Sat.Nov 05, 2011 - Fri.Nov 11, 2011

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The Future of e-Learning Content after Adobe Kills Flash on Mobile Devices

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

It is official. Adobe, in a written statement , announced that it will not support Flash in mobile browsers henceforth. As it is, iPhone and iPad don't play Flash content. It will be a matter of time before new versions of other mobile devices (based on Android and other platforms) stop supporting Flash in browsers. What does this mean for e-learning content?

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Flash For Mobile Is Dead

Upside Learning

Recently Amit had written about how the eLearning industry and digital media in general has been driven to HTML5 by the rapid adoption of tablet computers, namely the iPad. To further reinforce that thought, Adobe announced just yesterday that it has ceased development on the Flash mobile browser plug-in. Meaning there will be no updates to those plug-ins and future versions of Android and Blackberry Playbooks may not be able to render Flash content.

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eLearning Thought Leaders: Mark Lassoff

eLearning Weekly

Mark Lassoff of LearnToProgram.tv. I was very lucky to catch Mark Lassoff in between speaking at DevLearn, working on his forthcoming book from Focal Press, and producing his next training video for the company he founded, LearnToProgram.tv. Mark is an anomoly in the world of elearning these days, because he knows how to code. I’m not just talking about the two big programming languages, HTML and Flash.

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Barriers to Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Continuous acquisition and application of knowledge, skills, and beliefs by individuals, teams, and the ? whole enterprise is an essential aspect of high performance organizations. However, barriers to this learning are common in organizations. These barriers must be overcome in order for organizations to have long term success. Twelve of these common barriers are: Program focus – new programs and services are evaluated in isolation rather than as interdependent parts of the whole organization,

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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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mLearning in Africa

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Recently I had a chance to talk to a speaker at e-Learning Africa 2011 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Vinod Ganjoo is an e-learning enthusiast who works as Senior Manager - e-learning Business Development at Harbinger. Vinod has traveled throughout the Middle-east, Africa and South Asia on business. He interacts with instructional designers and training managers in several countries regularly.

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Key social learning resources: Part 10 #sociallearning

Jane Hart

I have just returned from Las Vegas where I hosted the Management Xchange stage at DevLearn, so this week I am going to link to 3 presentations that were given by Internet Time Alliance principals during that time that focused on the topic of managing learning in the new networked, social enterprise. 1 – Charles Jennings , Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy asked the question, Do you feel the need to manage … Read the rest.

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Building eLearning Scenarios in Working Sessions with SMEs

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. We know that scenarios benefit performance by immersing learners into workplace situations within training. The storytelling quality of scenarios helps make the lessons learned in training memorable. And there are many ways to incorporate stories and scenarios into eLearning. But how do you write these scenarios in the first place?

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President Clinton Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

President Bill Clinton riveted the crowd with a keynote covering a broad swath of problems. His solutions include systems thinking and positive dialog. Engaging and powerful.

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PowerPoint 2010: Animating the Pieces of a Grouped Object as a Whole

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. Last week I was revamping the presentation accompanying our Online Trainer Training: Engaging the Virtual Learner class when I ran into a bit of an animation shortcoming in PowerPoint. I wanted to animate the boat below so it "sailed" onto the slide.     Adding the animation effect was not a problem. I had the shapes grouped in one overall boat shape and selected Animations > Add Animation > Entrance > Fly In.

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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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Avoiding the Trap of Clicky-Clicky Bling-Bling #devlearn

Learning Visions

OK – so I can’t live blog my own session, but I can share my slides: presented Thursday, Nov 3 2011 at DevLearn in Las Vegas. It was a great session – lots of conversation with the group which you won’t see on the slides, a few side bars and tangents, and some free t-shirts at the end! Thanks to everyone who joined in. And for the record -- I designed my slides to match the t-shirt I was wearing ;).

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Social Learning in Financial Services – Tales from the Real World

Dashe & Thomson

I sat down with Shane Raymond, Director of Training and Development at RBC Wealth Management , the US Wealth Management division of Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada , to discuss social learning. Shane, a veteran of the training industry, has encountered various levels of success with social learning and I asked him to share those experiences with us.

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Designing a Digital Future: Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Here are resources from my talk at The Pennsylvania College of Technology for their workshop “Designing a Digital Future” Combining Art, Creativity and Industrial Simulations: Game-Based Tools for Learning and Instruction. View more presentations from Karl Kapp. References from Presentation. BMW. Here is a great example of augmented reality.

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Live Training vs. eLearning: Which is Better? The Results Part II

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. Last week we focused on the benefits of classroom training. This week, I planned to focus on eLearning or asynchronous learning alone. However, as I reviewed the responses from readers over the past two weeks, I found that far more readers favored a combination of classroom or instructor-led methods and eLearning. Some additional thoughts on the benefits of classroom training came in this week.

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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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Layered Learning

Clark Quinn

Last week, I posted about a model where a system could provide a sage who looks at the events of your life and provides support. I want to elaborate that model by looking at it in a different way. The notion here is that you have events in your life, across the bottom. And you have some learning goals, e.g. to learn about project management, and about running meetings.

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Social Learning Demonstration: How to Be a Backup Singer

Dashe & Thomson

We talk a lot about social learning on this site. And we link to lots of others who talk – and talk, and talk. Sure, it’s all very smart and worthwhile, but sometimes you have to go out on a limb and do a really cool demonstration. That’s why, today, I’m going to demonstrate the power of social learning in two simple steps: Step One: First I’m going to describe how to do something.

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What is a Cognitive Apprenticeship?

Kapp Notes

The concept of cognitive apprenticeship is grounded in the theory of Situated Cognition. Situated cognition is a theory of instruction that suggests learning is naturally tied to authentic activity, context, and culture. The idea is that the person and the environment in which they are learning cannot be separated in any analysis of learning. They are each part of a mutually constructed whole.

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Adobe Captivate: Understand Cache and Possibly Save Some Cash

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. I first ran this article more than a year ago. In the past few weeks, I've received several emails about reviving corrupt projects and the role of the Project Cache folder. I felt it important to rerun the original article now, updated a bit for Captivate 5.5. Note: Before ever clicking the Clear Cache button shown in the image below, please read through this entire article.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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DevLearn Day 3: the final day of a great week

Challenge to Learn

I started the day with a Morning Buzz session about management and leadership by Michelle Fanfarillo and Bill Harisson. They are from Intel and told us how they try to connect to the business. At Intel learning is a support organization (as always) resorting under HR so they have to work hard to connect to the business. Intel is huge, 96000 people, 200 plus countries, 15 main sites, 10.000 managers.

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Learning 2011 Day 2 Morning Mindmaps

Clark Quinn

This morning Elliott interviewed Cathy Casserly from Creative Commons and Dean Kamen. Cathy was a passionate advocate for openness and sharing. She talked about going further into learning, and I was reminded about Project Tin Can , making a more general learning path. Dean recited his interesting childhood and then launched into his inspiring project to make science cool again.

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New ProtoSphere Update: Some Great Stuff

Kapp Notes

Check out this video showing some great new features, I like those slick new improvements of the interface and the environment. The action bar is great! It’s even more user friendly than before. Check out this preview video.

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Online Trainer Training: Engaging the Virtual Learner

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Published reports say " the average student in online learning conditions perform better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." That's encouraging news for trainers and training companies looking to offer classes online. Before jumping into the online training world with both feet, consider this: the world is littered with online courses that fail.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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Devlearn conference 2011: retrospective

Challenge to Learn

I’m back home after a great DevLearn conference. Looking (and reading) back at the conference there are several things that stick out for me. Atmosphere. This was my second Guild conference (been to Learning Solutions in March) and one thing that really struck me at both conferences is the atmosphere. It’s a world of difference if you compare it to the Online Educa in Berlin or the Learning Solutions in London.

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Getting Your GSA for US government eLearning Development Privileges

Web Courseworks

GSA Schedule: What is it? Do you need it? How do you get it? For years I have been jealous of competitors who are part of the elite group of companies that work with the federal government. This year however, I’m turning my envy into action. After thorough research, Web Courseworks has begun working towards [.].

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Learning 2011 Interview Mindmaps

Clark Quinn

Elliot Masie has interviewed Stephen Lambert (Producer of Undercover Boss) and Peter Capelli (Managing the Older Worker).

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Study Stack Flash Cards

Moodle Journal

I wonder if you have come across Study Stack yet. The site features collections of Flash Card materials that are organised into categories of Geography History, Business, Maths, Miscellaneous, Science, Languages, Agriculture, Law, Medical and Standardized Tests, that you can both use and contribute to. There are in fact even a number of ways in which your chosen Flash Card resource can be displayed, and these include :- Flashcards, Study Stack, Study Table, Matching, Crossword, Unscramble, Type

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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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Respect for Klout

E-Learning Provocateur

A person’s respect for Klout is directly proportional to their Klout Score.

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The 5 key steps to building an eLearning program: Step 2 – Design

B Online Learning

Share. Tweet. Pin It. In my previous two blogs I have provided you extracts from a brand new whitepaper from B Online Learning: A map for implementing or reinventing eLearning successfully, the first week we gave an overview of the key 5 steps and then last week we took a look at the first step: Building your strategy. This [.].

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John Lithgow Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

John Lithgow graced us, talking about storytelling, as an eloquent storyteller.

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