Tue.Nov 20, 2012

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Video games as Good Teachers

Kapp Notes

It is obvious that games are immensely popular, what is less obvious is that they are also powerful teachers who have been “schooling” a generation for the past 30 years. Learning is most effective when the learner has an achievable, well-defined goal. With a goal, you are “willing to be corrected for your mistakes and accept ‘try this, do that’ advice in order to achieve your success [50].

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Community of Practice and the TorranceLearning Download

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. This is a term coined by Etienne Wenger to describe “…groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” TorranceLearning has created a kind of community of practice that they call the Torrance Download.

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2,000 Year Old E-Learning Technique

LearnDash

Instructional designers are constantly being challenged to create something that is not only engaging and entertaining, but ultimately something that is effective. Sadly, this can cause us to become lazy, relying too heavily upon flashy tools and gimmicks instead of (more importantly) the distribution of the message. The most successful designers in our field leverage the tools at their disposal to enhance their learning, but only after effectively implementing an ancient technique, one develope

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Insights: Formal courses are not dead, just different

Clive on Learning

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The third of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘formal courses are not dead, just different'. Formal courses have taken a bit of a beating in recent years, as the pendulum has swung towards more informal approaches. There has been a realisation, I believe, that courses have failed to deliver in terms of real performance change and that there's much more to learning at work

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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More Answers to Your Rapid E-Learning Questions

Rapid eLearning

I get lots of questions via email and many of them are the same. So now’s a good time to offer some quick answers and links to additional resources for those just getting started, I have no budget. Where can I get free elearning assets? This is the most frequently asked question. The first thing I recommend is to ask for a budget. It doesn’t hurt to ask and you may find that you’ll get one.

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Update for Adobe Captivate is now available for Mac

Adobe Captivate

Update for Adobe Captivate is now available for Mac version — version 6.0.1 (Build 240), which is available for download through Help Menu > Updates… You can download it manually as well from [link] and install it. A bunch of key issues are addressed through this update including the following fixes. Output from Trial version - Before this update, content [.].

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Zen in Software

eFront

The Zen philosophy asserts that inner peace and enlightenment can be attained through self-contemplation and meditation rather than devotion, faith and belief. Life is more often than not too fast, complicated and cluttered. Simplify and you’ll be on the right track to inner peace and happiness. This is the foundation of Zen and perhaps strangely, can lead to better software as well.

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Survey: Morale High Among Workers

CLO Magazine

A new survey found that 39 percent workers described the morale at their companies as very good and 42 percent of people interviewed said workplace morale is somewhat good. Menlo Park, Calif. — Nov. 19 The mood around the office water cooler is generally positive, new research suggests. A new Accountemps survey found that 39 percent workers described the morale at their companies as very good and 42 percent of people interviewed said workplace morale is somewhat good.

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5 Little Things Automated Learning Gets Right that Add Up to BIG eLearning Payoff

OpenSesame

'We all know what good elearning should be like, and we know it when we see it. It should be engaging and easy-to-use, while educating people to work more effectively - but what does that actually mean on a slide by slide basis?

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

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eLearning Guild Interview with Kasper Spiro (CEO Easygenerator) at DevLearn 2012

easygenerator

'At the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas our CEO Kasper Spiro was interviewed by the eLearning guild. Here is the video. The post eLearning Guild Interview with Kasper Spiro (CEO Easygenerator) at DevLearn 2012 appeared first on Easygenerator.

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5 Little Things Automated Learning Gets Right that Add Up to BIG eLearning Payoff

OpenSesame

We all know what good elearning should be like, and we know it when we see it. It should be engaging and easy-to-use, while educating people to work more effectively – but what does that actually mean on a slide by slide basis? OpenSesame seller Automated Learning understands that only by taking care of the details can you achieve excellence in elearning.

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ELearning Guild interview with Kasper Spiro (CEO easygenerator) #Devlearn

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At the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas our CEO Kasper Spiro was interviewed by the eLearning guild. Here is the video.