Tue.Apr 17, 2012

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The “m” in mLearning means More

mLearning Revolution

'When you go to a conference on Mobile Learning or attend a webinar, you pretty much know the drill; the Presenter spends most of his or her time going through a long list of challenges we face as an eLearning industry considering the move to mobile learning (mLearning). And it’s always the same challenges, what are we going to do with our existing eLearning since Adobe Flash doesn’t work on iOS devices?

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Adobe Captivate 5/5.5: Wacky Shapes Rule

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel    Captivate ships with a set number of Caption types. If you're a graphic designer (or know someone who is), you can always create more Caption types. However, the  process of creating a custom Caption type  can be a bit tedious. As an alternative, you'll be happy to learn that you can get as wacky as you want when it comes to Text Captions, and you don't have to go to the trouble of creating a Caption type.

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7 Learning Industry Websites You Need To Know

LearnDash

Some of these may be obvious to you, while others may surprise you. If you are starting out in the learning industry (instructional design, LMS administrator, etc.), or even if you are seasoned pro, you should absolutely know about these different learning sites. Of course, this doesn't mean that you need to visit them daily; pick the ones that speak to you and run with them. 1.

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How Training Can Get Employees Out of a Performance Rut

Mindflash

Even great employees can get into a performance rut, where the monotony of doing the same thing day in and day out can turn into a sort of mindlessness. Nobody intends to get in a rut, but few people actively seek out the changes that can help them pull out of one. That’s where managers can to step in and give a change-averse employee a kick-start. Great managers can build in small but recurring changes in their employees’ jobs to ensure their employees keep growing, learning, and improving.

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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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Flipping Corporate Learning

Jay Cross

Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning. Let’s not blow it. How do you flip learning? Khan Academy is the poster child for flipped learning. Sal Khan has produced more than 3,000 short videos on a variety of topics. Students watch the videos before coming to class. In the classroom, they sort out what they’ve learned and do what used to be called homework.

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Opening Pandora's box

Learning with e's

Once upon a time, teachers used to close the door behind them, and then begin their lessons. To all intents and purposes, what went on inside the classroom stayed inside the classroom. Then along came technology. New technologies have the potential to undermine the 'sanctity of the classroom' as they open up what is said and done for the world to see.

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What the ‘Draw Something’ App Can Teach Training Designers

Mindflash

A friend of mine introduced me to “ Draw Something ” last month and I must admit — I’m addicted. I’ve always been a doodler but this app really ups the ante by challenging me to illustrate a wide array of concepts — everything from simple words like “cow” to people like “Lady Gaga” or “Madonna” — so they can be guessed by a friend who’s also drawing words for you.

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Adobe Captivate 4 and Flash Player 11 Issue

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate 4 has issues when Flash Player 11 is installed on the machine. It throws error message specifically when you try to work with Widgets. Please follow the steps below to fix this problem - Download a file to fix this issue in Adobe Captivate 4 from here - https://acrobat.com/#d=75WgKXP98aw9GX0nWPiS3w Instructions – Close [.].

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14% of Employees Value Corporate Training as Essential to their Learning

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

14% is not good. Shocking? No? Almost 70% went even further and marked company training as somewhat or not important. What's up with that? As someone who has suffered through horrific corporate training experiences this does not surprise me. As someone who has spent more than 15 years working to make corporate training better, this annoys me. From Jane's blog post: "But I think the biggest take-away from my survey is that we can no longer assume we know how people like to learn in the workplace

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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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Book Review: Managing Projects, by Lou Russell by Bill Brandon

LearningGuild

Project management is a critical competency for anyone in charge of creation of eLearning, but it is. difficult to find good advice tailored for this world. Lou Russell has written a definitive, practical. guide to applying project management principles to the challenges of learning design and. development.

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Can Corporate Training & Development be Gamified?

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I don't think we can really answer that question until we truly understand what Gamification is. And luckily, we now have a book to help us do just that. Dr. Karl Kapp has just launched another blog book tour for his latest book Gamification of Learning and Instruction. The Book Tour starts HERE. The Facebook page is HERE. Buy the book HERE. Follow the blog book tour.

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Isn’t It Always About Control?

The Learning Dispatch

Have you ever used an educational website and been blown away by how interesting and engaging it is? I encounter these types of sites when I’m pursuing informal learning. Part of the attractiveness in the learning is that it’s what interests me. Another factor is the site gives me control. These informal learning sites/tools shed insight on how powerful learning can be when we give learners control over what they investigate.

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