Mon.Dec 17, 2012

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When is eLearning a Smart Management Decision?

Dashe & Thomson

I was asked recently to define situations where eLearning is a smart management decision over the same course in an instructor-led training (ILT) format. There is a tremendous amount of information available about the advantages of eLearning as a delivery method, but there is not a whole lot devoted to this particular question. I decided to poll some of my colleagues to get their take on this question.

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The IBM 5 in 5: Innovation in the next 5 years

Jane Hart

IBM’s view on innovations that will change our lives in the next 5 years.

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When is eLearning a Smart Management Decision?

Dashe & Thomson

I was asked recently to define situations where eLearning is a smart management decision over the same course in an instructor-led training (ILT) format. There is a tremendous amount of information available about the advantages of eLearning as a delivery method, but there is not a whole lot devoted to this particular question. I decided to poll some of [.

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Florida Association of Realtors Joins Digitec’s LMS Family

Association eLearning

'Florida Association of Realtors, the largest trade association in the state with more than 115,000 members, is the latest membership organization to adopt Digitec’s Knowledge Direct® learning management system (LMS). The association switched to Knowledge Direct from an in-house Moodle-based solution to take advantage of Knowledge Direct’s ease-of-use, built-in authoring tool, robust reporting and seamless integration with iMIS.

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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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Why I don’t like WIIFM

Usable Learning

This is excerpted and expanded from a post that I wrote for the Tin Can blog . We’ve talked about WIIFM (What’s in it for me?) for years – it’s one of those things you always hear that you need to include in learning experiences to persuade your learners to pay attention. I’ve started to think that’s a really unsatisfactory view of the world – most of the people I know don’t need a sales pitch to do their jobs, or to learn something to help them do that.

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Adding Reusable Bouncing Arrows in Camtasia for Mac

TechSmith Camtasia

Wouldn’t it be great if you could animate arrows in your video to point out what’s really important? And what about making those animated arrows seem like they bounce to make them more interesting? Then, wouldn’t it also be amazing if, after all of that work, you could save those fancy arrows to use elsewhere? Well, my friends, today you’re in luck, because that’s exactly what this tutorial is about.

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Digitec Announces Knowledge Direct Enhancements

Association eLearning

'Digitec is pleased to announce the latest round of enhancements to its Knowledge Direct learning management system. • Course surveys — Knowledge Direct already provides a very robust, flexible survey creation tool and reporting. But now, administrators can copy and reuse existing course surveys. • Rapid eLearning tool upgrade — Direct-to-WEB is provided FREE with Knowledge Direct and allows content authors to transform a simple PowerPoint file into a game-based learning module for w

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Headline Muse

Learning with e's

They have finally done it. Someone has come up with a way to control computers using mind power. And the device is non-invasive. At least, that's what InteraXon, the company who has designed the Muse 'brain sensing' headband wish to achieve. 'It lets you control things with your mind' runs the sensational strapline for the Muse Headband promotional video.

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Brainshark's HTML5-Based Mobile Player: Interactive Mobile by News Editor

LearningGuild

Brainshark, Inc., the leader in online and mobile video presentations, has unveiled the Brainshark Mobile Player. This new HTML5-based player gives iOS and Android users a more interactive experience when they view Brainshark video presentations on their smartphones and tablets – without the need to download an app.

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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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7 Lies Leaders Love to Tell

Training Industry

In my 30 years of teaching leadership, the excuses given for doing the wrong thing rarely change. The ingredients for good leadership shift over time. Yet the reasons leaders give for not taking these actions or developing new leadership skills such as coaching stay the same. To reach your highest potential as a leader, be careful of telling the following seven lies: 1.

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Learning Resolutions: Disrupt, Interact, and Be Mobile

OpenSesame

Resolution 1: Disrupt Myself. It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the latest learning research, technologies and trends. Yet that’s what ultimately makes this field stimulating. If we don’t maintain and sustain a continually disruptive state, how can we change and grow? In the coming year, I resolve to disrupt myself. I resolve to seek innovation, try new ideas, embrace change and stay actively and continuously learning.

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Brainshark's HTML5-based Mobile Player: Interactive Mobile Video by News Editor

LearningGuild

Brainshark, Inc., the leader in online and mobile video presentations, has unveiled the Brainshark. Mobile Player. This new HTML5-based player gives iOS and Android users a more interactive. experience when they view Brainshark video presentations on their smartphones and tablets— without the need to download an app.

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Learning Resolutions: Design Experiences, Not Content

OpenSesame

What do you resolve to change or improve about your work in 2013? This is a more important question for me this year than it was last year. Around this time last year I was working in Corporate America where I didn’t have much flexibility in terms of ‘resolving’ change. After launching my own elearning development company in early 2012, I have complete control on what I want my work to reflect and how I go about accomplishing that.

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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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eBook Student Survey

Moodle Journal

I guess it when it comes to planning and delivering a course using a technology platform such as Moodle, it does become part of normal practice to introduce new resources simply by supplying a suitable link and this year one of these links was to eBooks. So I was more than an little fascinated by report from edudemic.com '10 Surprising Facts About Students Using E-Textbooks’ From a survey by eCampus.com.

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Learning Resolutions: Disrupt, Interact, and Be Mobile

OpenSesame

'Resolution 1: Disrupt Myself. It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the latest learning research, technologies and trends. Yet that’s what ultimately makes this field stimulating. If we don’t maintain and sustain a continually disruptive state, how can we change and grow? In the coming year, I resolve to disrupt myself. I resolve to seek innovation, try new ideas, embrace change and stay actively and continuously learning.

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Lincoln, the Storyteller

Vignettes Learning

Synthesis: What makes a good storyteller? Stories abound and Lincoln – the extremely smart being that he is – used these accounts to bring home critical points for decision making and persuasion. Embedding stories in the learning design achieves a similar outcome. Discover how Lincoln inspires you and me to become better storytellers, too. __ Click here for a preview of "Lincoln" I saw the movie “Lincoln” three times.

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Learning Resolutions: Design Experiences, Not Content

OpenSesame

'Design experiences, not content. We have all heard or experienced a project request that needs to be designed and developed in a period of about two weeks. That’s all fine provided the few months of work leading up to that conversation has been accomplished. All too often it’s not, and we’re forced into producing ‘content’ as opposed to a properly designed experience.

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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.