Fri.Mar 02, 2012

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At the Water Cooler of Learning

KnowledgeStar

We have become obsessed with formal learning in the workplace. In our zeal to learn, we have transferred the formal model of learning into the collective mind of our corporations. Even e-learning is simply less-expensive formal learning at a distance. Our obsession began when we decided we were in the knowledge economy. We concluded that [.].

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Working in the digital age

Challenge to Learn

Today I’m working from home. It saves me a commute to Rotterdam (one hour drive if there are no traffic jams). I do this at least two days a week. Today it struck me how fast the facilities for this have progressed in the past few years. I have colleagues in the Netherlands, Ukraine and the United States, Partners from Australia to the US and I can manage all that from home.

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Flash and PowerPoint Style Matching

eLearning Brothers

When developing your eLearning courses if you want to be awesome, then have a consistent look and feel between all slides in your presentation. When you develop some slides using Flash templates and others within PowerPoint, often times you may find that they don’t match or look like they belong together. This tutorial demonstrates a simple technique that could help you.

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5 Tips to make sure e-learning is effective

Saffron Interactive

I love Sheldon Cooper! I’m talking about the eccentric genius from the TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. He’s a know-it-all and knows it! So, why do I love him? Apart from the fact that he’s funny, it’s the hidden desire to be that know-it-all, to know almost everything there is of any practical worth. Alas, every day I am reminded of how far from this truth I am (and maybe that’s a good thing, but that’s another whole new philosophical debate for another time).

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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.

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Library 2.0

Learning with e's

What does the future hold for our university libraries? Are they obsolete or are they essential? The library has long been seen by many as a very traditional, conservative institution, and is often portrayed as a place where rows upon rows of antiquated book shelves slowly gather dust. Yet a visit to the university library today will reveal a substantial investment in technology to streamline research and provide users with a more seamless and rewarding experience.

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Company News: Two Mindflash Developers Win Rackspace Hackathon

Mindflash

What do you get when you combine Instagram, Robert Scoble, and Google Streetview? A first-place winning app called “Creepagram,” designed by Mindflash engineers Matt Smith and Jon Sullivan. Jon and Matt won the big prize at Wednesday’s Node.js Hackday and Party at Rackspace, a day-long event where developers gathered to talk about the node.js platform and compete to build applications.

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From Traditional ID to ID 2.0

bozarthzone

I have an article in the new issue of ASTD's T+D, "From Traditional Instruction to Instructional Design 2.0". It's excerpted here if you'd like to take look. Some highlights: Social learning is learning with and from others by moving within one’s culture, workplace, and world. It’s often unconscious and unintentional, and it often looks more like solving a problem or working together to make sense of something.

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Individual courses, reuse of content, timelines and a lot more great stuff

easygenerator

Next week we will have the new version (8.1) of easygenerator ready and deploy it to our webservers. We will officially launch it at LSCON12 in Orlando. In this blog I will give an overview of all the new features we have added. Over the coming weeks we will write some post on specific topics with detailed information. Learning objectives, study advice and adaptive learning.

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Social Learning and Etc.: In Conversation with Jane Hart

bozarthzone

Jane Hart and I got together to talk about social learning, social media, change management, and measuring engagement in online communities. Here's the recording : Her audio's not great so she let me do most of the talking. I didn't do anything to cause that-- I promise.

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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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Creating New Leaders for the 21st Century

Jay Cross

Creating New Leaders for the 21st Century (1). Creating New Leaders for the 21st Century (2).

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A Look Behind The Training Magazine Top 125

Mindflash

Training magazine recently released its annual list of the top 125 companies that embrace employee training, and by glancing over some statistics about those organizations, a few trends start to emerge. For one thing, most of the top 125 companies are really big. Verizon was ranked No. 1 on the list, with Farmers Insurance No. 2 and McDonalds at No. 5 (to be fair, a few smaller groups snuck in there as well).

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Working Smarter in Social Business

Jay Cross

If you’re not plugged in and running fast at work, you’re falling behind. Continuous improvement. Business people face more and more novel situations every day. You have to be learning continuously to deal with the onslaught of unfamiliar, complex problems. There’s no longer time to learn things in advance; you have to learn what you need in real time.