs get all raked up in pile, consider this – the role of the ISD is more important than ever.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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Practical Storyboarding – Not Just for Developers

Integrated Learnings

By Donna Bryant. We designers work in the world of business needs as well as learner instructional needs. Pulling these two diverse needs together into one excellent eLearning product is a challenge we face with every design. Researching and piecing together content tailored for the audience is quite a task by itself. But what about added business specifications?

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Happy New Year

Clark Quinn

I have much to be grateful for at the start of this new year. I have had quite simply fabulous opportunities to engage, learn, and contribute. For that, I thank you. I am always working to discover new ways to contribute, both alone as Quinnovation in learning experience design strategy, and with my colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance in helping organizations work smarter.

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SumTotal Acquires GeoLearning

Kapp Notes

Here is some information from the announcement. Today, SumTotal announced the acquisition of GeoLearning. The combined company represents the largest and most complete talent management provider in the industry supporting every industry and every market segment. GeoLearning is the leading provider of managed services and on-demand learning management software.

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EPSS: When Change Overruns Competency

Living in Learning

EPSS is a proven shortcut to productivity and shorter path to competency. It requires a willingness to turn loose of some training traditions and embedded expectations that are rapidly losing the race with the velocity of business. Moments of learning need are converging with the need for flawless performance and that convergence is happening in the work context – not the classroom and not on-line with e-learning.

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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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Adaptive Thinking, Deliberate Practice, and Complexity

ID Reflections

In military parlance, the term Adaptive Thinking has been used to describe the cognitive behavior of an officer who is confronted by unanticipated circumstances during the execution of a planned military operation. It refers to the thinking a leader must do to adapt operations to the requirements of unfolding events and is thus a key component of competency in battle command.

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The Print of the Future

KnowledgeStar

Lots of discussion lately about the iPad for textbooks. I find it a bit premature since I only bought mine today, the first day of it’s release. Since the experiments are about to commence throughout Appleville, I thought I’d add some grist to the knowledge mill. Here are two examples of what print might look [.].

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ICT Winter Conference

Kapp Notes

I am in San Fransisco at the annual ICT Center/MPICT Winter Conference. Slide introducing 3rd Annual Combined Winter Conference. The conference is focused on community college educators who are working to train a technical workforce in Information and Communication Technologies. It is a great group of people with wonderful ideas and a great dedication preparing students for careers.

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Be Happy 2011

The Performance Improvement Blog

The most often stated wish for others this time of year has got to be “Happy New Year”. We don’t say, "Have a satisfying New Year” or an “Engaged New Year” or an “Emotionally Intelligent New Year”. Being the measurement-guy that I am, I wonder why, if we’re wishing for “happy”, we don’t measure “happy”. A few countries and organizations do. In any case, Happy New Year!

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Project Team Engagement in the Context of Human/AI Hybrid Teams

The leadership style that the leaders adopt during engagement is critical in gaining team member support for building a positive thinking team. The challenge is in deciding whether to adopt an engagement focused leadership style that emphasizes human behavior characteristics such as personalities, or to a task-oriented leadership style that focuses on the work needed to be performed and the tools to be used.

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Coherence vs Fragmentation

ID Reflections

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The antidote for fragmentation is coherence. How, then, do we create coherence? In organizations and project teams – in situations where collaboration is the life blood of success – coherence amounts to shared understanding and shared commitment.

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10 Important Lessons from 2010

KnowledgeStar

These are the 10 most important lessons I learned in 2010. What’s on your list? 1.The brain is hardwired by evolution for learning. 2. We spend a lot of time and money disabling the hardwired learning process. 3. Learning is a social experience – We learn the best when we learn with a group of [.].

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The Year of Social Media 2010 Infographic

Jane Hart

Blog C4LPT Jane Hart Advice Workshops Social Learning Handbook Resources Contact 2010 in Review Part 4: Top 100 articles of 2010 EmbedPlus : enhanced YouTube embedding The Year of Social Media 2010 Infographic On January 3, 2011, in Uncategorized , by Jane Hart 2110 – the year of social media – Infographic courtesy of Mindjumpers. If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it!