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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Kirkpatrick Revisited by Barbara on April 18, 2011 in Instructional Design After I finished my post a few weeks ago on Reevaluating Evaluation , I found out that Donald Kirkpatrick , the granddaddy of the Four Levels of Evaluation, was taking a farewell tour before his retirement and would be presenting a workshop at the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) in Minneapolis.

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Learning Creativity and About Creativity From Lego

Upside Learning

From my first space themed set at age six, into the Technic range in my teens and twenties, I continue to indulge my fascination for Lego brick sets. I’m what is termed an AFOL – Adult Fan of Lego; I believe it had and continues to have implications for how I structure my thoughts and activities that involve work & play. I’ve written before that play is significant for learning through what seems like an abnormally long human childhood (for an animal our size).

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14 reasons why your multiple-choice quiz sucks

E-Learning Provocateur

Unlike some of my peers, I’m not an opponent of the multiple-choice quiz. It’s a convenient and efficient means of assessing e-learners, if it’s done well. The problem, unfortunately, is that it’s often done poorly. So poorly, in fact, it’s embarrassing. At my workplace, I am regularly subjected to the multiple-choice quiz.

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What Makes eLearning Boring?

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. Most posts on this blog focus on what to do and how to do it – providing navigational cues , designing with social media , stimulating recall , forming sticky ideas , and so on. In this post, we’ll look at what we do too much of, resulting in boring eLearning. Too much text. It’s popular to hate PowerPoint because of the way a slide full of bullets strangles the life out of a presentation.

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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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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Embracing Innovation in Learning by Andrea on April 22, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Facilitation , Informal Learning , Innovation , Instructional Design , Leadership , Organizational Change Management , blended learning , eLearning , social learning In her recent blog post Wonders or Woes of Change , Dr.

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Twitter’s Impact on Your Brain-Same as Bilingualism

Kapp Notes

Studies on infant brains have shown that knowledge retention is only possible when accompanied with personal interaction or activity, but this becomes even more important as people get older. Adults must be socially stimulated to learn, which is why language retention is usually only successful for adults when they are immersed with other language-speakers.

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The Pad and the Pod

Clark Quinn

I had a conversation today where I was asked about the difference with a tablet versus a smartphone (or pad versus pod :). This is something I’ve been thinking about, and some thoughts coalesced as I answered. I don’t think this is my definitive answer, but it’s worth wrestling with (learning out loud and all that). The must-read for mobile designers, The Zen of Palm , shows data collected from years ago on the early Palm devices ( Figure 1.3 ) which showed the difference betw

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? by Paul on April 20, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Informal Learning , social learning Over the last few months I’ve discussed with my brother, a professor at Bethel University here in Minneapolis, how to incorporate social media into his classes.

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Simulation Showcase – Inside the Haiti Earthquake

Upside Learning

I came across a blog-post by Clark Aldrich titled – Using Serious Games and Simulations: A Quick and Dirty Guide. In this post, Clark talks about: What simulations are and aren’t. Where simulations fit in an organizations’ flow of skills. Best practices in designing and creating simulations. After reading the post, I browsed the web for examples of simulations that are capable of generating a powerful learning experience.

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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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Writing & Grammar: Name That Error--The Answers

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. Here are the answers to last week's grammar challenge. Were you able to name the errors? Did you fix them correctly? Some of these problems may have more than one correct answer. For example, the sentence fragment can be corrected many different ways. If you have questions about any of these, I would love to hear from you. Using the new iPad app, the best erosion control method can be found quickly.

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New Horizon Report: Alan Levine – Mindmap

Clark Quinn

This evening I had the delight to hear Alan Levine present the New Media Consortium’s New Horizon Report for 2011 to the ASTD Mt. Diablo chapter. As often happens, I mindmapped it. Their process is interesting, using a Delphi approach to converge on the top topics. For the near term (< 1 year), he identified the two major technologies as ebooks and mobile devices (with a shoutout for my book : very kind).

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Who's Going to Build the Social Learning Roads?

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? by Paul on April 20, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Informal Learning , social learning Over the last few months I’ve discussed with my brother, a professor at Bethel University here in Minneapolis, how to incorporate social media into his classes.

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Teaching Problem Solving in a Virtual World

Kapp Notes

When thinking about creating a virtual world learning experience to teach problem solving, consider the following: Make them part of a case study —This strategy involves helping the learners to identify patterns within the cases by placing them in a case. It helps them with the examination of case variables impacting the outcome of the situation compared to irrelevant variables.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Adobe Captivate: No More Autosizing, Thanks!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. Maybe I was imagining things. but I set a pesky text caption to a specific size. Later on, when I re-opened the slide, the caption was much smaller. I attributed the episode to drinking too much coffee. But then it happened again! I resized a text caption to a very, very specific size--no doubt this time. At some point I used the spell check feature ( Project > Check Spelling ).

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What to See in a CEO

The Performance Improvement Blog

How do you hire a great leader? Adam Bryant provides some insightful answers to this question in an article adapted from his new book titled, The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed. Wally Bock writes this about Bryant's book: Adam Bryant's Corner Office interviews are must-reads for me, so I'm excited about his new book.

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Mentoring Results

Clark Quinn

Eileen Clegg from the Future of Talent Institute (and colleague, we co-wrote the Extremophiles chapter for Creating a Learning Culture ) pinged me the other day and asked about my thoughts on the intersection of: The new role of managers in the results-oriented work environment ( ROWE ). The topic of blending the Talent and Learning functions in the workplace.

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Gaming Playing for Education

Kapp Notes

Here are some interesting pieces from articles about video games for learning: According to an article titled Medical Students Open to Learning With Video Games: Among the more than 200 medical students surveyed, 77 percent said they would participate in a multi-player online health care simulator provided it helped them to accomplish an important goal. “Role-playing games may have special educational use to help students envision what their life would be like in different types of profess

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Adobe FrameMaker 10: Why Should I Care About the New Background Color?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Barb Binder  Some time ago, a client was considering using Adobe FrameMaker for a project and wanted to be able to electronically highlight text. That existing version of FrameMaker couldn't do it so the client decided to use Adobe InDesign. Because of that one incident, I was keenly aware when Adobe added background colors into FrameMaker 10.

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Importing Adobe Illustrator Smart Objects into Adobe Captivate [VIDEO]

mLearning Revolution

'Below is a video I recorded and published last week on the topic of importing Adobe Illustrator smart objects into Adobe Captivate 5 with the help of Photoshop. This topic was inspired by a question we received during our very first ‘Ask the Adobe eLearning Team ‘ session. Speaking of our weekly Ask the Adobe eLearning Team gathering, the first session was very well received by our customers, and we are excited about this new program and we hope you can join us every week moving for

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Bye-Bye Trainers!

KnowledgeStar

How Mint Exec’s New Company Will Teach All Employees To Teach Others Training has traditionally been part of centralized departments—and the bane of everyone else. MindFlash is about to change that. Whether you’re a seasoned executive or new to the workforce, the idea of spending an hour in a training class is enough to make [.].

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Teaching World Peace to 4th Graders–with a game

Kapp Notes

Check out what John Hunter has to say about his interesting and intriguing game about world peace and his Wisdom Table.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Hone Virtual Presentation Skills

Moodle Journal

I was looking through my emails today and came across what appears to be a useful little publication on virtual presentations. I have downloaded a myself copy, and after an initial signup of course, it does look to be an interesting read and so I thought I would pass it on. I have copied the introduction text from the webpage below:- Research shows that the top fears for online presenters are: "How can I deliver a powerful presentation to an audience I can't see?

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Tune in to The Forge - Live Today at 2pm EST

TechSmith Camtasia

You're in for a treat - We have a great line-up for The Forge today! Tune in on this blog post today at 2pm EST to see the live stream of The Forge! Tom Crawford from the Visualization Network and VizChef , will talk about Visual Communication. Mike Curtis, Information Developer for Jing, will share his tips for embedding video. Mark Schall, Software Engineer for Jing, will talk about TechSmith's hackathon.

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Templates for iSpring Presenter

eLearning Brothers

I recently discovered a great authoring tool called iSpring Presenter. It runs as a PowerPoint add-on and is simple to use. Whenever I run across eLearning authoring tools I like to plug-in our eLearning templates and see how they work. iSpring Presenter worked great with our PowerPoint and Flash templates. I built a demo course and inserted various flash games/quizzes.

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Instant Learning: How it works and how to make it happen?

Vignettes Learning

Synthesis: The brain’s ability to replicate real life events that enables us to share them with others is a powerful learning tool that we can maximize to facilitate instant learning in our elearning sessions. Explore with me the steps that may help you create a more meaningful and experiential learning environment for your learners. _ Preview the Bully Manager and reflect: “What is it in the presentation that makes you instantly understand the message or why does it stir an immediate gut reacti

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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The road is endless.

Learning with e's

It's official. Brussels Air sucks. I'm very disappointed in them, and if they were one of my students, they would get a big fat zero. I have to admit that the only thing with Brussels in front of it that I dislike more at the moment is sprouts. I have just arrived home after a horrendous 20 hours being trapped in transit. And it was all Brussels Air's fault.

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Navigating the LMS Maze with #AdobeCaptivate

Adobe Captivate

This week’s Wednesday eSeminar is now available on demand. LINK:[link] We had an awesome session featuring amazing contributions from Jayashree who handles the Captivate LMS integration and was an incredible source of information during the session. Also helping out were representatives from product management and quality assurance teams as well as engineering.

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Talking about blended learning – part 1 – foundations

Clive on Learning

In this extended interview, I address a wide range of key questions about blended learning, which I hope will be of interest to just about anyone responsible for learning and development in the workplace. In this first part, I attempt to answer the following questions: What's the case for blended learning? What's so new about the idea of blended learning?