Sat.Dec 22, 2012 - Fri.Dec 28, 2012

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Integrate Raptivity with Adobe Captivate

Raptivity

We have earlier showcased in one of our blogs how Raptivity integrates best with the various versions of Adobe Captivate under various scenarios. This blog will shell light on the step by step process of integration with the help a [.].

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Social Media Revolution 2013: the video

Jane Hart

I’ve just noticed that Erik Qualman updated his video on the Social Media Revolution in November 2012. This one is number 4 in the series – for 2013.

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2013 is the Year of the WordPress LMS

LearnDash

Merry Christmas! I hope that everyone is having a relaxing time with their friends and family this holiday. I am resting myself, but couldn’t keep my thoughts away from the LearnDash WordPress LMS plugin for very long – so here I am! (I need to type rather quietly though as I have a few people taking a nap around me). I have already made some predictions about what is to come for e-learning in 2013 , but here I am to make yet another.

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Exploiting The Link Between Employee Development & Customer Engagement

Performance Learning Productivity

This post is adapted from a commentary written for the Spark Interactive / ClerkWell 2012 Digital Customer Experience Report – an annual industry report that focuses on customer engagement and how businesses are using digital means to build closer relationships and interact with their consumers. You can download the report from the Spark Interactive website.

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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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An Organisational Perspective to Managing Change in Learning: Part 2

Connect Thinking

Last month I wrote a big picture perspective on managing change when introducing technology (e-learning) into a learning strategy (see Part 1 ). Today is the second of 5 posts on this topic. I will share some things to think about from an organisational perspective – covering Corporates, Not-For-Profit organisations and Training Providers. We’ll look at it from three perspectives: 1.

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Happy Holidays! A Gift from TechSmith

TechSmith Camtasia

This month, we encourage you to get festive with lots of free, holiday inspired extras made to help you spice up your captures and recordings! For our Snagit users. Check out the snazzy Holiday stamp sets we’ve created for you this month! In the Holidays set we have included Christmas and Hannukah, along with snowflakes and a tree waiting to be decorated.

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Research for Practitioners: How to Improve Knowledge Retention by Julie Dirksen

LearningGuild

In academic approaches to teaching and learning that focus on knowledge rather than skill, the activities often involve traditional studying that involves repetition of the content. There are other methods that may also support learning. Do you know which one works best? One study attempted to find an answer to that question.

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Gear Up for Mobile Learning

Mindflash

Mobile is everywhere. We all know this intuitively as we walk down the street or at the mall or at the airport, and observe people looking down at their mobile devices. Mobile stats are staggering. For example, there are six billion (87% of the world’s population) mobile subscribers, 300,000 apps developed over the past three years, and 1.2 billion people access the web using their mobiles.

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Happy Holidays!

Jane Hart

Happy Holidays / Happy Christmas. to all my readers. from Jane.

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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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A Look at Learning’s Future

CLO Magazine

A slow but steady economic recovery is driving optimism toward learning investments. Firm spending on learning and development has been volatile since 2008, declining and recovering in reaction to the global financial crisis and its abatement. But in 2012, the economic recovery combined with a rebound in learning spending appeared to drive learning investments.

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I'm dreaming of a White laptop.

Learning with e's

Me with Keith in 2009. or any colour really. It doesn't matter that much, as long as it does the job. My old laptop Keith (named after a Rolling Stone - he's very old and has seen better days, falling to pieces, but is still just about functioning), is just about to pop his clogs I fear. I'm not sure if Keith will even make it to the conclusion of this blog post, he's making ominous chugging and whining noises (which I suppose is also a little like his namesake).

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10 Tips For a Freelancer’s Guide to Budgeting

NuggetHead

Posted in FREELANCE I’m a freelancer. Not to be confused with a freeloader. I quit my corporate job after 15 years – on purpose. I now run my own business out of my home. The thing with running your own business in the world of freelancing is a having a solid budget that involves concentration and a consistent [.].

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Toolkit: The Tumultuous Year in Review by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

What happened this year? Historians will see 2012 as the tipping point for eLearning tools. Joe reviews the past 366 days (goodbye, leap year) and the highlights in the world of design and development software.

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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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Free E-Learning Podcast 30: Tips for Producing Video for Organisational Learning

e-Learning Academy

Podcast 30 is the second of a series of three videos exploring the role of video in organisational learning. In this video we explore video design for four kinds of video – conceptual, procedural, expertise and recordings. Why not down this free training resource from iTunes. Or read the transcript. Or watch the entire free e-learning [.].

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Learning Resolutions: Thinking Big in 2013

OpenSesame

Sometimes we forget: eLearning is a broad concept, not just courses delivered on a computer. As I frame my resolutions for 2013, I’m reminding myself to keep thinking broadly about what defines our profession. The first thing I’d improve is to really focus on behavior change. Most of time elearning is requested because the client wants people to do something different.

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Tuition Assistance’s ‘Fiscal Cliff’

CLO Magazine

If the U.S. economy heads off the so-called fiscal cliff, how will tuition assistance programs be affected? As the U.S. economy stands at the brink of a “fiscal cliff” — a combination of tax increases and spending cuts by the federal government set to take effect Jan.1 unless a deal is worked out before then — the way corporate tuition assistance programs are taxed also hangs in the balance.

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10 most popular posts of 2012

Jay Cross

Google Analytics tells me these are 2012′s greatest hits on jaycross.com. Dan Pink’s new book. Dan Pink has written another best seller. (The book won’t be released until December 31 but is already in its third printing.) The U.S. Government reports that one worker in eight is a sales person. Dan disagrees. He thinks we’re all sales people, even though a lot of us are engaged in “non-sales selling.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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ProProfs in Business Rockstars on e-learning

ProProfs

ProProfs CEO Sameer Bhatia was invited by Ken Rutkowski of Business Rockstars , a weekly talk show on KWFB, Talk 980 about start-ups & entrepreneurship. They discussed e-learning and how ProProfs helps companies as well as educational institutions to build and test knowledge. We are like the YouTube of quizzes. - Sameer Bhatia. Starting with the role of ProProfs in e-learning, Ken and Sameer go on to discuss how ProProfs is used by teachers for creating online tests and corporate trainer

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Learning Resolutions: Addressing the Freelancer's Dilemma

OpenSesame

'My resolutions for 2012 are all linked to the tension a freelancer always has – the tension between billable work and non-billable skills development, research, and changing (successful) behaviour patterns.

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Study: 2013 U.S. Job Forecast Better, But Still Cautious

CLO Magazine

While the number of employers who are adding headcount is trending up from 2012, so is the number planning to reduce staffs, according to a new study. Chicago — Dec. 27 Next year is expected to usher in more jobs, but U.S. employers will continue to play it safe, according to CareerBuilder's annual hiring forecast. Twenty-six percent of hiring managers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in 2013, up three percentage points over 2012.

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Blogs I follow religiously

Jay Cross

Adaptive Path. Andy McAfee. Charles Jennings. Clark Quinn. Dan Pontefract. Dave Gray. Dave Snowden. David Gurteen. David Weinberger. Dawn of Learning. Dion Hinchcliffe. Doc Searls. Donald Clark Plan B. Eide Neurolearning. Ellen Wagner. Euen Semple. George Siemens. Harold Jarche. Internet Time Alliance. Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Jane Hart. Jay Cross. Jerry Michalski.

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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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ProProfs launches online survey software

ProProfs

We are proud to announce the launch of our online survey software , using which you can create and administer your own surveys. Our new product has been receiving raving reviews from the press. Why? Be’coz it’s got awesome features!!! ProProfs Survey Maker is easy to use, flexible and powerful, and supports a range of comprehensive features. - Pamil Visions.

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Learning Resolutions: Thinking Big in 2013

OpenSesame

'Sometimes we forget: eLearning is a broad concept, not just courses delivered on a computer. As I frame my resolutions for 2013, I''m reminding myself to keep thinking broadly about what defines our profession.

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The Week That Was

CLO Magazine

These were the top five stories from CLOmedia.com for the week of Dec. 17.

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MOOC on complexity

Jay Cross

I just signed up for Santa Fe Institute’s free, 11-week MOOC on Introduction to Complexity. Join me.

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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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Managing to Outcomes in Nonprofit Sector

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is the traditional time to reflect on trends observed during the past year. One major trend I have observed is performance management of nonprofit organizations. Actually, this is an accelerating trend that got its impetus from Peter Drucker decades ago. Nonprofits are becoming more and more focused on what McKinsey & Company calls “managing to outcomes”. .

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eFront 3.6.12 just released

eFront

What better time for new toys if not Christmas! Today we would like to announce a new version of eFront. This maintenance update includes important speed optimizations, full text-search for documents for our enterprise clients, a module to bootstrap modules production, a new sleek modern theme, dozens upon dozens of minor bug fixes, and several tweaks to make your favorite tool even more enjoyable!

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Social Media in 2012: Month by Month

Jane Hart

This infographic takes a look at what happened in social media in 2012, from The SEO Company. The State of Social Media 2012 by The SEO Company.