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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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15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads

Upside Learning

Last week I asked if you had thought about mEnabling your eLearning for iPads (mEnabling, is what we are calling the process of getting your existing eLearning to run on iPads and other tablets) but didn’t really tell you how? So here’s a few – 15 actually! – pointers on some of the tools out there, that you can use to help you take that ‘leap of faith’ into mLearning.

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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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Using Game Design To Create Accomplishment Based Learning, Julie Dirksen #astdtk13 @usablelearning

Learning Visions

0. 0. 1. 2. 13. Kineo. 1. 1. 14. 14.0. Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. JA. X-NONE. These are my liveblogged notes from a concurrent session with Julie Dirksen. I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference in San Jose, California. Apologies for typos and incoherence. In ID school, we learned about the A and the D-esign part is mostly -- then all this cool stuff happens in this black box.

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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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#ASTDTK2013 Resources from ASTD Presentations

Kapp Notes

ASTD TK 2013 has been a great time. I’ve enjoyed spending time with old friends and making new ones. Here are the slides from my presentation, my workshop on “Games and Gamification” with Koreen Olbrish will be in another post. The “Immernet”: Immersive Learning through Games, Gamification and Virtual Worlds from Karl Kapp. Here are some related resources that you may find of value. 1.

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Are you supporting new fashioned learning in the workplace?

Jane Hart

So what is “new fashioned” learning? Well let’s start by thinking about what “old fashioned” learning is? “Old-fashioned” learning is being taught or trained – that is having all you need to know neatly packaged up in a course or programme or workshop or e-learning course. With old fashioned learning, some one else has done the donkey work; they have identified the content you need to know, have structured it into some logical order and delivered it to you in (hopefully) an appeal

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Nick Bilton Day Two Keynote “I live in the future” #astdtk13

Learning Visions

0. 0. 1. 348. 1989. Kineo. 16. 4. 2333. 14.0. Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. JA. X-NONE. These are my liveblogged notes from the day two keynote with @nickbolton. I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference kicking off today January 29, 2013 in San Jose, California. Apologies for typos and incoherence. New York Times, columnist. [link]. @nickbolton.

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All hail the electronic calf

E-Learning Provocateur

Given I’ve been blogging about MOOCs lately, I thought it was high time I better informed my perspective by actually doing a MOOC. So I signed up to The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures course on Coursera. It has just kicked off, and one of the resources that we have been pointed to in the first week is Zumbakamera’s short animation, Bendito Machine III.

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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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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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Transition to HTML5

Web Courseworks

2013 is the year of HTML5… my team has been talking about it, eLearning gurus from around the world have been talking about it. What exactly will this mean, though, for eLearning development? This year’s Learning Solution’s Conference & Expo will be held from March 13-15, 2013 in Orlando, FL. Because I am going to [.].

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Clark Quinn Mobile Learning Design #astdtk13

Learning Visions

These are my liveblogged notes from a concurrent session with Dr. Clark Quinn @quinnovator. I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference kicking off today January 29, 2013 in San Jose, California. Apologies for typos and incoherence. Mobile design principles. What's the least I can do for you? We over design and overdevelop. What's the least I can do to get you over the hump?

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Adobe Captivate 6: Audio Control Without a Playbar

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Lori Smith  If you've spent any time using Captivate's new Pretest and the Branch Aware settings, I think you will agree that they are very cool. However, if you've used either feature, you have probably noticed that you cannot have a playbar in the published lesson. It's not a big deal if you don't need the playbar, but what if you need to give your learners the ability to mute/unmute the audio?

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Engagement, people!

Clark Quinn

I’m working on a project with a partner, and have this really sharp ID working with me. My role is to be guiding the design, not doing it, and it’s working well. The thing I see, however, is emblematic of what I’m seeing much more broadly: the dissociation between the designer and the learning experience. Ok, so not many ID theorists are talking about the emotional engagement.

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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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LearnDash Launches The WordPress LMS Total Solution

LearnDash

LearnDash is Live! It has been a long road, but we are finally at the point where we can release LearnDash (Version 1.0)! A big thank you to those of you who have been following this project along the way. We are excited to hear about your projects and for you to use LearnDash for accomplishing your LMS goals. LearnDash is truly a unique in that we don’t just offer a plugin, but we can provide you with practical advice, gained from experience consulting Fortune 500 companies and the U.S.

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Hyper-Connectivity: Get Used To It! Educate for It!

The Performance Improvement Blog

Why is it that the economy is expanding but the number of high-paying jobs is not increasing (and possibly decreasing)? Tom Friedman in his New York Times op-ed column suggests that the answer to this question is the “Great Inflection”. This is a time of dramatic change in work and education due to technology. He writes: Because of the way every industry — from health care to manufacturing to education — is now being transformed by cheap, fast, connected computing power, the skill required for e

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Online Training: How Big is Too Big?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George  In the early days of software training, many professional trainers that I've talked with said that the perfect onsite class size was eight to 10 students. For groups of 10 or more, it was a standard practice to bring in a backup trainer. The role of the backup trainer was to assist any students who might have fallen behind the instructor, or simply assist those students in need of a bit of extra help.

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danah boyd ASTD Tech Knowledge Key Note #astdtk13

Learning Visions

0. 0. 1. 1526. 8700. Kineo. 72. 20. 10206. 14.0. Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. JA. X-NONE. These are my liveblogged notes from ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Opening Keynote kicking off today January 29, 2013 in San Jose, California. Apologies for typos and incoherence. danah boyd. Microsoft Research. Networked Learned: How Tomorrow’s Workers Will Challenge Today’s Organizations.

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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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What’s the ROI on Disengaged Employees?

Dashe & Thomson

Training evaluation appears to be the Holy Grail of the L&D world. It’s one of the hottest topics in the blogosphere and at conferences (see Barbara Camm’s highly trafficked posts on evaluation), and yet it remains extremely elusive. From Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation, to Michael Scriven to Jack Phillips [.] The post What’s the ROI on Disengaged Employees?

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Overcoming Barriers to PS--Yes, You Can!

Ontuitive

In our post, Your Finger’s in the Dike and the Dam’s about to Burst, Bob referred to a Gartner study that shows IT spend on new systems and applications is expected to double in 2013. That means there is a potential for your performance support project to get funded! But, in order for it to even be considered, you'll probably have to overcome some internal barriers.

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PowerPoint 2010: Create Your Own Gauges

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George  Want to create a speedometer-like gauge for your PowerPoint or eLearning deck? I've found gauges a creative way to illustrate anything from progress through a course or presentation to positive to negative value scales. There are some relatively easy ways to build a gauge using shapes, but one of the fastest (and easily editable) ways I've found is to use Charts.

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If Not ADDIE, Then What with Michael Allen #astdtk13

Learning Visions

0. 0. 1. 1039. 5928. Kineo. 49. 13. 6954. 14.0. Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. JA. X-NONE. These are my liveblogged notes from a concurrent session with Dr. Michael Allen. I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference kicking off today January 29, 2013 in San Jose, California. Apologies for typos and incoherence. Michael Allen CEO, Allen Interactions.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Living with Complexity

Clark Quinn

Don Norman (disclaimer, my PhD advisor and mentor) has had a string of important books, starting with his stellar Design of Everyday Things (tops my ‘recommended books’ list for designers). His latest, Living with Complexity , is not as landmark a book as that, but it has some very astute thinking to present. The book, as the title implies, is largely about how complexity isn’t bad, it’s necessary, and the real issue is about designing to manage it.

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Integrating Raptivity SCORM Output with Moodle LMS

Raptivity

Instructional designers, course creators and eLearning enthusiasts would be curious to know the tricks of integrating SCORM output of Raptivity with Moodle LMS. Team Raptivity has got everything sorted out for you. Here is a video clip which will demonstrate [.].

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TechSmith Camtasia Studio 8: One Smart Player

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel    When you are ready to make a Camtasia project available to your learners, you need to Produce it. Choosing the Produce and Share menu item (File menu) takes the source content and outputs it into a format that can be viewed by the learner. Arguably, the most common way to publish a Camtasia project is as a Flash SWF. This is an excellent solution because SWF files can be used by the vast majority of the world's personal computers, browsers and operating systems

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Why?

KnowledgeStar

If you get to Question Number Four you must be scientist. Einstein, who seemingly spoke to The Creator during what has become known as Einstein's miracle year, asked "Why do things have mass?" The answer was probably the most famous physics formula ever written in white chalk on a blackboard.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Design Models at #astdtk13

Learning Visions

Today I presented a session at ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013. Here are my slides for your learning pleasure! Design models cbean astd tk13 from cammybean.

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Raptivity at Learning Technologies 2013

Raptivity

Raptivity is exhibiting at Learning Technologies 2013 at stand #14. Learning Technologies is being conducted from January 29 till January 30th 2013 at Olympia, London. The Learning Technologies exhibition, now in its 14th year, is Europe’s leading showcase of organizational learning [.].

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Learning Management SOLUTIONS vs. Systems

LearnDash

“We need to compare and determine the best learning management system for our organization… let’s start with price”. If that doesn’t make you cringe, it should. I have heard this kind of jargon for quite some time now (still do) and every time I do it makes me want to get onto my soapbox. You know, despite all the advances that have been made in the learning space, the un-initiated still attempt to “systemize” our industry, much like everything else.

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