Tue.Dec 06, 2011

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Freelance Instructional Design: More Tips from the Trenches

Experiencing eLearning

I’ve gotten some great tips from others working as independent consultants or freelance instructional designers in comments on my Getting Started as a Freelance Instructional Designer and Tips for Starting to Freelance posts. I love having so many brilliant and generous people in my network who freely share the wealth of their knowledge. Networking.

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5 Stages of Workplace Learning (Revisited)

Jane Hart

Back in May 2010 I posted a diagram that I had created that showed what I considered to be the 5 stages of Workplace Learning. My ITA colleague, Jay Cross, re-worked it so that I looked like this. Back in May 2010 I also wrote: ” In my opinion most organisations are in Stage 3, but as the L&D conversation circles around the concepts of social and informal learning, I’m getting the impression that many … Read the rest.

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E-learning In Automobile Industry – New Report

Upside Learning

Last week Towards Maturity published its latest report on e-learning adoption, utilization & effects in the European automobile industry. I worked in the automobile industry for a few years in the early part of my professional life. I remember attending a large number of classroom training sessions and video based training using VHS players which at the time were the only technology assisted learning at that time –between 1997 & 2000.

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Initial reflections on Slow Learning #change11

Clark Quinn

I have to say that I found the comments on my initial post very interesting and challenging. A couple of themes have emerged that partly I want to elaborate on, and partly want to reflect upon. I believe in, and do try, ‘learning out loud’, so I’ll both try to elaborate and draw myself up short. One of the themes that emerged is the rejection of the GPS idea, and extolling a preference for getting lost (I did explicitly mention that GPS’s do not help you learn the ter

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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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An Open LMS: CourseKit

Kapp Notes

A while back I posted on Facebook that LMSs were prisons for content because they tended to keep content inaccessible and unavailable for quick easy access. Well now their is a new kind of LMS that uses a Facebook type interface to conduct academic business. It’s called CourseKit. CourseKit instructor page. The concept is radical on two levels.

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What’s On Your Employees’ Wish List This Christmas?

Mindflash

I was in the mall this week (bad idea). A large Santa’s village, complete with Santa and his minion of elves, was dwarfed by the queue of kids waiting to sit on Santa’s lap to share what they wanted for the holiday. I remember (years ago!) bringing my three kids to visit Santa and how their imaginations went wild on the ride to his artificial North Pole.

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Across the Twitterverse

Learning with e's

It's that time of the year when the edublog community honours its members with awards. The 2011 Edublog Awards have come around again with frightening speed, and once again this year I am both honoured and humbled to have been nominated in two categories - best individual blog and best individual tweeter (for my @timbuckteeth account). I'm very much aware that there are many, many active and creative edubloggers out there who could and should have been nominated and included in the list, but eve

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Captivate Training: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 1

Adobe Captivate

Topic: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 1 Date and time: Thursday, Jan 5, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create interactive screens using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5. The interactive screens included in this two-part training session [.].

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Here’s an Inexpensive Way to Build a Library of E-Learning Assets

Rapid eLearning

Over the years elearning software has become easier to use. But with that comes some challenges. In the past you had an instructional designer who designed the course. Then there was a programmer who did the programming of the course. And a graphics designer built the course’s graphics. Today, things have changed a bit. With the ease of authoring, it’s placed the burden to do all of it on the shoulders of the rapid elearning developer.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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Captivate Training: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 2

Adobe Captivate

Topic: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 2 Date and time: Thursday, Jan 19, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create interactive screens using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5. The interactive screens included in this two-part training session [.].

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Nuts and Bolts: Inviting Interaction by Jane Bozarth

LearningGuild

Instead of asking how to manage informal learning and which tools to use, ask yourself whether you are. inviting interaction, and how. Here are some excellent ways to make informal learning more visible to both. managers and employees, and to invite interaction and develop something more akin to a partnership with. your learners.

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Gamification: A Good Idea … Sometimes

Mindflash

The old way of work — grinding out eight hours a day in soulless cubicles — could use some updating, nearly everyone agrees. And what solution is more intuitive than bringing games, one of the most fun aspects of life, to corporate work, generally one of the least fun? Hence the frenzy for the idea of “gamification” over the past few years. Adding badges, achievement points, and rewarding small accomplishments as in video games has been widely celebrated as a great way to improve work ( and cust

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Aotearoa. kei te aroha au ki a koe

Learning with e's

New Zealand is simply amazing. What can I say about the many sights I have seen, people I have met and things I have experienced? Time and space are not enough, but I will try: Perhaps the crowning highlight of my three week tour was the traditional Maori Powhiri and honour that was bestowed upon me during the ICELF Conference in Auckland. I was invited to present my keynote speech in the Maori sacred meeting house - the marae.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

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BersinBasics Pioneers a New Way to Learn the Fundamentals of Talent Management

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

We all know that talent management is a hot topic in business today. SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion demonstrates how important this market is to businesses around the world. But ultimately it isn’t software that drives business results: it’s the practices of talent management that matters. Our research shows that companies which.

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BersinBasics Pioneers a New Way to Learn the Fundamentals of Talent Management

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

We all know that talent management is a hot topic in business today. SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion demonstrates how important this market is to businesses around the world. But ultimately it isn’t software that drives business results: it’s the practices of talent management that matters. Our research shows that companies which.

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