Upside Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2012

As I keep meeting many of my prospects, I always confront a very common question, “Can you help us to understand how we can maximize the Return on Investment (ROI) of our LMS?”. The question indirectly extends to how can we calculate the ROI of an LMS and highlight the positive outcomes of it. Practically, there is no direct method to calculate the exact return on investment of an LMS, but by following certain generic principles; one can surely maximize the ROI.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Once upon a time (as all good fairy tales start) employees had a job for life. Having left school or college you could start work for an organization and remain there for your whole professional life. The company would provide you with all the training you needed, give you all the promotions you deserved and then at your retirement, reward your long service with the gift of a clock or a gold watch.

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B Online Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Everyone loves a good story. We are surrounded by stories in social media, movies, advertising and the news. People love to share anecdotes and jokes as a way to connect with each other. The best presenters use stories to capture the audience’s attention at the start. What about eLearning designers? Do we need to be [.].

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Wow, had a great 3 days at DevLearn, met some absolutely wonderful, fascinating and brilliant folks. Saw a bunch colleagues and friends, and had lots of fun in the Gamification Workshop. So the slides to the Gamification workshop can be found here. Here are the slides from my short presentation in the Expo. DevLearn presentation on Future of Learning from Karl Kapp.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Have you ever explained something to someone who is either hearing it for the first time or is still trying to get their head wrapped around the concept? You know how they will nod slowly in seeming agreement while looking off into the ether and saying dreamily, “Yeah…” really, really slowly?” That far-off look is confirmation that they are indeed interested and yet remain clueless for the most part.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

I attended the panel discussion on TinCan this morning; great session. I have tried to capture the session in a mind map. It is clear that TinCan is a major change. It is not only a shift from tracking and tracing to enabling learning experiences, it opens op a whole new world of possibilities. We have to redefine what (e)Learning is or could be. Some remarks at the panel triggered me into this observation: There is a lot of confusion about TinCan and the impact on our (learning people) day-to-

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most frequently visited posts on this blog is “ What Gets Measured Gets Done…or Not.” I suspect that the post is interesting to readers because of the popular axiom, not because of the content of the post. In that post I argue that measurement is not enough. An organization has to do something with those metrics in order to “get done” what needs to get done, i.e., organizational learning, performance improvement, and change.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Last week [October 25th] I had the distinct privilege of sitting in on the Tin Can API break-out session that was presented by Aaron Silvers of ADL. I’m not sure of his exact title, but his role was in a leadership capacity on the Tin Can API project. His business card says “the Beard”…and while that was accurate, I still don’t know his real title. Given ADL was also the birth mother of SCORM, I walked in and sat down with a preconception or two that this was SCORM in a new dress.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

AKA Tin Can While at the Learning 3.0 conference I had the opportunity to speak with Michael Rochelle of Brandon Hall and Aaron Silvers of ADL on the new emerging Experience API (also known as Tin Can) and have been given great insight. Experience API is coding that tracks a person’s learning activity even if that [.].

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

So we are off to an excellent start with DevLearn. As always at the first day of a guild conference it was an exhilarating day. I was able to attend some sessions and keynotes and talked to lot’s of people. Here is my wrap-up. Trends? I try to spot the emerging trends at conferences like this, for this conference there are two. One is SaaS or cloud based solutions, the other is the future of the Learning Management Systems.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 30, 2012

by Lori Smith. Branch Aware is new in Captivate 6. Unlike other new features (like HTML5 support and Themes), Branch Aware has gotten little attention and few people understand what the option does. According to Adobe: "Use Branch Aware to calculate the final score based only on the questions in the branch that users have viewed. For example, consider that a project contains a quiz that branches into two modules that in turn contain a quiz.

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Jane Hart

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Today I am in Toronto, Canada where I am speaking at the CSTD conference tomorrow. So this roundup of my favourite articles from last month is shorter than usual – just the links, no commentary, but the quotes should give you a taste of why I enjoyed the articles. 1 - Defining social learning – Marcia Conner, 4 October 2012. “Instead let me list 10 Things Said About Social Learning … that you shouldn’t fall for. 1.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Jon Landau gave an inspiring keynote about the need to focus on the experience, and innovate to bring those visions to fruition, driving tech versus the other way around.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Education technology has certainly grown over the past century, to the point where the technology itself is becoming more than just a medium of knowledge exchange. While this infographic from Rasmussen College provides nice little tidbits of information, I couldn’t help but notice the glaring gap between the 1930s and 1996. Really? Nothing noteworthy in the Ed-tech realm during this 66yr span??

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I've always believe that to truly have impact on performance, we need to be experts at Behavior Change. I've written a few times over the years on aspects of solutions that ultimately drive a change in behavior that leads to performance improvement. I'm now working on an very interesting project that is designed to lead to some important changes in behavior that has already had dramatic impacts.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 30, 2012

We recently had the opportunity to partner with a company that provides solely instructor-led training (ILT). To learn more about our new partner, I did some research on companies that focus primarily on ILT. My first Google search turned up this ambitious marketing assertion: Instructor-led training is considered to be the most effective method of [.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2012

A student from Florida Gulf Coast University interviewed me on mobile. Here’s the (largely unedited) transcript she provided for me: What is your definition of mobile learning? Using a mobile device to make us more effective, either in the moment or developing us over time. A mobile device is a small portable device that is with us all the time and we are doing something with it because of where we are.

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B Online Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One of the many skills that eLearning designers need is the ability to write clear and engaging audio scripts. Good narration should complement what the learner sees on the screen. At its best, the narration draws the attention of the learner to the key learning points, while at the same time making the learning experience [.].

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Ontuitive

OCTOBER 31, 2012

I am an advocate for performance support. It just makes sense, (even if the term itself is a bit confusing and not very exciting.) But as with all technology-enabled learning solutions that have crossed my path over the past 35+ years, the most critical success factor is not the technology at all. It is the people who will use and support the use of this stuff: the workers (unfortunately referred to as ‘end-users’) and their managers.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Here are the resources and slides from my workshop presentation in Las Vegas. Day One: Here are the introductory slides. Introduction Materials for Gamification Workshop from Karl Kapp. Here are the slides related to game elements. Game Elements from Karl Kapp. Here are slides related to motivation. Motivation slides from Workshop from Karl Kapp. Here is a link to information about Stone Librande and his“One-Page Design” concept.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

It’s hard to capture the stories, humor, and riveting images of Alison’s inspiring talk, so I’ve only been able to record the lessons she passed on, but great stuff!

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 28, 2012

by Jennie Ruby    Two words have seldom been more confusing than the two verbs lay and lie. Yes, they are actually two different words, but the first area of confusion is that the simple past tense of  lie  is spelled exactly the same as the word  lay. Not only that, but the main difference between the word  lie  and the word lay is that  lie  is intransitive and  lay  is transitive--a grammatical concept not instantly familiar to

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Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I will be leaving for Las Vegas in less than one hour, visiting the eLearning Guilds annual conference. I will try to post a daily blog about my findings. I’m really looking forward to it, last year was great. Great keynotes, interesting concurrent sessions, lots of good conversations and contact and the official launch of easygenerator in the United States.

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KnowledgeStar

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

It’s almost a New Year – 2013 – and already the Next Big Thing is upon us. Actually that’s ironic since the Next Big Thing is all about things, Smart Things. Refrigerators that scan bar codes and tell us what we have, which items we need, send shopping lists to our networked printers and suggest [.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Jeffrey Ma gave a interesting talk on lessons from succeeding at blackjack that included both life lessons as well as lessons on data driven decision making.

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Many development tools claim that they produce learning content which will publish automatically to different models of mobile phone. So for the L&D manager commissioning mobile learning it’s just a game of finding out from IT which phones are on the standard list, cross-checking and then away you go…if only it was that simple…. Faced with the technical challenge of rendering content on different screen sizes and with different operating systems, developers have taken the pragmatic approach

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TechSmith Camtasia

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we prepare each episode of the Forge we kick around a lot of ideas. For the month of November we decided we wanted to focus on education. There are so many opportunities to use visuals, screenshots, and screencasts in the education fields. Our next episode is Thursday, November 8th at 2PM EDT. Need a reminder, add it to your calendar: [link]. Coming this Episode… We’re talking with James Gill ( @jagill ).

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). If these are accurate statistics, they present a significant challenge to schools, colleges and universities.

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