Sat.Sep 22, 2012 - Fri.Sep 28, 2012

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Soft Content becomes partner of easygenerator for West Africa

easygenerator

We are very proud to announce that Soft Content will be easygenerators value added reseller for the region of West Africa. Soft Content is an publishing and elearning company based in Nigeria. In the heart of the developing eLearning market of Africa. Dr Tosin Aolalu (CEO of Soft content) and Kasper Spiro (CEO easygenerator) signed the partner contract last week.

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Ideas About Games and Learner Assessment

Kapp Notes

Just read an article in our local newspaper that indicated the state of Pennsylvania spent $30 million dollars last year on testing. It kinda made me sick…especially since fill-in-the-blank testing only really has value when measuring a person’s ability to be successful at fill-in-the-blank tests, no real-world application. Games would be so much better at teaching application.

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Quick Recap – Launch Webinar of Games and Simulations Interactions in HTML5

Raptivity

Team Raptivity extends warm thanks to all the participants of the complimentary webinar “Raptivity launches Games and Simulations – Now in HTML5” held on Wednesday, 12th September, 2012. It was conducted in US friendly time zone catering to eLearning enthusiasts. [.].

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5 Tips To Evaluate The Success Of LMS Switch

Upside Learning

You have finally switched over to a new LMS. A major load has been lifted off your shoulders. You now plan to sit back and let the new LMS take its time to set in. But before you get too comfortable with the new LMS, it’s important you evaluate how good the switch has been for you. Evaluating the success of the switch will not only help you in analyzing your choice of the new LMS and efficiency of the switching process, but it will also help you align your new LMS to the emerging trends and esta

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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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Is the LMS Dead?

Web Courseworks

Reflecting on this in Chicago October 24th! During the past few years, I have seen a lot of discussion about whether or not Learning Management Systems (LMS) are dead. Recently, cell phones and tablets and the strong use of social media has disrupted the concept/meaning of what an LMS is. Over the past ten years, [.].

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Creating Effective Design Models - Thursday Sept 20th Kineo Webinar

Learning Visions

Join me this Thursday, September 27 at 11:30 EST for another webinar in Kineo's fall series: Creating Effective Design Models. At Kineo, we've been creating our own names for the design models or patterns that we find ourselves applying over and over again to solve different types of learning challenges with our clients. Having a common language that we use.

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Issuing Points for Completion of Learning Events

Absorb LMS

The point system is engrained in higher education. A typical undergraduate degree in a university where I reside requires the completion of 120 credits. A university student who completes an individual course usually earns three or four credits. Often, students can be given the opportunity to take on special projects or extracurricular activities to earn extra credits.

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Social Media for Professional Development: Workshop and Webinar

Jane Hart

Workshop runs 1 – 31 October 2012. Led by Jane Hart. In this online workshop at the Social Learning Centre, we will be looking at how to use a number of different social media tools for your own professional development purposes. This online workshop is suitable for those working both in workplace learning as well as in education. For the Workshop Agenda and how to sign up, visit Social Media for Professional Development Workshop.

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#Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Blog Book Tour Recap

Kapp Notes

The blog book tour for The Gamification of Learning and Instruction has come to an end. I’d like to thank everyone who participated in the tour. THANK YOU! The tour gained a great deal of momentum and has served to raise the awareness of gamification (both the pros and the cons). To date, the tour has led to over 2000 books being sold with 200 of them being ebooks and Pfeiffer indicated that the book is the best-selling new title from Pfeiffer this year.

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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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Executive Coaches Talk About Coaching Effectiveness

The Performance Improvement Blog

I participated in a presentation on coaching at Zingerman’s Roadhouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 21, 2012. My co-presentors were Rob Pasick and Barb Allushuski. We talked about the growth of executive coaching, the range of styles of coaching, the ups and downs of coaching, and how to evaluate coaching. See below: .

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Learning Design isn’t for the wimpy

Clark Quinn

I’ve had my head down on a major project, a bunch of upcoming speaking engagements, some writing I’ve agreed to do, and…(hence the relative paucity of blog posts). That project, however, has been interesting for a variety of reasons, and one really is worth sharing: ID isn’t easy. We’ve been given some content, and it’s not just about being good little IDs and taking what they give us and designing instruction from it.

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Adobe RoboHelp: Pining to Pin?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel    When I use a program frequently, I tend to pin the program to my Taskbar for quick access. If you've never pinned an application to the Taskbar, it's a simple process. On Windows 7, click the  Start  button on the Taskbar and find the program you'd like to pin. Instead of starting the application, right-click the application's icon and choose  Pin to Taskbar.

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Issuing Points for Completion of Learning Events

Absorb LMS

The point system is engrained in higher education. A typical undergraduate degree in a university where I reside requires the completion of 120 credits. A university student who completes an individual course usually earns three or four credits. Often, students can be given the opportunity to take on special projects or extracurricular activities to earn extra credits.

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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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CRM + Performance Support = Business Value

Ontuitive

High CRM implementation failure rates are well-known. Analysts such as Gartner, AMR, and Forrester Research have been studying the problem for more than a decade and each has issued alarming failure statistics at various times.

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Transcending Experience Design

Clark Quinn

Last week’s #lrnchat touched on an important topic, experience design. I’ve talked about this before , but it’s worth taking several different cuts through it. The one I want to pursue here is the notion of transformative experience design. A number of years ago, now, Pine & Gilmore released a book talking about an Experience Economy.

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The Birth of the Global Mind

KnowledgeStar

In the year 1989, I was standing at the end of a pier in Provincetown, Massachusetts looking out at the sunrise over the Atlantic with my good friend Jacques. I was a young researcher at Digital Equipment Corporation and had been working on DECnet, the world’s first corporate Internet. I remember turning to my friend [.].

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Writing & Grammar: Proper Punctuation

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby    Last week I issued a punctuation challenge to you "skills and drills" readers. Here is the paragraph shown as it was punctuated when it was originally published: Until very recently, the only way you could distribute multimedia files over the Web was by using external files as described in the first half of this chapter.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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“Here it is” or “Come and Get It”—Reactive vs. Proactive Performance Support

Ontuitive

At age 15, Tommy Fullmer, my brother’s friend, borrowed one of our 22 caliber guns to go jack rabbit hunting. He never returned the gun. When we asked him about it many months later his response was, “It’s here at home. Come and get it whenever you want.” That seems to be the mode of operation for a lot of companies right now when it comes to performance support.

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Workplace learning: Do You Incorporate SEO in the Content You Put Online?

Connect Thinking

One of the advantages I have runnning by own websites is the opportunity to experiment with SEO – Search Engine Optomisation. It’s a vital component of a content marketing strategy which I wrote about last blog post. Search Engine Optimisation is all about maximising website traffic. It’s the strategy used to ensure your content is most easily visible to the right people.

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FACT: 562 LMS Options Available Today

LearnDash

If you are a learning consultant, service provider, or product offering, then you owe it to yourself to get listed on one of the biggest e-learning directories on the internet today. The E-Learning Atlas , brought to you by Rustici Software, is home to anything and everything that has to due with e-learning (or the learning industry in general). Adding your business or service doesn’t cost anything, so give it a go.

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Learning Guided Access: The Killer New Feature in iOS 6 for Parents [Screencast]

mLearning Revolution

'The iPad has been called many things, including the ultimate babysitter. If you have kids and an iPad, you know what I’m talking about. Indeed the iPad is a great entertainment device for kids, but it’s also an excellent learning device with tons of Learning Apps available for kids of all ages. However kids have a very short attention span, they get easily distracted and quickly reach for the home button in order to get out of that amazing learning app you just bought them, and off

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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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Lets try audio

Moodle Journal

Well back into the swing with the vle for the new academic year and time to try out some new I thought. The Assignment submission in Moodle is a really nice feature, students upload their work, that you can access and read, then you either feedback live using the text box and award a grade or alternatively download the assignment, hi-light and add connects the upload this as a more detailed way of guided response.

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10 Questions to Ask About Your Learners Before You Develop e.

Trivantis

'Forum. Blog. Logins. Lectora Online - USA. Lectora Online - EU. ReviewLink. CourseMill LMS. Community Forum. Products. Authoring Tools. Lectora Inspire. The Full-Featured Authoring Tool. Lectora Publisher. e-Learning Authoring Software Made Easy. Lectora Online. Web-based Collaborative e-Learning Authoring. ReviewLink. Online Course Review and Collaboration.

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The Tin-Can Calamity: RESOLVED!

LearnDash

A few weeks ago I wrote about the ongoing difficulties this project was having with SCORM protocol, specifically the new Tin-Can API that is on the cusp of changing the industry (albeit slowly). Nonetheless, this whole endeavor has been a thorn in our side, until now! I am happy to say that the Tin-Can API, specifically the Learning Record Store (or LRS) will be integrated into the initial release of LearnDash!

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Make Your Cloud/MOOC Course BYOD Friendly (Part 4) by Inge de Waard

LearningGuild

As more and more training moves into the cloud, enabling mobile access is all the rave. But doing this for a free and open course makes the designer’s life that much more exciting. Make design and development easy for yourself—use what is already out there before starting to develop your own mobile solutions that enable access to your open, online, or cloud course.

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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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Cost & time saving benefits of using eLearning: The Mobile Money story

eFront

Mobile Money was founded in 1998 and was the UK’s first cash log book loans company, providing cash loans at a national level. Unlike most loan companies, they operate a branch network of friendly staff and they currently have 33 branches throughout England and Wales. The training of their staff is essential to providing a high quality service to their customers, and with over 70 staff spread all over the UK, arranging face-to-face training can be both difficult and costly so they decided to inv

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Watch Interactive Videos on Your iPad…Offline!

TechSmith Camtasia

Note: This method works for Camtasia Studio 8 and later, and Camtasia for Mac version 2.2 and later. It also requires a third-party $4.99 app from the App Store, but the benefit is that your interactive videos are playable offline (as opposed to just playing the MP4 video using the iPad’s native player). This blog post is inspired by John Richards and an idea he shared on our community forum.

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Top 10 eLearning Tools (A Gen-Yer's Take)

OpenSesame

'Every year, Jane Hart compiles her Top 100 Tools for Learning. In the spirit of helping her build an extensive list informed by new ideas and approaches to existing technologies, I’ve compiled a list of online learning tools I use as a student and marketing intern with OpenSesame.