Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

During the Thought Leadership Webinar on “ Interactive Courses on a ShoeString Budget ” in November, 2011, I had a good discussion with Jim Hanlin, President and Founder of Best Training Resources. Jim shared his views on the changing landscape in e-learning. Vikas: What are clients looking for in eLearning programs? Jim: What strikes me is that there is a phenomenal change in the eLearning industry in comparison to when eLearning was first introduced.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

I recently came across the 2012 Higher Education Edition of the NMC Horizon Report , and found it quite fascinating. It gave me a lot of insights about the state of higher education globally and also left me thinking about how these developments would impact the global elearning industry. I certainly believe that it is vital for all developers of elearning to understand these trends and adapt to the new paradigms of learning.

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Raptivity

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

There are many fascinating facts, stories, theories, tricks and tips of certain people, things or processes. Do we all know about it? Most of us may not. After all we are humans and not overtly smart enough to retain all [.].

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Web Courseworks

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

“Do you see the L?” “Yes, we see the L,” came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, “Do you see the O.” “Yes, we see the O.” Then we typed the G, and the system crashed … ” (source). Technology has come a long way since the first ARPANET link was established [.].

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In the spirit of trying to explain to people what I do for a living, I was trying to explain to someone recently what I do for a living. “I help organizations design and deliver online training programs…” The guy made a cross with his fingers and hissed at me saying, “Oh no, you’re the CBT Lady!” Visions of hairnet covered lunch ladies. I haven’t recovered yet from this one.

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Connect Thinking

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Part of my job is to provide e-learning strategy support to clients. I have a number of processes for this kind of engagement, and E-Learning Academy members to have access to an e-learning course on Strategy , and a number of other tools and resources. Top line tips for developing an e-learning strategy. 1. Talk with other organisations about their strategy – their reasons for implementing a strategy, what’s worked, what hasn’t, and the resources required to implement and sust

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Wouldn’t it be great to have the most dominant, overruling, kick butt e-learning imaginable. (meaning people actually learned and applied what you wanted them to learn and apply from taking your e-learning module). Here are three tips to help you achieve that goal. ONE: Make the learning meaningful. The learner needs to see an immediate need and application of the content to what they are doing.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

OK, these skills are not actually “new” – they’ve always been present – but perhaps they have not always been as visible as they should have been, as Oscar Berg explains in The collaboration pyramid (or iceberg). But, as businesses transform into social businesses, the social workplace is going to become more and more reliant on these skills.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

by Lori Smith. A Captivate developer created a nifty eLearning lesson complete with a quiz, advanced actions and some nice navigation features. All she needed to do to wrap up the project was get the finished lesson posted to her LMS and ensure it reported correctly. And that, unfortunately, is where she ran into trouble. The lesson simply would not work once posted to the LMS.

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mLearning Revolution

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

'Over the weekend, I was looking at the entries submitted to the Adobe Captivate HTML5 Contest, hosted by my former Adobe colleagues. The basic idea behind this contest is that Adobe Captivate 5.5 users create a project and then use the HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate to convert it into HTML5. The entry with the most votes wins. First, I’d like to say that I applaud the idea around this contest because it adds some much-needed engagement to the Captivate community, however I wonder if Adobe

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

This weekend, one of my parents reminded me that I got my first digital game console exactly thirty years ago, the Atari 2600. I’d been playing simple games on my dad’s Apple II, but the Atari console was a totally different experience. Different because first you hooked up to a TV screen, and second, loading software was as easy as swapping cartridges and resetting the console.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

By Dean Hawkinson. I recently came across a review of a book written by Clive Shepherd called The New Learning Architect. In this book, Shepherd makes the point that we, as instructional designers, need to shift our focus from simple course creation to that of an architect who designs an entire learning environment, similar to the way an architect designs environments for living and working.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    If you have a need to include PDFs in your Help system, you have a few options. You can create a link to the PDF (which will open the PDF once the user clicks the link) or you can import the PDF into the project (which will create a topic out of the PDF). There is another, less known technique for including content in your Help System, and this technique actually embeds the content within a topic: iFrames.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Where does social media fit in the organization? In talking with a social media entrepreneur over beers the other day, he mentioned that one of his barriers in dealing with organizations was that they didn’t have a budget line for social media software. That may sound trivial, but it’s actually a real issue in terms of freeing up the organization.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

There was an article today over at CNN titled “ Desperately seeking Americans for factory jobs ” that stated: There is a “critical shortage of machinists,” a common and crucial position in factories, said Rob Akers, vice president at the National Tooling and Machining Association. “Enrollment in this field in technical schools has been down for a long time.” The problem comes at a terrible time.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When evaluating programs and organizations, bad news can be good news. What I mean by that is any feedback is helpful to an organization if leaders listen to the feedback, look for value in the information, and make improvements accordingly. However, what so often happens is that leaders immediately become defensive and look for ways to discredit or cast doubt on criticism.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

by Jennie Ruby    Last week's challenge was a tough one. Several readers correctly punctuated the sentences but did not correctly identify which commas were optional. Sadly, only a minority of respondents got everything right. Here are the answers as presented by  Larena Jackson. The goals were to correctly punctuate (or refrain from punctuating) these introductory phrases and to indicate whether the comma was optional or required.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." ~ Rainer Marie Rilke, from “Letters to a Young Poet". Words to live by. And, it turns out, words by which to design instruction.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 1 I shared with you my insights into old school publishers and literary agents. Assuming you have received your rejections – or more likely, no replies at all – you will now be ready to stick it up their proverbials and self publish. So please find below Part 2 of my series which explains how to get started with an e-book… If you can use Microsoft Word, you can publish an e-book.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A few months back, courtesy of my colleague Jay Cross, I got into discussions about the EdgeX conference, scheduled for March 12-14 in New Delhi. Titled the “Disruptive Educational Research Conference”, it certainly has intriguing aspects. I was asked to talk about games, the topic of my first book. Owing to unfortunate circumstances (my friend and co-speaker on games had to change plans), it looks like I’ll also be talking about mobile ( books two and three) which is excitin

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

by AJ George  A PowerPoint user approached me recently with an issue. She was given a PowerPoint template with a company logo on it. She was asked to remove the logo but could not. My first thought was to tell her to remove it from the master slides. However, she had already tried this and the logo appeared to be part of the actual background, even on the master slide.

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Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A question many of us have sought to answer…or maybe “predict”…came up in one of my networking groups this morning. “When you do you know that the Learning & Development function in your organization is fully developed?” The answer to this may be as impossible to define as it is to nail Jell-O to the wall. Methinks being fully developed, means being in a constant state of "evolution" with a minimum of resistance to change.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

By Joseph Suarez What’s an iFrame? While it may sound like the next must-have device from Apple, you won’t see a line forming around the block for it anytime soon. That’s because it’s just some useful code capable of extending the functionality of your Lectora-built eLearning course. An iFrame is an HTML element that allows you to place a page within a page.

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KnowledgeStar

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I’ve written several posts about the evolution of education, especially from the analog past to the digital present and future. My own experience was real a wake-up call. I bought a new car a many thousands of miles ago and had a lot of music I wanted to hear from my cassette tapes. The new [.].

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Allison Rossett

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Tweet Coaching continues to be popular. Last week I visited a software company. They are putting coaches in place to help their sales people become productive swiftly. A few weeks before that it was a retail company. They know that store managers must, must, must serve as coaches for their people. Coaching fosters relationships, feedback, emotions, conversations, collaboration, answers, growth,and bonding between veterans, experts, and novices.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 1 I shared with you my insights into old school publishers and literary agents. Assuming you have received your rejections – or more likely, no replies at all – you will now be ready to stick it up their proverbials and self publish. So please find below Part 2 of my series which explains how to get started with an e-book… If you can use Microsoft Word, you can publish an e-book.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d re-theme one of our Flash eLearning Templates. This tutorial shows you really how easy it is to completely change the look/feel of the templates. It’s very simple and doesn’t take much time either.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This month on our live web show, we're bringing you a special focus on education! Video is more popular than ever, as it's being used to deliver content as part of blended learning, flipped classroom , and 1:1 tech initiatives. Tune in Thursday, February 16, at 2:00pm ET. ( Add to your calendar ) The streaming video will be posted below, so hit refresh on your browser just before 2pm.

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