Sat.Mar 24, 2012 - Fri.Mar 30, 2012

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Give Your eLearning Courses PERSONALITY

B Online Learning

Share. Tweet. Pin It. Face-to-face training, by its nature, is highly personable. Learners respond well to trainers who inject their training with lots of personality, making the learning experience more enjoyable. Some of the best trainers bring learning to life with humour, real-life stories and a friendly face. Can this be carried across into eLearning?

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Instructional Design Basics: Designing A Timeline

Upside Learning

I spent a lot of time over the past few months reading about the design of timelines and trying to understand what makes a well designed timeline. I soon realized that I had only discovered the tip of the iceberg, and that there is a lot of thought that needs to go into designing an interactive timeline. This blog-post is an attempt to put together what I learnt about the design of timelines.

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PowerPoint 2007 & 2010: How to Turn an Image Into An Animated Puzzle

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George  A recent  question in the Microsoft Office forums  inquired about the process of animating a picture in PowerPoint so that it came onto the slide piece by piece--like a puzzle. The question was answered, but the answer was not exactly what the original poster had wanted. The answer explained how to make a picture look like a puzzle, but not how to have the separate pieces come in one-by-one.

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Employee Satisfaction and Engagement Once Again Linked to Financial Success

The Performance Improvement Blog

Still another study , recently published by The Forum at Northwestern University, supports the notion that satisfied and engaged employees are essential to the financial success of companies. Dr. James Oakley , now Associate Professor of Marketing at UNC Charlotte's Belk College of Business, led this comprehensive study of these factors across a sample of 100 media companies.

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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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Impact of Games on the Economy, the World and Schools

Kapp Notes

Here are some interesting facts about the video game industry in terms of the impact on society from The Entertainment Software Association web site. A study, “Video Games in the 21st Century: The 2010 Report,” detailed the impact that computer and video game companies have on America’s economy. The report stated: From 2005 to 2010, the entertainment software industry’s revenue more than doubled.

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Bern, baby, Bern

E-Learning Provocateur

While I was in Europe for Didacta last month, I took the opportunity to visit Bern in Switzerland. The Swiss capital is both beautiful and odd. (I mean that in a good way.) The town centre is medieval, the people speak a peculiar dialect of German peppered with French, and a riverside park at the edge of the old town houses a couple of real-life bears!

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#LSCON day 3: Scenario based assesments and Choices

Challenge to Learn

I was able to attend two session at the last day of LSCON. The first (concurrent) session was from Iskandaria Masduki about scenario based assessments. Good session with an interesting mix of theory and practical examples. The great advantage of scenario based learning is that you can learn knowledge and skills ‘in context’ One of the practical things I took from this session is that she writes the scenario’s out divided in 5 elements: The tasks that you need to be able to perf

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April 18: How to Provide Learning to People Outside Your Organization

Absorb LMS

Join us for a free Webinar: Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST. Partners, suppliers, contractors, interns, volunteers, association members, customers… How did all these people sneak into our learning initiatives? Clearly, work today is different from back in the days of three-martini lunches in smoky lounges and asking your assistant to “be a sweetheart and fetch me a cup of coffee.”.

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Campaign For Effective Elearning (#c4ee)

Upside Learning

Earlier this year Rob Hubbard chair of the eLearning Network launched a campaign for effective elearning at the Learning Technology 2012. With so much of mindless elearning being created around us everyday this is a welcome initiative. Here’s a video by Rob Hubbard explaining the campaign. I loved the analogy of a compromise elearning course with a ‘hybrid car’, it drives (no pun intended) the point home quite well for buyers who simply don’t understand what good elearnin

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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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Changing How Your Sales Force Learns

dVinci Interactive

Training your sales force about new products and how to sell them used to mean classes, conferences or one-on-one training. Today, many progressive organizations are looking for their sales team to take e-Learning courses, complete online assessments and take virtual, instructor-led courses. They also want their sales reps to use an iPad or other mobile device for ongoing learning and to support interactions with customers.

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Are You a Performance Consultant?

Integrated Learnings

By Dean Hawkinson. Let’s face it – the title “Instructional Designer” comes with a reputation that designing instruction or training is all that we do. We have been placed into a box that can be a real challenge to get out of, especially when it comes to moving into more of a performance consulting type of role. How do we break beyond the barriers that have been placed on us and convince our clients to look beyond training as the only available solution?

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Scaling

Clark Quinn

A couple of weeks ago, I was in India for the #EDGEX2012 conference, an adjunct to an existing series of conferences that focus on improving educational opportunities in India. Speakers included George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Dave Cormier, Jay Cross, Gráinne Conole, Les Foltos, and Martin Weller, as well as a host of Indian experts. They introduced us to the context the night before the conference, with a series of presentations indicating the scope of the issue.

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My Pick of the Day is back!

Jane Hart

For many years I published a daily post featuring a new tool or article on Jane’s Pick of the Day blog. With the rise of Twitter I eventually stopped doing it on a regular basis. However, my monthly picks of resources have proven so popular on this blog, that I have decided to collate the daily links I share on Twitter in a new daily posting at the C4LPT site – which will also give me room to provide taster quotes that give a flavour of why the resource was of interest to me.

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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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Announcement of Serious Games Directory

Kapp Notes

New Online, International Directory for Serious Games Industry Offers. Offers Free Listings for Titles, Tech, Services, Textbooks, Schools. The Serious Games Association announced a new, international resource for developers, providers, analysts, educators and consultants, the Serious Games Directory. All listings and access will be available free in 2012.

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#LSCON 2012: trends

Challenge to Learn

LSCON 12: Trends. Looking back on the Learning Solution conference and digging through the back-channel, twitter and Map-Deck I tried to discover the latest trends that emerge from these tons of data. I’m afraid it is not a scientific research, but just me reading a lot of information and picking up some signals. The art of leadership, vision and choosing.

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Beyond Execution

Clark Quinn

In a recent post , Harold Jarche talks eloquently about moving into the networked era, and practices of workscaping. He points to this insightful model by Jane Hart, showing the bigger picture supporting performance in the workplace, or what I like to call Big L learning. What occurs to me, however, is that there are two separate places you’ll get to.

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4 Free Training Resources You Better Know Of By Now

LearnDash

If you make a living creating e-Learning and Instructor-led courses, then you need to know about these four tricks and tools that will bolster any learning development initiative. Don’t get me wrong, I know that the real effectiveness of training comes from the “meat” – the planning, content, flow, and so forth… but there’s nothing wrong with a little “seasoning”, and these little gems are sure to do the trick, whether you are creating training for the web or for a workshop.

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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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Top 5 Reasons You Will Leave your LMS – and How to Switch Successfully

Association eLearning

'There was quite a bit of focus at the 2012 Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando on Learning Management Systems (LMS) and how dissatisfied many users are. Digitec presented a session on “ Making a Successful LMS Switch ” which drew a crowd of conference attendees. Some attendees were the victims of an LMS that had been acquired from a merger which had affected the product support.

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Terrors of Taxonomy

Living in Learning

I wish I had a nickel for every time I read a post on one of my networking groups where someone asks what features they should be sure to get on their LMS. Having been down that path multiple times, I can say the chances of finding one with the “best features” are really good, because most LMSs I’ve seen have all of them. My point being this – the LMS is the commodity – the world does not rotate around the LMS – the application in which the LMS is going to be implemented is where the variability

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Jane McGonigal Mindmap

Clark Quinn

Jane McGonigal spoke on games to change the world at the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach.

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4 Training Resources You Better Know Of By Now

LearnDash

If you make a living creating e-Learning and Instructor-led courses, then you need to know about these four tricks and tools that will bolster any learning development initiative. Don’t get me wrong, I know that the real effectiveness of training comes from the “meat” – the planning, content, flow, and so forth… but there’s nothing wrong with a little “seasoning”, and these little gems are sure to do the trick, whether you are creating training for the web or for a workshop.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Building an Internal eLearning Team

eLearning Brothers

Let me start out by saying that online training is not better than classroom training. It’s different! Both are effective ways of motivating and transferring information. You need to determine your training goals, to determine which training method is best for your organization. Here are a few factors to consider when deciding which training methods will work best for your organization: Geography.

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Digitec Publishes Association LMS Selection White Paper

Association eLearning

'Selecting an LMS is a big decision for any organization. To help make sense of it all, Digitec has released its new industry white paper, 8 Steps to Selecting an Association LMS. Whether you’re just getting started, or have narrowed down your list to a select few, the white paper offers a few practical suggestions on how to simplify the process of selecting your new LMS.

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Video Tip Series - Part two: Editing Tools

TechSmith Camtasia

So you have your audio and video recorded but don't know how to take it to that next level? No worries. Week two brings you tips on how to reinforce your audio instructions using editing tools such as annotations, callouts and zooms. The video is posted below and presents three tips that will help you utilize editing tools to enhance your final product.

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Training Stats Don’t Mean SQUAT Without This

LearnDash

Measuring training effectiveness is a necessary component of any training implementation, but there is one things that absolutely cannot be forgotten if you plan on reporting metrics on your training initiative. Surprisingly, this step is often skipped on many training programs. What often happens is that trainers start to analyze the current situation, design their approach, develop the training, test it, implement and then evaluate (did catch that?

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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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What the flip?

Learning with e's

Everywhere I look I'm seeing 'Flip teaching' or 'Flipped classroom'. There's a lot of hype about this 'flipping' idea and it's getting me flipping irritated. What does flipping actually involve? Does anyone know, or is the term being misused or misrepresented? Even Aaron Sams, a highly visible proponent of the flipped movement admits that the term is ambiguous.

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What is the Value of Games in E-Learning?

E-learning Uncovered

I was raised in a household where video games were not allowed. My mother believed they were a waste of time, had no value, and – worse – could have negative effects. While she was right about the idea that video games CAN have negative effects (as researchers have shown that violent videogames can alter brain function), games can have value. We have created games that present value in e-learning courses by using them to teach content and test knowledge.

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Camtasia Small Business Drive: Netvantage, Week 4

TechSmith Camtasia

In the final week of the Camtasia test drive, Netvantage Co-Founder Adam Henige reflected back on their month of screencasting. Netvantage. www.netvantagemarketing.com. @netvantage. What have you discovered during your fourth and final week of the test drive? This week we started down a road that will hopefully provide a new revenue opportunity for us - training.

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