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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?” All Rights Reserved.

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Custom eLearning Development Costs – Results From Chapman Alliance Study

Upside Learning

That sounds fairly high and it seems like many of the organizations participating in this study are not outsourcing their custom elearning development work. They had asked about the time it takes to develop content at each of these levels. Here are the results: These two slides suggest the per hour resource rate is greater than $100.

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PowerPoint 2010: Working with Audio

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

  Adding audio to a PowerPoint 2010 slide is simple.     In a perfect world, you would be able to make adjustments to an audio clip by either right-clicking a slide's sound icon, or by using the Audio Tools. .  Select the icon for the sound file on your slide. by AJ George.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

It sounds like Weejee is growing quickly with Ian and Tracy at the helm, but they too are frustrated with the slow adoption of informal learning. In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. All Rights Reserved.

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Voice Over Script Pitfalls

Experiencing eLearning

For example: 2010 can be read as “two thousand ten” or maybe “twenty ten,” or even “two zero one zero” in some cases. 2010 is NOT “two thousand AND ten.” I think the second sounds much more natural in narration, even though it looks clunky in writing. Why shouldn’t your voice over sound more like a real person?

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

Dashe & Thomson

The Sound of Silence → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. More about me here. All Rights Reserved. Visit us at dashe.com

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. My thinking about training evaluation was turned on its head by a presentation at the February 2011 MNISPI meeting by Beth McGoldrick of Ameriprise’s RiverSource University. But it wasn’t. All Rights Reserved.

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