Sat.Mar 28, 2009 - Fri.Apr 03, 2009

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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable. Upgrades are difficult and cumbersome.

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Getting Revolutionary: LC Big Q

Clark Quinn

The Learning Circuits’ Blog Big Question of the Month is whether and how get ‘unstuck’, when you’ve got a lot to offer and it’s well beyond what they expect you to do in your job. This actually resonates with two separate things, some thoughts around ‘being revolutionary’, and a previous post based upon a similar complaint that triggered this month’s question (must be a lot of understandable angst out there).

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How to keep track of clients’ favorite details

Making Change

You lurch awake at 2 AM, thinking, “What if the client asks where I put sub-policy 12.5B? Did I cover it? Where?&#. At the start of an elearning project, your client will often give you more information than will be useful. Some of it will go into your elearning material, some will go into job aids, and some will get cut. Here’s one way to track what happens to your client’s favorite content. 1.

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Microsoft Surface Launched

Upside Learning

Microsoft Surface was formally launched and is now available in 12 countries. A school in the UK used it for a day; here’s what they did with it: Such technology opens up a paradigm of interaction that been under-utilized in learning. Surface will probably be the first in a long line of products that include software and hardware for touch and gestures.

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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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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Visuals and Audio in eLearning (Ruth Clark)

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, April 03, 2009 Visuals and Audio in eLearning (Ruth Clark) Donald Clark posted a link to a lovely little article by Ruth Clark: Give Your Training a Visual Boost in the April 09 edition of ASTDs T&D. The article contains such gems as: "Decorative visuals defeat learning.

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Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

I spent yesterday touring the Web 2.0 expo (part of the time with fellow miscreant Jay Cross ), and it led me to think a bit more about social media tools and approaches. After touring the floor, having lunch, and touring the floor some more before the keynotes, my reflections have to do with hybrids and implementation. We were prompted to visit Blue Kiwi , which is probably the leading European social media platform.

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GDC’s Serious Games Summit

Upside Learning

We’ve been following GDC’s Serious Games Summit, and the Serious Game portal has just posted about emerging trends in the serious games market as evident from the summit presentations and discussions. You can view the article here. They point to three key trend areas. 1. Early Prototyping. 2. Market Shift – New Demands. 3. Hybrids Studios and Hybrid Games.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: On Reflective Learning

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, April 03, 2009 On Reflective Learning I clipped this a year ago, with the intention (I suppose) of writing more on the subject in order to become more engaged with the content and thus more capable. I didnt do it anything with it then and Im not going to do much with it now, except share it with all of you: Steve Hargadon Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education Because it is in the act of our bec

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LearnX Awards 2009

E-Learning Provocateur

The annual LearnX E-Learning & Training Awards were announced today, and I’m proud to say that my team won a Gold award for Best Training Team , for our development and support of a self-paced, blended learning model at AMP. We’re in good company, with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service taking out the Platinum award, and the Commonwealth Bank and TheCyberInstitute also claiming Gold.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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Digital Learning for Digital Britain

Lars is Learning

Below is an opinion piece I wrote for Training Journal back last month which is published today. Would welcome your own comments on the Digital Britain report and what it means for us in the learning field. ==Should the UK be aiming higher?The Digital Britain interim report published in January 2009 attempts to lay out an agenda for driving forward the UK's Digital.

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April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

In a nutshell, this month's Big Question is, do you ever get stuck getting new solutions or ideas accepted and implemented by your organization or client? In most organizations, especially large ones, one must get a lot of buy-in and this usually involves making a business case, predicting cost savings, efficiencies, potential return on investment, etc., etc., etc., Oh, case studies and benchmarking from other organizations help too.

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Visuals and Audio in eLearning (Ruth Clark)

Learning Visions

Donald Clark posted a link to a lovely little article by Ruth Clark: Give Your Training a Visual Boost in the April 09 edition of ASTD's T&D. The article contains such gems as: "Decorative visuals defeat learning." and "The least successful learning resulted from text and audio repetition of that text." This would be a great article to forward to a client.

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Don't Play Video Games: Make Them

Kapp Notes

Screen capture from Scratch an MIT project that involves a simple to great game design software. Here is an interesting article that discusses how the creation of video games can be an excellend tool for teaching students. The article Computer games as liberal arts? provides some interesting insights into how creating games can teach a number of subjects.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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Dispositions of Productive Inquiry

Clark Quinn

In my last post , I referenced John Seely Brown’s mention of dispositions, and I think it’s worthwhile to try to represent and discuss his point here, as it’s relevant to social learning, organizational culture, and success, topics I’ve mentioned in the past. In The Power of Dispositions , JSB & Douglas Thomas (Ubiquity) argue that we need more than skills for 21st century education.

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New - Camtasia Studio 6 and Visual Lounge Blog in German

TechSmith Camtasia

Lots of good news at TechSmith today. In addition to putting FLV back in Camtasia Studio v6.0.2 , I'm happy to announce that Camtasia Studio v6.0.2 is now available in German! Details are here. And, we've launched a German version of the Visual Lounge Blog ! The content will be similar to this blog, but in German :-) and with some additional contributing editors.

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On Reflective Learning

Learning Visions

I clipped this a year ago, with the intention (I suppose) of writing more on the subject in order to become more engaged with the content and thus more capable. I didn't do it anything with it then and I'm not going to do much with it now, except share it with all of you: Steve Hargadon Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education Because it is in the act of our becoming a creator that our relationship with content changes, and we become more engaged and more capable at the same time.

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Future of Digital Music--The Future of LMS Content

Kapp Notes

Recently, I spoke with a reporter from The Vancouver Sun about the future of the music industry and digital music. I have written before on the topic in my post New Music Distribution Model: Video Games. The music industry is still struggling with creating a new revenue model and how to handle the disaggregation of content. I told the reporter: "I think they (CDs) will go the way of 8-tracks,” he said.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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Transformative Experience Design

Clark Quinn

As part of the continual rethink about what I offer and to who (e.g. training department rethinks to managers, directors, VPs; experience design reviews/refines to learning teams), my thoughts on learning experience design took a leap. I’ve argued that the skills in Engaging Learning (my book) are the ones that are critical for Pine & Gilmore’s next step beyond their experience economy , the transformative experience economy.

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Screencast of the Week - SocialText

TechSmith Camtasia

This week's Screencast of the Week came to me by way of a Twitter contact, Alan Lepofsky. I picked this screencast from SocialText as the Screencast of the Week for a several reasons. I love the use of SmartFocus and Callouts ! Plus, I like that they used a screencast to show off SocialText in action - I can see how it works before I download it. Click the screenshot below to start the video.

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Captivate 4 tutorials

Adobe Captivate

Captivate 4 , Captivate tutorials. Late last year, I had blogged about a set of Captivate 3 tutorials on the Adobe website. These were specifically crated for the education industry and most of our readers have found them very useful. This has now been completely refreshed for Captivate 4- with new topics on the key Captivate 4 features. The PDFs are below: Recording and Publishing software simulations.

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Irish Learning Alliance Visit

Kapp Notes

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate it enough to travel to see the Prime Minister of Ireland and hear about the Irish Learning Alliance. Unfortunately, I didn't get to go to Ireland, instead I traveled with some friends up to New York to visit with the Irish Learning Alliance. Tom, Michelle & Dave take a break from at the ILA learning session.(taken with my iPhone) In addition to hanging out on the train and in New York with a great group of folks who are really doing some forward thinking about on

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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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Invasion of the privacy snatchers

Learning with e's

There is a lot of press coverage at the moment about invasion of privacy, and much discussion on how it can be protected (privacy, not the invasion of it). We have been told about how Facebook and other social networking tools 'own and use' our personal data. Several news items in the last 24 hours have dealt with reactions to the use of technology to snoop on, record or track ordinary people.

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Have Questions about Camtasia Relay?

TechSmith Camtasia

If you're like me, when researching and learning about a new product, I like the combination of seeing the product in action (videos and screencasts) plus some write-ups and reviews to understand it. Sometimes if I'm really lucky, I can get a live demo of the product at a tradeshow or other event. If you learn like I do, you're in luck. I just got word from the Camtasia Relay team that they're doing live webinars weekly.

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New CourseBuilder Features

Adobe Captivate

E-Learning , eLearning Suite , CourseBuilder , Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Extension. New CourseBuilder Features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. The CourseBuilder extension for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 allows users to create Web-based learning interactions in a visual authoring environment. The CourseBuilder extension includes a set of easy to use templates and tools that simplify and accelerate the development of online learning content.

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Now Hiring – Join Tom’s Team

Rapid eLearning

As mentioned last week, I’m looking for someone to join the team. I’m posting today since I heard that some almost missed the last week’s announcement because it was at the end of the post. My goal is to help the community of elearning developers. I do this by writing blog posts, building tutorials, and helping out in the community. I’m looking for someone who shares the same passion.

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Project Team Engagement in the Context of Human/AI Hybrid Teams

The leadership style that the leaders adopt during engagement is critical in gaining team member support for building a positive thinking team. The challenge is in deciding whether to adopt an engagement focused leadership style that emphasizes human behavior characteristics such as personalities, or to a task-oriented leadership style that focuses on the work needed to be performed and the tools to be used.

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Internet culture

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Chief Learning Officer magazine , Effectiveness, April 2009. by Jay Cross. The Internet is so pervasive that Internet values are blowing back into real life. For example, I have no qualms about walking out of a boring presentation, even if I’ve been sitting in the front row. The Web trained me to click past unrewarding pages and spend my time where it will do me the most good.

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Camtasia Studio v6.0.2 Released - FLV is Back.

TechSmith Camtasia

You've spoken and we've listened! As promised , we brought back the FLV format in Camtasia Studio v6.0.2 today. Download the update here. It is a free upgrade if you purchased Camtasia Studio v6. If you'd like to see everything updated in Camtasia Studio v6.0.2, visit here. Thanks for your patience and feedback. We appreciate it! What would like to see added to Camtasia Studio next?

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This is not just training…

Saffron Interactive

…this is a performance improvement strategy. There’s a lot of talk about blended learning and a lot of hype around leveraging social media to help learning. But in my experience. The post This is not just training… appeared first on Saffron Interactive.