Tue.Jan 29, 2013

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Designing eLearning for Martians and Other Aliens

Vignettes Learning

Synthesis: In order to convey the appropriate meaning, the storyteller must first know the context scenario of its audience. Meaning is shaped by context. In order to know the context, the eLearning developer must first understand the culture and history of its audience. __ I define meaning as the reference point to which a learner connects an idea or knowledge to understandable applications.

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Feedback in scenarios: Let them think!

Making Change

You’re at the county fair. Your kids are off watching the pig race, and you’re starving. There are only two food carts nearby. One sells deep-fried pork skins from a pot of bubbling grease, and the other sells sushi from a styrofoam cooler. You decide to buy the sushi. As you hand over your money, a disembodied voice suddenly booms from the clouds above. “Incorrect!

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Telling Stories

Upside Learning

Why are we shying away from one of the most powerful learning tools in the learning designer’s arsenal? – the ability to tell stories. The use of narrative form stretches back into time as a powerful tool for pedagogy, and we now know it works well into adulthood. Ancient man swapped stories around a fire, that was ‘learning’ for them. Modern times have done little to take away the fascination with stories, a look at the bestsellers list makes that quite obvious.

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Camtasia Relay Allowing For Uninterrupted Education

TechSmith Camtasia

Quinnipiac University’s Mount Carmel Campus, located in Hamden, Connecticut, was forced to close for a full week as Superstorm Sandy knocked out power. Several trees fell on campus and downed trees and electrical wires blocked several surrounding roads. Although the campus was closed, learning did not stop for the Bobcats; students stayed on track using Blackboard and Camtasia Relay.

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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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ELC 002: Using Social Media For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Jane Bozarth, social media expert, reveals all. Post from: The eLearning Coach ELC 002: Using Social Media For Learning. Jane Bozarth, social media expert, reveals all.

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The Top 3 Must Have Soft Skills for IT Professionals

OpenSesame

At the end of January, many of us drift away from our resolutions and fall back into our mundane routines. Was self-improvement involved in your resolution? If you’re like me, you’re wondering how you can get better at your job and become more influential in the new year. To become a more influential and effective information technology professional, start not by examining your technical chops, but instead evaluating your soft skills.

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Back to the Basic Techniques in Designing Interactive Stories for eLearning - Aesop, CEO

Vignettes Learning

Synthesis: Storytelling is a powerful medium for transmitting knowledge and lessons. Make them part of the story – focus on INTERACTIVE STORIES. Using a popular Aesop fable, I share this overview on how to develop scenarios for interactive modules. Here are also a few tips on how to make interactive stories work. __ Image source: [link] Be a child for even this moment.

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Power to the People: Deloitte’s Nick van Dam

CLO Magazine

By providing a career map and a variety of learning opportunities, Deloitte encourages employees to be proactive about their own development. Whereas many CLOs fortuitously find themselves in the learning and development world as their careers progress, Nick van Dam has been a player in the learning sphere in some capacity for as long as he can remember, beginning with his first job in 1985 as a learning consultant.

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The Top 3 Must Have Soft Skills for IT Professionals

OpenSesame

'At the end of January, many of us drift away from our resolutions and fall back into our mundane routines. Was self-improvement involved in your resolution? If you’re like me, you’re wondering how you can get better at your job and become more influential in the new year. To become a more influential and effective information technology professional, start not by examining your technical chops, but instead evaluating your soft skills.

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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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Checking Our Facts at the Door

CLO Magazine

With such a glut of information, who you listen to is almost as important as what they say. As I watched the presidential inauguration last month, I felt not only pride and patriotism but also profound relief that the actual campaign — and its bewildering barrage of tweeted misinformation, leaked half-truths, skewed statistics and unchecked “facts” — was well behind us.

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