Mike Taylor

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Last week’s most clicked item: Top Free Design Resources. The scientific community is crystal clear about DISC and MBTI: they predict nothing. It is a rich resource and you don’t have to worry about any licensing issues. The Communities of Practice Playbook. Thanks for reading! Tools & Tips.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That''s quite an apt result because Google and many of the other large, supposedly ''free'' social media tools are very much focused on making money to sustain their operations. But it is about making connections for learning through the ''free'' tools we have at our disposal - social media. But this post is not about money.

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Web Courseworks

JULY 16, 2019

If you are a professional instructional designer or online course developer, you probably belong to the community of practice called the eLearning Guild. Offering free membership, The eLearning Guild has over 75,000 members worldwide. Registration is free but seats are limited, so be sure to reserve your spot.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/28/2010 The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter On Twitter exists a resourceful community of e-Learning professionals. Among great company.

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learnWorlds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Instructor Interactions and Direct Communication. Built-in Community Inside Every School. How the Community Works in LearnWorlds. Manage and Control your Community. Where instructors such as you are nurturing a community and students learn through multi-layered networking and interactivity. An Ecology of Learning.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

There are tons of free webinars this month to keep you connected with your communities of practice. Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Key Components of Building a Successful Internal Coaching Program (Free for ATD members) Building coaching programs and coaching cultures within organizations is an increasing trend.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 3, 2015

This is available as a free PDF. Learning Communities. Building Online Learning Communities by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt is aimed more at online instructors than instructional designers, but it’s a wonderful resource for IDs working in higher education or supporting online and blended learning communities.

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Limestone Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

December is notoriously busy, but if you find yourself with a free hour, why not check out a free webinar? Monday, December 2, 2019, 11:00AM – 11:30AM PT: DEMO: Personalized Development Programs: Why Learning Alone Isn’t Enough (Free for ATD members) Today’s work environment creates several learning and development challenges.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 26, 2011

Like in most sessions, I find that many are struggling to work by themselves with limited resources. I also used a couple of fonts from the free Google web fonts I mentioned a couple of weeks ago: Airstream and Arvo. You’re free to use it if you like. Community PowerPoint Templates. Click here to view the demo.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

She also partners with ManTech University staff and the company’s communities of practice to ensure any changes in the marketplace are reflected in the content the company offers. Currently, the learning program is strongly focused on career enablement and giving employees the resources to build a future at ManTech.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Another term for showing your work is “working out loud,” which has become a popular way to enhance creativity and build strong communities of practice. There’s even a dedicated week to celebrate working out loud as well as numerous blogs, books and online communities dedicated to the subject. Conclusion. Feel like sharing?

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

So in today’s post, we’ll look at a few ways to scrounge for some free resources using the tools you do have. Take Advantage of the Free Stuff. The most obvious place to start is where you already have access to free assets. Whatever I create for the blog and conference demos, I try to make available for free.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 20, 2012

driving), and we can keep our minds free for other things. However, there may be times when we can’t rely on that well-practiced approach (say, for instance, if our usual route home is blocked for some reason). Most of the time, we’re acting in well-understood ways (e.g. What support do we need at these different stages?

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 23, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction The Training, Learning, and Development Community recently hosted Learning by Doing: Games and Gamification for Instructional Design. I’ll share my five key takeaways from the event in this post, along with resources that were shared throughout the event.

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Mike Taylor

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Free registration req’d ). Here are three podcast episodes from this week that are worth a listen: Learning Uncut Podcast – Resource-Led Learning Strategy with Sebastian Tindall From Scratch Podcast – Cutting through the Leadership Development BS. Tools & Resources. The Organizational X-factor: Learning Agility.

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

YouTube is full of tutorials and there are lots of free resources on sites like Udemy as well as Coursera. You may even implement simple communities of practice or some other type of ongoing support through your enterprise social network (ESN). Social learning is more powerful and effective than you might think.

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Elucidat

JANUARY 15, 2024

Then our people are using those resources: the people, the technology, the systems and services. She’s the founder and host of Measurement Made Easy – A community of practice elevating data literacy. We’d love to hear your thoughts on our podcast, so feel free to get in touch at kirstie.greany@elucidat.com.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 2, 2011

Everyone knows there’s a wealth of free learning resources on the web, and many of them are relevant to the corporate sector. • Communities of practice. Freebies are everywhere, just waiting to be gobbled up. The trick is finding them. There are 2 broad sources… 1. The external environment.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2008

Past predictions about online communities assumed text because that was what was available. Wachovia is testing social networking for sharing information and developing community within the community. Free or low-cost, available to all online, use task-specific tools. YouTube–lots of educational resources.

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E-learning Uncovered

JANUARY 20, 2014

And we’re now offering free webinars, starting with a comparison of e-learning authoring tools on January 31 from 12pm to 1pm EST. The Articulate , Adobe , and Lectora websites are also good resources when looking for training on authoring tools. Lynda.com is another very popular training resource. E-Learning Uncovered Books.

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 7, 2019

Build Communities—Invite Those on the Edges. In Jane Bozarth’s ( @JaneBozarth ) latest Nuts & Bolts article on Communities of Practice, she talks about trajectories and the life of groups including some good points on why most struggle to survive beyond the initial launch and tips for making them better. Design Resources.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 7, 2014

Many can also articulate what open educational resources look like, and have knowledge of Massive Open Online Courses otherwise known as MOOCs. Most of us by now are familiar with open learning , and many could describe their use of open source software such as Moodle, Mahara, Linux and Open Office.

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Connect Thinking

MARCH 1, 2013

Creating a ‘one stop shop’ for online learning and resources takes time to develop traction. This can be done in several ways, such as providing an example snippet of the course, testimonials and providing a resource for free to demonstrate expertise before purchase. Making accountability clear. Online expression.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts | Smackdown! How To Find The Best Free Image/Photo/Graphics Downloads For Your Blog Posts | Smackdown! Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0:

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2014

It has become a convenient excuse for many, who then feel free to dismiss their own involvement in the use of new media, whilst simultaneously overestimating the abilities of their students. This is why networked learning, and communities of practice are so important. Everyone knows something, but nobody knows everything.

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Acorn Labs

JUNE 18, 2023

Does the company have the right resources to sustain it? But if you're still drawing a blank on capabilities, we've created a free and comprehensive list of strategic capabilities. Create communities of practice to enable best practice sharing between employees, driving innovation.

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Acorn Labs

JUNE 18, 2023

Does the company have the right resources to sustain it? But if you're still drawing a blank on capabilities, we've created a free and comprehensive list of strategic capabilities. Create communities of practice to enable best practice sharing between employees, driving innovation.

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The Learning Circuits

JULY 9, 2012

We can explain communities of practice without once using the phrase "well, no, that's not really an example of what i'm talking about."! Maybe you're having trouble convincing your boss that her task force is not a community of practice. Except maybe they don't.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Sorry for the dearth of postings, but what with last week’s DevLearn conference and this week’s (free, online) Corporate Learning Trends (CLT) conference, and background kitchen remodel, client work, etc, I’ve been wiped out by the end of every day. Naturally, I wanted to find the segue between the two.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

They are transparent in their thinking, he suggests, and that means that they are not shy in sharing their ideas or giving away their content for free. Connected educators know that in doing this they become global educators, with their content being amplified across a worldwide community of practice.

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The Learning Circuits

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

These opportunities may be structured or unstructured, but they need not be tracked and have a certain informality and free flow to them. For example, setting up communities of practice, putting on special events with experts and teaching interested employees about enterprise collaboration tools are all ways to enable learning.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I hope they’ve also emphasized any knowledge-sharing communities of practice that exist out there. We have a place out back, an open space where we can take them for a walk every day and they can run free. Tell them what you could do if they give you a little more resources. We have two dogs, Spinone Italianos.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We are connected educators, linked in to a number of powerful global communities of practice, and we have access to resources, dialogue and audiences we would not enjoy in a traditional learning and teaching role. But what tools do we use to enable us to connect with these communities, resources, audiences around the globe?

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eFront

APRIL 3, 2011

During the last 5 years I was able to exchange ideas, share thoughts, and learn from an eLearning community of practice that exists in the blogosphere. We support Free eLearning! I did my research and I listed 134 eLearning and workplace Learning Blogs. > The list is in alphabetical order.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2019

A shorter, earlier explanation of these principles is available as a free PDF. Design Alchemy : Author Roderick Sims suggested that I include “texts/resources that address Learning Design and not just Instructional Design” such as his own book. Learning Communities. You can now download the ebook for free. eLearning.

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OpenSesame

MAY 3, 2011

Holly transformed a team from just a functional group of coworkers to a community of practice who continually refined their work. “I Foster the creation of a community of practice as your employees attack the new goals. The next step will be creating lasting resources to record and share the practices we have developed.”.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The payoff for all the practice, says Norman, is not only increased typing speed and accuracy, but also a reduction in mental effort, freeing up the mind to process other things. Teachers can harness this principle in the design of just about anything from the layout of the classroom to the design of a learning resource.

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